Ratt Mhule

If they give us something to cheer about, we will cheer. The first possession on offense just set the tone for the entire game. Then a botched punt coverage. Gilbert runs free on a couple plays, we hold them to a field goal. Good job D, okay let's get the offense going now. Crowd is still in it. Roy fumbles, but its okay we will hold them to a field goal. Gilbery runs a few more, missed tackle by Rickey on 3rd. Gilbert runs in for TD. Boom 10-0. Textbook way to take crowd out of it. NU gave the fans nothing to cheer about yesterday. The D did not use the crowd to their advantage, they looked flat and our DE's looked very slow. The offense did not use the fact that they would be able to hear the cadence without 94 Db noise to their advantage. Just imagine how loud that place would have been had we drove down the field and scored the first possession. If u wanna look at home field advantage, watch the Wisconsin game. OSU looked intimidated and that DT for Wisconsin looked like a man possessed. Going crazy after every sack. He fed off the crowd. I don't see that with this team...

Bo needs to clean house with the players that don't perform. He has a lot of talent on the sidelines. That is the worst display of WR play I have ever witnessed by a top 5/6 team. Unacceptable. should not have been 5/6 You might as well put a bc nobody gives a s*** about your .02

I needed that...thx. Ary you talking about LSU in 07 -- they beat UT in the SEC CCG -- He's talking about Nebraska

Ya I was watching on TV and thinking, you've got to be kidding me. That was the play above that people are mentioning, that guy got smashed pretty good... Yep, I think I heard that he got hit so hard by Williams on that play he had blood coming out of his ear. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what this was, frustration. Not 'introverted' personality as earlier suggested in the article. Put another way, the chips were down and the team's leader could not handle it. As a starter, or on the bench. A starting QB should be able to handle this type of situation. For weeks as we were blowing teams out, I thought you had to wonder how the offense - and Taylor specifically - would react when he got into a struggle, things weren't working, bad plays were happening all around us and we had to claw our way back in a game. Yesterday, we got the none-too-surprising answer. Contrast with Zac, who saw Kinnie's dropped sure touchdown and was back at it with hyping up his teammates for a final rally. For all the 'leadership' talk of Martinez, he was a lone wolf out there, even as QB1, and not the field general you trust the keys of the offense to. Not to take away from his talent, but he's got to grow a lot here. And he isn't going to do that growing by taking lumps this year. Taylor should not have declined interview requests. That may have been okay when he was an unknown in a 3-team QB battle. But he's the starting QB, and supposedly still the starting QB, of the team after a tough home loss. No matter how hard it is to face reporters, he has to man up and do so. He's the QB of the team. He's got to have everyone's backs and take responsibility upon himself, and show maturity in a situation like this. How did Lee react to the Texas Tech game last year? Skills or not, the intangible side seems to be all be stacked up against him. Where's that 'wanting to win' x-factor he had? I get that he's a freshman, but as the article says, that's not an excuse. He's the starting QB. There's things he's got to do, freshman or not. I agree with everything you said. When reading the article I couldn't get the picture of Albert Haynesworth out of my mind just walking the sideline by himself while the rest of the defense was huddling up and talking. I know its not the same thing but still, if you want to earn the respect of your teammates you need to show it even if your not happy at the situation.

Ya I was watching on TV and thinking, you've got to be kidding me. That was the play above that people are mentioning, that guy got smashed pretty good...

Article LINCOLN — “The Eyes of Texas” blared from the southwest corner of Memorial Stadium. Husker players flooded off the field, jogging to the locker room. Every Husker except Taylor Martinez. The freshman quarterback stood behind the Nebraska bench for photos with his family. Snap. Snap. Snap. At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, T-Magic was a national phenom, a Heisman candidate, the difference between a brutal 2009 offense and a prolific 2010 offense. Two hours later, the honeymoon had ended. Martinez grabbed a headset midway through the third quarter and listened to Shawn Watson tell him Zac Lee was taking his place. “He’s no different than I would be, or you,” Watson said after the game. “He’s stung by it. But he’s going to have to understand it and come back to work. ... He’s still our starting quarterback.” But what kind of starting quarterback will he be? A jaw-dropping athlete, no doubt. But what kind of leader? When the going gets tough and defenses shut down the zone read, what will Taylor do? He’s a freshman with time to learn. But he’s also the starting quarterback — the most important player on a team trying to do big things — the man to whom everyone looks when the deficit is 10 points and panic begins. After Martinez got yanked Saturday, he spent most of the second half alone on the sideline, arms crossed. When the offense huddled for a timeout, he didn’t. When teammates reacted to a bad call, he didn’t. When they pumped fists, he didn’t. Nebraska kicked a field goal, cutting the lead to 20-6. Lee walked to the sideline and picked up a headset. Cody Green grabbed another headset. Martinez stood behind them, listening to nothing but crowd noise. In the fourth quarter, his expression didn’t change when Lee converted a fourth down and it didn’t change when a penalty nullified it and it didn’t change when Brandon Kinnie dropped a fourth-down pass. Ricky Henry walked to the sideline and threw his helmet to the ground. Injured Jesse Coffey smacked his crutches against a metal bench. Lee came off the field and soon started encouraging teammates for one final rally. Martinez blended in to the background. As time elapsed, he shared a few laughs with the backup quarterbacks. Only once did he pick up a teammate — patting Kinnie on the head. Only once did he lift his arms — for about a second, during Eric Hagg’s incredible punt return. Maybe this is all just the personality of an introvert. We’re all still getting to know Martinez. With 1:20 left he did respond to the person he knows best. During a break in the action, with defeat all but sewn up, Martinez locked eyes with his dad in the stands. Casey Martinez came down the stairs and they talked as the clock ran out. Martinez left his dad when the game ended, then returned for pictures as teammates bolted for the locker room. Watson said he pulled Martinez because he sensed his frustration. Receivers dropped balls. Linemen missed blocks. Martinez tried and failed to make big plays. He got out of sync, Watson said. “There were a lot of things happening to him that he couldn’t help,” Watson said. “He got in a situation where it started snowballing a little bit. We went with Zac because he had the experience and the maturity to kind of handle it.” Bo Pelini also defended Martinez. “We weren’t pointing the finger at Taylor when we made the change,” Pelini said. “We just felt we needed a spark.” After completing his radio commitment, Pelini spent at least five minutes talking to Martinez, his dad and his stepmom in a hallway outside the locker room. The conversation ended with Bo giving Taylor an encouraging pat on the shoulder and walking away. Then Martinez, his dad and his stepmom entered the massive weight room where, at the east end, media conduct player interviews. It’s a task that goes with the territory of being a team leader. Casey Martinez opened his phone and took a photo of Taylor’s picture on a wall — he’s the all-time record holder for quarterbacks in the pro agility run and vertical jump. For 15 minutes, the three Martinezes loitered in a room where players never hang out after games. It was a strange scene — Taylor not 25 yards from reporters who wanted to ask him about his first loss. A Nebraska spokesman said Martinez had declined interview requests. I approached him and asked again. “No, I’m good,” Taylor said. Meanwhile, seniors Niles Paul and Roy Helu stood before reporters and did the heavy lifting. They answered questions about what went wrong — and where NU goes next. Nebraska still has an outstanding defense in a league where defense is optional. And the critical game on the schedule — Missouri — is at home. But can the offense be trusted? And does it have a leader? On the field, Martinez’s quiet mind and lack of self-awareness is a gift. He doesn’t get nervous. He keeps to himself. He just plays. But there’s a reason quarterbacks don’t isolate themselves. It’s hard to lead that way. And quarterbacks must lead, even through adversity, even as freshmen. Have you ever sat in a dark theater and watched a man pull a rabbit out of a hat or escape from shackles without a key? It’s jaw-dropping. It’s magic. But study the trick again. Examine it from a different angle. Sooner or later, a solution emerges. Truth is revealed. It’s the magician’s job to refine the act.

I needed something to make me smile today. This thread did the trick

Bump b/c I see TexArcher is online and I want him to see this

I don't, I hope we destroy every team from here on out and make a statement. I'm tired of this crap already! I said somewhat easy bc they way they look now, we could quite possibly score 100 pts against them Oh and another positive (for Bo, not for us) he's prob loving the fact he doesnt have to do anymore media interviews on College Football Live and halftime of Thursday night games...

Sometimes it gets the better of him. Hurt us a few times in the past, but he's gotten better at controlling his temper

You came to the wrong board! Jk, welcome to the board!

Positives, we still have Iowa State, A&M and KU on the schedule. I just hope we take it somewhat easy on TG

Another positive is Washington is looking pretty good rite now. I guess that makes us look kinda good too...

Good man!

Exact quote, "We will let the fans and everyone else feel sorry for themselves, and feel sorry for what happened..."

Linky

Well, they get the W and we get the L. Woulda, coulda, shoulda does not matter in football

If we play like this the B10 is going to eat us for lunch. Especially if Wisconsin plays like that against us in Camp Randall next year. They looked tough as nails They would've absolutely gashed our D today. Say what you will about the Big 10 and their speed. They got some tough guys running out there. Even Whitaker impressed me with his power running. Our guys just seem to go down whenever they are hit.

Pretty impressed with all the classy UT fans posting on the board. Good to see!

I blame TO for retiring. If Joe Pa and Snyder can still coach, he should be able to Oh and get that countdown started again, could be awhile before we get that high again in the polls

If we play like this the B10 is going to eat us for lunch. Especially if Wisconsin plays like that against us in Camp Randall next year. They looked tough as nails

Take a shot for me!

But without NU football, NU fans wouldn't exist. Chicken or Egg? You think about it your way and I'll think about it my way. Deal?