Born N Bled Red

I swear to god I hate the safe punt return, which seems to be our only punt return. It is the ugliest, most dysfunctional chicken crap way to field a punt ever. Also Westercamp needs to learn to fair catch!

While I agree there is SEC bias, I'm not sure they aren't deserving of some of it. While I watched Bama/LSU, I thought, wow, these kids would destroy our team. We'd have 50 hung on us and we wouldn't be even able to fight back. I have a feeling most SEC schools would beat us, though.

 

Mizzou would beat us.

South Carolina would beat us.

UGA would beat us.

Vandy probably would too.

Bama would beat us.

Auburn would beat us.

aTm would beat us.

LSU would beat us.

Ole Miss would likely beat us.

 

Also, FSU is a fantastic football team but I'd love to see them actually play some competition. So far, they've only played Clemson and Clemson's only "game" was against UGA. The ACC is awful and winning the ACC should not warrant much of anything but I guess you cannot fault them for the schedule they play....or can you?

 

 

We're also an average, unranked football team, so I don't know that any of that really matters or proves anything.

You probably also thought this last year too, when we took on Georgia, who was "5 yards from playing for the national championship," and gave them a full four quarter game. Did we lose, yes, but we more than held our own. If not for that hail mary to end the first half, we had momentum. The SEC is just another conference. UGA was pumped as a true contender and we gave them all they could take, and we were playing up a bowl spot or two due to the BIG's ineligible teams. The idea of the SEC being all that and a big of chips is BS.

Got your attention. But hear me out. We expect this weeks game against MSU to be a defensive battle. We have a young quarterback. They are going to stack the box and dare us to pass. I suggest we not take the bait. Start Imani, ground and pound it the whole first half. Dive A gap, B gap, C, gap, D gap, and repeat. The whole first half, mix in maybe 10 play action. Hit em hard get up and do it again. It may not result in many points. Go into the locker room with at 10-7 game, or even down 14-3.

But here's the kicker, 2nd half cut a fresh Ameer loose on the beat up D. Watch him carve them up. I think it's a strategy that could work, but we'd have to commit heavily.

PS. Yeah, I know it'd mean benching our nation leading running back for a half, but to bring him in fresh in the 2nd half, i think it'd pay off in dividends.

Thoughts?

Imagine if you could go back and create a D in the Pelini era that uses any players he's had. Imagine, Fonzie, Amukamara, Suh, Gregory, David, Hagg, Evans, Rudd, all on the same D... Invincible!

Last year's highlights.

 

At the 52 second mark Lewan is all over Cam's facemask. Looks like its pretty common for the dude.

Duly noted... Zach Lee too not?

I think we can now add Jake Long to this list as well.

D-line is crashing.

 

If NW runs a bootleg, they will walk in.

You were wrong

Is Bo calling the D?

Can we maintain a f'ing block? Come on.

If we do that, it's holding.

Still haven't seen the option in the 2nd half.....

WOW! Refs, trying to change the game much???? Jesus!

Damn Gregory just got held like crazy- no call

Wow... Is there "coaching" going on???

Suh, volunteered to coach at the half.

Literally lol'd

Holy Defense!

So the option worked all first half, let's not do it anymore

What's up with him? Not playing? Hurt? Who's got info?

So, I 've come to the conclusion that we don't even want to ever attempt to have a punt return, just catch the ball. It seems nearly all the punting team is on our returner before he even has the ball in his hands. I also never see any attempt to block on the line to give him time, or to set up a wall afterwards. Strangest special team strategy I've ever seen.

I, for one, do not like the after the game review idea. I know this happens to an extent already if the illegal hit happens in the 2nd half. But why should the next team an opponent plays benefit from hits made against our guys. If our guys are the ones put at risk as a result of the hit, our team should benefit from that player being ejected, not our opponent's next opponent. Also, if someone is intentionally hitting with intent to hurt during a game against us, we want that person to not be playing rather than subjecting our team to risk additional injury risk to our team, by leaving the culprit in the game. If ejection/ suspension is to be the penalty, it needs to happen immediately after the hit.

Also, damn Taylor took a beating in that game, I'd say Minny was definitely out to take him out. Those two hits, two face masks, two obvious hits out of bounds (also not called). He had a huge target on his back and the refs looked the other way all game. (facemasks being the exception)

Great work Knapplc, I would also like to see some discussion on the pass interference calls that were never called on Minnesota during the game, Quincy's first quarter should have been a td catch, the db was hugging him from the minute he crossed the goal line till the ball sailed over his head. Westercamp, was contacted before the ball got there on several occasions, and there were others as well. Could not believe what they were allowed to get away with. Also did Minny ever have a holding call called on them. 54 running plays and not a single hold... right.....

It has everything to do with emotion though, and I think everyone here would agree, that is exactly what the team is lacking, and since the A&M jobbing, so has out coach... well unless he's behind closed doors unknowingly being recorded anyway.

The poor play is on the coaches, the attitude is being coached out of them, just like it has been coached out of Bo Pelini. This PC don't yell, don't celebrate, don't do anything but be a robot and play football bs atmosphere that is being fostered through administrations and the NCAA has taken the passion out of the game. The most telling quote for me came from this article last week. In this article. http://www.omaha.com...SKERS/131029000,

"Jean-Baptiste celebrated by flexing his muscles, first toward the Purdue bench and then back toward the field.

“We don’t need that,” Joseph said at the Big Red Breakfast. “The hit was part of football, but taunting is not what we’re about on defense. He does enough with physical play that we don’t need that. So that’s what I was disappointed in.”

What!!!!!????? Could you imagine the 90's without the Peters bros. and Wistrom throwing the bones? You look for a big play to change the tone of the game, to get players motivated, to bring the fire, then you criticize and penalize them for celebrating it? Then you wonder why the sidelines are dead, why the players play flat... that's what they are being coached to do. Approach the game businesslike, take all emotion out.

Just like what we've done to our coach... and now you (by you, I mean all fans complaining about this, not one in particular) cry because the team reflects that "new Bo" attitude. Guess what? You got what you asked for, thanks fans, thanks espn and your camera constantly waiting for any show of emotion from our coach, and thank you Perlman. You've all neutered our coach and in doing so, our team as well.

Quit crying, this is what you wanted.

It is on the coaches though, the attitude is being coached out of them, just like it has been coached out of Bo Pelini. This PC don't yell, don't celebrate, don't do anything but be a robot and play football bs atmosphere that is being fostered through administrations and the NCAA has taken the passion out of the game. The most telling quote for me came from this article last week. In this article. http://www.omaha.com...SKERS/131029000,

"Jean-Baptiste celebrated by flexing his muscles, first toward the Purdue bench and then back toward the field.

“We don’t need that,” Joseph said at the Big Red Breakfast. “The hit was part of football, but taunting is not what we’re about on defense. He does enough with physical play that we don’t need that. So that’s what I was disappointed in.”

What!!!!!????? Could you imagine the 90's without the Peters bros. and Wistrom throwing the bones? You look for a big play to change the tone of the game, to get players motivated, to bring the fire, then you criticize and penalize them for celebrating it? Then you wonder why the sidelines are dead, why the players play flat... that's what they are being coached to do. Approach the game businesslike, take all emotion out.

Just like what we've done to our coach... and now you (by you, I mean all fans complaining about this, not one in particular) cry because the team reflects that "new Bo" attitude. Guess what? You got what you asked for, thanks fans, thanks espn and your camera constantly waiting for any show of emotion from our coach, and thank you Perlman. You've neutered our coach and in doing so, our team as well.

Q just almost threw a certain QB under the bus.

 

Haha I love Q. This guy wants to go HAM on everyone.

WOW.......

The stuff being alluded to already today started to slowing show it's face......

 

Some people (Army_Allen) think I just make this stuff up. I mean, literally 20 minutes ago I said Enunwa told Beck he didn't think Taylor was helping the team and contributed to a poor week of practice, and then just now Quincy throws TM under the bus (essentially) by saying the QB has to make the tough throws and that he didn't want to say something to get him in trouble when he was DIRECTLY ASKED ABOUT TM. If you're going to say something good about him, you won't get in trouble... So.. yup.

 

Unfortunately, someone is going to have a talk with Enunwa now. It also seemed like Tommy was throwing some jabs at Taylor - or expressing his confidence in his self without admiring Taylor like last week. (Taylor is our qb, blah blah blah, and now he said I have to have faith in our coaches).

I still can't believe you thought I was serious about saying I have ties in the program. I could give two sh#ts about your so called ones.

 

Nope, I didn't think you were serious. Hence the ending line in that message. That said, I think my responses to you are done for the benefit of the board. So, as Kirk Herbstreit would say when he blocks a follower:

 

#Uhbyebye

Really? You quoted Herbstreit here? Really? ....