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The first good call of the day - this non-call - hurts Nebraska. Go figure.

Excellent point. I was too busy throwing a temper tantrum to think about this.

Nobody shoots themselves in the chest when they have bone grinding on bone in the knee so football doesn't care about that. 21-0! Wheee!

Blame the fans? We didn't have any say in the rules made by anyone. Get f'n real. We allow this to happen. We let Congress intimidate the NFL and now we have this. Meanwhile, PCS/CTE cases likely stay the same because these "headshots" don't have sh#t on the head contact at the LOS and the head hitting the ground.

OK, I want every defensive and offensive lineman tossed on the next play. Just following the rules.

And, meanwhile, whoever the color guy is has now watched the replay twice and keeps saying, "Yep, that's helmet-to-helmet." I swear on everything there is a huge conspiracy on this issue.

These are the rules you wanted. By not calling out the NFL and NCAA with their hypocritical lies about PCS and CTE, you get these penalties. Blame nobody but all of us.

Would you have loved the call if they just lined up and ran a play from a traditional formation? I would have. Faking kicks is almost never a good idea unless the distance is longer than ten yards. That aside, I don't post here often, but at what point in time can we officially blame this coaching staff? I've seen Nebraska get beaten before - sometimes badly - but I cannot remember the last time they have been pants'ed so badly coming out at halftime.

Jesus, now we are going to lose MORE gangbangers to Colorado! As a couple of people have said it in this thread, I get a kick out of when teams like Oregon and Ohio do it, but not the "name" schools.

To be fair no one is hating on T-Mart tonight.. It's all about the D tonight I think a lot of us, especially me, are hating on the calls. Taylor Martinez cannot throw the football with any consistency. Yet, the calls keep coming in that put him in positions where he needs to be Tom Brady. The previous two drives were gorgeous. Nobody had any idea what was coming, everyone touched the ball, and as such, Taylor's "interesting" ability to throw the ball was not a factor.

Finally! The only people with talent that haven't touched the ball on the previous two possessions have graduated already. So fantastic to see things like this.

Taylor can't throw the football; this isn't opinion, just some "guy on the forums", or whatever excuse there might be. Great kid? Fine. Working hard and trying? Sure, I know. Throw the football? LOLWUT NO. Yet, shotgun formation every play. You know what normal football teams do when they have a QB that can't throw but have dynamic talents at WR and HB? They line up in a traditional formation, under center, and hope they can get the ball to those guys in better situations. They don't PURPOSELY feature the one weak spot of the offense on 80% of the plays. Taylor was 10/12 tonight before that last interception, which is ENTIRELY on the coaching staff. All week, all anyone heard at Nebraska was that Taylor makes bad decisions and doesn't go through his reads. Did you not see INSTANT improvement in that regard tonight from Martinez? What the heck do you want from him? He cannot throw the football. I don't have any negative to say about him aside from that. When you put him in a position where it is obvious there is going to be a pass, his lack of talent at physically throwing the football is a major detriment. It would be the equivalent of having a Tommie Frazier who couldn't run. So, when Pelini/Beck repeatedly line up in formations that are pass-centric, you put an athlete in a position where his worst talent becomes the thing he needs the most. And that is a horrible call; we could be talking about something as benign as a hot dog stand.

Taylor can't throw the football; this isn't opinion, just some "guy on the forums", or whatever excuse there might be. Great kid? Fine. Working hard and trying? Sure, I know. Throw the football? LOLWUT NO. Yet, shotgun formation every play. You know what normal football teams do when they have a QB that can't throw but have dynamic talents at WR and HB? They line up in a traditional formation, under center, and hope they can get the ball to those guys in better situations. They don't PURPOSELY feature the one weak spot of the offense on 80% of the plays.

What's sad is that whoever might/will replace Pelini will do the same thing. The next guy at, say, Minnesota, will do the same thing. The next guy that coaches the Rams in the NFL will do the same thing. They'll hire OC's that do the same thing who coach with/against DC's who spend their whole lives devising ways to combat ... the same thing. It is truly startling. While the entire world of football has evolved, these f'ing people still stand close to what their granddaddy taught them. So, at the end of the day, we might as well play NCAA Football 12 on the PS3 or Xbox where the most talented players win except when there is a glitch.

That's my contention. If the TE is a major cause of problems on your fourth-and-one call - which represents, on average, 20% of your average yards gained per play - then you called the wrong play. As I alluded to in the opening post, this is rampant throughout college football - excluding the Pacific 12; they get it - but because we are all Huskers here and watching them play, I finally had it.