Kernal
Starter
This Husker ChalkTalk blog has been doing these breakdowns all year and they're pretty good. Have a look at today's breakdown of the Wisconsin game.
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Charting Wisconsin – All Good Things Must End (Husker ChalkTalk)
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4skers89
All-Conference
The blocking in those GIFs
. I don't expect every play to work to perfection, e.g. a defender will fight off a block and just make a good play. I do expect our linemen to at least make contact. It's almost like they don't know what their assignments are or never practiced the play against this type of defense. Wiscy didn't appear to be doing anything unusual on those plays. At least these are fixable mental mistakes and not a lack of physical ability.
marko polo
Special Teams Player
It is physical to, they go hand in hand.The blocking in those GIFs. I don't expect every play to work to perfection, e.g. a defender will fight off a block and just make a good play. I do expect our linemen to at least make contact. It's almost like they don't know what their assignments are or never practiced the play against this type of defense. Wiscy didn't appear to be doing anything unusual on those plays. At least these are fixable mental mistakes and not a lack of physical ability.
Kernal
Starter
Yeah, he does a good job of showing some of those type of things (missed blocks) that are easy to miss when just normally watching a game. (He has also pointed out some good plays we might miss, like a great WR block a week or two ago that I never would have seen).The blocking in those GIFs. I don't expect every play to work to perfection, e.g. a defender will fight off a block and just make a good play. I do expect our linemen to at least make contact. It's almost like they don't know what their assignments are or never practiced the play against this type of defense. Wiscy didn't appear to be doing anything unusual on those plays. At least these are fixable mental mistakes and not a lack of physical ability.
There are O-line whiffs like that every week. I'm not sure we have many O-linemen recruited for this cycle, but I hope they add some. I'd rather load up there than have a bunch of WRs and RBs who never get the ball because half our plays are killed behind the LOS.
Am I right in reading chalk talk that the inside runs were the lowest producer on yards per carry, but we did that 21 times........
Great stuff as usual, unfortunately it was in a loss.
Our OL will be in the same boat next year. Little depth, less experience......I hope we plunder the juco ranks. We are going to need it.
Great stuff as usual, unfortunately it was in a loss.
Our OL will be in the same boat next year. Little depth, less experience......I hope we plunder the juco ranks. We are going to need it.
alwayshusking
Starter
Right now they are in a bad spot where they either play older, less talented guys or play guys that aren't ready yet. Next year could be in a better spot as some of those guys that are a year away could be ready. Gates-Foster-Decker-Farmer-Knevel-Farniok-Wilson-Barnett-Raridon-Brokop-Gaylord-Conrad will all be redshirt freshmen or older. That should give us some more viable options.
Could be another couple years of recruiting though. I think it's going to take some time to get where we really want to be as perennial contenders.
Kernal
Starter
Yeah, that's a good point in that we do have a lot of younger, well-regarded guys in the bullpen. If most of them pan out, we'll be in great shape. I guess I'm still a little jaded in that all we've ever heard about is how good the new crop of recruits will be and then for the past decade or so many of them end up never playing or not being more than placeholders on the line. I mean, most of the upperclassmen who aren't starting now were once highly regarded recruits. You'd like to get four or five Nick Gates type of guys. If you listen to the recruiting hype, they're all like that. I guess maybe we have to hope Cavanaugh does a good job of developing them so we don't have to rely on once-in-a-decade hidden-gems.
It'sNotAFakeID
All-American
There was one play towards the end of regulation where, if Whitaker could've just made his block--Newby was had a lane and the ball game.
It hurts to see it, but Damon Benning tweeted a picture of it.
It hurts to see it, but Damon Benning tweeted a picture of it.