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I think it was Oregon choosing to play ball control and not "lose" the game. They played into the strength of the D which was stopping the run. No doubt IMHO, that Diaco was brought in to stop B1G teams. Not spread teams. Passing teams will and have eaten us alive in 2 games. We've proved to stop the run or is it like 2015, why run when you can put up playstation numbers against our secondary?
They missed the FG and had some dropped passes. But to your question, the staff had a part in the 2nd half. The also owned the first half. I have no idea why a defensive guru can't make in game adjustments and seeing us getting our collective a$$ kicked with the short routes again and again and refused to pull the DB's up.(again) Charles Jackson is like 6'2 210 lbs. Thats a big a$$ corner. Let him press and mess up those screens and timing routes. Like Marvin Sanders said, play press and push em down or out of bounds. Either way they aren't catching balls......
Safe to say he lied.Taggert said going into halftime that he wouldn't do that, that they would keep the pedal down.
That's obviously the only explanation.Safe to say he lied.
But Knapp, that doesn't feed into the narrative that the coaches don't coach or adjust, the players didnt pull it together. It has no place here.
Here is a contrast in two halves...Taggert said going into halftime that he wouldn't do that, that they would keep the pedal down.
If NIU gets out to a fast start and is nursing a huge lead it's on you, not Bob, now for jinxing it.It was obvious Oregon went conservative in the 2nd half.
It was obvious the Husker players played hard.
Both these things are true.
I'll hold off giving credit to Bob for changing up what isn't working until I see it carry over to next week, when a team isn't nursing a huge lead. Not that Bob needs my credit.