Undone

Tuffy's been around a few times already this season. 

Nice, I guess I've missed his stuff.

Probably just as mean too.

I wouldn't give him the majority of the blame is what I originally meant.

My heart goes out to him-but was the hype deserved?  Maybe that's on us fans. Sure seems to be a burden

Husker fan irrationally buys the hype prematurely. It is what it is.

Being cynically realistic, he's a 19 year old piloting an offense that doesn't look to be all that comfortable in its own skin on a team that hasn't been good for a while.

I truly believe in his talent. I do. I just think it's going to take a lot more time to fix this mess. And it's going to have to be a team effort. Martinez, as he is now, isn't good enough to cover up everyone else's sins.

Yeah, his performance was disappointing considering the hype. It may be as simple as he actually does have great potential but just wasn’t healthy enough to prepare properly. Couple that with the lack of depth and experience at the center position and a poor first game is not too surprising.

They gave Cam a lot of tough looks. We’ve seen far more experienced players struggle when a team does that. It’s bad because now we are sad for a week, but we got our money’s worth in terms of learning opportunities from that game.

Frost told Austin he thought that Jurgens had 'the talent' to be the next Dave Rimington. It's a somewhat ambiguous phrase that does not mean the same thing as what's being positioned here.

I trust that this coaching staff isn't one to blow smoke up our you know whats. So, when they say things like that, or when Frost say something like 'the offense didn't play the way they've been practicing,' I believe it. Now, the real issue is whether or not we should be concerned, and I think there's reason to be at least fairly concerned.

That offensive line paved the way for a lot of yards and points to go up on the board in '01 for sure. That team played incredibly sound fundamentals and was very disciplined. It was of course the last (good) product of the Osborne template. 

It's crazy to think though just how good we could be this year with a good defense. It could be what winds up making the season so frustrating, but I'll stop before I jinx us.   

The Oklahoma win was great, but outside of them we got dismantled by the only two other good teams we played. Such an easy schedule. ND only won 5 games and was supposed to be a tough opponent that year. Our defense was also T10 in the nation. 

@BIG ERN - You said:
 

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"Such an easy schedule."

Definitely a parallel to this season, right? Basically what I'm saying is, think about the skill players that we have on offense right now. Offensively this is a team that could actually contend for a playoff spot...if we had a really good defense.

Combined with the complete ineptitude of the 2017 NU team, I agree with you.  Sometimes, it's all about timing!

@ColoradoHusk  @Undone  on a related note, I was thinking last night when I looked at the 2017 schedule again, I would never cheer against Nebraska before or during a game, but I'm really glad we lost the close games we lost. Kinda funny looking at the schedule, we could have had a record of anywhere between 2-10 to 7-5. If one of our wins had been Northern Illinois, Riley might have hung on for one more season. 

@Moiraine When you look at the way that Northern Illinois game played out it was clear that there were very few players on that team that cared about competing as hard as they could. I think we saw some of that trickle over in a few guys even in the Troy game last year. 

Then around the middle of last year that was pretty much weeded out. 

Martinez wasn't born until 2000, so in 1997 you would've been staring silently at an ovum inside his mother's body.

Stop overthinking this and just reach for the glass and drink it, @Toe.

its' gonna be hard. Minnesota a legit challenge.

We have 2 NFL receivers, 1 TE, 1 OL, 1 DB, likely 1 LB and 1 DL. If he can't get it done this year, I'm not to optimistic he will ever.

Who on the dline is NFL ready right now?

I think Maurice will get a shot.

That guy is still here?!

I've been seeing him in threads, yeah.

Might be time for him to hang up the sock.

was?

Yes.

A mean spirited guido at that. He'd put a horse head in your bed for calling him that.

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