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Passing yards stats aren't pretty, but don't allow touchdowns, force a few turnovers, and continue stopping the run. If the offense can cover your ass, you've got good odds. Stave got lucky and had a lot of "would be" interceptions dropped or that Wisconsin game would have been much different. Leidner may have gotten a lot of yards, but we forced Minnesota out of their comfort zone, and it paid off with a few interceptions. We have a winning formula. We could still get better at executing it, but yards don't matter if they don't score, and if we force teams out of their comfort zone, turnovers will happen. It's gonna work out more and more the better these players get in these systems. Offense did a great job of making sure they took advantage of the opportunities they had.

Didn't we get our first penalty of the game in the 3rd quarter as well?

The offensive line is getting better every single game. I really need to acknowledge that. Kondolo and Sterup had a few hiccups here and there, but damn, I feel like this group is really coming together. Gates needs to get back out there and continue to build himself up as a player cause' I think he is possibly our best linemen, but this is really fun to watch all of these guys finally improving as the season moves on.

Watching that just makes me smile. Good fans having a good time. Good win by the ball team too. Go Big Red.

Good stuff fellas, plus 1 to all of you. This is still the team I root for, and these coaches deserve a shot at this in my book as well. GBR Holy Moly! Man, woman and child, did that put em in the aisles! Andy "THE MAN-OVICH" Janovich, just tore em' loose from their shoes!

Tommy needs to run the ball more. Add that ingredient to this offense and things improve drastically.

Man it can't be easy to feel the weight of this state on your back. The guys who aren't from here eventually figure out the good/ugly side of Husker fans over time, but those kids didn't grow up dreaming about this opportunity either, so when it's crashing down around them, I'm sure it has to be hell. Still, I love that quote That's a kickass attitude.

I didn't say that. If it came across that way, that wasn't what I intended. Riley wanted to get a first down obviously, but the goal was to make Wisconsin use their timeouts. I'm sure they figured their players could pick up 10 yards on three running plays. They didn't. Credit to Wisconsin defense for that as well. What I'm saying is that there's no way the Head Coach thought we need to get creative with the playcalling because if we don't get this first down, we're f'd! He trusted the defense in that if the offense did have to punt the ball away, he didn't expect that his defense would let Wisconsin go straight down the field and get into field goal range. Unfortunately, they did.

Riley said in the press conference that he just wanted them to use their timeouts. That's all he was concerned with. Winning was apparently not one of his goals. Football is a unique game. There is an 11 man unit called the offense. Then there's an entirely different 11 man unit called the defense. Apparently Riley's goal was to leave Wisconsin with no timeouts and let his defense do their job. Unfortunately, Wisconsin's defense did their job, ours didn't, and the Wisconsin kicker made a very miss-able kick under the ultimate pressure. Wisconsin rose up, and our team was not able to. If you've watched Nebraska v. Wisconsin in the last few years, this game coming down to a last second kick is really not the norm, It'd be easy to draw some positives from this game if you chose to look for them. Most of you just see that we lost and say "we suck". Seems like an 'emo' response, or so I've heard. Funny how most sports analysis don't have the same version as you! why would you "leave it" to the defense in the 4th quarter knowing they have been on the field 84 plays when all you need is a first down to seal the game? Makes no sense, but who am I, oh yes! since I disagree, I must be 13! 13 year old that plays Madden.....don't forget that part. Who gets mad at being accused of playing Madden? I wish to hell I was 13 again and could sit around playing Madden all day, good times, no stress, life was much easier then...... Which sports analysts have a different version? Links please? Wisconsin had three timeouts, you wanted to make them use them. We do all this bitching around here about how we NEVER run the ball blah blah blah, so Langsdorf puts the rock in the RB hands, tells the linemen to block their asses off, and in three running plays we can't pick up 10 yards, and suddenly it back to blaming Langsdorf because he RAN THE f'ing BALL. It's stupidity. Ya'll have a great one.

Riley said in the press conference that he just wanted them to use their timeouts. That's all he was concerned with. Winning was apparently not one of his goals. Football is a unique game. There is an 11 man unit called the offense. Then there's an entirely different 11 man unit called the defense. Apparently Riley's goal was to leave Wisconsin with no timeouts and let his defense do their job. Unfortunately, Wisconsin's defense did their job, ours didn't, and the Wisconsin kicker made a very miss-able kick under the ultimate pressure. Wisconsin rose up, and our team was not able to. If you've watched Nebraska v. Wisconsin in the last few years, this game coming down to a last second kick is really not the norm, It'd be easy to draw some positives from this game if you chose to look for them. Most of you just see that we lost and say "we suck". Seems like an 'emo' response, or so I've heard. I sense a little butthurt, but I'll ignore it. As to the bolded, you proved my point. He had several different goals, but "Win" wasn't one of them. If it was, he would do everything he could to try to win. For example, try to get a first down, since in that situation, 1st down = win. He didn't try. He admitted as much in his presser. I get that you want to defend the Husker HC. But you should pick your battles more wisely. The endgame coaching in the last two games has been indefensible. I think you can fairly defend the end game coaching against BYU and Miami. But the endgame coaching against Illinois and Wiscy was bad, Bad, BAD. Don't waste time defending the indefensible. Bull crap. I need a link to that bolded part, because without proof of that one, I don't believe you for a second. Redux complains about the play calls, then lists three plays that almost match exactly what Langsdorf did? Aside from the fact that it was Cross who should've bounced the ball to the outside on 1st down. On second down it looks like Cross cut it back the entirely wrong direction. 3rd down they went with Janovich up the gut. Jano just broke a 50 yard TD up the middle on the series before. But "they weren't trying to get a first down?" That's just emo talking right there. I haven't tried to defend the Illinois loss. I've said multiple times, that one I won't defend. Horrible playcalling and gameplan by Langsdorf. The other losses are just football. Close games come down to who makes the play and who doesn't. Nebraska hasn't. It stinks. There's good things going on out there as well. I hope this Minnesota game is over before the fourth quarter.

read what he wrote with each play. had what should have happened actually happened, more than the 12 seconds that came off the clock would have come off the clock. the second down play was especially irksome because cross was ankle tackled by a guy that was sipping gatorade when the ball was snapped. Thats the thing, people may actually respond to his decent posts with actual conversation IF he hadn't spent the last week pissing on every thread he could. Where the hell did I do that? For me to be accused of pissing on threads last week is hilarious. I've barely even posted here this last week. This is nearly hilarious to me if it wasn't so blatantly opposite of the truth. There's half a dozen other people pissing on every other thread around here, I go nearly a week without hardly saying a word here, and now get accused of being the guy pissing on every thread he could.

People do understand. That's not the question. The question is what do you do differently? You tried to get creative with the play call a bit against Illinois, in a game you clearly had won, and instead, that creativity ended up costing you the game when your QB let the ball fly. So you're the coach The Dude, or Redux, or anyone else using hindsight to point out the supposed errors here. If you're Langsdorf and you witnessed what you did against Illinois, what are YOU doing differently in that scenario against Wisconsin? Please tell me, because I guarantee you I can shred your playcalls just as easily as any one of you are sitting here ripping Langsdorfs thought process. What three plays would you have called? 1. 2. 3.

Riley said in the press conference that he just wanted them to use their timeouts. That's all he was concerned with. Winning was apparently not one of his goals. Football is a unique game. There is an 11 man unit called the offense. Then there's an entirely different 11 man unit called the defense. Apparently Riley's goal was to leave Wisconsin with no timeouts and let his defense do their job. Unfortunately, Wisconsin's defense did their job, ours didn't, and the Wisconsin kicker made a very miss-able kick under the ultimate pressure. Wisconsin rose up, and our team was not able to. If you've watched Nebraska v. Wisconsin in the last few years, this game coming down to a last second kick is really not the norm, It'd be easy to draw some positives from this game if you chose to look for them. Most of you just see that we lost and say "we suck". Seems like an 'emo' response, or so I've heard.

Calling someone a 13 year old that plays Madden is a personal attack?! Delicate flowers we have here.....

Yeah, why didn't we run this? That's Pierson El right there. I mean, look how creative that was, and it worked really, really well. Unless I'm wrong, I saw something a few minutes into the game, the announcers mentioning that Wisconsin had a true freshman and a redshirt freshman both in Wisconsin's starting linebacker corps? T.J. Edwards and Chris Orr? So running your final three plays straight at the heart of a young Wisconsin LB'er group, and we weren't able to take advantage of that? So now that we have covered blaming the coaches, let's look at the first play. If Imani bounces that outside of Cethan seal on the edge, that's easy first down if not more. What's the call on this one ya'll think? Is this a designed counter or does the RB choose to cut it back? Or is that Langsdorf running the ball? Looks to me like that left side was blocked really well. How about this third down play. Janovich had just broken a touchdown on a run right up the gut just moments ago..... What was Langsdorf thinking giving Janovich the ball up the middle again? Crazy! Should've play action passed and thrown incomplete to stop the clock and allow Wisconsin to keep a timeout in their pocket. Or run that bootleg play we f'd up against Illinois again, this time we would've gotten it right I'm sure..... Hindsight is an advantage the morons questioning this stuff get the advantage of, Langsdorf is in the moment and has seconds to make the play call. I'd have him call it no other way than how he did. The players had the opportunity to take the game in their hands. That's how the players want it. Wisconsin stood up and played tough defense and it just didn't work out. Sadly our defense allowed Wisconsin to come right down the field and get into field goal range. If they hadn't, you'd all be finding something else to complain about even after a victory over a team that set a rushing record on our Blackshirts last year. So give it up.

My prediction hope is we'll Nebraska will be closer to #40 than #15.

Watch the games folks. He's not wrong. There are guys that are not playing as fast as they can. I also see a lot of guys who seem to avoid contact or look totally willing to "let someone else" make the tackle. There's just weird stuff I see on a regular basis where you think, why did that guy stop, why did he hesitate, or why does it look like he's not running very fast. I see stuff that makes me ask these questions in every single game we've played. Defense is especially unaggressive. Not saying names, and it sure as hell isn't everybody. There are guys playing hard, looking for contact, and trying to be a part of the play. Then there are guys that are going through the motions.

Lack of a pass rush is the catalyst for a porous secondary. Let's look at Michigan: On the season, they have 15 Sacks, Nebraska has 13. But Michigan has 40 TFLs, while Nebraska only has 26 on the year thus far. LACK OF FRONT FOUR FRONT PRESSURE. This. It might not be all to blame, but it's definitely a fair share. It's even more amplified when we blitz and still don't get pressure, which is happening too often.

Seriously? Yep! and last year NU had zero vs MSU which is included in that total. I am guessing that this year NU has faced around 50 or more pass attempts too. Randy Gregory accounted for 4.5 of those sacks through those first six games I think. It'd be nice to have him out there again this year. Clearly this defensive philosophy is devoted more to applying pressure and blitzing, but we simply have not done a good job of getting there. At least, not a good enough job. You'd think all the blitzing the LB'ers do, we would be racking up the sacks, but they just don't seem to get there quickly. cg_8 has talked about some of those issues a bit, but I think we will get better.

David Sutton got hurt against BYU - Foster had a big game vs BYU actually, and has henceforth disappeared.

Why didn't he lay down on the 1 yard line so we could run more time out on the clock!!!!!!!

Creativity wasn't the issue with the bootleg at Illinois. Yes it was, we should've ran it right at them, like we did with Wisconsin. but they didn't and it was still the right play call. When you have a lead and the defense is called upon to prevent a score. you prevent the score. Langsdorf had nothing to do with losing those games. I'll only disagree with you about the Illinois game. The rest is just football. I like all these coaches, they all deserve a fair amount of time to make their mark and Langsdorf has easily been one of the more impressive so far. His influence has been a clear improvement since day one. That said. You don't throw the ball that many times in Hurricane winds. Not unless the opponent is forcing you to go to the air because you need points. Obviously, that wasn't the case. I don't come here to bash on the coaches (only Pelini) and I don't really question anything they've done so far, I like the direction we are headed. But that Illinois game was mind numbingly stupid. It is what it is. I've forgiven and moved on.

Yeah, that's frustrating. OTOH, a couple of Tommy's throws should have been picked off. But their DBs couldn't haul them in either. : What's wrong with DB's!? Why can't they be WR's!?

Creativity wasn't the issue with the bootleg at Illinois. Yes it was, we should've ran it right at them, like we did with Wisconsin.

Gets creative in play calling to deceive the opposing defense and pick up the first down: Runs it straight at them and asks his offensive line to get a push, let the players make the play instead of trying to let the playcall make the play: Langsdorf can't win with the logic of some of you. Emo.