I wasn't able to watch the game until today because I was in Clemson on Saturday to watch them lose their first home game since 2013....which all my Clemson friends are blaming the loss on me, and not for the fact that the Tigers only ran for 50 yards against Pitt. So if you guys liked the chaos on Saturday night, "you're welcome" for being the reason the first big domino of a chaotic night dropped. Anyways here are my thoughts on the Huskers.
Bruce "Fo Fiddy but Can't Afford a Decent Haircut" Read. What more needs to be said. Had we all done a decent background check we would've realized this guy has been committing fraud all his life, and shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Then 2015 happened, and we all knew he had to go. Yet here he is, still on our Husker sideline posing as a special teams coordinator. Dude needs to go, and should've been fired at halftime.
Tommy Armstrong will absolutely be missed after this season. Outstanding game, and gutty performance for not just being out on the field a week after he was knocked out cold, but playing what may have been his most efficient game of his career. The guy has made every single one of us pull a few hairs out of our head with the decisions he has made over the years, but tonight was fun to watch. Hope he's healthy enough the rest of the season because this offense will be downright ugly with Fyfe under center.
The -2 yard punt. First time I've seen a punt go negative yards that was not influenced by strong winds. I'm not a punting expert, so I don't know if kicking it a certain way can make a ball spin back as much as that punt did, or if it was simply an unlucky bounce. That was just...weird. And it made Mike Riley lose his 2nd stick of gum.
Defense was back to being great. Nice to see them play like that after getting run over last week. Interior defensive line was outstanding. Josh Banderas might be the most improved player on the team, dude has been everywhere these last few weeks.
Matt Millen loves saying the names "Wolitarsky" and "Smith". Goodness it seemed every play he said "The Husker defense needs to look out for Wolitarsky or Smith here. That's who the Gophers like to go to". Dude, we get it, don't need to talk about them in every big situation.
Mitch Leidner....should not be drafted in the first 2 rounds. There was a lot of talk about him being a first round QB before the season started...I just don't see it. Seemed to have a clean pocket most of the game, and couldn't make big throws.
Overall, this game played out a lot like I thought it would, and glad we came away with the win. Not easy to bounce back after losing a heartbreaker in overtime and then getting destroyed 62-3 on national tv.