3rd and long

That was a hell of a tackle by their offensive lineman. 

I’m not one to normally blame the officials. But they are hosing us tonight. 

37 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

All fair catches- no run backs. One was a pretty tough catch- saved us about 20 yards of field position

 

Martin

I don’t even care about returns. If we had fair caught every punt against Michigan St we would have saved a bunch of field position. 

I only saw the fourth quarter, but I was happy  to see us actually fielding punts. 
 

Was it that way all game long?
 

47 minutes ago, Husker_Bohunk said:

No one has ever pitched it last second like Gill did. How many times did it look like a pile of defenders was about to pile drive Gill and he'd pitch it a split second before going down?

Thomas Lott from Oklahoma (I think he’s the correct one) running their wishbone did that late pitch better than anyone I’ve ever seen. 

I didn’t get to see last night’s game so I don’t know if it was any different. But I would really rather have the pitch man be one of our running backs as opposed to a receiver.  
 

Do love the extra dimension it brings to the offense. AM seems to be getting more polished running it too. Love the fake pitch I did see on one highlight. 

11 minutes ago, RichardHangslow said:

 

I hear you guys and I understand what you are saying. What I am saying is how do you correct something when you feel full heartedly that you are doing it correctly? 

 

 

To me, if they still believe they are doing it correctly, and given the results, is a huge part of the problem. And I wonder if a large part of that isn’t just plain stubbornness on Frost’s part. Unwilling to take a good hard, and most importantly, objective look at the program. 

24 minutes ago, RichardHangslow said:

I would tend to agree with you but from what it sounds like from Frost is that when he watches practice and his coaches they are doing everything the way he wants it done, so it would be hard for him to justify firing a coach when they are doing everything you are asking them to do and the players for whatever reason are making the mistakes. 

I’m sick of hearing about what they do in practice.  It’s become glaringly obvious that what happens in the practice field is not carrying over to Saturday (which seems to exemplified by our running back usage, a guy has a solid game then we don’t see him for a couple of weeks ((Stepp?)).  
 

If they truly are practicing  that well (which I really wonder about), then playing that poorly on Saturday, that’s again a coaching issue. 

5 hours ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

The two  common denominators in that stat, the coach and the QB. 

2 minutes ago, Stone Cold said:

Id love go attend a game if you think its that bad.  I dont like whats going on but i can tell a difference from where it started.  These past two teams havent been bad teams.  If we can hang with them with the mistakes were making its fixable.

Problem is, we’ve shown no signs of fixing the mistakes. 

Just now, Farms said:

Just put the motherf#&%er in the air and let your team cover like every other f#&%ing team. We make the simplest things so hard it’s just baffling. 

It’s like a golfer who keeps missing the ball then telling him to stay to the left. Don’t be messing with directional garbage, Just kick the damn thing and have the coverage team stay in their lanes. 

9 minutes ago, It'sNotAFakeID said:

Let me ask you something, 

If Scott Frost said the punt was supposed to go right, and by all means the team would have probably discussed which way that punt was going, and the boneheaded punter kicks it left...what the f#&% do you want Scott Frost to do about that?

 

It's so amazing that the players just get a pass like they have no ability to do anything. That the coaches are just holding PS3 controllers playing NCAA Football 14.  

Problem, this such a basic fundamental of the kicking game. That shouldn’t happen at this level. Hell, middle school teams can be on the same page as to which way the punt is going. It’s just another example of how little importance is placed on special teams. 

2 minutes ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

So… he’s being truthful? At some point, the obvious needs to be pointed out. They can coach until they are blue in the face, players making dumb decisions sometimes have zero to do with coaching, practice, etc. 
 

 

When it happens over and over and over and……it is on the coaches.  If it’s all about the players, then why don’t the successful programs have these same problems over and over again. It’s called discipline.  And it comes from coaching. 

Just now, HuskerInLostWages said:

wonder what Scotts excuse will be this week?  

It was that trick play punt return. We were only prepared to cover punts to the right. 
 

What a choke.  

just couldn’t stand to watch anymore, I’ll follow along here. 
 

We just continue to find new ways to mess things up. It all comes down from the head coach. 

Just now, LumberJackSker said:

The refs have nothing to do with Nebraska players jumping off side

The false starts are pretty apparent too. Not much of a judgement call. 

Special teams couldn’t help but make a play. The snap was so bad even our guys could get there!

Hey, they actually got one correct. 

Someone is getting ejected for the hit. 

There is no pocket for AM, roll him out and at least eliminate one side of the rush. 

Just now, DefenderAO said:

Adrian is flat out the man this year.  So tough 

Thank goodness he’s tough to get down back there….him shaking a tackler and breaking out of the pocket and creating is our only offense. 

I only got to see about 1/2 of the 2nd half. But I never saw a shot inside the 3 point line (outside of a fast break). I’m sure I probably missed some but that’s just ridiculous.  Live by the three, die by the three. 

I don’t know how anyone expected him to throw anything deep in the 2nd half. He was engulfed by the pass rush before there was time for any receiver to actually get deep. Our OL has been better, but they got owned in this one. 
 

They (PSU) actually looked like a team with a lot of talent. How are they this bad?

8 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Actually playing more than some thought.  Knowledge of the playbook is not the strong suit.  But I'm glad he's getting out there.

I’d rather have his ability out there as opposed to someone like Warner who does know the playbook well.   Six of one and half dozen of another situation I guess. 

He damn near took the Backjudge’s head off on that throw.