Radioactive Man

You don't get the fact that your life depends on the lives of 18-22 year olds and that other than one play on defense and two special teams fumbles this game wasn't that close. Keep on hatin You're right I'm the only Husker fan that really cares, and 1 point game isn't close? You're right a .5 point game would've been better. Enjoy your delusion that our program is just fine. I guess I don't get how Bo is responsible for the three fumbles that kept this game close. Or playing LB on three one play that northwestern had a big td on because he got caught up in ths line garbage in a defense that had owned the offense up until that point. Remember trolls Skye up after losses and you are two Weeks late Question. How much is coaching responsible for a team that year after year puts the ball on the ground more than almost any other team in college football and how much is coaching responsible for team that repeatedly gets flagged 6-9 times per game? It's amazing to me how crazy defensive people here are acting and how blinded they are by a win. OSU is flat out better than NU. NW is not. So getting rolled by OSU is different than squeaking by NW thanks to one foot on a field goal, especially with the number of boneheaded mistakes and missed opportunities.

Said the logical man. Notice I'm not accusing every homer here of being a blithering idiot. Only you. See the difference? BTW Gretchen, stop trying make derp happen. It's not going to happen.

"They played very week actually". "On to of that". It must be my newness that makes it impossible to understand most of your post. I'm not denying that the defense played better today than they did against OSU or UCLA. But they had 2 weeks to prepare and came a foot away from once again having 30 hung on them. How can anybody watching the game say that coming a foot away from giving up 30 is a defense that "gave up jack". 30 is jack?

Everything is not great. We know this. Probably a lot more than you do. But the issue is we logical people still see the signs necassary for greatness. Like buckling down when down by a dozen with 8 minutes left to squeeze out a win on the road against a formiddable opponent. You and your troll buddies, however, are trying to spin this into a kneejerk reaction of fire Bo and nothings good and basing it on the myth that "Bo spits on his players" and "Bo has lost the team" and so on. Two completely different levels of logic here. Quote me once where I've said to fire Bo, that he spits on his players, that he's lost the team. The difference in logic is one between truth and the crap you do. If you can quote me once saying the things you're accusing me of here, then I'll retract my statement. Otherwise, you "logical people" seem to think logic is making crap up and attributing them to people who never said them. Yep. Perfectly logical.

easy as hell to point a finger, but Cpt Armchair, how do you fix it? With this roster on defense? I have no idea. I just don't think these guys are athletic enough which is sad to say when those 3 picks on that last drive were gift-wrapped, yet all 3 were dropped. Only the last potential pick required any significant athleticism to pull off. And when you don't have the athletes you need, you need coaching that can make up for it. We don't have that. These guys had 2 weeks to prepare and still gave up 28 points. They were spared giving up over 30 yet again by a foot...with 2 weeks of preparation. Lack of athletes and poor coaching make for an ugly defense.

While the win is nice, a foot to the left or the right on that last kick doesn't change the way the team played the rest of the entire game. What is dumb is thinking that because the kick is a foot wide, that everything is fine. If that kick is a foot to the left, suddenly we have problems with the completely bone-headed undisciplined plays, the predictable play action passes on 3rd down, the 1-11 third down conversions until the last drive, the players yelling at the HC on the sidelines, the complete inability to come up with even one of the three gift wrapped INTs on the final NW drive that would have sealed the game. But instead, the kick goes a foot to the right and everything's great. We got a win. That's dumb.

That might be make sense if these guys didn't keep going out and doing stupid things. Every year under Bo this team is one of the most penalized in the conference...no matter which conference they're in. Being undisciplined and unable to protect the ball has become a hallmark of the Huskers. It's like it's become acceptable as long as we can squeak out a win.

Not a hater. A life-long fan. But watching gift wrapped game ending picks be dropped over and over beyond frustrating. And I see the main point of the post seems to be lost. Just because the Huskers won doesn't change how the defense played. Did they play better than they did against OSU? Yes. But they still gave up 28 points including a complete breakdown on that trap play and almost gave the game away in the last 2 minutes of the game. The field goal being good or not doesn't change any of the previous plays. Yet in the minds of many here, it does.

This defense just can't make plays when they need to. Despite the fact that they looked good for parts of the game, they still gave up 28 points. Granted 7 of them were off a turnover, but even discounting that, they're still giving up way too many points, . Even worse, while the Huskers did win the game, they did so by a foot. When they needed to lock down on the final drive, they let them drive into field goal range after giving up 28 points already. They had at least 3 opportunities for clear picks on the final NW drive and could never come up with the ball. They make one of those plays and the game is over. It makes no sense that if that kick is one more foot to the left, the defense has problems and gave up the game losing drive, but because it sailed a foot to the right, the defense played great. The kick doesn't negate the failure of the defense.

You're right, except we didn't need the running game to break one for us since Paul did it twice. That's as good as getting a big run from the run game. That kick out of bounds was the thing that cost us the game. With the way the defense was playing, if the Texas had started on their own 20, no way they get in field goal range. When you've clearly got inferior offensive talent, you can't afford to make a play like that at the end of the game.

I thought it was pretty obvious. Lee is perhaps the most inaccurate passer I've ever seen on a major team. Every time he puts the ball in the air, it's as likely to get intercepted as it is completed. Add that to the fact that NU lacked the speed to get to the edges and you're left with what we saw. I'm not a huge fan of Watson, but you can't run an offense that your personnel is not capable of executing.