Interesting quotes this morning

[HuskerFowler]

Pelini said Beck kept calling the power plays Saturday to make a point and make his line practice getting it right. The goal wasn't, Pelini said, to put the offense in the best position for success against UTC, but to prepare for down the road.
"There's a method to the madness," Pelini said.

Beck would have called a much different game later in the season, Pelini said, than he did against the Mocs.

"Pretty fast," quarterback Taylor Martinez said when asked how quickly NU can go. "Probably maybe pretty close to Oregon, I'd say."
Said Beck: "It can. I didn't want to give them too much to handle on the first game."

Linky

Alot more to come from our offense, will be fun to watch it develop.

 

[bshirt]

Heh....great read. Thanks HuskerFowler!

 

[Hammerhead]

Hope we get to see it develop to the point that Beck and co. are saying it will. Call me crazy, but I'd really like to see the passing game open up.

 

[tschu]

Thats exactly the thing. Game 1 of a new offense - it can only improve from here.

 

[Saunders]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110905/BIGRED/709059862/1001#poor-blocking-makes-husker-offensive-line-mad

 

[ADS]

I dont expect to see offense struggle against Fresno State, I expect the playbook to open up a little more. Especially in the passing game, strecth the field on some seam routes. As soon as Taylor gets the option down (especially reading the defensive end) that could our bread and butter.

 

[billdozer15]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110905/BIGRED/709059862/1001#poor-blocking-makes-husker-offensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

 

[Lyons in the Sea of Red.]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110905/BIGRED/709059862/1001#poor-blocking-makes-husker-offensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

Seriously barney you have the oline and that's it, and it took you looking at film to see that our most basic play was being blocked incorrectly? How hard is it during the game to take the players and tell them to maintain A gap responsibilities? This guy is something.

 

[bshirt]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com...ensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

Seriously barney you have the oline and that's it, and it took you looking at film to see that our most basic play was being blocked incorrectly? How hard is it during the game to take the players and tell them to maintain A gap responsibilities? This guy is something.

Gee, where's Garrison, Stai, etc in your insightful comments?

 

[The Dude]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110905/BIGRED/709059862/1001#poor-blocking-makes-husker-offensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

Seriously barney you have the oline and that's it, and it took you looking at film to see that our most basic play was being blocked incorrectly? How hard is it during the game to take the players and tell them to maintain A gap responsibilities? This guy is something.

Sheesh. You act as if Barney had an advantage of seeing the game with a bird's eye view from the coaches' booth or something like that. Get a grip.

 

[robsker]

I dont expect to see offense struggle against Fresno State, I expect the playbook to open up a little more. Especially in the passing game, strecth the field on some seam routes. As soon as Taylor gets the option down (especially reading the defensive end) that could our bread and butter.

The first game, seemingly, was an offensive live-action practice where execution of some core plays were the focal point. That said, the execution on those plays was low and the improvement over the course of the game was not encouraging. Real-time adjustments were, seemingly, lacking.

As for the Fresno State game... I envision that the offense will not struggle... but will not prosper either. Against UTC we had precious few drives and could not score TD's and had to settle for FG's instead --- we had 3 big plays which skewed the assessment making the O look more prosperous than it was (as these big plays would have been less likely to go as big plays were the opponents D more athletic). Sustained drives... stringing 4-5 consecutive gains of 6-12 yards or so multiple times throughout the game were not there... the ability to go to a play or two that was a guaranteed reasonable gain (something that the UTC D could not slow down)--- these were not there either. NU struggled against the UTC defense... apart from the three big plays (which, of course, count --- but success against that level of D is defined as consistent ability to move the chains... that was not there).

Against Fresno... with a much more athletic D than UTC (but less so than any B10 D) -- I'd guess we step it up several notches and will not struggle so much --- but still not in any way dominate. Hopefully we can get actual multiple sustained drives and move the chains. I think we will to a modest degree... but no more. That would be an improvement... but not enough to have much confidence that this O can consistently produce.

 

[irafreak]

Well I think this is what most of us saw. They dialed up lots of run pressure and we didn't call any option pass plays or do much play action so it was apparent they were trying to test the offense.

 

[Ratt Mhule]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com...ensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

Seriously barney you have the oline and that's it, and it took you looking at film to see that our most basic play was being blocked incorrectly? How hard is it during the game to take the players and tell them to maintain A gap responsibilities? This guy is something.

Gee, where's Garrison, Stai, etc in your insightful comments?

Talk about a hypocritical statement. Beck gets a free pass bc he is a first year coordinator according to you, but you want the OL blame to be distributed to all our OL coaches, including... wait for it...wait for it...two first year coaches.

 

[bshirt]

This is by far the most telling:

Power plays were far less fruitful. UTC linebackers often ran free to make tackles because NU linemen weren't reaching them.
On Nebraska's most basic isolation play, for example, Hardrick and guard Andrew Rodriguez are supposed to double-team the tackle and chip off to the linebacker. But Hardrick and Rodriguez often shoved the lineman so far down the line of scrimmage that the linebacker simply ran around the scrum straight to Rex Burkhead.

"Three times we had double teams and linebackers ran through the A gap," Cotton said. "That's on us. We're busy blocking the B gap and nobody's blocking the A gap. That was a disappointment. We got a lot of work to do in that area. I don't know what it was. But it's got to get fixed."

http://www.omaha.com...ensive-line-mad

Great........Barney doesnt know what it was, this sounds promising. :sarcasm

Seriously barney you have the oline and that's it, and it took you looking at film to see that our most basic play was being blocked incorrectly? How hard is it during the game to take the players and tell them to maintain A gap responsibilities? This guy is something.

Gee, where's Garrison, Stai, etc in your insightful comments?

Talk about a hypocritical statement. Beck gets a free pass bc he is a first year coordinator according to you, but you want the OL blame to be distributed to all our OL coaches, including... wait for it...wait for it...two first year coaches.

Talk about a fabrication. Show me "one" time where I said Beck gets a free pass all year long. You're sorely mistaken.

So your implying that if things go badly with the Oline it's only due to Barney but if it really improves it's due only to Garrison or Stai? Why in world wouldn't they all be considered when judging the Oline?

 

[Mierin]

Talk about a hypocritical statement. Beck gets a free pass bc he is a first year coordinator according to you, but you want the OL blame to be distributed to all our OL coaches, including... wait for it...wait for it...two first year coaches.

Talk about a fabrication. Show me "one" time where I said Beck gets a free pass all year long. You're sorely mistaken.

So your implying that if things go badly with the Oline it's only due to Barney but if it really improves it's due only to Garrison or Stai? Why in world wouldn't they all be considered when judging the Oline?

Cotton's the constant. Stai and Garrison are the variable. That's way too simple though.