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Taylor's probably going to come in at 2, right behind Miller. But I don't think Bell is going to show up. Allen Robinson, the leader in receptions, receiving yards and B1G receiver of the year, is like number 12. I don't think Rittenburg and Bennett would put Bell above him. Unless they are taking into account he didn't have a TD that traveled for less than 20 yards all year, but I doubt it.

I think the Safety positions are interchangeable and you can't call either position FS or SS.

After the game against OSU, name a running QB that torched us? Whatever they did in the bye week semi-worked. Colter did nothing, and while Robinson was getting yards, he wasn't running all over us. Now this year we have an overall more athletic defense better made for stopping those types of QBs.

I really think our home field is getting back to where it was. Since 2010, our only home losses came in games where we had multiple drops on assured tds, and a flukey loss to Northwestern. Overall we've played a heck of a lot better at home (that span also includes 2 victories over top 10 teams). Coupled with what happened last year in Pasadena, and I believe we'll win comfortably (2 scores). NW doesn't have the guys on defense, and Pelini has finally seemed to get a handle on running QBs (though it does put a lot of pressure on our CBs). We do have a big date with Michigan in Ann Arbor no matter what. The team has to get over the hump in big time road games.

That with straight black. I liked Northwestern's helmets when they played us. I wouldn't mind them doing something similar with the blackshirt logo. The problem I see though is there really isn't an opponent that is special. I guess we can do it for homecoming.

I'd like an all black alt uni to commemorate the Blackshirts this year (something like the 50th Anniversary). All black with some red accents. I like what Northwestern did with their helmets when they faced us, but like that picture shows, Herbie isn't very good for a helmet. Matte black helmet, with a matte red or grey N.

Yeldon was a True Freshman. But after watching Newby in the International Game I think he has the same impact in the return game that Abdullah had when he first came here. I'd rather have Abdullah focus exclusively on being a RB. Let Turner, Bell, Newby, and whoever else be the returnmen.

He gets up to his top speed really quick, he just doesn't have a 6th gear. Everything else about Burkhead is impressive though.

Rex is going to test exceptionally well everywhere except the 40.

Rex just doesn't have the top speed to break long runs. If you look at his long runs this year he got to the third level really quick, but didn't really seem to accelerate past that. That said,he's probably going to have the best 10 yard split. He's also going to show really well in the other agility tests.

If you have CBS Sports Network, Newby is playing in an All American game.

I watched his highlight video (the offensive portion) and it looked like Drake's, the competition might be a little suspect, but he's taking care of business. And if he hasn't lost any of that speed, well put him back as a returner and see what happens.

He choked on the 50 yarder in the team competition, missed it off the upright. Glad Maher did good in the individual competition though. Also there was 1 stat threw out there about how the kicker from Louisiana Lafayette was the most accurate ever at 90%+. Is that correct? Because I remember Henery missing like 5 kicks total in his career.

I'm not saying Ameer doesn't need to focus on ball security, but keep in mind FOUR of his fumbles were muffed punts. Obviously we can't have those on our team either, but I view that differently than him taking a draw up the middle and a LB stripping him. I think you bring up a really good point. While I think that overall fumbles are important, I'd be curious about how our team ranks in fumbles per touch/running play. Put the behavior in context. For instance, muffed punts are a different skill set then not getting it stripped on a run. Anyone have the down time at work to look into team rankings in fumbles per running play (factoring only fumbles on intended running plays/scrambles)? I can tell you that one of those muffed punts was an absolutely atrociously bad call by the refs that was upheld by review that clearly showed the ball 2-3 yards away from Ameer's foot. (the Arky State muffed punt) The biggest thing with Ameer though is that he's fumbled in the absolute worst opportune times. In our comeback against Wisky, which Martinez was right there to pick up and run for a touchdown. If we lose that one, we're most likely not winning the game. Then there were the 2 fumbles in consecutive Capital One Bowls that absolutely killed our momentum. I have faith he will work on that problem in the offseason. Hopefully he and Martinez get together to figure things out.

I don't want Abdullah to have more than 20 carries a game, and about 10 carries a game for Martinez.

Freak turnovers are going to happen that aren't necessarily the fault of the player, especially when it comes to interceptions and fumbles while passing. If a QB gets blind-sided because his left tackle got beat, that's not really on the quarterback. I would say those probably only account for a couple of overall turnovers though. Even if you take em away, we still have problems. We definitely have a problem with turnovers, I just had this observation while rewatching the MSU game. Probably should have been a penalty, especially with the way the refs were calling that game.

Another thing I noticed to during a rewatch, the first INT against Michigan State, Taylor was hit in the arm (also the head in the same way that got a penalty later in the game) that altered the pass making it look like he threw it straight to the MSU defender.

A quick look at Martinez's lost fumbles, 3 of them were of the strip sack variety and 1 was on a broken play where the d lineman came in free and messed up the exchange between him and Heard. 2/3rds of his lost fumbles could also be partly attributed to the line. It looks like while Martinez fumbles a lot, he's also able to cover those fumbles up.

My guess is we just look at athletes at this point not necessarily CB's, Drake Martinez comes to mind. I don't think Drake will be coming to Nebraska after what happened to his dad. And what was that? I know he had a license deal with the university to sell shirts and stuff like that, the deal went away a few years ago though. Thought that was something that was mutually terminated.

We've had success with the D in the B1G, it's just that when things broke down, they really broke down. One thing Pelini needs to figure out is how to stop the snowball effect in big games. One bad play doesn't mean the players need to press to cover others jobs. One thing though, our offense would be exact same as it's been in the B1G. If it's been pretty good in the B1G with teams that actually play defense, what would it be like in the Big XII with teams that aren't as good at defense.

We scored 38 points against Ohio State, which should have been enough to win the game. When the defense was bad, it was really bad, but they still were able to put up some pretty good performances during the year (holding back Dennard Robinson before he was hurt, not letting Kain Colter do anything against NW). I think the defense will have some growing pains, but they will be more athletic.

It's Tim Brown not Jerry Rice. Now the quote does mention Jerry (which is presumably Jerry Rice). Tim Brown came off as a hyporcritical d-bag in that quote though.

I don't think we lose at home. Whatever problems we had in Pelini's first few years with home games has been fixed. The only game I can see us losing at home would be to UCLA, but I also don't think we lose to them 2 years in a row. Michigan State doesn't have enough Offense, and their Defense might be a little iffy next year. Northwestern will have the offense, but I don't think they have the horses up front on defense to hold the offense we will have next year back. Michigan is the toughest conference game, and if we get past them, an undefeated regular season isn't out of reach.

Taylor had that great hit against Georgia when he was going out of bounds.

Over the past 2 weeks Dirk has done a profile of Mr. Shawn Eichorst, NU's new AD. IMO it's a great write up that gives great information on where Eichorst has been and also shedding light on what he's done at each stop. Part 1 - http://omaha.com/art...SKERS/701129841 Part 2 - http://www.omaha.com...-t-duck-a-fight