Considering the lack of any designed runs for him, I think it's entirely possible that he was told to not put himself in any danger in this game.
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Considering the lack of any designed runs for him, I think it's entirely possible that he was told to not put himself in any danger in this game.
DefenderAO
All-Conference
Sorry to hear that. I doubt Martinez will have an issue turning it on. Perhaps trying to turn it off had him a bit off-kilter.
I don’t really care why he called the things he did, I just want it fixed. Glad to see him admit it was an issue. Most play callers don’t.
Mierin
Assistant Coach
Ya. I just think it's more likely it'll get fixed if it just wasn't fixed in game due to stubbornness.
I don’t know why things happened the way they did. I’ve looked at that game several times now, and they didn’t do anything I wouldn’t expect Frost to have an answer for. Is that stubbornness? I don’t know, but we called a lot more runs on first down in that game than last year.
Landlord
Banned
You're totally right. I'm not pushing any panic buttons personally, and while I only posted that in response to somebody else's point about Saban/Bama, I'm happy to give proper credit where it's due, eat crow and be ecstatic if this season ends anything similar to Bama's year 2 under Saban.
And at the risk of getting eaten alive, better coaches have an answer for it. NOT SAYING HE IS NOT/WON'T BE A GREAT COACH. Last year, he had answers for it. Sat, it was the most apathetic offensive era since Frost came here IMO.
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BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
But, I also remember a trip to the red zone where, I think, he called three straight pass plays where 2AM had WRs wide open in the end zone at least twice and over threw them badly.
The play calling could have been better. But, when Frost did open it up, the players didn't execute.
ActualCornHusker
Starter
One of the main issues i saw was Mills missing the hole several times. Hopefully he improves in that regard, but there were a few carries early on where he had a hole but ran into the pack instead
WyoHusker56
Starter
In the 2nd quarter it seemed like he was calling more short passing plays on 1st and 2nd down. We'd pick up a good chunk and soften the defense up. I know Frost said they went into this game with fewer plays to call, so maybe that contributed to the lack of change. Or maybe he could tell Martinez was off on his reads and game and rather than put him into positions to force it he just decided to give him easy reads and plays.
Husker in WI
All-Conference
Frost also mentioned USA had a lot of defensive changes the staff didn't really know about what of time. So seems like the staff thought they knew what to expect, planned specifically for that, and wouldn't /didn't adjust. Which is fine first game of the year against an inferior opponent, and I don't expect it to be the norm moving forward. They spent all offseason prepping a new defense, other teams on the schedule won't be able to make huge changes in a week, and hopefully it also reminded the staff to have more adjustments ready.
I thought we were at the point they could call things not specifically in the game plan, not sure if that isn't true or if they didn't feel the need to do that. As people have pointed out, some of the calls were great and just not executed.
I thought we were at the point they could call things not specifically in the game plan, not sure if that isn't true or if they didn't feel the need to do that. As people have pointed out, some of the calls were great and just not executed.