I'm not DOWN....Are You?

Lots of good stuff hapened tonight too. Losing always sucks, but its a long season. Keller is the real deal, WR's played very well and we defended the pass pretty well. I think we look to be in great shape to win the north and contend for the big 12.

 
I was proud of our receivers and how we played well in the latter parts of the game. Purify showed me some good things with toughness holding onto the ball and averaging over 10 yards per reception. We couldn't afford to have any breaks go their way and as soon as they picked up their own fumble and went half the field, I knew it wasn't going to be our night.

 
I don't see us losing any games before the Big XII championship game. I believe Kansas will be the team to beat in the North. With our offfense moving the ball they way they did lastnight, I believe we can take Texas at home. Get a little pay back from last year. Watch out for Kansas, Mizzou's defense has huge holes in it.

 
BTW- another positive, Cody Glenn was on the field and looked pretty good, running and catching (pass protect was OK)

That defensvie line was pretty bad but I'm most worried about the linebackers. They were supposed to fill those gaps. they were out of position and looked R-r-r-e-e-e-a-a-a-l-l-l-l-y S-s-s-s-l-l-l-----o-o-o-------w-w-w-w.

 
I'm not down. The days of getting myself upset over Husker wins & losses is gone. This is reality, we are an average team with maybe an average coach. Even with talent on the field we will get average results.

I will always love the Huskers and will never stop watching, but my expectations have changed greatly.

 
Armistead said:
I was stunned early in the 2nd Half....Keller and the Huskers just stubbed their toe and it seem to snowball.....Usc is a very fine team that took advantage of NU's mistakes and made the Huskers pay....but at the end of it all, I saw some very.....very encouraging things.....Nebraska never quit......Nebraska can move the ball on anyone.......and NU will not see an O-line or a D-line as good as this until the Big12 Title game......I honestly think that we are done losing games.......the Texas game will be tough, but Nu can and will score agin them....the OSU game looked like trouble, but I think the Pokes have taken a step back, aTm is no SC and we will move the ball all day long agin them...as for KSU and Mizzou, well that just comes down too talent....we got it and they don't.............

thats what I took away from this game today....our D-line is young and LB's need to quit running themselves outta position.....and for god's sake.....TACKLE....but the talent is there...we saw that tonight.....

Huskers will only lose one more if that b 4 Big12 Title Game.......I think we have turned a corner....as crazy as that may seem right now.......this team has talent

GBR
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Interesting outlook Armistead. I think your quote here

thats what I took away from this game today....our D-line is young and LB's need to quit running themselves outta position.....and for god's sake.....TACKLE....but the talent is there...we saw that tonight.....
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pretty much sums up what I'm thinking.

 
We had 15 minutes of good football. USC adjusted and we got embarrassed. The 4th quarter stats mean ZERO. We didnt belong on the same field. They did whatever they wanted in the 2nd and 3rd quarter. We looked worse than last year. And their defense made plays, we didn't stub our toe. Give them all the credit, they played perfect football and outscored us 35-0 in 2 quarters. That is not encouraging for what everyone called and 'overrated' team on this board.

 
I Bleed RED said:
We had 15 minutes of good football. USC adjusted and we got embarrassed. The 4th quarter stats mean ZERO. We didnt belong on the same field. They did whatever they wanted in the 2nd and 3rd quarter. We looked worse than last year. And their defense made plays, we didn't stub our toe. Give them all the credit, they played perfect football and outscored us 35-0 in 2 quarters. That is not encouraging for what everyone called and 'overrated' team on this board.
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Wrong on most accounts, as usual.

We had far more than just a quarter of good football. The entire first half was good, even though USC did start to dominate some towards the end of the second.

The 4th quarter stats mean plenty. Sure, it was against USC's lower lines, but it is still encouraging to see the offense put things together like that. We didn't drop many balls, Keller was checking down nicely when he needed to, and he showed he can be pretty consistent and accurate.

That people on this board called them overrated means nothing. Nearly everyone calls USC overrated every year, all year.

In the end, USC showed they are the best team in the country for a reason. They're simply on a different level than Nebraska, and contrary to what you think, that is to be expected at this point.

Our defense, unfortunately, did not look so great, mainly due to horrid execution and exceptional play by USC's O-line. The last two games have shown we really need some improvements there.

 
Please tell me what in the second quarter was good for our team.? USC didn't punt and had 2 long drives. Tell me what was good about the second quarter after ouf field goal.

You consider it encouraging that we could move the ball against a defense playing prevent and with no real effort? WHY?

 
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I've already explained why the 4th quarter was still encouraging. I'm not going to again when you can just go back up there and read it yourself.

In the second quarter, USC was still having to work to move the ball. They were starting to turn the momentum on us, but overall play was still looking pretty decent even though it was obviously starting to slip.

And finally, if you fail to even read my posts like you did with the first one, I'm just not going to bother answering your posts anymore.

 
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I feel pretty good about the never give up effort of the offense. But I'm sure glad Craig Bohl had the D work extra hard on tackling this week.

Nebraska needed to play near perfect to have a chance and everything was going well when it was a promising 10-7. Then just like last year they catch an unbelievable lucky break when a fumble bounces perfect for them right to their player who advances it just like it was written that way. Actually I'm certain USC worked all week with a team of writers, a director, choreographer, and stunt coordinator so they could pull that off just right. Nothing too good for Carol's boys.

I'll say the game showed we are no where near a top ten team yet. Then again yesterday exposed some other pretenders like maybe...UCLA?

But we did lose to the NUMBER ONE team that some claim is their best of the last seven years. The season will determine whether that is true but there is no shame in getting beat by one of the best teams in the country.

Side note: Heck they are playing with our players! I heard channel 7 mention that Nebraska recruited 56 of the USC players while USC recruited only two of Nebraska's. I think we'll close that gap.

 
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