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They're like Doritos bold. Not sure how Penn St beating anyone can be considered bold, even with that spread.

Some guys should stay at NDSU. He will realize that in time.

I don't know what their "formula" is, but that's basically our discussion from the other day.....sorting teams with high yards per play by number of plays per game. The one that is throwing me off though is Notre Dame.

Kansas had zero points last week and still spent a decent chunk of time having more points than yards. I didn't want Riley here from the start, and I don't want him here now, but I can comprehend a lot worse.

Most national guys don't have the time to watch all of these games, so they tend to be very chalk heavy and easily influenced by the final score. They're really not worth paying attention to for that reason. Admittedly, the local guys have a lot of bias, but it can be interesting to turn that on its head and watch/listen/read the opposing teams local guys. I didn't know Bama fan that many trick plays.

Understandable. That offense is a hot mess, though. It's a passing offense that can't pass. Receivers that not only can't get open, but they can't even get into a route, and if by some miracle they do, they drop the ball. Brohm flat out said this week that he's aware the rest of the Big Ten knows how to defend them and that he's telling his QBs to scramble more. Their defense is what's keeping them in games, but it's the anti-Diaco defense....his is passive to a fault, theirs is aggressive to a fault. Plays can be had against them, even with our offense getting in its own way.

If that's true, and pardon me if I'm skeptical of an internet rumor, then he'd better be past feeler stage.

I like us at -6 if Diaco does what he's supposed to do.

And, frankly, that's foolish. The program's success fluctuates too much depending on the coach. Recruiting, and coaching for that matter, is a process of building relationships. It's understandable that players feel attached to a coach.

Maybe. Tough to say that specifically. But I can say, that was a poor 9 win team, actually not much better than the previous 6 win team, when you look at the kinds of stats I've posted recently. Nebraska posted negative differentials in pass pct, rushing ypc, and yards per play. That's unusual for a 9 win team.

Regarding 3rd downs: If Nebraska defends like we've discussed in other threads, and like others have defended Purdue, then Nebraska will win out in this regard. As we all know, Nebraska's defense has gone up and down with regard to opponent, particularly with regards to the passing ability of the opponent. Purdue, however, has struggled in this regard consistently and even when they've otherwise had a decent passing day.

It's gone from a collection of articles and videos on a possible Nebraska coach to petty arguing over anything and everything just for the sake of arguing. I don't know what is so good about that.

Only if you saw him on YouTube.

And you need to realize some here knew who powdered his bum at birth.

I thought this week's press conferences where terrible. Coming off a bye heading into a series of extremely winnable games, and I think Langsdorf and Diaco had a bet on who could talk in circles the best. Not exactly convincing Moos that you have a workable plan.

I always think this is an overrated notion when looking at defenses. Good defenses get off the field themselves. If you want to really help your defense, don't try to play hide and seek, go out and score. Playing with a lead opens up more options for the defense and closes more for the opposing offense. 2008 gave up 5.4 ypp, not great, 76th in the country that year, but better than the 5.8 ypp surrendered this year. Furthermore, that team only gave up 3.6 ypc, and allowed 57% passing. This year's team is surrendering 4.8 ypc, and 67% passing. I expect this year's stats to improve, simply because we've already played most of the better offenses we'll face.

This isn't a normal 3-4 season. Most of us feel this season has no future, imagine how they must feel.

Hell with this defense stuff...can someone just tell Bob he doesn't need to hold the clip on mic?

This is important. An inside zone play is a second level blocking play....fire off to combo blocks, set, then onto the linebacker. A good zone team makes this look like one smooth move. In 10 or 11 personnel that's one or two backers to block and then often only 1 deep safety for the RB to beat. In the personnel packages Mav listed, not only is it harder to block the numbers in the box but you're more likely to see a 2 or 3 deep shell, they may crash the corners, etc. Wisconsin in the second half is an example. They blocked well, we didn't defend well and they were getting more 10 yard runs than 70 yard runs.

We can start by not motioning back into the LOS on every play.

These two stats will often be an inverse of each other for good offenses simply because good offenses get more big plays thus limiting the number of plays ran. The top two offenses in yards per play (and high in most offensive respects) are Oklahoma and Central Florida and they have play per game numbers similar to Nebraska. Stanford is 4th in ypp and rank near the bottom in plays run. Ohio St is an example of a team that ranks high in both due to consistency in medium yardage plays, like we saw against them. in general, plays ran has become an inflated statistic because teams are using high play totals to exploit substitution patterns and not so much because there is an intrinsic benefit to running more plays. It's a drive based game, not play based, and so the ultimate measure is drive success. Running more plays may or may not equate to more drives, depending on teams and conditions. What Nebraska needs to focus on is better sustaining drives and lessening the strain to sustain drives by getting bigger plays, and that deficit as noted here and discussed last week is in the running game. The speed and acceleration of the current backs leaves a lot to be desired, IMO.

True, but the 10 personnel choices arent great, either, and you can still spread the field laterally with 11 personnel. We just don't.

Just odds will tell you that will happen. It's one vs a field of thousands, for practically any call someone in the field will get something right.

Uh, wut?

I'll give them credit in that some of these position changes are working, but why aren't the top players being identified earlier? What is it about practice that is making this so hard to determine on both sides of the ball?