Offense or Defense?

Offense or Defense?

  • Offense

    Votes: 12 17.4%

  • Defense

    Votes: 43 62.3%

  • Both are equally exciting

    Votes: 14 20.3%
  • Total voters
    69
knapplc

knapplc

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Which side of the ball do you like to watch more, offense or defense? For me it's easily defense. The aggression, the attack, the havoc - all these things get my blood rushing. Sure, it's fine to watch the offense steamroll a team into submission, but it's just not the same.

Give me highlights of Chad Kelsay and Mike Rucker and I'm happy. Give me Trev Alberts blasting quarterbacks. Give me Terry Conneally making Kordell Stewart soil himself (again). Give me Suh throwing McCoy around like a rag doll. Give me any of this over watching Rozier tear up... everyone, or Gill gliding down the field, or Ahman Green juking the light fantastic or the Makovicka Bros. demolishing everyone in their path. Defense is where it's at, for me at least.

 
Defense by far, the passion and energy that a solid defense can bring trumps watching the offense in my opinion. The blackshirts, when they are playing at their expected level, is a thing of beauty.

 
So far the vote is 9-2 in favor of the Defense, with one vote for "equal."

Would you guys say Nebraska is defined more by its defense or its offense? I think when people think of Nebraska football they automatically think of a ground-pounding run game first, and our identity across the college football landscape is defined more by the offense than the Blackshirts. Is that symptomatic of football in general, or is it because we ran a "unique" offense (the Option) for so long?

 
I voted for the Defense. I know what they'll bring most gamedays and nothing is more gratifying that watching a defense beat up an offense. I would've voted both but I just don't know what product we'll get from the O.

 
For me its offense, not to say that I don't enjoy watching defense. But offense is what I played. I understand it on a different level.

 
I went with offense simply because we are more likely to score and less likely to be scored upon when we're on offense.

 
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As of late, the offense. I guess I 'expect' solid D play (though I do get jacked watching them). Getting wide ranges of emotions while watching the O...good or bad..makes that side of the ball more 'fun' to watch IMO. (I am a sucker for punishment.)

 
Under TO - offense

Under Bo - defense

I really enjoy watching defense, but I'd be A-OK with it if they were on the bench most of the game.

 
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knapplc said:
So far the vote is 9-2 in favor of the Defense, with one vote for "equal."

Would you guys say Nebraska is defined more by its defense or its offense? I think when people think of Nebraska football they automatically think of a ground-pounding run game first, and our identity across the college football landscape is defined more by the offense than the Blackshirts. Is that symptomatic of football in general, or is it because we ran a "unique" offense (the Option) for so long?
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Under T.O. I would have to agree with this statement. Everyone knew we were going to run right over and through them. But now, under Pelini, our identity has shifted more to a defensive team. Everyone knows we are going to be very aggressive on D and extremely hard to score on.

 
Football is an offense's game. Offenses are more fun to watch.

But I will say that Bo's masterwork has put up some uniquely entertaining defensive shows the past few years. It isn't common for defenses to take over and destroy offenses the way we did especially in 2009.

Still, a glitzy big play completion or a huge run up the middle will always be more fun to watch than a 3-yard loss or a pass deflection.

 
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zoogies said:
Still, a glitzy big play completion or a huge run up the middle will always be more fun to watch than a 3-yard loss or a pass deflection.
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Or you could say "an 86-yard interception return for a touchdown is more fun to watch than a 3-yard run up the middle".

 
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