Mavric

Our issue was more Defense than anything. We were shutting them out until the end of the third quarter when they remembered the forward pass and murdered us with it. Our secondary was pitiful. Offense was actually decent for what we were trying to do, it wasn't 2010-11 UW but I don't think it was meant to be, it was more about breaking in DOB. We have a brand new QB and a RB who's still recovering from a concussion, I didn't expect 50+. As far as the second statement a week ago I'd have given you a lot of flak for it but now I completely agree. This will not be an easy year for UW. I was going to post something to the effect of "6 points with two minutes left in the half against NoIowa is more of a problem than you may want to admit". But I do see you scored on 3 of your 4 first half possessions and the only one failing to score started on your own 5 yard line. Must have been a really slow (or fast, depending on how you look at it) game.

Why would have have a worse completion percentage than last year? Just my opinion. Wrong answer. The correct answer to BigRedBuster's question is "Because I'm FLU"

I think he's got a lot of potential. I'm just afraid he's too buried in the depth chart to get much out of this year. Yes, IF Rex misses a lot of time it might be different but this is way to early in the year to be playing a potential redshirt on an "if". Assuming Rex is back (even if it's after missing a game or two), AA looks to have a lock on the #2 spot and Heard looked good as well. I'd say that might leave 25-30 carries for the year for Cross. Not enough to warrant shorting him a year.

Looking good...for now. "Good" might be a stretch but the prediction for that game was correct. They really did look "good" the first week last year before falling off the cliff in week 2.

Well, they are at least the best team in Ireland. That's a start.

I don't know, but my assumption was that it's to try to get them to secure the helmet better always. So missing a play is a punishment to prevent it from happening. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Then 2) Do the officials really think that it's going to lead to players making sure their helmet doesn't fall off again? I mean, is one play enough of a deterrence to stop them from "not securing their helmets". They should have to be taken out for the rest of the current drive. I think that would be enough of a deterrence. Depends. I would think the players wouldn't want to come out of a game for something that's pretty easily preventable. After it happens in a couple critical situations - as it did tonight when Clemson's QB had to sit out a critical play late in the game - I'd be willing to bet it will have an effect. At least they're trying to do something about it. If the helmet comes off that easily, it is NOT fitted properly - and thus not protecting properly. End of story.

For awhile it seemed like we were going out of our way to NOT have anyone playing outside contain. Looked better in the second half so hopefully we got something straightened out.

The D came around in the second half. Bo commented that they may have prepared for too many thing - they didn't really know what SMiss would do. SMiss had 25 carries for 95 yards (under 4 ypc) and was 1/8 throwing for 15 yards. Holding anyone to about 100 yards in a half is pretty good. Still lots of room for improvement but at least they were headed in the right direction. LOVED the pressure we brought at times.

I really like what I saw from Abdullah. There were a couple times I thought the ball might come out but he held on. With good ball security added to the rest of his skills, he really becomes dangerous.

Great work by Martinez but also some very nice catches by the receivers - not a drop. Not every pass was perfectly placed but all but a couple were catchable and the receivers brought most of them in.

Probably not in the mix against the spread - lots of nickel package out there today. When we're back to the regular 4-3, I bet he'll be back.

Jesse Palmer - leader of the "Taylor Martinez for Heisman" campaign.

34 passes, 349 yds 44 rushes, 273 yds I'll take it.

That's crazy for anyone - let alone at 225 lbs.

Martinez 26/34 - 76.5% - 349 yds - 10.3 ypa - 5 TDs Nearly unbelievable numbers. Great game.

Over 500 yards of offense - and still more than a quarter to go.

That kick looked like me off the 12th tee box...

Had to go back and watch the TD again. We were unbalanced left - RT was on the end of the line so the middle of the trips was on the line and ineligible. However, the middle WR never moved after the snap. CRAZY play design.

Back to the O. Let's go again.

That sucked

We'll see how much clamoring for Carnes there is this year. He was supposed to be our "savior" last year (according to some) and now he's #4. Hmmmmmm.......

You mean when he was in another first year of an offense when he didn't have any spring ball to get up to speed, throwing to mostly freshmen, sophomores and somewhat injured receivers - some of whom may or may not have been giving their best effort all the time. Yeah, I think the timing could have been better. I think it will be.

His Freshman year he was two completions from being over 60% for the year. IIRC, Beck's offense at Kansas relied on short passes (that is, the type that are easy to complete). I wouldn't be surprised if he's 65%.

Who said that? Plenty of talk about bias from Fox . . . which is accurate. Did someone actually say to not believe a single word? Well, actually, yes.

Huskers 41 Eagles 10 Passing - 165 Rushing - 310