Jeremy

3 out. drop by paul. we just aren't very good.

we better drive right down the field, or there isn't much hope for this team

god what a nightmare

knee was down at the 2. if we don't get that call, these refs are simply atrocious.

husker 1st and 10 down to the ISU 22. timeout cyclones.

lousy refs missed a blatant facemask on robinson's long run/hold by holt. nice throw by lee, though

Guess I'll just watch georgia tech

Or, you could just go to espn, and watch the game on GameCast, since it's apparent you have internet access.

I bow down to Osborne as much as the next guy, but really, what will they get from asking his advice?

Starting in 1980, there was a huge emphasis on the FB on the option, traps, and to set up counter OTs and counter sweeps.

Today, the Nebraska FB may be out on the field, but he doesn't get the ball. Ever. Unless it's thrown to him in the flat.

I hope I don't offend more then half of the board, But I personally prefer Bo's pre-game motivational speeches over readings from the Old Testament.

 

I like him as a player, but other then that he can stay in Buffalo.

No, they just get readings from the New Testament from Ron Brown. Which is fine by me. He was here for the championship years, so he was obviously was doing something right, bible-thumper or not.

I could be mistaken, but wasn't Niles Paul a very heralded receiver coming out of high school, as in one of the best receivers from Nebraska? He's one of the fastest guys on the team, and did a very good job vs. Missouri. It's just too bad that he's not consistent, and laid a big stinky egg vs. TTech.

And the Noles come back to win. Figures. Good Lord do I hate the week after a loss...

Very true, jliehr. The blocking schemes we've had here since Callahan showed up are almost the opposite of what we were used to for well...the beginning of Nebraska football.

I'm not saying it can't work - it's working very well in other parts of the country, but it just seems...I don't know, un-Nebraskan, if that makes sense.

I guess we all want to see the Huskers physically dominate opponents like they used to, not dink and dunk to the red zone and throw into the stands on 4th and goal.

Course, in '01 they had tree trunks on the o-line, and a bull for a fullback, not to mention Chris Brown and Bobby Purify. Every time they ran their counter OT, it went for a long gain or TD.

We don't have those kinds of players.

Maybe by 'Multiple,' they meant 'Multiply,' as in you take the average number number of plays we would probably need and multiply by pi or something like that.

Really, the only confusing thing about running offensive plays are blocking schemes and picking up blitzes vs. different defensive sets.

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but while Florida doesn't look nearly as good as they did last year, they are winning, and how are they winning? With defense and their running game - though Tebow had 27 carries for 69 yards (sound like Crouch or Lord at all?), they set up wide open passing lanes and receivers with the running game - and Tebow is a threat.

And by your best friend, you mean...you. Keep hating - it makes it all the better when we win.

Mr. Reality Check needs a reality check. Like we've never had opposing fans drop asinine troll-bombs that have no basis in reality. Get in line.

I think that at onet ime Roger Graig led the nation in yardage or scoring as a 3rd, maybe 4th, team I-back. Its time we found out if some of our 3rd, 4th or 5th team RB's want to strut their stuff.

T_O_B

 

 

I thought he was a first team rb, and after to many fumbles was replaced by Rozier, and demoted to fb.

 

I think TOB's talking about when he first got playing time as a Soph..And he wasn't "Demoted"..Both Rozier and Roger were too valuable to keep one on the sidelines, so we tried having them both in the same backfield..I think Craig volunteered just to help out the team...(And later helped his draft status).

 

 

Seems like I.M. Hipp also led the nation (or ranked in the top-10 durring mid season as a third stringer)

 

As for T.O.B's question:

I don't think we rush all that well until we follow the teachings of the great Guru Milt..(I wonder if Cotton still has the old playbooks with the blocking schemes?)

Cotton could easily find what he needed here:

http://www.trojanfootballanalysis.com/wp/wordpress/?p=247

Pretty much everything anyone would need to know about Osborne's Power Running Schemes.

In the NFL, they keep a stat called 'On Target Drops,' which I take to mean that the QB put the ball on the money and they dropped it.

I would imagine that we would lead the Big 12 in this stat, considering all the dropped balls from almost all the receivers.

On the other hand, McNeill is really stepping up, and I'd like to see the ball thrown in his direction more often.

Bob Stoops and Mack Brown yell at the refs just as much and just as loudly as Bo does, and no one ever questions their discipline.

Bo is fine, and the team is fine.

He can say what he wants now. He brought his boys into our house and utterly shut us down. We just need to bounce back and get some momentum going before the Sooners roll into town with the same intentions.

even many of the same zone blocking plays, we just don't use FBs very much if at all and do not practice option and read plays enough to make them effective. The type of OL and the use of FBs and more teaching and execution of various options would be simple. The only thing is that power-I/option ball is not Watson's thing. check out this link, because we do run the same formations and many of the same base plays like inside and outside zone...

Husker formations

The current Nebraska offense is nothing like the past Husker playbook you're referring to. Sure, we run some of the same formations, but the blocking is totally different.

When a 'zone blocking scheme' is mentioned, tenopir is really referring to an 'off' lineman doubling and chipping to the backer in his 'zone.' The current Husker run blocking is true zone blocking in that there isn't a specific hole for helu/whoever to run through, but the linemen 'over' blocking and creating running/cutback lanes.

Under Osborne, pancakes were a good thing. Today, they are not, because they 'clog' running/cutback lanes.

The last and main reason we couldn't run the offense of old has to do with the fullback, because we never have running plays with the fullback today. In the past, the fullback was very important, because inside backers had to account for him. We could run FB dive with a trap or option look, and then comeback with a counter sweep or counter off tackle, and not only would the defense be out of position, we would have two angry-looking linemen bearing down on anyone who dared scramble back to make a tackle, not to mention Lawrence Freaking Phillips truck-sticking his way to the endzone.

Everyone keeps saying Nebraska was an option team - like the service academies.

We weren't.

Sure, we ran option, but I seriously doubt it was ever triple option (if it went to the FB, it was called that way), and we ran a lot more in the way of ISOs, Smash, Counter, Trap, Toss, and QB keeper.

And even then, we threw the ball with some pretty good efficiency for some of those years.

The key, as many have pointed out, is in the offensive line. If they don't get guys blocked, nothing will work. However, a steamrolling power running attack would be PERFECT for the Big 12 this day and age. It wouldn't matter how fast the Oklahoma defense is if they were getting blocked off the field by our Pipeline, and that's what would happen, because everybody is recruiting smaller quicker guys to make plays in space vs. the spread.

Osborne has said many times that he knew even back then that the Huskers were hard to prepare for because they were different than most everyone else, just as the Sooners were tough to get ready for.

pelini needs to stop ripping the refs a&&es after every close play, relax and maybe coach his kids up, not bust a vein in his forehead. it pesses me off. you dont see top of the line headcoaches doing this five plus times a game. he needs to be more professional..

I do agree with Pelini needing to settle down and coach his kids, but I disagree that we never see other coaches consistently riding refs. Stoops and Brown are in the ref's ear the whole game.

Besides, the officials were HORRIBLE yesterday. Someone needs to yell at those guys.

Yeah, yesterday was the second time that play went the other way for 6. Normally, it's a 1-5 yard gain, 7-8 if the receiver breaks a tackle. Probably best to rip that page out and/or replace it with a bone-crushing FB trap/dive scheme. No one would expect it!

It wouldn't work this year. Not with the linemen we have - love 'em to death, but the braces on their knees would buckle like on Forrest Gump very quickly if we asked them to do the things that Stai, Weigert, Graham, and Taylor did.

For the most part, we are a zone blocking team, although we do try some counter/ trap stuff that might net us 5 yards if Helu breaks a tackle.

It would take a year or two to become a dominant power run team, but as I've said in the past, all the other Big 12 defenses are becoming smaller and quicker to make plays in space. If Nebraska starts recruiting behemoths that can reach block like nobody's business, QB's that can move and throw it around a little, and Dan Alexander-type RB's, we would be accomplishing some very important goals:

Tire the opposing defense to take over in 4th quarter

Keep the potent opposing offense off the field

Run the clock

Win the game

Before Castille got the boot, we had a great combination with him, Green, and Legate, but that's just dreaming. We are a SpreadCoast team, and that's it.