Husker03

This. I actually thought chinander mixed it up quite a bit today. We are just two steps behind in the secondary or two steps slow on the blitz. We just need a fraction more athleticism and the D improves exponentially.

I guess in theory, yes. I’m a pretty big believer that it takes a unique combination of attributes to make it to the NFL. Athletes that possess those attributes typically start to flash them early in thier college careers. A guy that has flashed them enough to earn a starting gig at a major Div 1 school but then, for whatever reason, regresses enough to lose a starting gig did not have enough of those attributes, (height, weight, speed, etc) to keep him heads and tails above the backup, (which, again, the NFL only takes the best of the best,) so he’s already at that point a long shot for the NFL. On top of that, if the guy is unwilling to work hard to improve and reclaim that top spot at a major school, he also is probably lacking the unrelenting drive needed to land on a million dollar roster. I guess what I’m saying is, true NFL talent wouldn’t ride pine, especially after earning the starting gig out of the gates as an underclass man on that roster. Getting passed up means there are holes in his profile that need worked on, transferring away, at its core, means hes not willing to work to fix the deficiencies and prefer an easier road away from the competition. Almost never is that a recipe for an NFL athlete.

Any player losing his starting spot and sitting the bench on an 0-5 college team due to productivity, isn’t likely to have a bright future in the NFL .

Wish he would have made the play but hes giving up 30 pounds to a future NFL running back who worked him over with a NASTY stiff arm. He started a bit out of position but sprinted his ass off to catch up and committed 100% to making that tackle. I’ll take that 1000 times over sir jogs a lot getting Kenny Bell’d at 25% effort.

Lindsey could over come his size by sticking to his rap career.

Listen, if being a fan is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

Well make it happen, Coach!

Put down the tomatoes, don’t throw them at me. I drank the koolaide by the gallon this summer and still have some leftovers in my fridge that I sneak off and drink sometimes. I love this coach, and each week I love this team more and more. So hear me out. Even I’ll conceed that OSU outclasses us enough at this point in the season that we probably can’t compete this year. But that’s not true for the other 6. It’s going to take injury luck and continued improvement each week. But if we can find a way to snag a win this weekend, take one game at a time, view it as championship weekend every week with a bowl game up for grabs, it could happen still. If we can beat NW, then we should be able to matchup with the likes of Minnesota and Iowa as well. Bethune and Illinois are the easiest W’s left, obviously, so if we can keep focus and not pull the traditional “NU forgets to show up,” thing, those go our way. That leaves MSU, which haven’t looked unstoppable imo. If you can find a way to play that game above you heads a bit, again, knowing the postseason lies on the other side, it’s not unreasonable. This weekend is huge. May be the last great chance at gigantic direction change for 2018.

Listen, as nicely as I can I will ask that you let us have something nice around here. The kid looks great to our eyes. For 15 years we’ve watched Sr’s with far worse field presence and decision making abilities throwing off thier heels into triple coverage. We’ve talked ourselves into bing ok with that because they are good runners, or they can avoid sacks well, or they are “fighters” that never give up. This kid can actually do it all. He reads defenses, he waits in the pocket, he can make all of the passes, he can avoid the rush and he can run too! For the first time EVER we feel we have a legitimate QB that has very few shortcomings, as opposed to making do with an athlete who chucks balls around sometimes. The kid represents the last sliver of hope for our program. He’s better than “okay” already, and he’s got 3.5 years to improve. I know you’re bi-team somehow, which is fine, but there’s a time and a place to try to talk sense into us, and it’s not here in a thread about how good our true frosh QB looks.

I’m just mad over the loss of the dream of best case scenario from when he signed. I had hopes that we would watch him do well as a freshman, then grow and develop to all conference type player as a jr/sr and watch him tear up our opponents. Now that is officially not in the cards, which is tough. Maybe he’ll never be that type of a player, a true bust, which is heartbreaking for all. Maybe he will be good in a year or two but somewhere else, which is great for him, heartbreaking for us. Maybe Warner steps up and becomes all conference in his place, heartbreaking for him, great for us. In the end, the whys don’t matter. We lost a player who we had hoped would be great and really we are all just bitter that greatness did not pan out.

Subpar talent and undeveloped talent are the same thing, and at play in both situations, nothing has changed. If you don’t think a different reaction is justified between a 3rd year coach going backwards in quality wins, and responsible completely for the underdeveloped sub par talent, and the coach 1/4 season in, so far down he can’t even think about “quality” wins yet, then you’ll probably always complain about your cold ice cream.

Reporter asked since he’s turned a program around before, when this one starts to turn around, will Frost be able to recognize it when it does. Frost said, “I won’t have to, you will.”

It’s not what if’s though. It’s reality. And he’s playing it.

It’s become more clear to me than ever that Frost has basically been tasked as the new CEO of a failing company with a cut rate work force full of horrible employee attitudes. That would be a difficult task, but to make it worse there are 85 workers in the company and you are not allowed to hire any additional employees. Also, you are not allowed to fire any of them and they are welcome to stay until early retirement kicks in. Finally, they average 21 years of age and many have the maturity and judgement to match AND many of them have spent their entire careers lauded as the best in thier departments. As somebody that runs a small business, it seems to me that maybe instead of judging him too harshly a month into the season, it may be more appropriate to consider him for sainthood for having the patience to keep plugging along. Decks are stacked pretty deep at the moment.

Took responsibility for what?!? Trying to turn around a dumpster fire of a program in a dignified way that doesn’t involve tearing the kids down? Officiating that could. Not. Be. More moronic if it had pre-planned a method?The 3rd scheme change many of these 4 year players have seen? True freshman QB making true freshman mistakes?!?! The only thing the man needs to apologize for is that he doesn’t own a magic wand.

Stupidest thread I’ve ever witnessed and I’ve seen some doozies.

First, last, doesn't matter, I'm sure the puns will be constant.

This soul crushing heartache and yearning, it’s going to be so worth it as this thing starts to turn around and then takes off. It’s going to be every bit as exhilarating as the mid 90’s. It might not ever be as flat out successful, but being in the wagon as it starts to ascend will be something we will be able to be unbelievably proud of. Our boys, our state, our coach, our team. It’ll start slow, and there will be moments of happiness combined with setbacks and more heartbreaks. But the good moments will start happening more and more and the heartaches less and less. And eventually, we will look out at the field again and find ourselves waiting to see what our team will do next instead of worrying about how many ways they can choke it away. Being a fan right now kind of sucks, it’s been a long decade, but maybe it’s the best time to be a fan? This is going to be fun.

I will apologize for my tone less than 24 hours after the worst D-1 o line performance I have ever seen. I do care about Miles Jones, I was more saying I don’t much care about a 3rd-5th string running back when our 1-3rd stringers averaged a half a yard per tote. I read it as a call for another guy that may be the answer and I overreacted. Y’all are right. He may be hurt. He may be having school troubles. He may be holding onto a redshirt? But I will say. I’m sorry for what I said when I was sad.

They’ll morph right back up as we ascend again. It’s not a reflection of a defeated fan base in a negative way, it’s just we have to deal with the reality as it is right now. We can expect to be in the title game this year all we want but it doesn’t make a clown stomp at the big house hurt any less.

Watched the replay, will disagree with this sentiment. Most of the defense did not give up the first half. A few slackers, (looking at you, D Young), but no wholesale towel throwing in. The o-line gave up all game but that’s nothing new. Outside of that, they had played hard and had chances to get things back under control until several of the killer mistakes and breakdowns,(Lindsey’s muff) allow things to get so out of control so quick that even the coaches phone it in after half.

Because you are just practicing against the same culture and talent. It isn’t until they get out there against players that are heads and tails more dominant than them that they crap thier pants when they see it. So they can either take that, admit they are poor at this time and aim toward improving toward that level. Or they can make excuses, try to take shortcuts, continue to half ass it, look slightly better against the Purdue’s of the world, convince themselves it’s not really that bad, and the find themselves wearing the same poop stained pants on the field Wisconsin week.

No. I think there were 15 total carries yesterday by our 1st-3rd string running backs that averaged across the board 0.6 ypc. They rode Mazzour in the second half because they gave up. Miles jones? I don’t know where he is nor do I care, as he hasn’t cracked the 4 deep.

You’re answering you’re own question. Ezekiel Elliot couldn’t have flown in yesterday and done anything with that o-line effort.

This. One game. One win. One win changes sooooo much for these guys. They need to feel what a win feels like.