Mavric

Cockrell is not going to cut it in man coverage. Would have thought we would have learned that last year (I know, new coaches).

Third Possession - 2:50 1st Quarter

1&10, -35 - Pistol, TE, FB left - Outside zone left. Wilbon dances too much but still gets five.

2&5, -40 - Doubles bunched left, jet motion left - Inside zone. Wilbon get about 5 yards before contact, seven total

1&10, -47 - Ace - Zone run right. Cross never has a chance. Both Reeves and Lewis were asked to reach block defenders who were shaded to gapped toward the play. Very tough blocks. (pic below).

2&12, -45 - Shotgun spread left - Slip screen right to Wilbon. Almost dances too much but finds a crease for 14 yards

1&10, +41 - Shotgun TE,WB right - WR screen left. Read well by BYU. Couldn't tell if Turner dropped it or BYU tipped it

2&10, +41 - Shotgun, Two RB - Play-action, TA hits Moore on the deep out. Great diving catch by Moore.

1&10, +22 - Shotgun doubles - WR screen to Moore for a TD. Moore probably could have been flagged for not being on the line.

7 plays, 65 yards. 3 runs for 10 yards, 4 passes for 55 yards. Pretty clean drive but for the one play.

Second Possession - 7:14 1st Quarter

1&10, -11 - Offset I right, jet motion left - Fake the sweep, give to Newby on Power left. This was actually blocked really well but Newby was late and didn't get cut back to the left enough (pic below).

2&10, -11 - Substitution infraction

2&15, -6 - Shotgun doubles - Straight drop, TA hits Westy on the deep out for 18. Pass was late but placed high - good catch by Westy

1&10, -24 - Trips right - Give to Newby right for 4. Decent push by the line but didn't get a seam to break free

2&6, -28 - Pro I right - Play-action bootleg right, two man route. TA probably could have run, should have thrown it away and eventually got intentional grounding

3&14, -20 - Shotgun doubles - WR screen to Riley for 12

4&2, -32 - Punt

5 plays, 21 yards. 2 runs for 4 yards, 2 passes for 30 yards, 2 penalties for 13 yards. Intentional grounding killed the drive.

Feel free to ignore this thread if you want.

Just wanting to get a feel for what we were - or weren't - doing on offense. And I thought I'd bore you with my thoughts.

First Drive - 11:57 1st Quarter

1&10, -12 yard line - Ace Wing set, Jet Sweep motion - Fake the sweep, straight dive to Newby. Not much of a hole but Newby squeezes through only to get tackled by the 8th guy in the box. Gain of three. I'm guessing BYU loading the box has a lot to do with our struggles running the ball. We had seven to block eight that play.

2&7, -15 - Shotgun spread set, doubles right - Straight drop, double curl routes. TA hits and open Hovey for 11 yards and a first down

1&10, -26 - Shotgun Ace Trips left - WR screen to Moore for 7 yards

2&3, -33 - Spread wing left, jet motion left - Jet sweep to Moore for 13 yards

1&10, -46 - Shotgun doubles both sides, motion to trips right - Play-action rollout right. TA hits Westy on the deep out for 18 yards.

1&10, +36 - Shotgun trips left - Play-action TA hits Westy on the deep cross for 21 yards

1&10, +15 - Shotgun TE Trips left - BYU blitzes OLB and CB, TA scrambles for 1 yard

2&9, +14 - Shotgun trips left - Fake WR screen left, RB screen right but TA overthrows Newby

3&9, +14 - Shotgun trips left - WR screen left that BYU has sniffed out but a great play by Westy - and block by TA - turn it into a TD

9 plays, 88 yards. 2 called runs for 16 yards, 7 called passes (counting a scramble) for 72 yards and the TD.

Pass heavy to start but it was mostly short, easy throws. Protection was fairly good on the longer throws except when they blitzed more than we could block.

 

 

BYU was flagged for a number of illegal formation penalties, just as Nebraska was. Some crews will be more lenient with guys lining up within a yard of the LOS, while Saturday's crew seemed to be a stickler for the rules.

Saw someone else say this which is probably true to some extent. But it's easily avoidable if you simply check with the ref to get his OK if you're supposed to be the end guy on the line.

Yes, but many times they could be calling it on a o-lineman or a slot receiver. They aren't next to a referee to check with one.

 

OLineman is a possibility. But even the slot receiver can still check with the ref. For that matter an OLineman could too but that never happens.

BYU was flagged for a number of illegal formation penalties, just as Nebraska was. Some crews will be more lenient with guys lining up within a yard of the LOS, while Saturday's crew seemed to be a stickler for the rules.

Saw someone else say this which is probably true to some extent. But it's easily avoidable if you simply check with the ref to get his OK if you're supposed to be the end guy on the line.

These stats had a lot more to do with us losing than the Hail Mary. That play was the nail in the coffin but we should never have been in the position for that play to beat us. We were behind the sticks all day.

And this doesn't even include all the penalties.

» 5.05: Nebraska yards per play on first down. Considering the Huskers averaged 5.7 yards per play for the game, the first-down rate wasn’t pretty. It was especially anemic in the first half: 20 plays, 88 yards. And 61 of those 88 yards came on three plays. The other 17 first-down plays in the first half? Twenty-seven yards. That won’t do. BYU averaged 6.4 yards per play on first down.

» 3.65: Yards per carry on first-down rushes. That won’t do, either. For reference, NU averaged 6.21 yards per carry on first down last season, 5.70 in 2013, 5.64 in 2012 and 5.08 in 2011.

» 50 percent: Nebraska’s completion rate on first down. Also won’t do. Armstrong completed 7 of 14 passes. The first-down rate needs to be north of 60 percent in an offense like this — and preferably north of 65 percent.

OWH

Not sure if that will happen organically, there might need to be a conscious push towards it at least once to get it started. Would be awesome though.

 

Opposing teams get to decide when they come out, I'm pretty sure. BYU came out right in the middle of the video.

Yeah, need to get the student section going on it and let it grow from there. Perhaps put the words on the video to help people.

Seems like the visiting team usually comes out right about when BYU did.

We were shut out in he 2nd and 4th quarters. Were the lineman out of gas? It looked like it to me.

That's a really interesting point.

I don't mind playing the same guys most of the time. But the contrast is odd. The coaches are talking about not increasing McMullen's snap count even with Gangwish out. He played 45 snaps and they don't want to go more than that. We'd subbed an entire second unit defensive line by the fourth or fifth play of the game. Yet every single offensive lineman played 80+ (probably 90+) snaps. I don't think giving a guy a series off here and there is going to damage the continuity that much.

Banker said he wouldn't change the call on the Hail Mary play.

This is an interesting thought....

... except that I'm not sure the visitors are on the field yet. But it's still could be pretty sweet.

Didn't see any specifics on Gangwish but it was reported that his arm was in a brace at practice today which sounds like a dislocated elbow (you can do that, right?) to me.

Freedom Akinmoladun will start at DE for the injured Gangwish.

Michael Rose-Ivey may line up at DE on passing downs.

https://twitter.com/MatthewSvoboda/status/641043428189569025

Since 2003 (as far as this site goes back), Oregon State has been #116, #105, #116, #73, #78, #89, #112, #69, #109, #80, #92 and #122 in penalties per game. Only two of those years were they better than Nebraska (2008 and 2010).

Doesn't bode well for improvement on that front.

 

I would guess there will be a couple JUCO DE offers after there are a couple games worth of film to watch.

That makes sense. When did we offer Gregory?

 

Assuming his profile was created right when he got the offer, October 21.

 

We averaged 3.4 yards on 37 run plays and 7.8 yards on 41 pass plays. I know I'm being Captain Obvious here, but we don't need to run more often, we need to run better.

Bingo.

 

I said in a status update we were 48% Run in the game yesterday. It's less than what I want to see, but if the passing game is working well, which it was at 59% completion, the run game should work better. I'm not sure if its scheme or personnel. But you are right, it needs to be more efficient in the run game.

 

Hats off to BYU selling out to stop the run, they were shooting gaps all day long. Moving in and out of a 4-3 to 3-4 isn't easy for OL to get a feel for where the defense is coming from. I think we'll be alright. I really do. As long as we improve efficiency in the running game NU will be alright. I think the D will play much better two when the QB can't run as well.

 

A lot of this is in how the stats are presented.

Three sacks count against the running stats even though they were called as pass plays. Plus two intentional grounding calls that don't show up as actual plays. I know TA scrambled on at least one play, might have been another. So there are almost always more called pass plays than show up in the stats. Of course, there are plays nullified by penalties as well but just moving the sacks and intentional grounding penalties to to passing side of the ledger makes it 46 passing plays against 34 running plays which is 57.5% passing while changing the average per play to 5.9 yards per play on passing plays against 4.4 yards per play running the ball. Still better passing but not nearly the discrepancy that it looks like at first.

I would guess there will be a couple JUCO DE offers after there are a couple games worth of film to watch.

The point is even making the field goal wouldn't Have won the game. Getting a first down would have.

 

 

 

 

We adjusted so well we lost. Also, we actually pay a special teams coach and they left 6 points off the board for us to think about. I am looking really hard for that light at the end of the tunnel.. Hope I see it soon.

How does paying a special teams coach make Drew Brown a better kicker in an off season? I keep seeing this on this board, I don't get it.

I dont either. drew browns problems are mental and no coach can fix that. Everything else was fine.

That is why I begging for NU to go into 4 down mode on the last drive. You have 2 plays to get 3 yards. Put in Jano and Cross, and hammer those fools. You should be able to get 3 yards in two plays. AT least burn some clock.

I thought we should have gone for it even after losing yards on third down. A FG didn't gain us that much and was far from a given while a first down end the game.

I would like to see about 55-60% Run rather than the 48% they had vs BYU

It was only about 40% if you go by what play was called instead of what the play turned out to be.

BYU is not that good. Hill was very good - maybe the best QB we'll play all year - but the rest of the team is nothing special. We kept them in the game with poor coverage, penalties, missed FGs and no running game.

Their backup QB still scored on two out of three drives against us in the fourth quarter so he probably had a better scoring percentage than Hill.

They will probably lose to Boise State, UCLA and Missouri. I won't be surprised if Michigan beats them. They'll probably win most of the rest of their games because their schedule is terrible.

 

Someone's suspension was 2 games long, Riley won't announce that until Thursday.

Hope its not Carter or MRI. With Sutton down and Foster banged up we need him back. Would also like to get MRI live snaps prior to Miami......

 

Wouldn't surprise me if it's Carter. Attitude seems lacking. I don't think it's MRI