In the Deed the Glory

It is different in football than in basketball. A Tech in basketball is only a couple points that can be quickly made up. Football is a different animal, especially in the closing minutes of a close game. You can't give that kind of yards to the other team. Even Bo acknowledged after the game that he has to be smarter and can't do that. He will learn, hopefully. I bet TO had something to say about his choice of words, don't you?

Never, ever, ever, ever quote Mel Kiper on talent evaluation. It would be like quoting and giving credit to GWB on foreign policy or fiscal responsibility. They may have experience in the area, but that does not make them good at it. As far as Marlon -- why do you think he got limited opportunities as a freshman? Why do you think he lost his job as a sophomore? And why do you think he is losing carries now and moreso every week? If not for having freshman backups who had no blocking ability (Castille) or limited time as a RB (Helu) I doubt he would even have as many carries as he did last year. Marlon is what he is, a WR who just happens to play RB. In pass-pro, he is a liability. Always has been. 'Dems the facts. Mo had bad hands? Say huh? You and I have completely different ideas of Mo then. Mo was a threat all over the field. We needed a tough catch across the middle? He made it. Need to move the chains? He did it. He was our go-to WR and made all the difficult chances. If not for his limited speed that he cannot make up for on the NFL level, I have no doubt he could be contributing on the NFL level right now. And as far as his hands -- you question his hands? Did we even watch the same guy? Mo had incredibly sticky hands. It was probably his best trait. Niles, Curenski and Brooks have had very, very limited opportunities. Especially Curenski and Brooks has had no chances at all. First and foremost, don't lecture me again. I have seen, played, and coached enough of this game to be able to form my own educated intelligent opinions. By the way, Mel Kiper is the best overall judge of talent in the sports world. Talent doesn't mean NFL success. That has to do with position coaches and individual attitude when it comes to the NFL. There is a reason that NFL TEAMS got his insight when he started evaluating drafts. That's right, they asked him for his opinion because he knew what he was doing. But I'm sure you feel you know more than him. I DVR'd the Neb Football Show and watched it again last night. Lucky missed one block in the entire game in pass pro and it was bad. That's probably where you're getting your impression. Every other time he didn't block, he was supposed to release. They run several patterns for him that he doesn't even chip on the way out. Everytime a LB got by a back it was Helu or Castille in the game. Furthermore, he made THE key block on the TD pass to Mike McNeil. If he doesn't get the blitzing man pushed back so Ganz could step up that is a sack and a wide open man is wasted. That's an opportunity you can't pass up in D1 football. The thing with a RB in pass pro, is people expect them to "pancake" or lock up with a guy. In NU's offense, you don't want the RB locked up on a man. You want a chip block, or shove, to allow the QB to move up in the pocket. This allows the RB to be the safety release, which in this offense he is on nearly every deep drop route and many short drops. Expanding on this, when the line shifts protection (this is when they move the pocket for Ganz where he is better) on a slide protection the back is left on an island. He has to be a great blocker in order for the play to even develop. NU only runs this type of blocking scheme with Lucky in the game. When the others are in, you can tell that the TE is usually used in pass pro, or there are no deep routes being ran at all. You're complaining about not having a deep threat in the game, but it won't do any good if they have to run short routes or leave in a TE. 1 deep route and a crossing pattern because you can't rely on the other backs to block would work less efficiently than what is being tried now.

Dude their from missouri why do we want to make it seem like home? I think that is what he was getting at yeah I know. Appearantly through my scotch filled glasses my sarcasm was running deeper. Ok, apparently you don't pick it up very well when you've got a little Captain in you!

You don't remember too far back then. Ever heard of Pat Ricketts? Corey McKeon? He is bad, but not that bad. Also, when you are running a cover 2, like we do, the safeties have deep responsibilities. The reason stated above was 100% accurate. Armando Murillo is a good CB, he covers his area pretty well. It looked to me that the guys were told to follow Taylor on his scrambles as a CB b/c they felt that was more dangerous than his arm. From the amount of open receivers running past the Safeties that he missed, I can see why. Asante and O'Hanlon are terrible. That long pass to the TE that went for 40 yds was all O'Hanlon's fault. He is not a Big 12 caliber defender. Asante should be playing LB, he is a run stopper first. The only problem is he has become an arm tackler. I thought he was supposed to be a big hitter when he was recruited? Oh well, Thenarse and Culbert seem to have potential and Eric Hagg has looked very good when he has been in the nickel. I would like to see a nickel hybrid defense as our base, with Thenarse, Culbert, Murillo, West/Hagg and Asante as a LB/nickel back. LB would be Dillard, Glenn along with our DL we have now. By the way, I am very pleased with Pierre Allen's play. Am I the only one that has noticed? really aside for the penalties from suh I have been please with the whole line. esp considering the lack of depth I agree, I think it should be a case study on the difference coaching makes on a player.

Dude their from missouri why do we want to make it seem like home? I think that is what he was getting at

They are going to move the ball, we have to hold them to FGs. Then we have to RUN THE BALL. Don't give me this, "what have you seen" crap either. What had you seen out of Oregon St. that made you think they could run straight up the middle against USC? Put somebody that will lead block in at fullback and hand the f'ing ball off to Lucky/Helu until they stop it. Don't be cute in the passing game, don't try to run midirection, run it at them. Mizzou has struggled stopping the run for years, lets see if we can take advantage of that. When you do throw the ball, use the backs. Screen plays work well against Mizzou because they are used to flying upfield b/c they are usually far ahead. Chase Daniel struggles under pressure, but it is hard to get. Unlike what many said on here, blitzing can be suicide against a good spread offense. You must stunt upfront and use secondary to blitz, LB don't work well b/c you can't get there soon enough. Its about well timed run blitzes to put them in long down and distance. Then you can keep them in front, but you have to tackle well. It can be done, but it is going to take a nearly perfect game. No more than one mistake, and some great individual efforts in all three phases of the game. Man, it would be awesome, though!

I'm still holding out hope for this Saturday! Yep that's right!

Wow, wish I would have read this post completely. At least we agree, right?

What's the point? Everyone bitched when Callahan burned redshirts. Just let them be. We need to see the big picture, not just the here-and-now. I don't remember anybody bitching when he burned redshirts, because he rarely did except for special teams. I don't think that is what he was referring to. I remember people bitching that the offense was too difficult and freshman couldn't grasp it in time to see the field right away. If Pete Carroll, Mack Brownl, Bob Stoops, Nick Saben, Urban Meyer, and Les Miles think it works, I don't see what they problem is with it.

You don't remember too far back then. Ever heard of Pat Ricketts? Corey McKeon? He is bad, but not that bad. Also, when you are running a cover 2, like we do, the safeties have deep responsibilities. The reason stated above was 100% accurate. Armando Murillo is a good CB, he covers his area pretty well. It looked to me that the guys were told to follow Taylor on his scrambles as a CB b/c they felt that was more dangerous than his arm. From the amount of open receivers running past the Safeties that he missed, I can see why. Asante and O'Hanlon are terrible. That long pass to the TE that went for 40 yds was all O'Hanlon's fault. He is not a Big 12 caliber defender. Asante should be playing LB, he is a run stopper first. The only problem is he has become an arm tackler. I thought he was supposed to be a big hitter when he was recruited? Oh well, Thenarse and Culbert seem to have potential and Eric Hagg has looked very good when he has been in the nickel. I would like to see a nickel hybrid defense as our base, with Thenarse, Culbert, Murillo, West/Hagg and Asante as a LB/nickel back. LB would be Dillard, Glenn along with our DL we have now. By the way, I am very pleased with Pierre Allen's play. Am I the only one that has noticed?

I agree. I haven't read any responses yet, but I thought about that series, too. We were picking up yards - I think Helu was in. It seemed another crack at it, and we'd get the first down. I thought, "we don't need another 3 and out here... D'oh!" Overall, I thought the play calling was pretty Callahan-esque up until about 10 minutes left in the game. Agreed, I think Watson panics very early and goes away from what is working. Instead of establishing a running game he gets to fancy and defeats why you have a running game. Being down by 9 points is not panic time. Scripted plays??? One of the dumbest things you can do. It will almost always loose momentum and the confidence in the team, early in the game. Bad idea! I was very disapointed in the play calling. I kept calling it Callahan like all game. We established nothing to keep them off balance. The whole team was let down. And again.. you have to question putting Asante in the game. Sure he has athletic ability and is unbelievably fast but, is burned in crucial plays repeatedly. His effort at times is embarrasing or his understanding of what to do is completely abscent. Either way he has been a liablity we can't afford. Potential is just potential if it never comes to fruit, then its just a shoulda, coulda, woulda... they don't exist in my book. You do realize that Tom Osborne scripted his first 15 plays, right? That most great offensive cooridinators do this? You just have to adjust when things aren't working. The reason for it is to get your team practiced up on the first few plays to get a rhythm going and build confidence. It does work, if you make a few adjustments to it on the fly.

From Sam McKewon at NEstatepaper.com: Playmakers: Nebraska is struggling on offense, and getting better on defense. The Husker running backs aren’t getting the touches needed for them to take over, and receivers Swift and Todd Peterson aren’t open enough. Now, let’s be clear: It is good that Ganz wants to make plays downfield. Being Sam Keller, and tossing check down after check down, won’t win a lot of Big 12 games. But there has to be a true deep threat and, right now, Swift isn’t it. If Ganz had to throw a 40-yard go route up the sidelines, to whom would he throw it? --------Pretty much exactly what we've been arguing here, wouldn't you say?

You're missing the point entirely. It isn't directly about Swift, but our entire receiving corps. You cannot trot 3 possession guys out on the field and expect them to loosen defenses up. That is my original point and it's still my overall point. If Swift is the guy who has to see less PT to get a deep threat on the field, so be it. If it's Peterson, so be it. And I'm glad Swift can make clutch catches. It still doesn't take away from my original point. To further evolve the offense we have to get one of our current WRs off the field. As I said before, Swift is good at what he does. The same as Peterson. But they both cannot be on the field together, it just will not and cannot work against quality competition. In the past two years we were able to mask this problem a bit because of Mo. The only reason we were able to mask it with Mo is thanks to his obscene talent level, route running ability and hands. He was actually able to draw coverage without even being known as a speedster. No one on out of our current WR crop can do that who currently get the PT. Let me say again -- this is not solely direct at Nate Swift. But Swift AND Peterson AND Holt. Might be because we ran for over 300 yards against NMSU... I dunno... The guy has, and continues to come up big when we need him. He's solid. But yes I do agree he needs more help around him. Right now, he's the best we've got. Give him the ball. You can't get him the ball if he cannot get open. That's the entire point I am making. A deep threat opens the field and loosens coverage underneath for our large group of possession WR's to break up these zone coverages being thrown at them. No safety has to play deep because are they really worried about Swift, Peterson or Holt burning them deep? Those safeties are able to creep underneath and CBs are able to cheat on routes due to the lack of playmaking ability. I agree completely with this post. Swift is a great possesion guy, and he is the guy that needs to fill that role, but we can't have two of the same player on the field. I personally feel that Niles Paul is going to see a lot more playing time coming up shortly. I could be that these two guys playing now looked like superstars in camp and the spring because they were playing against our secondary! That is probably what is going into the coach's thinking. SOMEBODY has to be a deep threat. However, you are dead wrong on Lucky's blocking ability. He is a fabulous blocker, Mel Kiper ranked him at one point this offseason as the best senior blocking back in the country on espn.com. Also, if you go back and watch the game Lucky had several very good runs. The problem is we are not letting him get in a rhythm. No back can be great if he only gets a few carries a game. Hell BJack had way more carries than this, so did Cory Ross. Lucky would be great if they would leave him in. And while I'm on it, Quentin Castille is never going to be an Iback. He is too slow, and can't pass block. Look for him to play fullback next year full time. He is already taking the majority of his snaps from that position.

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I am a true husker fan and Red flows through my veins. I know A black out is not what everyone wants and if you would have listen to the question I was not asking how you felt about it so thanks for paying attention in class and answering the question wrong but It was a simple answer RED or Black. Was not talking about KU blue. Thanks for your anwser that ment nothing. Everyone has red flowing through their veins, it makes you a living organism. Wear Red, be loud. I just don't get this b******* crap, Every school seems to be doing some sort of (color) out. Oregon State had an orange out last night. Penn St. does the white out all the time and Georgia is doing a b******* this weekend. The more it get's done around the nation the less it means. These (color) outs are just a ploy by athletic departments to try to get their fans to organize and get interested in the game. I don't think they have to worry about this at Nebraska. In Fact I think Nebraska should start a new trend in banning Blackouts forever. actually you have blue running through your veins and red through your arteries. Unoxygenated blood is blue, not red. Did we ever stop to think that these other schools and their color outs are meant to do exactly what we have every week? We invented this crap, and we should stay with what we are good at. They call us the F'ing Sea of Red. Can't believe Callahan killed so many traditions this one is up for debate. The game on the field changes, speed, spread offense, 5 DBs....but the traditions is what makes CFB special.

How is that possible? The offensive cooridinator didn't watch any film on a future QB? That is one of the scariest quotes I have ever read!

Can't you get it on ESPN.360?

Well, I'm a man. I'm 27. Don't pick on an offense that's done everything right. Blame it for ruinin' CFB because it did everything right. God forbid we change for the better, I am so sick of this ridiculous view. I loved the option, and it will still work. I hated the wishbone, because it was OU's offense. If it puts points on the board, it is a good offense. You don't have to like it to appreciate it. It isn't ruining college football any more than rock and roll ruined society. You don't like seeing the ball going up and down the field basketball style? So you hated the '95 team? It scored just as quickly as a spread team. As a matter of fact, the spread doesn't break big plays any more often than a regular offense. I think you don't like it because you didn't come up with it in your generation, just like everything else that's new or improved. Somebody as "oldschool" as you is rare to find on THE INTERNET!

Wow. Never ceases to amaze me. What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard's Delight. Oh, no. She get's a special cologne. It's called Sex Panther, and its illegal in 9 countries. It's made with bits of real panther, so you know its good.

I got 24. Never would have guessed UNC was in there. and I'm a frigging Tar heel fan! (proves my football loyalty lies with the big red)

It started Adi's freshman year. We hadn't had a kicker that could get it to the endzone in a couple seasons, so when he started booming touchbacks people took off their shoes to support him.

People like this amaze me. Apparently they have never actually read the New Testament. How can you read what Jesus says about Love and forgiveness and act this way in the name of the Lord. They will be judged in the end. I pray that they ask for forgiveness and Jesus Christ almighty will forgive them. Please no one instigate anything, we don't need good people from Nebraska, or anyone else, being taken advantage of by these misguided people.

I guess I find it hard to believe that some of us on here are uneducated enough in CFB history to not realize Penn State is a historical program that was a power and national title contender within the last 15 years. Those comments make me feel really, really, really old.