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I don't know. I just think when we were sitting at 5-3, as ugly as it was at that point, I just felt that we would find a way to get the 6th win and go bowling this year. Like, needing just one more win, I was 65-70% sure it would happen.

I don't mind venting. It is healthy and this is a good place to do it after a close game. It happens 6 or 7 times a year as usual. Just hope y'all put things into perspective. It's college football. Kiss your gf, watch Star Wars, and make Huevos Divorciados in the morning for breakfast. Losing sucks, but the sky isn't falling. The sun will come up. This is not the worst thing in the world to happen. Rest up, get it together and GBR

The team's punter has not been good, and I completely agree with that. However, I think you misunderstood the subtle message. You see, when a player does something good, he gets the credit and the cheers. When a player doesn't perform well, the easy thing to do is fault the coach. Not to mention, but some fans do it kicking and screaming. Interceptions, fumbles, false starts, horrible punts? Why blame the coach and yell "Fire him"? I guess it's because people don't want to place proper blame on players, like they are your friends and heroes, so it's easier to fault the coach. I mean, coaches can only work with what they have on the team. Including bad punters and 3 different quarterbacks, inexperienced receivers, freshmen place kickers, guys rotating on defenses, a ton of player injuries and a makeshift offensive line, etc, etc. I guess you could fire the position coaches. Or you could find better players that play really good during the games. Just as good as they do in practices and offseason drills. Or maybe you could make a change and put in a different player and hopefully they can play better on Saturdays? I get tired of drunk fans screaming that the solution is - "Fire blah blah blah!". Give credit to your opponents, complete passes, don't turn the ball over, and punt better because that is your job. The coaches did all they could to help you and prepare you for the game.

2 blocked FGs? Give the ST coach a fat raise. He is responsible for the group's success on the field. Those calls were awesome!

Deacon Hill looks a biscuit away from 260. Oh wow - just looked it up and he's 6'3 258 ! You really don't see Quarterbacks today built with such a hefty midsection. I gotta admit, I'm quite impressed ! And from looks of it, Deacon is definitely a good eater !!! He can probably hang with the Offensive linemen for supper time I'm sure, and prolly some Husker fans too! Wonder if Big Boy sneaks into Omaha for a few Runzas, with chili cheese fries to go. I know we hate their football team, but man Deacon reminds me of a tiny Jared Lorenzen (RIP) and it is sooo cool to see! Seriously I'm so impressed, pass me another plate of Turkey and gobs of potatoes n gravy!!!!! Don't forget the cranberry sauce with cool whip! Lorenzen was one of my favorite college football quarterbacks of all-time. Super strong arm, mobile, and a good eater. May he rest in peace, and no disrespect to Deacon Hill, only appreciation! Go Huskers! Beat Iowa!!! Gobble Gobble

No, because I stand alone on this issue. I think it's creepy to hire a PI and psychotic to send Antony and Tony Knuckles to dig up dirt on Michigan football or any college football team. And I think the timing is strange that it is happening the same time Michigan is thriving and has beaten Ohio State two years in a row. And all fingers point to a jaded, sourpuss group of Buckeye Coaches or Admins or Boosters that have been super pissed and their feelings are hurt, because they aren't the top dog of the Conference. So, they collectively talked and hired some mobsters (aka Private Investigators) to do the dirty work for them. I don't care if Michigan has stolen signals. You can blame all of college football for putting up signs and signals for everyone to see. It's right there in front of you. And all of this looks like If you are Ohio State football and can't beat them on the field, don't be lame and hire Donnie Bags and No-neck Tony to go after them. Every team looks for an edge. Every team messes with cheating and it's been going on a long time. Quite whining. Stay in your lane. Go play ball instead. Enough said.

I know, but I thought if you are advocating to go for the win with nothing to lose in regulation, then don't take a different approach about it in overtime. Or else, that would be contradictory to everything being said. You see my point? Because you are saying "do it this way in regulation - don't worry - nothing to lose - play to win - go for it". But in overtime, suddenly it's "woah, woah, WOAH! Let's do it differently and be conservative now. Let them have ball first, and hopefully we can tie if need be" That thinking doesn't make sense. I know we think different, but I stand by my thinking as much as you do yours. Me: clock management was fine. Deciding who gets ball first in OT was not fine. I say, kick FG in reg, send it to OT, live another day, put Wisconsin back on defense in OT, take the ball first, and go from there.

Totally agree with you about the 15 painful minutes of replay review. My thing is, that if you go to a review, the replay they review should be in real-time, only. No slow motion, frame-by-frame, zooming in. I'm okay wit different angles, just review it in real-time speed. I think it is wrong when you take a live action football play and slow it down to frame-by-frame to make a call....... Just so the people in the booth can say "See, right there, he has the one toe in bound and his hands on the ball securing the catch". Ummm, no, you are pointing at a picture of something for a conclusion, and not at a real-time football play. Unfortunately, the people in the replay ops-center are slowing it down too....like freeze-frame stuff. To me, that's not how football works. It's live and fast. If you can't determine in regular speed with a replay, send it back to the officials in stripes to enforce the call. And while I am at it (lol) the guys that have to review the biggest questionable plays are not there to officiate the game for you (the guys on the field). Stop putting the biggest plays in the fate of their hands to lean on. And finally (uggh).... there is no earthly way a guy can catch a sideline pass with one toe barely in bounds for 1/24th of a second and be called a valid catch, in comparison when you see a real catch in the middle of the field, foot down; gets popped by a defender at the same time; he slams into the turf; and the ball slightly moves a bit and touches the turf, and call it incomplete - when the entire catch, step, hit, going to the ground, takes a full second or two before the ball wiggled a smidge. Incomplete!!!! But, if a single Toe touches a blade of grass inbounds for 1/24th of a second and everything else hits the white area "out of bounds" - it's full-metal Completion!!!! Man, I just don't agree with the technicality of rules robbing the purity of the game and competitive sportsmanship. The game is not played frame-by-frame. Or in slow-motion. Have some guts, keep the game played with integrity, and when you review a play, do it in real-time.

That's often and makes sense, thanks! I'm sure he said it in jest and it wasn't like a quest of his. But still.... He's been playing pretty good with Detroit. And yes, the Lions are a hot team (winning) and very likeable. They are doing the right things. Meanwhile the Bears still suck for 30+ years (minus one lucky season to reach the Super Bowl against the Colts), and the Packers & Vikings look "meh". What's not to like about the Detroit Lions as you mention (and me too). Can I say me too if I don't use a hashtag? LOL have you ever got a text or snap from gf "I want a pizza!" or something, and your initial response is "me too!" and then you catch yourself before replying back, and rephrase it by saying "same!" instead?!! LOL wow that went off road from the topic my bad!

There is a glaring difference between our punting and our opponents punting. Our punter kicks the ball 30 to 35 to 40 yards max on most punts. And the reason why the other teams return those punts often is because he has no hang time on those weenie punts. He pretty much has a HS leg. No hang time. Short punts. It is something noticeable since he's been punting last year. I don't know if Montana has some altitude that helped him at FCS, but it's not the same punting in the midwest. Our opponents seem to be able to punt the ball with good hang time and distance, more often than not. Those guys seem to flip the field position with their punting. Our guy doesn't but only once in awhile when the other team lets it bounce and roll another 10-15 yards. Quite frankly, our punter is below average and only booms it when we punt from the 50 yard line. Helps his averages and stats. I wish we had someone else. I can never count on him to flip the field for us. But I can count on some 18 yard shankers, and the constant 30-35 yarders. Woo.

And that's fine (disagreeing on strategy) and I'm ok with that and give you a plus 1 for it. My thinking and probably Matt Rhule's thinking took into all of the considerations you pointed out, which are good points, but went with a different strategy. And that's ok too. But also, had we won in OT I'm sure this would still have been a talking issue among Husker fans regardless. And I just don't think it should be. Speaking of strategy, decisions, and Overtime, I also think differently on this and might upset some football thinkers......but after winning the coin toss, I would have sent Wisconsin's defense back onto the field (in OT). Because they were just out there for 4 minutes, and we moved the ball on them to tie the game. Drove 60+ yards. Tied the game. Momentum shifted slightly towards us. And our offense was ready to go. The pressure goes back onto them. Even if we settle for a FG in OT on first drive, we now have come from behind to tie the game, we now have taken the lead, and the heat is all on them. Our defense gets pumped up with the lead. That's what I would have done differently. And the flip side, if we are really trying to win the game as some fans point out, why didn't we take the ball first in Overtime? Thought the point was to go for it with nothing to lose? Or does that same thinking suddenly change? Go for it.

Man, I knew UCLA had a real good defense, but with their offense playing great with QB Ethan Garbers and crew.... they kicked USC to the curb and destroyed them. "Don't mess with us bruh.."

We will get there shooting. Which will make it even better

Huskers 38 Iowa 0 Pass 295 Rush 295

Hey now, no need for a low blow. I took the time to put out some clear reasons, with cause and concern, by using some past failures that lost some games as a possible conclusion for letting the clock run down on that last drive. Seemed plausible to me. There really is no reason to twist my thoughts upside down to manipulate my rationale into an ambiguous punch line. If that's how you really feel about it, go on with your bad self. But just remember, you are not the one answering questions at the podium on behalf of the team when something doesn't work. If they ran the clock as exactly as you hoped they would, gave one more handoff and fumbled the exchange or whatever, I'm sure you probably have a quip for answering that too.

The last drive of reg was a disaster? Really?? I know we both know football and clock management very well. And with a normal cohesive offense we would have done it differently. But I have to disagree with you on this and say that clock management was probably used the best in this situation. You have to look at your personnel on the field (3rd string QB starting his first game on the road, at night in Wisconsin, game on the line), your situation (you started around your own 20 yard line and you have to get a FG or the game is over) and your history of bad things happening in the red zone throughout the year. Look back at what's happened this year. Within the redzone, multiple Husker QB's have thrown interceptions in the endzone and cost us games. HH threw a pick against MSU that was called back a few weeks ago. Or how about a bad snap? We've seen plenty of those this year. How about a bad exchange in the RZ that we saw between HH and EJ? We fumbled. And we even tried running out the clock with the lead (run the damn ball!) and Grant fumbled against Minnesota. We have had plenty of past failures and turnovers for whatever reasons with different QB's and RBs throughout the year, that running the clock down in this case wasn't the worse thing in the world. And, after being stuffed on drives all throughout the second half, we get the ball with our 4-minute drill using sparing reps from Chubba, and impressively move the ball 60 yards with the game on the line. That was amazing. But at the same time, you don't want to be too aggressive and shoot yourself in the foot with a fumble or interception. We needed to be in range for a FG and by golly, we got there. While I agree with your POV of using the clock more efficiently and getting in a few more plays, I also didn't trust a running play or passing play because of this team, this year, their history and in this situation.

Take the end result out of the picture, and let's look at some positives for a moment. Phalen Samford is around 195lbs, saw the running back's lane, charged full speed and blasted Acker who is a 250lb running back - and stood him up enough for the DLine to finish it off. How do you not get excited about that? He went nuclear on their RB and it was awesome! That was like 3rd and one. And he totally sold out for the team, and the defense. Incredible. Omar Brown is maybe 185lbs soaking wet and blasted Allen (or Akers) on a 4th down and one or two, and then crashed the line and put everything he had into it like Samford did. How do you not get excited about that? He whacked the snot out of him. Ty Robinson crashed threw the gap, bulldozed threw 240lb Allen and threw their QB down for a 10 yard loss (but officials marked it at first contact and made it a 5 yard loss). He blew that hole up and destroy their QB. How do you not get fired up about that? Emmet Johnson has nowhere to run, but often he finds a crease, hits it fast, runs low, and picks up 3 tough yards and always twisting or falling forward (sometimes 4 or 5 yard run) when it looks like a no-gainer when the play develops. That is Rex style and how do you not appreciate that? When Chubba Purdy dropped back and immediately fired a 15-20 yard pass to a slanting Coleman and places the pass right in stride with him and they connect for a big time conversion (a little bit high for a pass as Coleman had to go up and grab it)..... that was awesome! And on the TD pass to Lloyd, hitting him right in stride so he could catch and run.... again, how can you not get fired up about that? And lastly, come on, there were two obvious things about Chubba on passing plays that were very similar to former QBs. One - he receives the snap from shotgun formation, then takes an additional 7 step drop back (like Tommy YOLO Armstrong always did) to give him more time and vision, but TWO, he rolls out of the pocket with a burst and then suddenly he is looking like Joe Ganz ready to throw on the run. LOL it was pretty freaking awesome. But also glad he didn't throw across the field like Ganz did (sometimes it worked, sometimes it was an interception). So yeah, take the end result away from the game and look at some of the really awesome positives that happened. You can build off of that IMHO.

It's all good Keep in mind that we are seeing a lot of players across the board getting their feet wet this year instead of being in this position next year. These young players will have tape on them and know what to work on and what to expect/anticipate when they play next season. I think that's great and an advantage to them, especially when they go into Spring ball and keep hitting the playbook, the weights, putting on pounds. It's like they are a year ahead of the projected curve. Sure they make some mistakes and sometimes look unready to play big time football. But at the end of the day, they will grow from this experience and be better going into next year. That's how you build from the ground up, but also applauding the hard-working Seniors (and upperclassmen) for going all in and buying in too. They all playing together and working together and helping each other and taking it one day at a time. Building for the future.

Yep. Wins against Minnesota, Michigan State and Maryland were there for the taking. If only we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot. Bad QB play and turnovers lost those games. Defense did enough in those games. Wisconsin game was unique. We had pretty good QB play for once. We played clean for once (no fumbles, no INTs or turnovers). The punter sucked again, as usual of course. Place Kicker missed a FG that was makeable. Huskers took the game to OT. Wisconsin just made those 3rd down conversions often and found a way to pull out a win. Can't really get down on the Huskers. It took OT to beat us on the road. I'm okay with that when that happens.

Take a step back and breathe a little bit. The sun will come back out tomorrow. I like you but you seem to fault "the OC" in almost every post during losses, for years and years. Satterfield, Lubick, Walters, Langsdorf, on and on and on. And you have a fixation with Chadwell and Korn as the "end-all be-all" fix in your mind. I understand we lost. It was close. But keep in mind that Rhule & Satterfield and White were not here during those previous 5+ years of close losses and they do not need to be blamed or included into all of the prior frustrations that you or other Husker fans feel. This staff is in year one and deserves more respect than that. They are trying to restart and rebuild a program that was a stinker for 5-8-10 years. You don't have to blame OC every time we lose. Let it go. Just review the year and look at all the turnovers, fumbles, INTs by the QB players. Nothing to do with OC calling plays. That "non-winning" or "non-successful" stuff is on the players. And that might be a better direction with how to look at wins and losses. I'm just being honest. I'm not trying to be mean.

Great game. Sad ending in Overtime. If I follow this team and know the strange idiosyncrasies of bone-headed fumbles and throwing freak interceptions late in games, I would have been very cautious during the last few plays of the last drive. The clock management was ok for this type of offense because of that. The goal was to somehow get into FG range with 3 minutes left in the game and be able to tie the game and live another day (OT). Scoring a touchdown would have been wonderful too. However, the offense went 60 yards and was in scoring range (FG). At that point, I felt so good and just did not trust putting the ball on the ground (running plays) or a pick (dumb pass). So I am ok with that. Because we were trying to win but also, not shoot ourselves in the foot. I thought it was a great game, and I really have no complaints. NBC did a phenomenal job with pre-game studio, pre-game field shots of the band, the play-by-play & analyst (announcers). The whole coverage of the game from start to halftime to finish was unique and different for the usual football games, and it felt like it was the only game on TV. Just sad to see the Huskers play so well, take it to overtime, and not come out with the Win. Tip my hat to Wisconsin, they converted some big-time 3rd downs with QB draws and a lot of passes to Pauling (#6). Also, a shout out to Chubba Purdy with his first start of the year. Kid looked relaxed & confident, similar or a bit like Joe Ganz, and played very well. Threw some very good passes on the money and showed quickness and burst of speed running. And finally, the Huskers might not have won, but it's really impressive that they held Allen to 62 yards on 22 carries. My math says that is a little less than 3 yards per carry, and his longest run was 17 yards. Wow. I enjoyed the game, felt like we were slightly the better team on the field, and could have won. Sad it didn't happen. Tip my cap to Wisconsin. Bring on Iowa.

9 pages of "Fire the OC!"........ you guys are out of your minds. Yall are just extremely pissy and acting drunk because we didn't win a close game at Wisconsin and don't know how to deal with it. We played a clean game. No fumbles and no interceptions (until the final play in OT - so what?). Our offense outplayed Wisconsin's offense in passing yards, rushing yards, total yards, yards per play, and time of possession. We had the same amount of first downs (19). And Wisconsin ran 5 more plays. The game was decided in overtime. Fire the OC? That's irrational.

I like Husker football to real win dis game tonight

Hey there Peacock! Can't wait to watch this game! I really like this Husker hoops team so far, even though it's early on. GBR!!!

21-18-1 season LSU -31.5 vs Georgia State Missouri -12 vs Florida UCLA +5 at USC Bonus: Iowa State +7.5 vs Texas iLLinois +3 at Iowa