papersun87

^They read your post, True2tRA.

^and had they not, their lack of ability to move the ball would've cost us the game, so there we are.

^Yup, as much as I may despise much of what ESPN does, College GameDay is still king.

Who is doing this? not to call anyone out....but.... Huskers5x, Dr. Strangelove, deedsker, SeaOfRed402, Marf, Atbone95, Huskerzoo,Huskerhawg, Excel, BIGREDIOWAN, LukeinNE, Husker from Kansas, man eating mastodon, 4skers89 and to a large extent.... papersun87, Haspula, Jason Sitoke, wiby_NU, Creighton Duke, dudeguyy, Husker Richard, huskerjack23, kozzman555, TGHusker ....when they determined that the loss of a couple guys that haven't yet, nor were likely to start, a 4th string RB, and a guy playing our deepest position on D "measurably (meaning additional losses) lowered their expectations" Unless of course the above posters had expectations of a National Championship and/or a playoff birth. In which case I'd understand the lowered expectations, but also consider them a little cray cray. I'll bite. I probably shouldn't have answered that poll question the way that I did, because my expectations are (and will be forevermore until Bo gives me some reason to change them) that we will: a) finish 9-4 b) play a bunch of sloppy games against teams that anyone else with a comparable talent level would beat by 20 c) lose to some team we have no business losing to d) lose to (and probably get blown out by) anyone equal to or better than us on the schedule, namely Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Iowa. so really, I guess the injuries don't change that. but seeing as how my expectations were incredibly low to begin with, I'm not sure that's saying much.

I mean it's sad, but 3 or 4 years ago I would have gone off on you for this quote, but now I find myself agreeing. I see zero data that suggests otherwise. I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything, I'm just as excited for the season to start as anyone here, but we kind of know what to expect, and looking at this team, I don't see anything dramatically different than the past several years that would make me think we will make any great jump (or fall). I'm basically hoping for good variance at this point - bink a 30/70 game that we shouldn't win, get some lucky bounces, find ourselves in the B1GCCG within striking distance at halftime. That's my best-case scenario. The State of Nebraska Football, late summer 2014.

and still somehow doesn't get fired.

http://hailvarsity.com/2014/08/rb-taylor-out-with-broken-ankle/

@GregSmithBSO: #Huskers practice notes: WR Pierson-El sticking with the 2's. Continues to impress. https://twitter.com/GregSmithBSO/status/498859628986646528

So what are we projecting here? X - after Enunwa's departure . . . Taariq Allen? Z - HAS to be Bell. Y/slot - I guess they're saying Westerkamp over Turner, which doesn't really surprise me, sadly.

From Hail Varsity: Less Is More in 2014 Paps and Beck both talk simplifying.

terrible mechanics. are you sure he wasn't catching the ball here? not this again

not nearly up to Grantland's usual standard.

if NU ever actually puts corn on the uniforms I may have to disown them for a week.

awful for him, and not great for the defense, either.

Oregon and Auburn both run a lot of packaged plays. You can run the "same play" over and over but the QB gets to choose whether to keep, hand off, pitch, dump to the flat, or throw deep. I'm sure we have a few of those in the playbook at NU but if we do I haven't noticed. It makes everyone else's jobs a lot simpler (and allows you to move at a blistering pace when you want) but asks a lot of the quarterback. Edit: here, this sums it up way better than I ever could. (And in the long run I think the Air Raid'll do just fine at Washington State. It's just too early.)

this is part of what's allowed Baylor to be so successful. they send a WR deep on every snap and since opposing DCs know Petty can make that throw whenever he wants, they have to scheme around it and it takes a safety out of the equation, opening up more options underneath. Taylor had that ability with his legs. A linebacker had to spy him and it opened up the zone read or option or underneath passing routes. Armstrong doesn't have that kind of accuracy, or at least didn't in 2013. most of his successful deep throws were so because Bell or Enunwa made a spectacular catch. That said, obviously I don't know if Fyfe or Stanton has that deep ball ability either. EDIT: and if none of them do, then start Armstrong because he's got the experience. Not many guys out there can say they've led a game-winning TD drive at the Big House, and that's worth quite a bit too.

seriously. it can't be rocket science.

Then it's a good thing we don't. High risk, high reward is about as concise of a description of the offense when Martinez was QB as I can imagine. Whether that will continue with Armstrong is an open question. I guess we can argue the semantics of it but I would say we run plays at an average pace and run the ball 60% of the time which is decidedly not high-risk, high-reward nor up-tempo. But you'll get no argument from me that the guy operating the offense most of the last four years was definitely high-risk, high-reward. here are some cold hard numbers: (source)

Is 9-10 a handful? 9-10 implies multiple blowout losses in the same season, so sure.

^I'm sorry but until this staff can prove that they can go more than a handful of games without completely peeing down their legs it's going to keep being an issue.

Or do you mean that's what most Pelini critics take issue with? so you felt right warm and fuzzy when we got beaten 48-17 by Wisconsin 45-17 by Michigan 63-38 by Ohio State 70-31 by Wisconsin 41-21 by UCLA etc?

McNeese State opens up at number nine in FCS: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs RANK SCHOOL RECORD POINTS PREV 1 North Dakota State (18) 15-0 636 1 2 Eastern Washington (6) 12-3 615 3 3 Southeastern Louisiana (1) 11-3 542 6 4 New Hampshire 10-5 510 5 5 Montana 10-3 505 8 6 Coastal Carolina 12-3 447 7 7 Towson (1) 13-3 438 2 8 Jacksonville State 12-2 425 12 9 McNeese State 10-3 424 9 10 South Dakota State 9-5 332 14 11 Eastern Illinois 12-2 314 4 12 Fordham 12-2 305 10 13 Villanova 6-5 287 NR 14 Sam Houston State 9-5 277 13 15 Northern Iowa 7-5 263 NR 16 Chattanooga 8-4 238 25 17 Tennessee State 10-4 237 17 18 Furman 8-6 188 21 19 Montana State 7-5 170 20 20 Maine 10-3 169 11 21 Youngstown State 8-4 162 19 22 William & Mary 7-5 159 NR 23 Bethune-Cookman 10-3 136 16 24 Richmond 6-6 118 NR 25 Northern Arizona 9-3 116 15 (wow, copy/paste made that ugly. reformatted. still ugly.)

It's not where we are right now. It's where we are on signing day and I betcha it doesn't look too different come February 2015. We'll see. At least that would give us hope for something different. Quite being a sour puss, haha. You have to admit the 2015 class has one heck of a foundation to build on, if it can be held together and we have a strong season, we could really finish with one of the best rated classes Nebraska has seen in quite a while. Granted it won't be a huge class, but the quality really seems to be there. And it's seems like the staff has gotten better at finding diamonds in the rough before other big schools and offering them right before they hit the camp circuit and blow up. I credit garrison, kaz and warren for building a better recruiting pattern. eh. any of these kids could decommit by signing day 2015, so i'll wait for the ink to dry before i get too excited.

in the time that it took you to read this thread, Westerkamp muffed two more punts.

^That's more or less what I meant, although you articulated it better. Iowa could be wholly mediocre and still go 10-2. Edit: CUTEST SIG GIF EVER