Dano564

Frost not big on magic speeches. Guys need to bring their own enthusiasm.

It could have gone either way. It was a one score loss. Flip of the coin really.

Sellout streak is intact.

Might avoid a one score loss today.

Part of the reason a team loses a lot of close games is because they aren't good enough to get big leads on teams.

I wouldn't put a lot of weight into a "close loss" to Ohio State as being a turning point. Close wins OSU has had recently. Last year vs Indiana. Look how good Indiana is this year. In 2018 they had two close wins. PSU and Nebraska. 2019 PSU was good, but 2019 Nebraska was 5-7.

Ohio State is really clicking right now. They definitely look like a CFP team at this point.

People who don't like positive people... well... um... there's people you can talk to about that.

PJ?

What PJ said to AM2.

I think keeping Scott is the right move so he gets to a Bowl Game next year. Only 5 road games where Scott has trouble winning. Schedule: North Dakota (1-0) Georgia Southern (2-0) Oklahoma (2-1) at Rutgers (3-1) Indiana (4-1) at Northwestern (4-2) at Michigan (4-3) Minnesota (4-4) at Wisconsin (4-5) Purdue (5-5) Illinois (6-5) at Iowa (6-6)

Well, even if they do score on this play, it's not like the game is over. Nebraska kicks off and Minnesota gets the ball at the 25, and not inside the 1. Nebraska had some nice stops in the 3rd quarter, but one was because of field position and two others due to turnovers. Getting the lead at that point did not mean game over, Nebraska wins. Minnesota showed they could still run the ball even as they were killing the clock.

What would it have looked like if the defense wasn't tired, but if Minnesota's line was simply using better technique and more power. Would it have looked different? Was Nebraska players tired the other times Minnesota beat them and controlled the line of scrimmage the last 4-5 years? Prior to the week, Scott Frost said an NFL season has 16-17 weeks, so he wasn't worried about the team being tired after 7-8 weeks. Why does the truth of tiredness not come out until after a loss?

The point I don't see anyone making, and I've been hearing about the mistakes and "close losses" for a while, is every team makes mistakes. Post game Frost and the players talk like if they had just gotten one more score, that they would have won the game. Well, if Minnesota is down, maybe they don't play the no-pass or short-pass offense the whole second half trying to kill the clock. The idea that if they hit a FG or get a TD to go up 23-21, it would have been over, but that's not a reality and that's a bit of a loser mindset. It's like Nebraska just believes they need to at some point capture a lead against Minnesota, and the monkey will be off their back, a lead (something Nebraska only has held against Minnesota for a minute and 34 seconds dating back to 2019. Look at the game yesterday. For every dumb mistake, Minnesota could say the same thing. Why didn't Tanner Morgan air that pass out 5 yards more to put them up 28-9 on their opening 2nd half drive. Bad mistake. Why did Tanner Morgan make a really bad throw on the very next drive. Bad Mistake. If Minnesota win's the turnover battle, that would have been a different game, but Tanner had too many mistakes. But Nebraska won the turnover battle by 2. Teams that do that win 78% of the time. Something bigger is wrong, because you aren't winning games when you win the turnover battle by two. Frost is essentially trying to put the pressure on his players to play perfectly, and they won't. No teams play perfectly. I don't think Frost gets it. Go beat Iowa and Wisconsin.