84HuskerLaw

Our 'prevent' defense is a joke. Nothing else describes how we can stop teams for series after series and then with 50 seconds left, teams march the field and score. Crazy

Holding calls. Should have stopped this. If they get TD blame everybody including the refs.

Here we go. Let him have a quick 50 yards.

Hail ,mary time. Defense better get a pick here.

Yup. Tommy has a few key plays with his legs or we are the nation's leading punt team!

Hail mary or look for pass interference call.

Well: what do you guys call here? I think you get Tommy running the ball on draw or something up the middle. They will be blitzing.

WTF how can we lose 5 on a straight hand off?

3rd and 2 - always a scary down for us. Should be a great one and we fail so much.

Well, it is getting scary now. Do or die maybe.

Fullback trap on first down in this situaiton is WRONG! You trap them when they are coming.

a throw when we are in four down territory. We have thrown 19 passes and majority are incompletes. Runs gained more yards than the average per pass attempt I bet.

Time for a real return. Nothing there but a crappy punt. Now field position is fine. We are nearly in 4 down territory.

Another crappy punt net again. chip and roll. It is not complicated. Punter should be able to kick shorter.

Gonna hear some boos pretty soon. This is just awful. They know confidence they can run the ball at all. Sad.

They have a 40 yard gain after a average punt and we get 20 from a 'boomer'. These are strategy things that the coaches need to talk to the guys about as each play presents itself. the punter needs to be standing near his coach and coach and he should discuss the setting and help remind him. He should know what to do anyway but reminders are the coach's job too.

Again, no return after a 40 yard field position shift. Come on. You can't celebrate 'almost' plays. You got to get those easy yards.

Well, despite my prediction to lose, I remain hopeful we can somehow pull this one out but so far, we are not winning on the score or otherwise. Shaky on offense, shaky in special teams and hit and miss on defense.

You got to get down field further on some of these plays.

We are just not getting much done here.

Again crappy return. We just are not getting anything done in our returns game.

Need a turnover now! Pick 6. Then we can kick off with the wind. And what 's deal with our short kick offs with the wind? I hope we are not trying to get 'smart' about trying to kick short and tackle them inside the 20. We have not demonstrated an ability to do that well and they have nearly had big returns. This game is in jeopardy so far.

I think the success of the full back trap plays are a direct result of he Tenopir presence at the practices. He knows more about effectively running and blocking that play than anyone. I believe he has also helped the O Line make the progress we have seen so far this year. In my view, our O line is not as talented as we'd like but it is getting better nonetheless. Let's all hope and pray Milt can stay healthy enough and long enough to spend a bunch of years hanging out and lending his experience and encouragement. I am sure just being around the guys is good therapy in his battle.

Rich Glover was literally unstoppable, making sometimes as many as 15 or 20 tackles in a game from the middle guard position. Unblockable really at 6'2 and 230 lbs. Suh was probably the best in the past 50 years (since Glover). Wistrom was one of the top ten certainly. The Ruud boys were pretty dam good as well (all 4 of them btw)

There are 18 running backs in the country with more than 1 play 60+ yards. 13 of those 18 only have 2 total runs of 60+ yards. So Newby is one more big run from being right alongside all but the top five backs in the country with this long of a run. There's only 10 running backs in the country with more than 1 run over 70+ yards, so if the run had been 1 more yard, he'd be in elite company huh? It's hardly anything to get too down about. I like Janovich too, but Newby hopefully continues to get more opportunities and find a rhythym. I say that because Newby is obviously the running back these coaches have chosen to be the lead back in this offense, and I'd like to see Nebraska continue to stay committed ot the run game. Nebraska is 27th in the country in rushing yards and 19th in the country in average yards per carry. We are 60th in the country as far as rushing attempts. If we commit to the run game a bit more, I imagine we get better with it, and with the increase in attempts those long rushing plays probably happen a little more often. i get it, but i don't care about a few long runs, i want a gamer who rushes for 80-120 yards per game, at least 6-8 games each season. Newby just isn't that guy. Roy Helu was very fast - much faster than Ameer or Rex (both of which had excellent quickness certainly. Ameer was plenty 'football' fast although he didn't have straight line speed. Martinez was very very fast for about half his freshman season. After he kicked the locker and screwed up his foot, he was really never the same. Helu was likely our fastest RB since the glory days.