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

Better to get burned once in a while instead of letting the other team drive the length of the field at will.

 

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.

I think the goal is to keep Hundley contained. You don't want to blitz, take a defender away from coverage, and then have Hundley sidestep the blitzer -- something that he can easily do -- and take off into a wide open running lane. With guys who are effective at moving the pocket and also at taking off and running like this, containment is important and blitzing must be used judiciously, as it's risky.

 

VV and RG44 have both received rave reviews so far. But it sounds like we need the other positions on the DL to really step it up. If they don't it's going to be a problem, period, and that has nothing to do with scheme.

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.

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Just a sad way to play football. No aggressiveness.

At this point.... I'm worried about South Dakota State and Illinois... Northwestern will throttle us

 

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.

I still blame this one on the momentum change at the end of the first half. We are up 21-3 and get the ball back with :57 seconds and suddenly revert to a conservative plan, go 3 and out and allow UCLA to make some big plays and kick a field goal. They miss but they go into the locker room with some confidence and energy where as we were on our heels just trying to stop them on those last few plays.

 

They come out in the seconds half and keep the momentum going, we go conservative once again. Suddenly, we forget we have 3 awesome running backs and have Martinez pass the entire time. A few more 3 and outs and UCLA scores in a row and game over.

 

If we would have kept that momentum in the first half going, maybe even tried to get a field goal at the end of the first half, different game and story. Obviously there are other factors and scenarios, but this is when the game changed...

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.

The only way I would allow Bo to keep his job is, fire JP, and Kaz and bring in a true DC.

 

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

We need to drop several million on experienced OC and DC. Bama? Check. Clemson? Check.

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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.

The only way I would allow Bo to keep his job is, fire JP, and Kaz and bring in a true DC.

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

Wonder what the excuses will be tonight for Bo and company. "we didn't execute" is my guess.

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.

What the hell did we do at half?

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.

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.

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)

1. The windows Brett Smith put the ball into were just insane. He might be the most impressive QB we see this year. EDIT: Just saw a stat that in Smith's last 5 games he has an 17:1 TD/INT ratio....that's accuracy.

2. The last TD for Wyo should have not happened...Moss was bear hugged as he about got by this blocker and was about to get Smith. That was a terrible missed call.

3. Banderas was more aggressive than Santos.

4. There were times we had 5 of 6 guys in the box where guys were first time contributors.

5. Gerry is the athlete we thought he was. When he lets himself play he is relentless.

6. After game was not impressed with Ankrah....but he I take that back now, he played well.

7. Randle was equally disappointing 2nd time....just didn't see "it".

8. Our DE's really got in there, the problem was breaking down and not letting Smith sidestep them as they flew by.

9. Gregory is an athletic force, chasing down WR's 10-15 yards down field.

10. VV show he CAN be the DT we all have been looking for.

 

Seriously, the pocket presence that Smith showed was amazing. But even more amazing than that was the windows he put the ball in. There were multiple throws (5ish) that if it the ball is 1ft behind or short we are picking it off. And I promise that every QB we face won't be able to put the ball in places he did.

 

I feel cautiously optimistic after watching the game. The O put the D is some bad spots late in the game.

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.

First, Bo's defense is too complicated. He isn't getting athletes on the field.

 

Then, Bo goes vanilla and puts freaks on the field and is being too simple and "phoning it in."

 

Dude can't win either way.

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

The scheme has shown to be successful. Alabama runs a version of the two-gap, talent discrepancies aside. So is this a scheme problem or a coaching/play calling problem? I don't know. It's easy to blame the scheme, which I've been doing, only because whatever adjustments we're making inside the scheme appear to be ineffective.

 

UCLA is beatable with a decent defense. Whatever we had on the field Saturday is going to repeat what happened to us last year.

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.