ActualCornHusker

Wisconsin looks really good

DAY BY DAY!

Why is this thread still a thing? 9 wins was great, but the at-least-once-a-year beatdown, accompanied by the once-a-year loss to an inferior opponent, also accompanied by the weekly embarrassment of Bo losing his sh*t on national TV.... Yeah, I don't miss that one bit....

Rough start for Houston this year...

Trevor Lawrence hasn't played at a stellar level this year so far either. He just has a better team around him right now to get through it.

NU - 52

IU - 20

Rush - 287

Pass - 272

Interesting comments from Frost postgame last night. He said when they're in 11 personnel, NIU was running a 3-3 stack and they had not prepared for that look, so they had to run more 2 TE personnel than they planned on. I found that interesting in a number of ways. First, it would explain why the first couple drives weren't as crisp as we're used to seeing. And good on the coaches to adjust on the fly. 

1. I have restored hope in Dedrick Mills

2. It won't matter who the kicker is if we continue to allow the defense to run straight through the middle of the line and block kicks. I'm sure coach Dewitt will get that cleaned up immediately. 

3. We're going to have to throw the ball around the yard this year. Our run game is either 0 yards or 60

4. When's the last time we blocked a punt?! Freaking awesome! 

5. Lamar Jackson deserves a TON of praise. I thought after the Purdue game last year when he got benched that he was going to transfer. He stuck it out and is playing at an elite level so far this year. 

6. Run defense this year has been stout AF, and that's going to be huge in conference play. 

7. I really hope Cam Taylor-Britt isn't hurt badly. He's a great player and a guy you can build a defense around

Was anybody else thinking Ramir Johnson was going to pop through and take it all the way on his first carry? He looks like he has tons of potential

Well... plenty to work on but it was so satisfying to see this team run away with a game. Let's do it again next wk

This offense definitely has big play ability. Just need to find the ability to pick up 5 yds at a time and sustain drives 

Crazy day in college football already. 

Maryland goes down

Colorado goes down

Illinois loses to Eastern Michigan 

And right now UCF is sexually assaulting Stanford all over the field

21 minutes ago, I am I said:

Any internet radio station so I can listen in Italy? 

Thx in advance 

Tunein radio. Am 590 espn Omaha channel

Martinez hopefully, but also hopefully Washington. Would love to see consistency in the run game

UNC definitely should have had 1 second. A hail Mary is a long shot but they should have had a chance at least. But another mack brown game of poor end of game management, and shame on the RB for not going straight out of bounds. 

And gotta say, it's pretty cool to see the mad hatter having success at Kansas. This will be a huge win if they can close out BC. 41-24 now

To be completely fair, there are not many great games this weekend.

Circular saw would be your cheapest option

1 minute ago, FTW said:

 

I wish they would incorporate the pistol formation into their offense. Having Mills, Washington and Adrian back there would be a good combination. Mills or any type of power back can essentially become the full back in those formations.

I believe it was the very first play of the year they showed that look (UNDER CENTER IIRC!!!) with Mills at FB and Wandale at HB and ran a toss play. I don't believe we've seen it since.

2 minutes ago, FTW said:

Forget trying to out scheme the opponent. I'd focus on turning the players loose and outworking the opponent. Go full contact 1v1's in practice. Screw it. You want to be tough then get this team to hate going against each other in practice.

I know it's not their style, but I'd love to see Frost incorporate a fullback in his offense, especially in short yardage situations. Sometimes they set up the TE as a lead blocker in the backfield, but it's not as effective IMO

I think Frost and his staff have made a lot of mistakes since they've been here, and they've battled a lot of adversity that maybe they didn't face at UCF. But at the same time, I see them as being aware of their mistakes and working to correct them. Frost is a young coach still, and as long as he and his assistants continue to be self-aware and acknowledge their mistakes, I think the sky is the limit for this team under Frost's leadership.

NU 45

NI 10

Rush - 255

Pass - 331

1 hour ago, Undone said:

I made a bunch of posts yesterday in one of the threads where somebody had posted the 40 minute version of the game. I set the video to the specific time of specific plays (can't remember which thread it was now).

 

On the re-watch, I didn't see any kind of lack of effort. Martinez had a couple of missed passes on our second possession - how in the hell is that any kind of example of "not knowing how to win?" Same goes for the pass that went through Wan'Dale's hands. You think that kid isn't laser focused and playing with intensity to go out there and do whatever he can to win the game?

 

A couple series later, our receivers make a tremendous effort to block on the edge and Washington makes an incredible display of individual athleticism to scorch CU for a long touchdown. 

 

I think it was just a small run of bad luck on two or three series in the opening of the third quarter. If the team had no idea how to come out with intensity, being focused on winning, would we have been 17-0 at half? Probably not; we probably would have been down 17-0.

Isn't that what it's about? Consistency in execution? I don't think we have elite talent like Clemson or Bama (yet) but we're plenty talented enough to be able to absolutely demolish CU, yet it didn't happen even though we had them on the ropes. That's 99% mentality. That's "knowing how to win"

With all the talk about "What's wrong with the team?" I think the most important answer gets left unsaid. While people point to the run game (big problem), AM not finding open receivers (big problem), O-Line under-performing (big problem), I'd say the biggest thing this team has to figure out is...

HOW TO WIN

Anyone who has played and/or coached at a high level in any sport knows that WINNING is a skill that has to be learned, and it's maybe one of the most difficult things to instill in a team. To get from where we are now to where we want to be, it's going to take a group of real leaders who can drag the team through the mud at difficult stretches in games so we can start winning close games again, as well as instilling a killer instinct so they can go for the jugular when we're up by a couple scores and not let the other team get back into to game.

Obviously the technique, scheme, and controlled aggression of the players need to continue to improve and that will create more wins in the future, but in games when things aren't going as well as they should, the will and skill to win games needs to come through. I believe we've finally got the right coach & staff for the job - Let's remember where this program was at 20 months ago, and not over-react when things aren't turning around quite as fast as we'd like.

7 hours ago, BIG ERN said:

Except they had like 10 NFL players and we have....

I bet we have more NFL talent than you're giving credit for. Problem is, the older ones learned how to lose from MR, and the younger ones are... young... and I'm not sure how many we have on the OL which is a major issue and has been for quite some time. 

7 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Yep.  The offense puts up 31 points and  469 yards.  

 

But everything about it sucks.

I won't lie, i put this loss 90% on the offense. They needed to come out in the 2nd half and step on CU's throat and couldn't... defense held up for a while but i thought they got tired because they were on the field so much.