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Can't blame Oline for Martinez's performance today.

With faith & honor held high

Its a comparison/combination of feelings versus numbers.

While there is no reason or metric other than recruiting rankings to predict a win, this would be very Husker-like to pull out this one, give us hope, then lose the final 3. Went with Huskers by 3. Intellectually, if the secondary can't stop Tanner Morgan, I don't have much hope they can stop Purdue.

Hopefully, they beat bucky. We seem to want to play better if the opponent has a number in front of the name.

A resounding "no". Just because we still love one of our own despite the struggles, doesn't mean the base has stopped demanding wins.

I find that so crazy, that the team can't hold up against a 7 game schedule. Get-off-my-lawn I guess, but can remember 11 game schedules with no idle weeks. I don't understand today's mentality of not being able to be "up" for a lousy 12 games. I get not being up for every practice each week. Cue Iverson meme.

Absolutely

To me, thats a bit facetious. Until late in the play, the protection was there. Couldve easily gotten rid of it, ran elsewhere. Zero reason for him to have run back into the endzone like that. Freshman mistake despite Benharts ineffectiveness.

Don't take it personally. Its a message board.

Forgot to even mention Martinez. Protection, while still not great, wasn't too bad today. C'mon, Man! And do we really have no one on the roster that can play Benhart's position? There's nobody that can just play average? C'mon Austin!

I'm a better gameday coach than Frost. Consistently manages games to his own team's weaknesses. Still do not understand not just dialing up a Brady-esque sneak. Why touch the ball 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage when you need 6 inches? Makes zero sense. And on 3rd down, down by 6, you run up the middle to set up Connor Culp? WTF?

Bingo. Planning on posting something in the "learned" thread. Between the two of them, they are terrible game managers.

Ha. This game shouldn't be the defining moment win or lose. Of course some fans won't see it that way. A win at this point would actually provide some positive definition.

For a change, I don't mind our O scheme. Execution has certainly been a problem at times. Defensively, I have no idea what the game plan is. Minnesota does the same thing every game, every year, yet where other teams can stop it, it consistently befuddles the Huskers, especially when they play there.

Day by day

On paper, and based on the season's results, NU should win fairly easy. However, with both the highs and lows of past 4 weeks, I get a 2020 Illinois vibe for this one. The D needs to shut down the goophers. Went with NU by 3.

I think there's a lot of recency bias in your post. Not many were overly impressed with how their overall careers panned out.

Lot has changed over the past 20 years. Traditionally the expectation was to run and pitch well via ground attack and just hit the occasional open receiver. And we had some good ones that could meet those lesser expectations or come close. Wasn't as much reliance on reading defenses. And perhaps burying the lead, twitter/internet lets everyone see all the venting. Now the expectation is that the QBs (in our type of system) can correctly zone read, hit the correct running lanes, and be an actual passer which means you better be able to find open receivers and then actually hit them. With all that stated, I probably think Ganz had rounded out to the be the best of that list. Martinez could still end up being the best of that bunch if he could clean the "bad" mistakes. Who has complained about Smothers? He's barely been on the field.

Nah. Today was on par. Pretty good game. Perhaps a couple of missed plays during the meat of the game. Killer turnover and/or bad missed pass to end the chance.

My point was more that they're losing these games mentally. While they might be slightly less physical than preferred, I don't believe thats costing them wins. Maybe Id buy that against OU, but none of the other competition they've faced this season.

The problem is there's always statements about "protecting Martinez". I dont know how you fearlessly execute a run option if the QB has to be protected.

While an upgrade in talent would certainly help, I don't believe any of this year's losses are based from physical failure.

Agree about his demeanor. I was worried he might just seam worn out. But it was upbeat and positive. Hope it carries into next week's prep.

More of confirmation, but Butterfingers can't be relied upon in crunch time. This is has been a consistent problem. Again, he's not the sole reason they lose, and he's often the best offensive player, but his inability to play clean is a contributing factor. This game was lost on the back of the first half play calling. Very little innovation or imagination. I get wanting to set up the run. And those plays did contribute to some successful calls in 2nd half. But you can't expect to beat a highly ranked team tanking the offensive for 30 minutes.