Guy Chamberlin

Well the point is you never get to know then what you know now, and if Nebraska had hired any coach other than Scott Frost we would spend every season convinced Scott Frost would have done better.

So are guys like Jerry DiNardo and the BTN crew being more objective than Nebraska fans when they claim to see improvement over last year? Or are they just being nice to a program that doesn't need another kick in the teeth? Play-calling, execution and talent aside for the moment, I think I was most disturbed by the sideline reporter who said a couple Husker players were working the sidelines, disturbed by the lack of enthusiasm from the other players during the first half when Nebraska was actually winning. Could this same team beat Penn State Saturday? I think so. This kind of upset happens every Saturday, and there's no reason Nebraska shouldn't get one sometime. I think it starts with new players getting thrown into the fire and everyone playing like they have nothing to lose. Because they don't. When expectations are this low, you're gambling with house money.

This gets debated a lot, but my understanding is that Tom Osborne's offense wasn't that simple; in many ways it required more skill, finesse, and precision than lots of other offenses. Those multiple formations and options all had to be practiced to perfections, and Tom still had 15-20 pass plays feathered in, and actually had more elaborate trick plays than a lot of coaches who are accused of getting "cute." But when executed with talent and commitment, that offense certainly was a thing of beauty. And don't underestimate the value of having a defense that only gives up 12 points a game. Nebraska offenses under Osborne could afford to start slow or bog down, knowing they rarely had to play come-from-behind. Recent Nebraska offenses get forced into shooting matches early, and that can mess with any game-plan.

Also, Frost and a lot of the successful modern coaches like running a "rhythm" offense, playing fast, no huddles, catching the D off-guard. That's where it really helps to have an improvising dual threat QB. It's worked before, but I didn't see it on Saturday -- a lot more looking to the sidelines, giving the defense time to align, then running a 5 yard play on 3rd and 11.

Beat me to it. If Nebraska announced it's intention to go to power I or option football, and to largely abandon the pass, our running game might actually be less successful than it is now. The option was all about playing the edges, and defensive players and systems have gotten a lot better at closing the edges than they were in Osborne's day. Also, option football is all about split second decision making by the QB running high risk plays. If our guy is telegraphing his forward passes, that's still a huge liability when making pitches behind the line of scrimmage. The OP makes a haunting reference to CM Husker, who believed Nebraska would forever be too backwards and undesirable to attract players at these so-called "skill" positions that involve passing and catching. That's just silly. And depressing.

I honestly didn't have a problem with Scott Frosts' play-calling for the first 2.2 seasons -- and let's face it, no OC is calling a game or designing an offense that Frost didn't pre-approve -- because I could see what he was trying to do. Some of the plays that worked great on one drive don't work on another. Growing pains. But yesterday I just didn't understand a lot of the play calls. The exact opposite of innovative: cautious and easily detected plays designed to get 5 yards when it's 3rd and 11. Baffling calls on the final drive when clock management was imperative. If our most productive plays are broken plays where the QB has to improvise, McCaffrey is definitely the guy. And if it requires a quick release throw to one of our highly motivated freshman receivers, he's the guy for that, too. I also drew up a couple plays on a cocktail napkin showing how we might put the ball in Wan'dale Robinson's hands, and I'll be mailing that to Scott tomorrow.

Is there a single game on the schedule where Nebraska should be expected to win?

Luke McCaffrey.

If Steve Schmidt and friends come sniffing around Biden, looking for their payoff from Democrats, I'd recommend using their messaging skills to inform Americans about the disinformation campaigns run against Democrats and Democratic policies by past Republican operatives including (looks at notes)....Steve Schmidt and friends.

That would be the party where they break out the new Phil Collins CD and wonder why you're not dancing.

Not a big day, but a competent day for Mills as a featured running back and receiver. Even then I think Frost will keep playing with a Martinez/McCaffrey dual backfield, and either of them could end up with more rushing yards than Mills. The defense that's been very solid against the run for a couple seasons now absolutely has to get pressure on the QB. That's the Huskers biggest weakness imo. Anyone who gets a sack wins my defensive kudos.

I really hoped that wasn't going to happen, as Sanders, AOC, and even Noam Chomsky immediately made it clear that voting for Joe Biden was imperative for whatever good you want to have happen in the future. The people I know who actually phone banked and wrote mailers for Biden were more likely to be activists from the Sanders camp than the centrists liberals trading memes on Facebook. The Progressives may not play on every stage, but they play very well in some districts, and we tend to forget that even centrist Dems are now touting more ambitious policies that Sanders brought to the table and normalized in 2016. There was no Jill Stein this year, and no indication that progressives protested with non-votes or Trump votes. Polling shows that a majority of the American people support all kinds of policies deemed "extreme left," but the support disappears when the question is rephrased with select buzzwords designed to stoke fears. The right has won the messaging battle, even if they lose this election. It's hard to deny that socialism was the best weapon the GOP had. It's as if they had the same playbook ready for Biden as they did with Bernie. I've had so many mind-numbing discussions with people who don't understand socialism at all, nor any idea how America has worked for the past 50 years. When the GOP wanted to take down the Iowa Dem in the race, they literally showed Bernie Sanders and AOC perched on her shoulder. So yeah, the Left Wing of the Democratic Party wasn't likely to win over the electoral map of America. But I don't think they held back a Biden landslide, either. It's something murky and in the middle. Democrats fearing the extremes of Sanders rushed to the familiarity of Biden --- a candidate who had been in fourth place in the preceding primaries. They got a candidate who united the moderates, but they also got a candidate with the lowest enthusiasm numbers in decades. Few Democrats could recite what Joe Biden was for and what he would do about it: they just knew he wasn't Donald Trump. Like a lot of folks, I was rooting for Joe Biden to survive the debates, and he did. But I don't recall many people who found him inspiring. Most of us were yelling at the television, wishing Joe would jump on the incredible opportunities Trump was handing him. Joe has grown on me a bit the past couple months. I hope it continues. The Democratic Party and the DNC in particular need to seriously rethink why this election was so close, and where they need to move in the future. Blaming progressives, particularly young progressives, is the single worst thing they could do.

Dude, you're in the P&R forum. Assumed you were following at least some of the basic issues. The only tax increase is for people making more than $400,000 a year, and the tax rate would still be lower on the wealthy than it's been in for most of the last 70 years. Who knows? Maybe we could get some of the huge corporations paying ZERO taxes to pony up a bit. But you gotta promise not to call it socialism.

It's murky. There is definitely voter suppression going on, and it tends to target people inclined to vote Democrat, but it doesn't explain away Stacy Abrams' loss. On the other hand, Abrams coming that close in a state like Georgia is a meaningful trend by itself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/30/did-racially-motivated-voter-suppression-thwart-stacey-abrams/ I also don't know anyone who seriously argued that Putin had hacked America's electoral system itself. I know many yearned to prove collusion, but there really was no evidence (I mean, beyond Donald Trump publicly urging Russia to release any and all hacked dirt on Hillary Clinton.) What's undeniable is that Putin targeted and financed a social media campaign out of Russia to infiltrate America with divisive messaging and uncredited conspiracies that skewed towards helping Donald Trump win the election. I personally think America's own bats#!t conspiracy theorists could have handled the job themselves, and I doubt the election hung in the balance of Vladamir Putin, but the volume of Russian output in the American election was pretty stunning. And it hardly cost Putin a thing. But Trump's efforts to subvert the voting process and cast doubt on any election result he didn't like were done loudly and in broad daylight.

The thing that's so funny about the Tuberville quote is that it's not at all like the whistle has blown and the game is over. But it is exactly like a game that's late in the fourth quarter and your defense is fading. The other team is grinding it out and burning the clock and there's nothing you can do about it. The refs will blow the whistle when the game is over, not in the third quarter when you were ahead. What a douche.

Of course they never tell hardworking rural American they're supposed to feel sorry for billionaires, because they won't think that way. But they do flip the narrative on class warfare so that jobs providers and high income tax brackets are being targeted by liberal Dems, who want to give the money to the non-working "takers." They also elected Donald Trump President, and believe he is being treated terribly by people who are jealous of his success and his hot model wife. So while they don't think they're feeling sorry for billionaires, they end of treating them as the victims of class warfare — when it's actually the hard working rural Americans themselves getting their pockets picked. It's pretty sick, but pretty brilliant.

pretty sure both sides agree on that.

If you study the Red State/Blue State metrics, the uneducated enjoy a lot of government benefits from mostly Democratic policies, but the Republicans do a real good job of getting them to feel sorry for billionaires and hate the government from whose teat they're suckling. That's the beauty of manipulating the uneducated.

And Bo is a failure. Why can't both be true at the same time?

I was thinking the same thing this morning. Coronavirus was supposed to be Trump's undoing and Biden's ace, but I think it started to flip in the fall when people just wanted good news and Biden opted to warn them about the long winter ahead. Trump supporters had already treated Dr. Fauci like a Democrat conspirator, and Don came out of his own COVID case stronger than ever. Covid is full of mixed messages and nobody in America likes mixed messages. And yeah, while I was sharing the outrage of the George Floyd killing and considered the street protests utterly justified, I could see the optics playing right into Republican hands. That's how Nixon won in 1968, even though most of America had turned against Vietnam. Hard to tell how much the late-breaking ploy to create a Biden Crime Family narrative worked, but it was all I was hearing from Trump supporters over the last month. Even if Biden wins, Trump's campaign was hugely successful in ways the pundits and pollsters failed to predict. I don't understand America at this particular moment.

No wait voting live in my town, but there never is. Poll workers were the youngest I've ever seen. I walked to the nearest bar and enjoyed a cold 1 pm beer.

IIRC, wasn't the knock on Greg Bell that he didn't take well to platooning with Scott Frost's other running backs, and quit at the first sign of adversity?

My confidence is based on a pretty solid record of what Democrats have done for 40 years. Given how the GOP senate screwed Obama and packed the Supreme Court themselves, I hope we can restore some balance and certainly wouldn't rule out more states and more Justices myself. I don't have confidence the Dems will go that far, but I can still hope. The Democrats have never come after your guns. Sometimes that want to have a discussion about gun violence, or perhaps the ease of obtaining weapons designed for mass human slaughter, but the NRA typically intervenes and Dems meekly go on their way. The problem with Silicon Valley isn't censorship, it's data mining and privacy. Try to keep up. Your confidence in the power of Democrats to act like they never have before is impressive. Hope you're right.

I was visiting Lincoln last week, killing time and driving around town. If I were going strictly by yard signs, Biden is carrying Lincoln 10 to 1. Biggest concentration of signs were in the wealthier neighborhoods like Sheridan and Lincolnshire. Not just Biden/Harris signs, but Peace, Love & Justice signs. BLM signs. Some I've never seen in California: Joe Biden supports Solar Energy. But I'm mindful of the warning Michael Moore gave in 2016 and repeated this year: Many Trump supporters prefer the shadows, thwarting the pollsters, and avoiding judgement for supporting a racist, divisive, possibly insane President. Given the chance to be anonymous, they still bring big numbers that will be breaking late.

I remember when Barack Obama inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and less than two months after Obama was sworn in, Sean Hannity said it was time we started calling it "The Obama Economy." Sean also hosted a prime-time special on Fox: "Obama; the First 100 Days" featuring a video montage scored to the theme from "The Omen." Ipso facto, COVID-19 becomes a national crisis on Fox the moment Biden is sworn in.