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2 hours ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

If he'd have thrown it softer and it was picked off he'd be getting criticized for not fitting it in there. He worked his progression, Warner flashed opened in a window and he put it in to him. He probably put too much on it, but that's a catch a power 5 starter has to make. I've never heard a top receiver say the QB threw it too hard. 

Or we could also say, that’s a throw a power 5 starter has to make.  Can’t get much more open in the end zone when the team is that close and not much room to work with.  

10 hours ago, runningblind said:

You said it wasn't one he should have caught, but could have. I am saying he absolutely should have as a P5 captain with two hands on the ball. That was the point I was trying to make, and to not just expect only perfect passes to be in the "should catch" category.  

If that’s your logic then the P5 captain with a Wide Open receiver in the end zone should have hit him in the chest with the football.  

1 hour ago, GBRFAN said:

I'm sure Tom looked at the stats back in the 90s and deducted the qb run yards

Of the QB position leads the team in rushing yards, it’s going to be a long long season. 

17 hours ago, Decked said:

The big ten instituted a 21 day Covid rule even if you are asymptomatic. So no. That would not make sense. 

The 21 Day rule is the most insane rule put in place (maybe second to the targeting penalty.). The BIG TEN isn’t even following the science they claim to be for.  The CDC is thinking of reducing the quarantine to 7 days with a negative test.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

It was nice to see AM hit the TE over the middle early in the game for 8-10 yrs gains.  

1 minute ago, GBRFAN said:

Speed kills and OSU has it - wisky not so much

I get that, but playing 12 yards off and immediately back peddling, at that point it’s just pitch and catch.   Maybe worth trying for a half or so and see if Fields is on target or line is getting a rush.  But when a QB is 14-15, strategy needs to be changed.   Sell out more on Blitzes and make him throw over the top under pressure to score.  
The coverage Nebraska put out today was just basically saying “we know you are going to score, just do it a little slower”.   That’s not good enough in my mind. 

I would love to see a game against a Top 10 team where Nebraska does the following:

1) not turn the ball over 

2) 5 or less penalties

3) Stop the opposing team 90% of the time when defending a 3rd and plus 10 yards.

Nebraska does those three SIMPLE things and Nebraska will stop losing games by over 30 points every year. 
 

until then, well I think we all know what will continue to happen. 

Refs suck, but at some point if we are gonna never force an incompletion playing 20 yards off the receiver, let’s try playing a little closer and forcing them to make plays instead of giving them free yards.  

Just now, knapplc said:

I feel like I'm watching a different defense than the people calling for Chin's head.

 

 

The pass defense is awful 

Just now, Branno said:

How do they see that hold but none of the massive holds from OSU?

That’s what I’m saying too.   1 penalty all game in the first game of the year?!?!?   Not likely. 

2 minutes ago, HuskerInLostWages said:

I would have to agree.

Might as well kick the field goal to give the kicker more game kicks.  Gonna lose anyways so get everyone experience in their jobs. 

And Martinez pulls a Martinez.  

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

There's also a fine line between taking what you can get and buying time for your receivers to work open.  If you take off too soon you might get 8-10 yards on the scramble but miss a chance for 20-30 yards if you give your receivers more time.  So it's kind of hard to know where the line should be.

 

Given the struggles of the offense, I think it's fair to say he should have been running more than he did in the situations you describe.  But the reason doesn't have to be that he's hesitant to run.

All of The QB’s should be watching film of Mahomes and analyze how he handles a broken pocket.  He is a master at figuring out when it is appropriate to by time for a receiver to break open and when to take off for the positive yardage.  

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

Yeah, I think you're generally correct.  The top talent isn't going to stick around another year.  And, if it's like baseball, some places won't keep the guys around another year.  Wisconsin didn't let their senior baseball players come back for an extra year.  It will be interesting to see if they change their toon for football.

 

Getting a lot of our younger guys an extra year should really help down the road.

Ummmm, Wisconsin doesn’t have a baseball program.  

The QB for Aquinas was a husker  Baseball commit until he quit baseball to focus on football this summer 

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

 

There will be PLENTY of people who think that. I get asking questions, especially since the conference brass hasn't been very forthcoming, but you know there will be people who continue to believe Warren ramrodded this through because it was all his idea. Or whatever. 

 

Well he DID lie in his letter why would you think he would be truthful on anything else.  
 

1)Transmission rates are currently falling, NOT rising. 
2) They won’t know much more about LONG-TERM myocarditis effects on then COVID-19 patients in January that they don’t already know now.  5 more months doesn’t give any more safety data on long term effects since the current data says recovered patients are currently fine in terms of heart disease issues. 
3). I have not heard of any university saying they don’t have access to tests, though I admittedly don’t closely follow all 14 programs. 
4)  currently CTE risks and known long-term damage from CTE are in far greater numbers than COVID-19 risks for this age group. 

Do they even have any scholarships available to give?  I’m sure it’s a pretty penny for most people to walk-on to Ole-Miss with out of state tuition.  

Agreed. No reason to make a rash decision based on this decision alone.  Big10 has been a net positive even though the major athletics programs haven’t performed well consistently. 
 

It will interesting to see the 2020 payout differences in the leagues if games go forward in Big12 this year. 

6 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

That might be true. However, pro baseball is a totally different animal than football. These kids typically will be playing years in the minor leagues before having a chance at the Bigs. 
 

Football players go right to the top league. They also have a much higher chance of injury ending their career. 

They get drafted all the same.  Where baseball IS different this year, is that the draft was only 5 rounds so it enticed college players to stick around for senior year or second senior year.  Football draft I’m sure will still be 7 rounds so same amount of people will get drafted. 

22 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I'm so confused in this conversation.  You just did what you accused me of doing.  Where did I say any of that?

As for your last paragraph.  Did I say healthcare workers shouldn't go to work to help save lives?

 

Still.....nobody has told me why saying most of these people would have died in the next 12-24 months anyway....is pertinent to the conversation.

 

We have over 200,000 additional deaths just since the pandemic started and the daily death rate has gone up the last three weeks so it's at a level we haven't seen in 2 months.

Because in medicine there is concept called number of expected life years lost.  It has nothing to do with which life is more valuable, hint every life is valuable.   
 

130,000 people under age of 30 dying suddenly has a different impact on society than 130,000 people over age of 70.   
 

it doesn’t make it right that one group dies instead of another, but it has different impacts and it’s worth studying and knowing the data.  
 

On 8/14/2020 at 1:00 PM, BigRedBuster said:

 

You have somewhat of a point, but I don't totally agree with it.

 

Players who are NFL prospects aren't going to stick around.  Players who aren't seeing playing time as seniors, aren't going to stick around for another year.  So, while there will be some that do, many won't.  The ones that are most likely to stick around are the ones that are getting good playing time but aren't a good NFL prospect.  That number, relatively, isn't large.  That allows for more freshmen to sign and join the team.

 

Again, this might affect one...maybe two years of recruiting and I'm not sure it's a devastating situation.  Not perfect, but it's not going to  destroy the program.

You have a case study already in place, College Baseball.  Look how many seniors are sticking around and extrapolate to football sized numbers.   Not perfect, but will give an educated guess vs just throwing speculation out there 

On 8/14/2020 at 11:54 AM, WyoHusker56 said:

 

They aren't worried only about a college student dying. They are worried about college athletes catching it, causing an outbreak that kills other students, staff, professors, parents, etc. This decision isn't solely about whether a college football player gets sick or not it's about what happens after a college player gets sick and the liabilities/optics associated with that. Not saying I agree with it, but there is more going into this thought than just if a player gets sick or is worried about getting sick.

If that is truly the case, then college President’s are hypocrites for having on-campus learning. 

On 8/12/2020 at 4:37 PM, krc1995 said:

Ragin Cajuns just schedule 9/12 with Iowa State. 

Interesting how it’s deemed safe for Iowa State to play but not Iowa