Bowfin

LOL, I think you meant to say "your post", meaning mine. As worded, it actually is commenting about itself. Words, huh? It can be tough to make them work in a way that conveys the correct message, am I right? Back to the offensive line: Right now, Nebraska can do little more except put their best, patched up version of a line out on the field and keep trying. That effort has been dominating at times and sometimes "good enough"...but "good enough" is good enough, hence the 6-0 record that isn't should be enjoyed by many Cornhusker fans. Injuries have been hard on the line, but they have fought tooth and nail to give Nebraska's skilled positions a chance to win the game, or in this case, having the defense play a big part in winning. Right now, it doesn't look like Nebraska will get ahead of the injuries, since it seems that they are occurring faster than the healing. That can't be helped. The good news: The offensive line fought off some pretty good defensive line play. What they do against even better defensive lines coming up will depend on how much their past experiences and further coaching improves them before those meetings. Nothing I or anyone else on this forum will add to or subtract from the upcoming matchups, so why not just hope for the best and be glad this team is 6-0?

I'm not sold on this idea. What's are other choices again?

How terrible can a 6-0 offensive line be?

Bo was never 6-7 here.

He's a talking head. They make their money with their mouths and not their brains. Notice nobody ever calls them "thinking heads".

Might be a step up. Depends if the new coach can get the right number of football players in the pool on time.

Not reading or commenting any more, just posting this FYI: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/14/cheerleaders-protest-alters-homecoming-football-game-for-pennsylvania-high-school.html

Dr. Evil wanted to be a quadruple threat...

Hmmmm. I guess you took over my old job...or Alex Lewis'.

You are right about that. Armstrong can minimize the downside of a whiffed block. Here's what an opposing defensive coordinator would say: "You guys get in there and blitz Armstrong hard enough that he has to get rid of the ball...but not so hard that he takes off and gets a first down out of it."

This ^^^ Does anybody here believe that Navy accidentally beat Houston when all they were really trying to do was to "not embarrass themselves"? "There is not a horse that can't be rode or a rider that can't be throwed." Whether Nebraska is the horse or the rider, how about not conceding defeat before they are even out of the chute, okay?

Agreed. I think Parella has done a remarkable job with the line so far, given the player losses of last year. He also seems to be a great motivator, Riley did a good job getting him here at Nebraska. I also like that Riley didn't cut Williams loose. I pray that works out for all, that would rank higher for me than a championship. It has to be extremely difficult to know when to keep somebody on staff and when to send them down the road. I don't envy Riley having to handle both of those situations.

I swear it seemed like Jamelle played for Switzer for at least nine years. Probably because we were on the receiving end of his talents. Same with Buster Rhymes. Both of them started off with scholarships and left Oklahoma with pensions.

...and penalties are down a HUGE amount from last year. That doesn't sound as impressive as all of the above, but it really helps keep drives alive. Congratulations to those guys.

Secretariat's career was all of 15 months. That would disqualify this horse's accomplishments by your parameters of how much time he was competing. Look, if you saw Gdowski (or more correctly, saw him the few games Nebraska was on TV and listened to his play on the radio and his highlights on the sports segment), and you saw someone you thought better, fine. I think he was the best pure runner going from Jeff Quinn to present. We can agree to disagree on how long he had to be the great to be great.

I don't know either. That's why I asked.

Exactly my point. The John Parella home run was preceded by the Hank Hughes strike out. I would still like to know what transpired with the defensive line on the whole mass migration out of Nebraska. The only clue is what Greg McMullen said, and the fact that Banker and Hughes didn't even know he left until informed by the press:

You forgot to include the part where you say WHY it is a terrible comparison. It should look like this: "That's a terrible comparision BECAUSE (fill in this blank)" Gdowski's yards per carry during his sophomore and junior years was 8.2 yards per carry, if that gives you any more reference.

Yes, Gdowski was an excellent passer. Head and shoulders above Steve Taylor with a 177.3 passing efficiency. However, passing and running are not mutually exclusive.

I saw the above on my way out. Since the above is in quotes, then you are saying someone else said the above word for word, right? You took it directly out of someone's post, just as it appears? Otherwise, you are making sh#t up and then arguing that point. That is called "setting up a straw man and knocking it down". Is that what you did here? I guess twisting the truth is a protected form of free speech as well. I just wonder if you were kneeling when you did it. That counts for extra these days. Makes you a better person, I hear.

If you know of something he is doing, please share, but don't expect me to prove a negative. We both know that is impossible. My guess is that we would have heard of it by now through the Husker media, since we heard of Abdullah's and McMullen's and Burkhead's service to the community. I find it odd that they would do a media black out on good press for Rose-Ivey (especially Rose-Ivey) if he was doing something, don't you? I mean, he hasn't shunned the spotlight yet that I have seen. Since he has shared all of his tweets with us, I find it hard to believe he wouldn't have tweets and facebook photos and what not of everything else happening in his life. Like I said, if he is doing something concrete, great. My take throughout life has been "When all is said and done, more is said than done." Doesn't fit all people every time. Might not fit Rose-Ivey. I witnessed his kneeling theatrics I and am saying that it accomplished nothing of import or lasting significance. In fact, I think at this juncture it was counterproductive and caused dissent and conflict where none need exist. Evidently, you think it was some watershed moment in American history. I don't, and we probably won't find common ground here. Last word is to you and that guy who thinks I'm cute.

I think you are missing the main point of this thread is that nobody else is required to give you a venue to exercise the First Amendment...not on a website, not in a newspaper, not on the radio, and not in a stadium. Nobody owes anybody else a stage, and if they barge in on anybody else's, then they deserve to get thrown off of it. That especially includes blocking traffic and shutting down bridges and ruining public events. So is it still cute if I don't think you are stating an opinion but instead are just plain ass wrong?

Ouch...and that sucks for everybody there.

Mom did laundry for a family of nine with one of those for a long time. I remember being showed to hit the top catch as hard as I could if anybody ever got their fingers caught. I remember watching astronauts splash down in the ocean. Looking at the S&H green stamps catalog and getting the job of pasting those stamps all into the books. Looking at the Herter's outdoors catalog and making long lists for my wilderness journeys. Everybody hurrying to get supper dishes done and homework finished the night "Charlie Brown's Christmas" was on television. If you missed it, you wouldn't see it until next year. When Jack Brickhouse was the REAL voice of the Chicago Cubs, not that Johnny Come Lately guy named Harry Carey. When all the World War II vets were younger than I am now.

I can certainly tell you what job I have now and wish I didn't have: Disconnecting people's electricity. When the local power company gets behind, I get to help "catch up". Thank God I don't do it 40 hours a week, because it wears on the spirit, so to speak. Normally, I do IT work, the whole gamut from networking to computer repair to writing HTML and being the "help desk". If I could, I would like to plant trees, starting back when I left home. That would be 40 years ago, it would be great to see what those trees would look like now. I have some hickory trees planted out at a public place, but I will never live to see any nuts from them feed the squirrels, as it takes some of them 40-50 years to mature that much. If I got a job planting trees in 1978, they would serve as a yardstick of my life, so to speak. They would also be there when I am gone. There are few endeavors that one can do in fifteen minutes that can last 150 years. Planting a tree is one, though...I just don't know how one makes a living being a modern day Johnny Appleseed. He was actually pretty wealthy at the time, since he claimed land at the edges of civilization and sold it later when settlers came behind him. One of his trees is still alive in Nova, Ohio. I would also like to work full time at the local homeless shelter. It seems more real than anything else I have done...and I don't know how to explain "more real", except that everything else seems less important, I guess.