Hayseed

Lets see what happens. We played horribly and lost by 6. We'll most likely win a few we should've lost and lose a few we should've won....that's our team. Until we get more talent on D it'll be like this......we're officially a west coast team. If the D keeps us out of trouble our O coasts to a win...... the entire offensive game plan would change.....we'd probably play some fresh young talent who are itching to see the field and not even think about the disaster a bad D would've imposed on us.

If you think the O-line played alright yesterday you should re-watch the last couple drives of the game. Sure, UCLA was sending pressure, but there were plays when our line had nobody blocked.

 

I'd be embarrassed if I were Barney.

They were sending pressure because our OC had our offense playing defense.....there are counters to pressure but he doesn't ever seem to be aware of them. I'd be embarrassed if I was Beck or any of the D coaches.

This is a poor defense at every level.

They should end pre-season rankings entirely and see who earned their rank after the OC games.

It's kind of hard to blame the line coach when you're running 7 yards a pop and the OC decides "hey, I think this is a good time to start pocket passing"....when the opposing D is overpursuing and you never counteract it even though you have great open-field running backs.

I don't see how you can even think it's the line coach's fault.

Osborne will not fire Pelini so to me the subject is a waste of time. Sure it would probably work if we hire Vince Lombardi......I'm still waiting for my flying car.

In fairness, I'm certainly not clear on if there really is a meaningful difference between nickel and peso looks, barring Hagg. An alignment shift perhaps?

 

Bring back Hagg! (I kid, I kid.)

Yeah, but your not kidding that much because the difference really is players like Gomes and Hagg. Of course it doesn't help that Stafford is the only one who is ever in the vicinity to make a tackle due to the frozen 7.

It wasn't you as much as it was us. Time will tell if UCLA is any better than the middle-of-the-PAC team I think they are. But we've been over these same problems many many times with ordinary teams looking like all-stars due to our diminishing talent and excessive hype. The Big Ten in general is looking pretty sad at this point. Sad beating sad does not equal happy.

Remember after the Capital One Bowl and Raymond's "look at them now look at us comments"........................ Just saying.

 

I was in agreement with what he was saying. However, he shouldn't put on paper for the world to see. Our front 7 is holding us back from taking the next step big time.

By Husker standards our "back 4" are 3rd stringers. They look like the Kansas State backfield of the 70's.

Beck is the prob. Why he goes away from the run when it is working boggles me. I can see a play action to change it up but to go to pure throwing?

Sometimes I think his headset is connected to the network and they're telling him to keep it close for ratings....that's the only explanation I've come up with for the unexplainable. These guys that fold under pressure every time are the exact opposite of the kind of people you want to build a team with.

Braylon Heard is a stud. For some reason our coaches don't want talented players on the field. It makes me question the ability of our coaches when guys like him and Jean-Baptiste have trouble getting playing time. I've really disinvested from the whole thing and don't get mad anymore. It's a lot more enjoyable when you see it for what it is instead of foaming at the mouth,yelling, and upsetting innocent bystanders.

The defense? Talent problem.

Hey, did you guys see the K State game? They really tore it up and appear to be a legit team.

The defensive problems seem like a recruiting problem to me. We're starting 3rd string players. I don't even see the point in discussing the specific problems when there;s such an obvious lack of talent across the board.

I like Heard better but any of the RB's would've won the game if given the chance. You really have to question Beck's ability as play caller. Maybe he belongs on the west coast or in the WAC?

Same story,different day.

At first I thought Dr. Tom had suited up, but then I saw there was another Osborne on the team and he can catch pretty good. Most receivers probably drop that TD pass.

I don't know what determines who a leader is but I thought Steinkuhler played well. I think it may be what Bo said....they prepared for too much and were surprised when S Miss came with a basic game plan. They settled down and did better in the second half. You could say they gave up a lot of yards to the running QB but that guy just ran out the clock and took away any chance S Miss had of getting back in the game. Hey running QB...thanks for running around and not throwing worth a damn.

I've been wondering about Carnes for a while....it sounds like he'll either enjoy a free scholarship to sit on the bench and wait for a bunch of injuries to happen or transfer.

With this news I say forget him and concentrate on players who want to be here.

That is so freaking cool. Ade was a man among boys and played twice his size. Hope Nigeria gets a medal.

They're full of conservative ideas

Mind elaborating?

After being silent for years they send out people like Bill Clinton to give his brilliant advice ,then lo and behold, Obama is concerned about the 12 year old Bush tax rates expiring. Of course it's just a trick with the temporary extension for one year before we all get hit if he's re-elected. There are other temporary loosening of regs going on for his media to focus on in hopes that they can fool enough dummies into thinking he's moderating....of course he really won't but they like pretending before every election.

Greta did an interview about this and it sounds like this was a good company that failed mostly due to the death of its founder in a plane crash. The loans weren't out of line for this one unlike the other companies that appeared to be little more than political pay off. They also had a good quality product but had trouble developing it for the consumer market. I would put this in an entirely different category than Solyndra and I'm fiscally conservative. A good venture capital company like Bain might be able to restructure this and make it work.

I've been saying if for months: the Republican party's chances improve in November if they block all legislation that would help the economy. It makes me very uncomfortable any time either party has an incentive to do harm to the country.

The Democrats had control of the Congress for two years and did none of this. Now in the last six months before the election they're full of conservative ideas...well, ideas that last until after the election that is. The Democrat's socialist schemes will go nowhere, they've lost any trust they ever had. I've noticed that most of your threads are the same theme despite your pleas for fairness.....I won't engage in any arguments with you but thought the timing of Obama's deep concern about everything needed to be pointed out.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/12/presidential-rivals-trade-charges-lying-romney-demands-apology-over-felony/

It appears Romney's involvement in Bain after '99 was the equivelant of having his name on a retirement account. I'm sure it was just an oversight by the Obama campaign.

Norris pitcher Byron Hood committed to the Huskers. He is a 2014 prospect and throws in the upper 80's. Looks like another decent ball player for Erstad and company.

 

He has a good friend and teammate by the name of Jackson Reetz. Supposedly he is the higher rated prospect and will be looked at by many other colleges and possibly scouts. Can't hurt to have Byron in his ear for the next couple years.

 

Jackson Reetz is going to be an All-American type catcher at Norris by the time he is done.........he's only going to be a junior

 

Reetz comittied to NU today. According to perfect game, he is the 21st best prospect in the 2014 class. Should be interesting to see where he gets drafted.

That's great!

Jon Stewart is tool and a rather dull one at that.

 

I like the way he aggressively questions conservatives and then when one of them bites back, he reverts to the "I'm just a comedian" schtick.

And he's lying about that....except for the scary frowning faces he's not funny.