NebraskaHarry

I've heard lots of talk about how impressive this Alabama program has been. And sure it is impressive, but frankly it should be expected. We're talking about a program that has all the advantages in college football. Programs like Nebraska don't get that. Nebraska has to earn everything. If a team like Nebraska could beat a team like Alabama for the National Championship now that would be impressive. Otherwise why would anyone expect Alabama not to win. They're Goliath, we're the guy everybody expects that's going to get the s*** kicked out of by Goliath.

Some think that is way too much passing. Well considering Beck and Bo want balance between pass/run and I think we're a team more than capable of running 70 O plays a game. It's actually on the low side. But yeah I don't know why people think that's too much passing with the weapons we have. Agreed. I think in all truthfulness, Beck would like to run at least 80-85 O plays a game, so your looking at 35-40ish passes. Now you're not gonna completely be perfect but 75% would be 25-30 completions. True that, true that.

I've been saying this for the past 2 years. I can't believe it's actually been that long with him at the 'helm'. Wow, something doesn't sound right about using that term. Anyway I can see using him in the wildcat formation. Totally. I would be all for it. I think that would be the perfect scenario for him actually. Taylor's a glorified running back trying to play quarterback and with the number of turnovers he continues to have, the horribly timed interceptions he'd either be beat out, riding pine or simply playing another position at most other schools. I pray we get to see what Armstrong and the other actual quarterbacks can do next year but I'm telling you right now TM isn't going anywhere from a playing time perspective. Oh well. Such is the Pelini era.... Big 10 First Team QB and people think we should move him to RB or WR or whatever other position they can think of. It's F****** HILARIOUS!

Some think that is way too much passing. Well considering Beck and Bo want balance between pass/run and I think we're a team more than capable of running 70 O plays a game. It's actually on the low side. But yeah I don't know why people think that's too much passing with the weapons we have.

You okay man?

Not everybody can get 5 receptions a game. We're loaded at WR where we're going to have an easy rotation of 5 or 6 guys next year. Add 2 TE's with 25-30 passes a game and that only averages 3-4 receptions for each guy we play a game. Some guys are going to get more touches than others depending on what defenses give us. Should our TE's get more touches? Couldn't hurt, but lets not force the issue. Take what the defense gives us. And with Beck's offense, we're going to have lots of options and lots of weapons.

We won 10 games... B+

Yeah this Scott TO story doesn't sound right.

Scott's not coming back to Nebraska... Not if Kelly leaves this year at least.

Does he have any interest in NU?

The offensive balance we had for 3 quarters really hurt UGA. It seemed to keep them guessing on our run/pass play selection. Then when were down by 2 scores in the 4th we had to go to pass attack and UGA was able to play accordingly. So really Martinez is not that wrong with his comment. In fact the Big 10 played pretty well against these coveted SEC defenses. Heck Louisville made a case for it last night.

I wouldn't take Shawn Watson back if he offered to coach for free.

I'm not worried about our offense, little lone our offensive line at all for next year. I think we have the bodies now to put a good line on the field. As for Rodriguez, the guy does need to lose some pounds and be moved inside.

Wanna level the playing field? Start with recruiting and over-signing first.

So you're saying this is a race between NU and UCLA?

We're not very good.

Well that sucks.

Has he mentioned any top places?

I'm a bit surprised it didn't get bad. I mean I was expecting people taking shots at people who didn't even say anything.

No, I noticed it too. It was a pick play. In fact, I thought two of their long TDs were pick plays. Technically it is offensive pass interference, but it rarely gets called. UCLA was doing it too.But Offensive pass interference just does not get called anymore, in college or NFL, as it is defined. 10 years ago-heck, maybe even just 5- that gets called in a heartbeat. I think it's one of them things that gets turned away from in order to support this age of offense. Let's face it. Offensive players-esp in the NFL-have numerous advantages rules-wize. I think this is becoming another. The thing is they guy didn't even have to engage our DB. All he had to do really was pretend to run a curl route or something to get in front of the DB and the receiver who did catch the pass would have scored any way. Kenny Bell did this type of pretend route this year that resulted in a score I believe. But since the UGA guy did engage our DB I was pretty pissed it wasn't called. But that's just the way it is.

Am I the only one who thought that long TD pass should have been a offensive penalty? I could have swore that TE engaged our DB way before the other guy even caught the ball. I was yelling at the tv as soon as I saw the ball in the air. But I digress. It was a good season. I look forward to seeing the young guys we've recruited and haven't played or have played sparingly. We've recruited a lot of speed and size at the LB spot the last couple years and big guys like Valentine should help our D immensely.

Wasn't a great year for the defense. Kind of reminds me of Bo's first year in 2008. We gave up a lot of yards to teams like Oklahoma and Missouri. One year later we become without a doubt one of the best D's in college football. If we can improve our D enough and with our offense which I believe will only be better next year. We've got a chance to do some great things. Good year boys! I'm already ready for next year. Go Huskers!

I agree. I'd definitely leave that type of decision up to Heard. But if I were him it's something to consider, injured groin or not. That isn't really agreeing with HuskerShark's statement. He was saying Abdullah would be better fit for corner because he thinks Heard has more upside at running back. Which is a statement I agree with, at least the part about Heard having more upside. I think he would have proven this had he gotten more carries throughout the season. I wasn't talking about Abdullah or commenting on HuskerSharks thought about Abdullah. I was agreeing that I wouldn't want to toy with switching Heard around positions unless Heard wanted to. Go back and only read the first two sentences of HuskerSharks comment and you hopefully see what I'm talking about. I apologize for not being as clear as one possibly could on my statement. I'm sorry.