Mavric

Until it's done, just more coach speak. We've been fed these types of lines for years now, lets actually get it done coach. Unfortunately I have to agree. And apparently all the lines about "these coaches have experience", "we have three DCs on staff" and "this staff will make adjustments" are all just hope that people were clinging to. There are only three options at this point: - The coaches don't have any other plan to try anything different than what they've run in the first four games - They are too stubborn to try anything else, insistent that their plan will work if it's executed properly (that sounds familiar) - Sticking with their system is more important in the long run that winning some games

Don't expect DPE to do much in this game other than a cameo appearance every once in a while. Yep. Maybe a couple plays here and there to get his feet wet. At the most.

Not much of a Dirk fan but I think he hits the nail on the head here:

Said again that he is looking to visit for the Wisconsin game. Now he says Nebraska has been recruiting him the most. Kind of odd that two weeks ago we didn't make a list of four in that area but hopefully we're in better shape that it sounded like.

https://twitter.com/SJS_10/status/648678847194472448

Woah, pump the brakes there. You deal with what you have. If you *inherit* players who probably belong at a different position, you have to move them. Sure, maybe the need is so pressing you sacrifice long term for short term, or vice versa, but that's a pretty difficult balancing act. And it all comes back to what you start with. Better or for worse, there's no getting around that. To some extent, yes. But I'm confused why we are moving so many guys to DT which started out as the one of the deepest positions on the team. We started out with Collins, VV, Williams and Maurice. Now we've moved Stoltenberg and Price there and are talking about moving McMullen there as well. I really doubt we have need for 7 DTs this year. I don't mind Stoltenberg at DT long-term but I don't think it would hurt him to stay at DE one more year, especially if we have depth issues there. He needs another year to bulk up before being ready to be a force at DT anyway. And I think people are basing too much criticism of McMullen on one video that they're ignoring the context of the play call in that video. He played quite a bit as a redshirt freshman two years ago. He was our second-leading tackler among DLinemen last year (Gregory had 54, McMullen had 47) including four sacks. He's only two tackles behind Freedom on the year. He is still easily our second-best DE this year. Perhaps Gangwish will prove to be a little better but there is nothing to base that on at this point. And even if he does, why move your third DE to where he won't be better than the fifth DT? I'm talking about depth, not necessarily impact. McMullen is a servicable to solid DE, especially if when we get to teams that run the ball more. He would not do us any good at DT.

If we are so thin at DE why do we keep moving guys out of that position? Who else have they moved out of DE? It would make sense to try McMullen somewhere else as he hasn't been contributing much at the DE position. Maybe he'll do some good inside where we also have guys struggling to get to the QB. I don't think we have any depth to speak of at DL or DE, probably been quite the challenge. Stoltenberg Banker said the Southern Miss game was McMullen's best game so far. Stoltenberg's future is at DT. It made sense to move him there in the spring. I don't disagree. But then being thin at DE is basically self-imposed going forward.

If we are so thin at DE why do we keep moving guys out of that position? Who else have they moved out of DE? It would make sense to try McMullen somewhere else as he hasn't been contributing much at the DE position. Maybe he'll do some good inside where we also have guys struggling to get to the QB. I don't think we have any depth to speak of at DL or DE, probably been quite the challenge. Stoltenberg Banker said the Southern Miss game was McMullen's best game so far.

https://twitter.com/EricBurrell_/status/648663187563393024

If we are so thin at DE why do we keep moving guys out of that position?

I think they hit more than two or three. But that is misleading because they barely ATTEMPTED to throw deep until the fourth quarter. I counted three "deep" balls through the first three quarters. And I was using 10+ yards downfield as "deep" so it didn't even have to really stretch the field. The went completion, incompletion, defensive pass interference on those three. Then they threw down the field a lot more in the fourth quarter and they were torching us.

An addendum to the above: Last year we averaged 5.3 yards per rush for the year. That was good enough for us to be #19 in the country in rushing yards per game. Now, our average (currently 5.4) might - and probably will - go down against some better competition. But it seems that the complaints about our running game are exaggerated.

Has OVs scheduled to Notre Dame and Michigan. Looking to schedule visits to Nebraska, Ohio State and Washington. But he said of a trip to Nebraska "I'm not sure that's going to work."

Hope it's a great one!

B1G week for the Huskers.

Penn State