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At this moment, yah I never want to see one again. It was a disaster this year, we don’t have big bodied receivers to consistently block in the open, so y did we continue to call it late in season in critical situations? we sucked a$$ executing it under frosty as well with 2AMs errant throws to the flats and relatively smaller receivers. just because it’s a basic play design that teams use for consistent success, doesn’t it mean it’s a for sure thing as evidenced here across 2 coaches

Yeah. By like October if a play clearly just isn’t meant to be run by the talent I have on hand, yeah, I def wanna scrap it for something that yields a better result

By far my favorite husker squad that didn’t finish top 5

You'd think we could get creative and cook up a screen for bonner given his skillset.

Please, no more screens. If I have to witness another screen where bullock gets lit up on his block and its a 3 yard loss i might not be able to take it. Or at least get rid of the wr screen- seems like every other progrum has figured out how to sprinkle that in, EXCEPT us for years now

How crazy is that lol. Is it ok to be both very optimistic about our future but pissed off as hell about the opportunity we just “fumbled” away to go 8-4/9-3 in year 1?

We didn't abandon the run but we sure as hell abandoned a RB run first offense. Our QBs need to cut their rushing attempts by half, imo. Seemingly every year since 2010 this board b!^@hes about qb health and injuries yet every season we rinse and repeat and have an offense built around qb run as our first option who inevitably doesnt move the same come oct/nov, or play at all, because they get the s#!t beat out of them every week Ive posted ad nauseum on these threads about how our rushing stats were a mirage this year. You take away the massive runs Sims, HH and purdy had on broken plays and our numbers look average at best. You look at RB avg per rush across the big ten and we ranked towards the bottom middle of the conference.

There is no way in hell we land either player based off the schools listed already in the mix.

At least 09 was just a single second away from doing so

09 had an equally inept offense and that defense not only kept the team in games, but won games and wrecked game plans on the other side. Suh def the headliner but also had crick and turner. Will Compton at linebacker and prince at Cb were nfl guys- the guys behind them were no ordinary guys either- many of them would be number 1 on the depth chart the past few years. stats wise isn’t fair. This defense was a menace in the era when spread really took over in the big 12. everyone remembers the Texas and Colorado games where Suh was a force, let’s not forget Missouri in the rain and the menace he was. the biggest thing the defense this year was missing was A DUDE who can single handily ruin the day for the other team. 09 had that plus more experience/talent at every level compared to this year 2010 was pretty similar to above but swap out Suh for lavonte. One of the biggest wishes I have ever had for husker football was to see those 2 on the field in the same year, we just missed it by a season but hot damn that would’ve been fun to watch both Suh and lavonte do their thing. You couple that with the offense we had in 2010 and I honestly think we’d be in the title hunt

Hot damn, I'm sold. Can you just join rhules staff in place of weger and help satt on the recruiting trail?

lol, well when you put it that way, it sounds dumb. But just to play devils advocate- Im a qb, couldn't tell ya exactly what strengths this progrum is looking for. You wanna be a power run team and protect the ball yet the qb is taking the lion share of the rushing attempts and getting beat the hell up. If I have any aspirations of going to the nfl, this isnt an ideal scenario. If im a RB- you havent had a rb drafted in close to 10 years now- I look at your neighbors up north in wisconsin and other big ten programs that do that on an annual basis- why am i committing to a place who has devalued the running back across 2 coaching staffs? WR- Who exactly has gotten drafted? 2 WRs who spent the majority of their careers elsewhere? What I see on the field this year is question marks at QB, the guy who gets me the ball. If im on the fence, i sure as hell am not going to a place where theres a question if I can even get the ball delivered to me. Obviously extremes, but yeah, i think it would help us tremendously if we could sell something based off what is seen on the field to recruits.

To me, having a label helps tremendously in what Rhule is selling to recruits and transfer portal guys. He had the luxury last offseason of selling the dream and he did a damn good job getting some high quality talent to come to Lincoln. If I'm an offensive skill player recruit in 2025, surely I have some questions as to what I'm committing to when I just witnessed a full season of question marks. Your short list is spot on. If I may counter the running the ball point- we're still way too over reliant on qb runs. If you remove the massive qb runs we had on broken pass plays (there were quite a few) our rushing totals dont look so great. If you look at our average yards per rush, essentially 9 progrums in the big ten fared better per rush. I feel like 80% of the past decade we've been boom or bust with the qb play and this reliance has to end. Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 2.20.39 PM Medium.heic

You think when its all said and done this thread will rival the sock puppet or fizzle out well short of that kind of fame.

Isn't it knife to the heart season 8? And blow jobs? hey, all of a sudden im feeling a bit better about things

Helped us in the long run for sure (experience for young guys). Next year should be fun. Sincerely hope we're sitting at 6-1 or 7-0 heading into our final 5 game stretch against tOSU, UCLA, USC, Wiscy, Iowa....

Youre 100% right on frosty, that was always my biggest gripe about his tenure. He did himself a disservice by having a whole staff that was void of big time P5 experience. I had hope rhule's staff would be slightly different given most have experience to hang their hat on (beside mcguire and weger). I never know what rumors to believe or not but how this season played out gives some credibility to the rumor that satt was never rhules first choice and ideally he would've had Jake Peetz in the fold.

I think Satt can own 2 elements of blame: 1. The Sims transfer was obviously a disaster of a pick up. They hitched their wagon to a turnover machine and basically relied on a guy who couldnt help himself but give the ball to the other team. 2. We're done with the first season and if someone were to ask me what our offense is I couldnt tell ya. The biggest success we had all year was a suggestion from osborne to send a guy deep on the fake option play. We relentlessly called wr screens with WRs who couldn't block for s#!t. We were sold a power run type offense yet for whatever reason defaulted to qb read option plays more-often than not in short to down situations. I entered this season feeling great about the TE room yet I leave it feeling like it too has problems- I get fidone is still coming back from injuries but man do I feel like we under utilized him by not using him more across the field or in formations where he's running routes underneath coverage; where was boerkircher? Perhaps the injuries and qb situation really took away a lot of what I listed in number 2 but it feels like we didnt even try some of the concepts that would play to whatever strength we could claim on offense. I am obviously beating a dead horse with the comments above but for being the highest paid assistant in progrum history, I sure as hell didn't expect to witness the worst offense in progrum history. Pretty appalling when this offense is compared to the production of the team in 1968, when lower scoring games were common place and teams werent chucking it around the yard like they do today. Taking eras into consideration, I'd be shocked if this offense didnt rank dead last in progrum history.

I'm in a similar camp as you- ill chalk it up to insane injuries plus first year struggles. That article tho posted above also included this stat that gave me pause: "The best predictor of future success is past results. That's a big reason I'm so skeptical that Satterfield will ultimately work out. In six seasons as an offensive coordinator, his offenses have ranked 88th, 97th, 60th, 104th, 40th and 121st in scoring, and 74th, 117th, 96th, 110th, 72nd and 116th in total offense. Three different teams. Three different conferences. Same inept results." Hard to argue with stats- similar to the Jeff Sims story. Sims was a turnover machines, comes here and guess what, morphs into a turnover nightmare. I'll remain optimistic a full offseason and influx of talent can help Satt but hot damn, the stat I pasted above gives me a disdain towards this hiring decision I haven't felt before.

I don't disagree- there is no replacement for actual game prep and subsequent practices. Perhaps I'm just so beatdown and broken over our qb play all year that im deliberately ignoring the qb room and looking at other players/position groups I wanted to see some game action from if we were to have reached bowl status lol

The benefit of the bowl game practices is way more beneficial for the younger guys on the team to get continued snaps and game experience in the bowl game. Theres a bunch of young dudes on defense and a few on offense that would surely get game playing reps in a bowl setting that could be very beneficial heading into the offseason and next year. You're spot on for the qbs- it'll do very little for the QBs. Perhaps chubba could've benefited given he was relegated to 3rd string/scout team qb given his groin injury. I just saw your 2nd post regarding QBs. I'm sure Sims is gone next year- but i imagine both HH and purdy will remain. We surely will bring on another QB from the portal. Staying status quo at this position is simply a non starter heading into next year unless Rhule wants to deliberately turn up the heat on himself

I feel like over analyzing results in one score games is just a nice way to call out inferior talent. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that our ineptitude in one score games and OT games aligns with our general downward trend in talent in the program. elite players step up and make plays when it matters. Particularly in the red zone or OT setting, we haven’t had a dude on offense really since ameer. We’ve also been pitiful in 1 score games and OT since around Ameers departure

True. I think it'll also help when our QB isn't everything in this offense. Outside of trey palmer last year, I think you'd have to go back to ameer's last season when 95% of the offense and its success wasn't on the shoulders of the QB. No matter who the QB was for us this year, it seemed like they had to do way more than what they were capable of for us to win.

lol- my guess is we see a slight change in the coaching staff. Wouldnt shock me at all if rhule brings in a guy to focus on QBs & TEs. Something tells me he can work out a way for raiola to work with TEs on blocking drills and have mcguire lean in on WR/TE for route running. I'm sure there's a better way to structure this but I have hope that Weger's spot from last year could be repurposed in a way that adds another coach to help develop the QBs without deteriorating the coaching focus to other groups.

If we can pull a Northwestern in the TO department and reduce ours by 10-15 next year, this is a completely different team and feeling around the progrum. Typically I would say it can be coached but at some point it falls on the player. Witnessing this past year makes me question that belief when I constantly see Sims drop snaps, fumble with horrendous ball security mechanics, and throwing blatant picks to other team- coaching can only change so much when its the player on the field.