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Danny Bateman

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  1. Willie you really feel De is a need? NU took five DE last year and Allen is the only loss from this year. I personally feel Walker Ashburn could easily be a Jared Tomich type player. Not well sought after, but has an extreme high motor. He was the Louisiana State Title Game MVP as a junior and played at a highly competitive high school, plus with his dad's job with the Saints he's been around the game so his knowledge should be great. I think getting a DE would be nice but not overly a need. Besides next year almost could be the year of the DE in the recruiting world. Agree about a DT and LB though. I think a TE would be very helpful as well. There have been a few guys I have not heard a peep about on the field wise, and Walker is one of them. Take from that what you want. I have heard that Lincoln isn't what he expected it to be as well, so he may be unhappy here, I'm not completely sure. Ankrah and Williams have been given a chance to shine this year, and both have produced very little. I have heard good things about Vestal though, at least. Regardless, none of those guys are great rushers from the edge, and more than anything, that is what we need. Would have been outstanding to land Owa last year, because he is exactly what we need in this defense off the edge. Well, by the same token, BigWillie, Owa isn't exactly wreaking havoc off the edge for UCLA this year either. So who knows... he did have scouts drooling, but he also has a lot to prove yet as well. Don't forget Ankrah and Williams were both big time recruits not too long ago. Though my hopes of Williams becoming a big time rusher off the edge are beginning to dwindle, I still hold high hopes for Ankrah. We all heard how he repped with the ones last year, which said he had enough Frosh potential to get worked in with Barry Turner and Pierre, who were both very decent players at one point (if they somewhat regressed as they've had their respective injuries). Hopefully Jason is just getting a taste as a RSFr., and the light will click soon. I don't know, I haven't followed him personally in games, it's quite hard to keep an eye on who's getting rotated into the game when you're watching TV. If anything, even if Ankrah never reaches his potential, we can still hope for Cam to continue progressing and for us to get decent amount of production from a Williams/Ankrah/??? platoon at the other end. Vestal is highly regarded, as you've said... kid physically looks like a grown man at this point. And we can always hope for Okuyemi or Ashburn to sneak up on us after being quiet their first few years to contribute. I think moving Martin to DE will help out our corps there tremendously. He is just a FREAK athletically that was having trouble grasping the intricacies of being a linebacker in our system. Hopefully, putting him at end and having his only responsibility be to set the edge and get after the QB should let him just pin his ears back and go. Obviously there's more involved than that, but I could see him being an absolute terror. We all know he likes to hit.
  2. Haven't heard anything on Mitchell since the beginning of the season when he was in a little trouble If he got in trouble, no more news is good news. Trust me, even if he isn't setting the world on fire right now, dude will do just fine under the tutelage of Sanders. You more often than not DON'T hear glowing reviews of superstars in the making during their RS year. No big deal. Hopefully, the light will click on later down the road.
  3. I seriously doubt the BCS would select Pitt if they weren't an AQ for winning the Big East. It is looking like they might possibly drop the game tonite to UConn (although every time I mention another team losing here on HB, they always find a way to win). It's too bad the winner of the Big East gets a guaranteed spot. I'd much rather play Iowa/Ohio St./Sparty, or even Penn St. I have no problem playing the second or third team in the Big 10. It'd be a chance to scout the new conference a bit early, and any of those teams would roll Pitt anyway. Oh well, guess we'll just have to stick to rolling Pederson... IF we handle business like we should
  4. I wondered this last week when Cody got dinged up. I thought about whether Ronny might see some game time, but my question was quickly answered when Taylor came jogging into the game. I know Ron has gotten good reviews for how he's run the scout team, and was curious how he'd respond in a game situation. I think he does play an integral role in our offense. He's the super duper ridiculoid emergency QB. Like it or not, he's probably our 6th most able QB, after Taylor, Zac, Cody, Rex, and Alex. It's a toss up between him and Latravis, but they've both had about the same time practicing as a QB in our system. I wonder what it says about him, though, that the coaches would rather run the Joker with Rex than put him in if everyone else is banged up. Gotta feel bad for Latravis, though. Anyway, if he keeps his nose to the grindstone and keeps perfecting himself in our system, I could see him passing up Cody for the #2 spot sometime in the future (assuming Carnes doesn't, which most people think is likely. In this case, Ron is #3. Throw in Jamal and possibly Bubba, and it just becomes a total clusterf*ck. Sure will be fun to watch though!)
  5. Well, I compared AG to DG-B just by virtue of the fact that they're both big, big-time recruits. I wasn't really thinking deep enough about it to get into the intricacies our style of offense has on us recruiting different positions. But, I think the argument that we are a running team is a rather young one. By that I mean it wouldn't have really been one that would've held any water until recently. Remember, in 2008 with Ganz, we passed for our big plays. That was our forte that year. Marlon was not on the same level Roy is this year, and neither was Q. And the offense we ran last year was not our true offense, that has been said many times. That was Bo reverting to don't make a mistake mode on offense, in hopes of not hurting the D's chances of winning us the game. Only this year have we TRIED to be a spread running attack and made it work. So I don't necessarily know why we can't recruit big time WR's. We still throw the ball when we need to, although we do try to run unless we need to pass. We're just not a Mike Leach-esque TT passing style team. I see our offense as one that plays it's strengths. If the coaches want to continue using this style O, which it appears they do with our recruiting class, then they'll recruit accordingly. But I certainly don't think it'll preclude us from ever having a shot at this kid.
  6. Lol give that to Cacti, man. He deserves to revel in high recruiting rankings with the stuff he has to watch on the field this year. It's been pretty gut wrenching so far for a team that had hopes of winning the ACC. Anyway, lol at Rival's comment for Tyler Moore-- "Helped his team to a 9-2 record in 2009." Really? You can't even come up with anything about this year? You can always tell when Rivals doesn't do their homework on a guy.
  7. Laugh all you want, but at one point people scoffed at the hint of us landing Aaron Green, regardless of where big bro was. Proof that it can be done.
  8. Forget what Rivals does from here on out. AG is N and truly wants to be a Husker, and whatever they do to his ranking from here on out means absolutely nothing. We got a kid everyone else wanted and they can't take that away. They can bust balls and drop him to a two star, but they can't remove him from our commit list GBR
  9. Well if we somehow got all three of those dudes N, which is somewhat of a pipe dream (COULD STILL HAPPEN ), we'd have the best DT recruiting class in the nation bar none. At least as far as stars and potential goes. We all know stars don't equal success, but I'm sure we'd all take two 4 stars and a VASTLY underrated 3 star for Bo to work on the next 4-5 years. Williams will definitely move up in ranking on both sites, but I'm unsure he'll get a 4th star, since he's currently ranked in the bottom half of the 30's for DT in the nation. Anyway, case in point, pulling out all three = huge recruiting win. Then we just have to get our butts in gear at DE.
  10. If we land this kid, I promise to never bitch about us failing to land big time WR recruits again. I'm happy with the guys we get, but they are clearly not on this dude's level. In my mind, he'd be a bigger get than Julio Jones or A.J. Green or Kyle Prater or Markeith Ambles or Darius White or any other WR that comes to recent memory.
  11. Double, but I felt compelled to respond to your post. We can always hope Todd is one of those kids who is just blown away by our gameday atmosphere and immediately vaults NU into the lead. I'd love that. Also, I don't see defensive line depth being an issue for him. He'd come in with Crick (he'll be back; he's done nothing this year to improve his draft stock) and T Mo as Seniors, and Baker, Thad, and Rome ahead of him as RS Jr, Soph, and Frosh, respectively. If he's as good as we think he is, I see no reason Todd couldn't come in an challenge right away his RS Frosh year. That is, if he's willing to take that RS year to mature and learn the ropes. It all hinges on whether he really wants to be N. Who knows, maybe he pushes for PT next year and is further along than Rome was this year? Not likely, but not impossible either. Plus, I love the fact he's a Stanford recruit. Says worlds for any kid's intelligence level. s
  12. I too would take Todd over Mickey. Now, given, yeah a lot of that has to do with making inroads to Andrus' recruitment next year... a perk Mickey cannot offer. But it has more to do with the fact that we need some studly line recruits this year to join Kevin Williams (THANK GOODNESS we have him... seriously). Todd's an outstanding player in his own right, and is in my mind an equal or superior recruit to Mickey Johnson. That opinion was formulated totally on the hoof-- just based on what little I know about them by following their profiles here at HB. I haven't broken down any film or anything... I should though. Also, though, the fact that Mickey is such a prima donna really grinds my gears. This is another major reason I'd take Peat over Johnson... seems just like a less self-centered kid who isn't all Me-Me-Me, soaking up the spotlight. I find it's funny that most of those Me-Me-Me kids during their high school recruitment flame out-- only fitting. And if Mickey Johnson reads HB: Good. Selfishness, egoism, and putting yourself before the team is not what NU football is all about. Go play for Slick Rick or Lane "My Middle Name Should Legally Be Douchebag" Kiffin.
  13. Lol +1 to the camp that gets prepared to crap themselves whenever the see Anthony in coverage.
  14. What scares me about Cody is this: Wats and Bo both decided he HAD to get a series in games earlier in the year to prepare him for the future (YESTERDAY), and he still comes off the bench like he just finished a freaking butter popsicle. Honestly though, aside from his obviously bad butterfingers, the kid didn't play a bad game. He tried to manage it and do what he was asked to do: Not throw a whole lot and run the zone read. His zone read running is poor due to his inability to read it correctly the majority of the time (Rex is better at reading it outta the Joker than Cody) and due to his terrible lateral speed. I really agree with whoever said he goes down too easily... if a horse like him could actually gallop thru ankle and arm tackles, he'd be more useful. A Tim Tebow type runner, that'd be nice (i.e., some thunder to Martinez's power). Oh well, that's what we have Roy and Rex for. Lol @ GHOST. Dude = Troll with a serious taste for Jack and a personal vendetta on Niles for his fumbles (... more than the rest of us, as Niles being tackled with Ball = )
  15. ISU averaged 3.3 yards/run. And they are a run-first team. Yeah, but how many times did they take those smaller runs and plunge forward for first downs? Can you honestly say you watched our D stuff their running attack in important situations yesterday? Seems like the only times we forced 'em to bring out their punt team was after pass plays that Arnaud misthrew or Prince made some kind of good play on. When Cassidy took that pick back, I thought our D was going to stiffen up right then and there and start to lay the beat down on the Clones, and they simply did not... they kept looking absolutely lost on pass plays? When Arnaud hit that final regulation TD pass to tie it at 24, all I could think was "We're a team built to shut down the pass, and we leave the freaking flat open? One of the most common zones to throw to? Where the HELL was the zone man in the flat?!?!" It hurt us a lot yesterday that Dennard was hurt... make no mistake about it, Ciante might be an excellent corner in the future for us, and his potential is through the roof, but in the HERE and NOW, Dennard is VERY important to our pass D. Sadly enough, the majority of our sacks this year have been coverage sacks... our D-line is mediocre most of the time and just don't seem to be good enough to beat their men one on one and get a pass rush. And I agree with the guy who said QB scrambles hurt us... They always have been the kryptonite of a Pelini defense, but this year the problem is magnified by the fact that our D-lineman are not talented enough to use their hands to disengage their men until the QB is running past them.... They just stay on their linemen like big 300 lb. sacks o taters that leave gaps that QBs can simply dart through.
  16. I have noticed something about our D I'd like to share with you guys. Maybe it's just me, but the Peso we run just seems to put our defenders into a real disadvantage, spatially, as far as shutting down the run. I've noticed the Peso back (usually Hagg) goes out, if the O comes out with a slot man, to cover said slot guy. That leaves us with SIX in the box (I don't count safeties cheating up, unless they're REALLY cheating up, like in a goal line situation, where they're not afraid of getting burnt deep). Six in the box, if the other team has 1 or possibly 2 tight ends, or like ISU did, an offset fullback, back there with the QB and RB, is not enough men to stop the run effectively. You'd need a Suh, Herculean-like effort, x2... from both your DT's... to get good penetration. Hell, our D-lineman reverted last nite and didn't get any penetration, period. So, to stop the run with no line penetration and two linebackers alone in the box, to me, is just asking too much. I suppose having Hagg split out wide could theoretically help stop runs outside by forcing the ball carrier back inside, but on dive plays or right off tackle runs (where teams attack us), Hagg has to come ALL the way over to help on those plays, and he just can't physically get into the backfield fast enough to make tackles for lost. A track star couldn't. Am I the only one who notices this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills... hope some of you guys can back me up and dispel that notion. It's like the Pelini Bros and Co. want to fit a square peg into a round hole by stopping the run well with the Peso. I know it shuts down passing pretty well, but if we get gashed like this in the run game, we need to try something else and stop being so stubborn.
  17. Did anybody else see that photographer give a #1 sign during the post game interview with Bo? Lol. Bitch move.
  18. Hey guys I just got back to the dorm and flipped on the game. Is it just me or does it seem like we got guys who want to see ISU pull the 'dog win and upset us again? It seems like they favor ISU and want to see the Big Red fall. Could just be me though... Anyone else think so?
  19. Have you seen jamal throw in person, because lately I have been impressed with martinez throwing the ball. I feel like unless bubba plays baseball, jamal won't be throwing the pigskin around at nebraska. I disagree. Maybe in the wildcat or on designed plays? I just can't see him unseating Martinez. Which means, if he redshirts and watches for 2 years he'll have 2 left so it's certainly possible - but can you see Bo keeping him on the sidelines for 2 years? He's going to be playing - he's too great of an athlete - I just don't see it being from under center. By his junior year when a spot opens he'll be settled at another position IMO. Now, if Martinez happens to leave early...then maybe...I just don't see Martinez being the type of QB that will be wanted so desperately in the NFL that he'd leave. When Green and Martinez were coming in, did anybody really think that Martinez might be our starting qb for the future? At the beginning of the year Jerrod Johnson was being hyped up as a Heisman contender and has been unseated by a receiver. Do we really know what is going to happen when these two QBs get here and start competing against what we already have? No idea. We do know that Bo preaches competition, and we know that he doesn't just spout that off. Martinez got a fair shot, Jamal will get a fair shot too. He's getting on the field no matter what. It's a little premature to say that Jamal can't throw like Taylor. High school ball is so predominantly run that the comparisons are too difficult to make until the players reach campus. He will get his shot. Great points T. Especially about Johnson. This only makes the future more exciting... Just gonna have to wait for these ole boys to duke it out. Jamal certainly has the "it" factor, as did Taylor in HS (although none of us thought he'd be the QB of the future). Great to have guys like that stockpiled again... truly awesome. What an awesome time to be a Husker!! GBR!
  20. Holy Cow... Back in high school, that would've been an impressive stat line for my ENTIRE TEAM. Great game, Taariq. Keep tearing it up.
  21. Anybody with a Scout subscription (I know there aren't a lot of you out there), they have an article with "the latest intel" and Scout's guess where Charles will end up. Feel free to enlighten the rest of us if you happen to subscribe
  22. Husker Nono, that's the sole reason I didn't bring up any BCS/B12 Championship scenarios. We need to handle business first.
  23. Thank you man, wholeheartedly. Even after the move next year, you'll always be welcome here at HB. Good luck rounding out the season, you guys have a good schedule and should get to a really nice bowl game.
  24. Ok, am I the only one who is perplexed by how Taylor got an ankle sprain? Bone bruise seemed to make much more sense to me... on the hit he took, he got chopped down by the safety, but was hit squarely above the knee. I'm lost as to how that would sprain one's ankle. Who knows, maybe it got bent at a weird angle I just didn't see.
  25. Rex was too busy fulfilling his new role... Niles Paul punt fumble insurance. Surprised me to see Rex taking back punts, but didn't disappoint me at all.
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