Guy Chamberlin

Baylor was a good win. It's hard to watch our secondary get picked apart, but kinda fun to have a quarterback who can do the same when we get the ball. And I think it's time to point out that while there are many facets to the Huskers that keep them from elite status, Shawn Watson calls a helluva good game. My advice to the Huskers - and this is totally free - tell Quentin Castille not to fumble any more. And don't run into the punter after your defense has just held tough.

Quentin Castille looks a lot stronger against weaker defenses. Someone is going to have to step up and make a claim for Featured Running Back '09. I'd like to see a freshman get some reps right now. Because come the end of their senior years, I don't think either Castille or Helu will be starting.

Those of you who don't think Nebraska can run the table should quit being so grumpy and hug a unicorn.

If Nebraska beats Oklahoma.....that would be great.

I prefer to look at us at the #2 team in the Big 12 North.

I think the team - and the first string - really needed that last decisive drive for a score, even if the game was in hand. But it is concerning that no back-up QB will be getting any experience this season. We are all anticipating improvement in Bo's second season, but the drop off in quarterback is going to be huge.

No. No we won't. You shut people up by winning. The only reason Nebraska's woes rank as a story is because of Nebraska's long, rich history of winning. Which the sports media has been more than happy to champion. And yeah, Notre Dame's abyssmal season last year was a very big story. And I'm guessing Nebraska fans weren't angrily demanding ESPN back off Charlie Weiss and the young men in his struggling program.

Okay. Here's a fun one: Would you trade a win over TT, Oklahoma or Kansas for a loss to Iowa State? Cause that kinda psycho mood swing thing happens several times a season with lower echelon teams. Not to mention every Sunday in the NFL.

While most of us have been counseling patience - that Bo can't be expected to turn this around in a year (while we secretly hoped he just might) - I don't think anyone would have accepted that Pelini and his hand-picked staff wouldn't get better results out of Callahan's players. The descent into doormat (San Jose State chose Memorial Stadium when it needed a break) has gone rapidly over the cliff, and I don't think it's easily explained. Unless someone made a deal with the Devil. I'm looking in your direction, Kirk Herbstreit. That being said: TT 48 - NU 31. I think it might be interesting for awhile.

That Ball State win last season is starting to feel pretty good.

I actually think it will help this team to go on the road. They could use a chip on their shoulder and might as well go hell-deep into the pit of adversity. Of course they could also use a creative gameplan on both sides of the ball. That's what good coaches do, and they do it with the talent they're given. Another blowout is simply unacceptable. I'd settle for the game still competitive in the third quarter. Tom Osborne teams - for the first 20 years at least - often had a hard time accepting that the bread and butter plays that worked so well against weaker teams weren't working against ranked opponents. They made more 4th quarter adjustments than halftime adjustments, and sometimes that was too late.

I miss winning as much as the next guy. But I'd still rather watch Joe Ganz complete 65% of his passes than watch Jamal Lord rush for 1,200 yards.

Really? "Goofball" earns you a warning? Even when the supposed offendee has been dabbling in ad homs of his own?

Let me get this straight: Last year we lose in Columbia 41 - 6. It's embarassing. We blame Callahan. This year at home the offense scores four more points (I'll skip that last touchdown as well) and the defense gives up 11 more points (and Mizzou could easly have had 59) and everyone is blaming the playcallilng of the offensive coordinator?

Every Saturday a couple of teams will craft a strategy and dig deep to beat a team with considerably better talent. I think Nebraksa needs to be that team at least once this season.

I liked Zac Taylor a lot, but I think you may be viewing him with the warm haze of remembrance that comes from a team that could occasionally run the ball, stop an opponent on third down and win a key game.

So.....uhm.....nobody thinks the defense is a bigger problem than the offense? Is this just because people are venting but don't want to vent at Bo? Yet?

I suppose Watson could give the ball to Lucky, Castille and Helu more often and determine which one had the better 2.6 yard gain. Or he could take what Ganz gives him, which is 290 yards in 38 attempts. This is the same offense that marched right back against Missouri with a surgical drive to tie the score, the same defense that forced the offense to play catch-up, the same team that committed way too many penalties in a game where there was no margin of error. None of this suckage and disappointment can be laid at the feet of the offensive play calling. Curious that with Missouri scorching the Nebraska defense for more points than last year, the finger-pointing is aimed at the offensive coordinator. It was the defense that had no where to go but up, and the head coach was brought in as a defensive genius. And from where I was sitting — in a motel with a hooker on my lap — it looked like the defense simply made no adjustments. And just like last year, Mizzou soon realized it could do whatever it wanted.

Don't know about the blocking schemes much beyond being physically overmatched on the line and without a single all-conference caliber running back, but one reason you line up your WRs on one side and roll out to the opposite side is to fool the linebackers and possibly hit a tight end or running back on your roll-out side. Benning may be remembering the days when Nebraska QBs weren't allowed much improvising in the passing game, and ran a few very simple plays for guys who weren't comfortable looking off receivers and simply threw at the targeted receiver whether he was open or not.

Just when we had Kirk Herbstreit saying nice things about Nebraska, we let him down. The spitting incident will pass. The only reputation problem is that nobody is afraid of lining up against Nebraska anymore. They seem to be licking their chops at the prospect.

Don't be hasty, gang. Joe Ganz is a better quarterback than Sam Keller. He has great footwork, a rocket arm, serious competitive chops and can check off the whole field quickly, which he has to do given his o-line and an increasingly one-dimensional offensive scheme. He can run the ball and take a hit better than most pure passers out there. A lot of things aren't working as hoped, but it's not Joe Ganz. I don't think Pelini and Watson were planning on him throwing 450 yards in a losing effort he did last year. I think we're wasting the senior season of one of our best quarterbacks in years. And Joe Ganz looks more like a pro prospect than Sam Keller did, though he's easily lost in a year of top-shelf Big 12 QBs.

p.s.: it's not gonna be Missouri.

Nebraska is going to have to win at least one game against a team with better talent because that's what well-coached teams do.

I live in the Bay Area, so I was listening to the game on the San Jose station. The play by play guy was describing Paul's kick-off return for a touchdown and I couldn't understand what was happening because there was nothing in the crowd noise to suggest a game-changing kick return was taking place. For what it's worth.

When are we going to wake up and fire Pellini?