Live Spring Press Confrence

He's sad to see Watson go, but he's happy to see Beck get a promotion because that's his position coach. He can't say if it was necessary to make a coaching change.

 
knapplc said:
Beck's attacking offenses means play fast, attack, and have fun. Don't worry about what the defenses are going to do, just attack them.
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Funny, how can you be going where they ain't if you ain't worried about where they're going? :P

 
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Bigger chip on their shoulder this year than last year, especially going into the Big 10. Whole new coaching staff. Last two years were good, but still under expectations of the coaches and players.

 
Big Ten is a lot more run-based than Big 12. Rex likes the downhill running game. Did that in High School.

 
Biggest thing in the spring will be to get comfortable with the offense. Right now they're struggling to get everything down.

Next year will be tough, but they're embracing the challenge.

 
Knapplc and Nexus are both machines. They will be taking over the world sooner rather than later.

 
zoogies said:
knapplc said:
Beck's attacking offenses means play fast, attack, and have fun. Don't worry about what the defenses are going to do, just attack them.
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Funny, how can you be going where they ain't if you ain't worried about where they're going? :P
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I think you're jumping on the "going where they ain't" thing too much - it's convenient to justify a stance on Watson. I think it'll be a good idea to see what they do and not take that one quote and run with it. From the way everyone sounded, it's going to be a much faster paced, dictating-to-the-defense offense than what we've seen.

The main thing I'm hearing from this presser is what I've heard whispers of several times – there was a lot of WHAT being taught by Watson, but almost zero WHY. There was so much time spent on scheming this or that play that the guys had no concept of the whole, thus a lot of it just didn't make sense to people. That explains the general confusion we saw on offense several times, where it seemed like, from the OC down to the O Line, people had no idea what they were doing.

It boils down to the difference between a craftsman and an assembly line. In an assembly line, everyone has one role to play, does that one role, and rarely sees the whole. The craftsman knows intricately how his piece will fit into the whole because he grasps how the whole fits together. Last year we had a bunch of assembly line workers. It seems like Beck wants craftsmen.

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Did anyone else catch the fact that Brendan Stai is back with the Huskers as a Grad Asst? That is HUGE. Now we have Cotton, Garrison and Stai, three guys working on an O Line that desperately needs to get some kind of swagger built up. This was the biggest piece of news I caught out of this otherwise by-the-numbers presser.

 
knapplc said:
zoogies said:
knapplc said:
Beck's attacking offenses means play fast, attack, and have fun. Don't worry about what the defenses are going to do, just attack them.
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Funny, how can you be going where they ain't if you ain't worried about where they're going? :P
Click to expand...
I think you're jumping on the "going where they ain't" thing too much - it's convenient to justify a stance on Watson. I think it'll be a good idea to see what they do and not take that one quote and run with it. From the way everyone sounded, it's going to be a much faster paced, dictating-to-the-defense offense than what we've seen.

The main thing I'm hearing from this presser is what I've heard whispers of several times – there was a lot of WHAT being taught by Watson, but almost zero WHY. There was so much time spent on scheming this or that play that the guys had no concept of the whole, thus a lot of it just didn't make sense to people. That explains the general confusion we saw on offense several times, where it seemed like, from the OC down to the O Line, people had no idea what they were doing.

It boils down to the difference between a craftsman and an assembly line. In an assembly line, everyone has one role to play, does that one role, and rarely sees the whole. The craftsman knows intricately how his piece will fit into the whole because he grasps how the whole fits together. Last year we had a bunch of assembly line workers. It seems like Beck wants craftsmen.

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Did anyone else catch the fact that Brendan Stai is back with the Huskers as a Grad Asst? That is HUGE. Now we have Cotton, Garrison and Stai, three guys working on an O Line that desperately needs to get some kind of swagger built up. This was the biggest piece of news I caught out of this otherwise by-the-numbers presser.
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Having brendan back is a great thing. I have a hunch that Stai and Garrison are our Oline coaches of the future.

 
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