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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.

Just start reading about Scorecasting or either of the two sites I mentioned. The behavior of coaches on third and fourth down is completely ridiculous. What Bo and/or Beck just pulled was one of the most absurd fourth down calls I have ever seen.

The entire college football world - beginning and ending with the Nebraska coaching staff, namely Beck - needs to start reading Football Outsiders and advancednflstats.com. I am about as old-school as they come and I resisted for so long, but the abject stupidity of coaches on BOTH third and fourth downs is now ridiculous. I know, I know .. they are just kids and just love them. I get it. I am a lurker. However, while the entire game of football is evolving, when will our coaches (Nebraska or not) follow suit?

The issue I have with Martinez is the tremendous difference in his play when you took away one of his tools; his ankle/speed. It was as if he could do NOTHING else. Whether this is a lack of character/maturity/talent in Martinez, the coaching staff, or even simple circumstance, it is not supposed to happen to the quarterback. There is a reason the Heisman is littered with quarterbacks, the highest-paid men in the NFL are QB's, and all the adoration and attention is on them ... they need to be special. A collegiate football player sacrifices everything to get where they are; the QB needs to sacrifice even more than everything. And it just doesn't LOOK like this is the case with Martinez. My experience? I was a crappy hockey player who probably should have learned how to speed skate because I could absolutely fly. I was very good locally, though, because of this one specific skill. When I tried to play in college, my speed was old hat to these guys who had all the tools. Instead of working hard, I whimpered right off that school's team, enrolled in another one, and got cut there, too. I have not laced up a (ice) skate since. I hope this kid is better than I was.

Worse is his complete disinterest in going for it on fourth down. All football coaches are a complete failure in this department, but Watson (and/or Pelini) are the worst. While it seems counterintuitive, you go for it MORE if your offense is struggling and your defense is not. I don't care who is punting. One of the biggest problems a struggling offense has are the trouble downs; 2nd-and-Ten, 3rd-and-long, etc. So, once Nebraska passes their own 40, they should be in four down mode. Third down becomes nothing more than Second Down: Part II. It would make the quarterback - in this case, Green - feel much more comfortable and with the way Nebraska runs the ball, they shouldn't need for than three runs and a nominal pass to gain ten f'ing yards. However, it will never happen. Punt in the traditional manner and lose; players fault. "Risk" it and go for it often; coaches fault. Sooner or later, there will be a coach that almost completely eschews punting for running an offensive play from scrimmage and he will change football as we know it. I pray it is Watson.

Yes and no. College football is about big games and, while improving, Nebraska just can't win those f'ing things; and, no, Washington and Arizona don't count as "big games". That said, my mood is far better than it was under Callahan and even Solich.

Wait a section. ESPN is quoting Bleacher Report?!

The only thing disgusting in this thread are the responses, especially "Mods, delete this thread." C'mon now. I trust you are all adults, no? The post was made at lunchtime; since then we have a rumor that Martinez has quit the team. So, while we wait to find out how true that is, perhaps Huskerfan55 isn't so far off base. And, even if he is completely f'ing wrong and a complete moron, deleting the thread and responding to him in kind hardly makes any of you look any better or any less "trollish."

I am completely against the concept of "defenseless player." I am sure we've all played the game - or been around the game - long enough to know two truisms: 1. Go 100% or get hurt 2. Play to the whistle Pop Warner.

The only negative of this is potential for multiple Ohio State/Michigan games. For obvious reasons, I hope this never happens, though!

I am with you. I am out of the country and I have a solution for everything but Nebraska games. I'll take pay, free, whatever.