But the offense has played great!

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Yeah - against two mid-majors, and against the USC scrubs when the game was over. Wake Forest was hardly an offensive show.

As the season goes on, I'm afraid the offense that we think is so good is going to look a lot like the offense during the first 3 quarters of the SC debacle. No run, all pass.

Heck I'd take mediocre at this point.

 
huskerNtexas said:
Yeah - against two mid-majors, and against the USC scrubs when the game was over. Wake Forest was hardly an offensive show.

As the season goes on, I'm afraid the offense that we think is so good is going to look a lot like the offense during the first 3 quarters of the SC debacle. No run, all pass.

Heck I'd take mediocre at this point.
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Keller and receivers have played great, but we have no running game.

 
The run will pick up, I'm going on record, and have been all week. Save the message, do whatever. The offense isn't playing great, I've never said that, but they're doing fine.

 
I think we'll see more run depending on the opponent and if our defense plays well.

USC was too strong a run defense to come out running against. I think that's why BC had Keller in shotgun on 2nd and 10 of the first possession. Their secondary is a little untested. Trying to use the pass to back the LBs off the LOS and set up the run. Then in the second half the game got so far out of reach he never could get back to the run.

Then Ball St. turned into a shootout as well. Unless our defense can keep the opponent in check, it's hard to stay committed to the run.

 
huskerNtexas said:
Yeah - against two mid-majors, and against the USC scrubs when the game was over. Wake Forest was hardly an offensive show.

As the season goes on, I'm afraid the offense that we think is so good is going to look a lot like the offense during the first 3 quarters of the SC debacle. No run, all pass.

Heck I'd take mediocre at this point.
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Well regardless we need to support this team and hopefully they will rise to the occassion.

 
The USC game seems a bit tricky to analyze from an offensive standpoint. NU moved the ball very well in the first quarter by using short pass routes to the edges of the defense. That continued until the field goal in the second quarter, and then after SC scored the go-ahead touchdown, Nebraska unsuccessfully tried to run, probably trying to avoid a shoot-out situation by establishing ball control. The failed running game in the first half is certainly reason to worry, but I'm not sure about how to evaluate the passing game.

Then, after SC had made some half-time adjustments, didn't NU start out with two consecutive turnovers? Due to those turnovers, the game was decided pretty much by the middle of the third quarter, and Nebraska hadn't really gotten the ball in the second half until the Trojans were up by 3 or 4 TDs. That probably changed SC's defensive mindset for the rest of the game, making it difficult to evaluate the ball movement in the second half. SC did have their starters in for a while, but I don't remember how much they were blitzing as opposed to just trying to prevent big pass plays.

I think those early turnovers in the third quarter were due to aggressive defensive adjustments made by the USC defense. The pick that the defensive end got seemed like it was designed to be an interception. They completely disguised the defender and dropped him into the passing lane. The tipped INT was more just a heads-up play by the pass-rushing lineman and then the LB or DB who caught the tipped pass. That is why USC is the #1 team. They force people into making mistakes. Our defense, on the other hand, has no aggression, fire, or creativity because the players do not execute well enough on the fundamentals to be able to scheme on the level that SC does.

That's just my unqualified observation. One thing I can say for sure is that our offense would look better if the defense was creating opportunities for them and not putting so much pressure on them. Despite the division between the offensive and defensive facets of the team, it is still a collective effort.

 
Well my qualified opinion says we can't and won't run the ball well all year and we need to concentrate on getter the lb's deeper with TE's up the field and 12 yd crossing routes with WR's to allow underneath passes to other WR's crossing and also rb's crossing and in the flats.

We will not run well all year, we have ZERO evidence to the contrary.

Oh, and we did well against USC before their defensive adjustments and Cally refused to work the sidelines which is one of Keller's best balls. He needs to stick with is all year, he doesn't use it enough. And using the effective 7-12 out route will open up deeper routes later and keep safeties concerned which will help with what I mentioned before.

 
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I Bleed RED said:
Well my qualified opinion says we can't and won't run the ball well all year and we need to concentrate on getter the lb's deeper with TE's up the field and 12 yd crossing routes with WR's to allow underneath passes to other WR's crossing and also rb's crossing and in the flats.

We will not run well all year, we have ZERO evidence to the contrary.

Oh, and we did well against USC before their defensive adjustments and Cally refused to work the sidelines which is one of Keller's best balls. He needs to stick with is all year, he doesn't use it enough. And using the effective 7-12 out route will open up deeper routes later and keep safeties concerned which will help with what I mentioned before.
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Qualified opinion according to you............... <_<

 
BIGREDIOWAN said:
I Bleed RED said:
Well my qualified opinion says we can't and won't run the ball well all year and we need to concentrate on getter the lb's deeper with TE's up the field and 12 yd crossing routes with WR's to allow underneath passes to other WR's crossing and also rb's crossing and in the flats.

We will not run well all year, we have ZERO evidence to the contrary.

Oh, and we did well against USC before their defensive adjustments and Cally refused to work the sidelines which is one of Keller's best balls. He needs to stick with is all year, he doesn't use it enough. And using the effective 7-12 out route will open up deeper routes later and keep safeties concerned which will help with what I mentioned before.
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Qualified opinion according to you............... <_<
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Way to add to the post.... I put qualified because others put unqualified for some reason. Everyone is qualified to give their opinion, you seem to be lacking one on the actual topic at hand.

Do you want to add anything other than bash me???

 
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