alwayshusking

If you can't marry the scheme to your current personnel, you have a scheme issue.

Note the comments asking why when we miss a tackle there's nobody else in the same zip code. It's hard enough getting enough guys to cover the field against adangerous offense that spreads it out, as it is. I suspect we'd all feel quite differently about 'better to get burned once' when it happens. I think it comes back to, you need a dominant front four. So far it seems we have some of that, but not really. Blitzing can be a way to deal with that, but if you have issues up front it's going to cause you trouble, no matter what. And we're still, ultimately, talking about blitzing on a smallish percentage of plays. Even the teams that blitz often. So really, everything comes back to the effectiveness of the line. If they struggle everyone's behind the 8-ball. Again, that's why Bo needs to play a lot of zone against dual threat QBs. He sticks with man under and you have all of your back 7 with their backs to the ball except for the safeties who are usually quite deep. This creates huge gains on QB scrambles. Hundley isn't even that good of a runner. He was sacked 52 times last year and is quite vulnerable to pressure. Show me a good defense that plays the way we do. No one does. You can't be that passive and be good on defense. Bo will continue to play the patty cake scheme and it won't work, especially against decent offenses.

I wouldn't start him but I think Tommy should start seeing some snaps when the game is still in doubt in the upcoming weeks. He's one of the QBs of the future and we might need him to step in for Taylor this season at some point. Taylor has already been banged up twice this season. May give him a chance to heal up as well. Taylor does some good things but he's not a good decision maker, especially when you factor in that this is his 4th year starting.

That way isn't and hasn't worked for a long time. Run some zone blitz stuff to force the ball out of his hands quicker, if he escapes then you have zone defenders to come up and make the stop. Trying to play man for 10 seconds is a poor way to defend anyone.

Just a sad way to play football. No aggressiveness.

A lot of it is gut reactions. We absolutely did terrible today, but we are not going to see a team even close to UCLA until Northwestern. Crap absolutely needs to be cleaned up, but we had a play where things didn't go our way when they should have and things snowballed, again. I'll take the entirety of the 2013 season before I'd make a decision, unless the team has another game like this. BS. People are upset because this isn't a one time deal. This is a recurring problem that hasn't been fixed. If this were a one time deal then people could accept it, as terrible as it was.

To people putting this on Pap, he is not the real DC. He just signals in the plays. Bo is the "genius" behind this defense. His defense is the problem and has been for some time. Maybe we can enjoy our top 50 recruiting class.

That's what good coaching and execution is for. You don't give up 38 unanswered at home just because of a couple of series. Their staff made adjustments and Bo looked clueless again. It's become the norm.

Bo is the real DC. He's the problem. We need to drop several million on experienced OC and DC. Bama? Check. Clemson? Check. <img class="UMSRatingIcon" id="ums_img_tooltip" /> Too late. Bo considers himself a defensive genius anyway, and will mettle. He's not a good recruiter either. Without his defensive genius status, there's very little reason to keep him around.

Bo is the real DC. He's the problem.

There are no acceptable excuses anymore, but I'm sure he'll offer up some. Just need to pack his bags and send him on his way.

Unfortunately the coaching began. We don't stand much of a chance when that happens.

Same team every year. Bo had his chance and has failed.

Get Bo the hell out of here. How he is sticking with man after zone worked in the first half is comical. Outcoached again.

Close them when they are on campus. That's how it's done.

Throw out our big plays and we lose. It's silly to throw out a team's most successful plays. We gave up 28 plays of 10 yards or more in the game. We were gashed continually on the ground and through the air.

Nebraska did not plan on Wyoming running the ball as much as they did. Which nobody would if you have watched the Wyoming offense at all in the last couple years. You could see for much of the first quarter the defense was not respecting the run what so ever and Wyoming did a great job of getting matchups they wanted when they wanted to run the ball. It came down to Wyoming's gameplan more than Nebraska's ability to stop the run. In the second half they stuffed a lot more runs and only allowed minimal gains except maybe a couple plays. Pretty much every team can run on us. Bo's scheme is ripe to be run on, that's why we frequently get the ball shoved down our throats by teams that aren't even good at running the ball. It's not really gameplan. A team sees it's very easy to run on us so they continue to do so. Totally false. It was sloppy line play and poor LB/DB play. In the first quarter VV was rushing up the field without regard to where the ball carrier was going and the LBs and DBs were just tacking poor angles on their flow, or not keeping leverage on their blockers. VV and the others settled more as the game went on. If you take away the longs runs from Smith and their running back, I think they were both crappy plays on our part, they only average about 4.5ypc, not that great but better the the 7.3 listed for the game. Like I said in another thread the QB runs don't bother me so much because they're are going to happen and we've proven in the past that unless he's a freak athlete we'll be fine. What's totally false? Bo's scheme is weak against the run. How he thinks he can win in the run game when we are outnumbered by 2 is pure delusion. He could cheat the numbers game when we had Suh, but he can't anymore. He needs to commit to stopping the run with more players in the box specifically up the middle. The only years we've been good against the run was 2008-2009 (Suh). We'll be soft against the run until he changes his philosophy and commits to stopping the run. Nebraska's Rush defense rank nationally 2008 21st 2009 9th 2010 63rd 2011 64th 2012 90th 2013 94th (currently)

11) any thoughts as to why they were getting like 8-9 yds a pop in the ground game? That worries me, alot. Nebraska did not plan on Wyoming running the ball as much as they did. Which nobody would if you have watched the Wyoming offense at all in the last couple years. You could see for much of the first quarter the defense was not respecting the run what so ever and Wyoming did a great job of getting matchups they wanted when they wanted to run the ball. It came down to Wyoming's gameplan more than Nebraska's ability to stop the run. In the second half they stuffed a lot more runs and only allowed minimal gains except maybe a couple plays. Pretty much every team can run on us. Bo's scheme is ripe to be run on, that's why we frequently get the ball shoved down our throats by teams that aren't even good at running the ball. It's not really gameplan. A team sees it's very easy to run on us so they continue to do so.

He could win by putting a good defense on the field.

Saban's front is much more aggressive against the run and getting a pass rush. Really beyond some pattern matching in the back end there are very few similarities between what Saban is running and what Pelini is running now. Saban refuses to let teams run inside on him and controlling the middle of the field is first and foremost. Bo routinely gives up the middle of the field. Saban, like pretty much every good defensive coach ever, wants to stop the run first then get you in 3rd and predictable. Bo allows the ball to be run down his throat when he puts so few guys in the box. He somehow magically thinks we'll stop the run when we are frequently outnumbered. Bo doesn't just need to tweak his system, he needs an entire philosophy change because OCs have learned how to manipulate him.

Not sure some fall camp "buzz" is evidence that this staff has created some competitive edge. Every school in the country has positive buzz this time of year. We all hope, but it's show me time for this staff.

Bo needs to win this one. He's already lost too many recruiting battles in the border states this year. I still think he's N. He likes to play the game.