derrtybird07

Offense: Brook Berringer. Defense: Jason Peter. May not be the best at their positions, but I would love to see them on the field again.

Lee is the QB. It's his job to lose and that's been said over and over. Personally, I'd like to see what Lee can do with his repaired arm. Let's not forget he was the top Juco QB in the nation when he was recruited. He had a 64% completion rate and over 3500 yards. If he can pull that off when he's healthy, I think this whole "Lee sucks" mind-set will disappear. That said, I am really looking forward to seeing what Cody Green can do. I thought he was in the zone at the spring game. I think it would be cool as hell to design a play with Lee, Green, and Martinez on the field at the same time. Think about it. All 3 have running ability and throwing ability. The defense would have no idea what's coming. I know I'm dreaming.

Gotta love when NU's first round draft picks and future first round draft picks showing how humble they are. I think it reflects the state of Nebraska as a whole.

While fingers can be pointed all over the offense, I can't fault the plays called - I can fault the fact that we can't seem to put a complete series together without some silly penalty on the line (jumping the count seems to have been the major one) or the inability to open a hole or prevent a pass rush at critical times. A lot of that has to do with the injuries - but a lot has to do with mental focus and technique as well. With a dominate line, a lot of the problems simply disappear. Right here. It's hard to do much of anything with an INEPT O line. Yes yes, our QB had a severed limb in his throwing arm... Yes our two main weapons at RB were disintegrated for a good portion of the year.. etc etc. It doesn't matter a hill of beans with the O line performance we had. I assume most of us saw what was going on, on the sidelines with Bo and Barney? There is the problem on the O and Bo knows it. Look at what we're doing with recruiting, notice the massive influx of bodies going to the O-line? There's a reason for it. This team's offense, whether it's ran by Watson, or Osborne, begins with the O-line, and last year, our O-line performance from the players and the coaches was wretched. Fix it and this team is fixed, even with a questionable QB. Someone above said "Next year is Watson's 'make or break year'". And that if he has another bad year Bo will fire him. This is one of the single most stupid things I've read from a fan on a message board. I guarantee you, if we have another year as bad or even worse, offensively as we had this year, Bo won't be firing Watson, T.O. will call Barney into his office and have a nice prestigious administrative opening with his name on it. Bo AND Dr. Tom both know they've got quality in Watson. I think that would be evident from T.O. ASKING Watson to please stay on after sacking the last regime. As well as Nick Saban offering Watson the big bucks to go work for him. Yeah.... Saban and Dr. Tom.... two clowns who should be reading the message boards to really find out what they need to be doing. I'm happy with Watson. He believes enough in the power run game we all love. When we finally get back on our feet as a program, I feel that most other Husker fans will too. I still don't think we can sit here and blame this on the O-line. Our O-line did just fine in the bowl game. Now I don't know if we returned anyone from injuries for that game, but I'm going to go ahead and say it was essentially the same O-line we saw all year. I find it hard to believe the line was that bad the whole year. We dominated that game on offense because we FINALLY mixed it up a little bit. We finally did something that defenses weren't used to seeing. The difference showed and everyone saw it. Yes, we suffered many injuries. We also had either Helu or Burkhead, neither one was not healthy enough to play if the other was down. We should have been able to do what we did against Arizona all year long but we couldn't because of the predictable play calling. Tell me Arizona came in expecting to see the Wild Cat and taking shots down field. They didn't and that's why we looked so good.

I think the '08 offense would have been leaps and bounds above last year's regardless of what defenses the '08 played. You can't get much worse than last years.

Maybe Paul will spend more time on the football field and not peeing outside of a mall. As another side note, did anyone see that NFL.com had Niles Paul as the best SR. wide receiver? I love my Huskers and I'm glad one of our players were chosen at #1, but c'mon. Greg Little is far better than Paul is.

That's amazing. Good find OP.

I understand where you are coming from when you say he was trying to control the game. But I find it hard to believe we couldn't have been a better team. We had the talent. If we could have put up 1 more TD in a couple games our record could have been only 1 or 2 losses. We can't be scared and let our D bail us out no matter how good they are. I know I can't say we would have definately been better had we took more shots downfield, but I think it would have kept the oppsing Defenses on their toes as opposed to knowing what was coming, opening up some big runs or something. As a side note, I don't know if Watson was calling plays for the Red, White, or both during the spring game but I really liked what I saw. Paul proved he can bring in those tough catches and I was really impressed with the others. I think Watson needs to have a little trust in his star players.

I don't remember saying anywhere in my OP that I could call the plays better. Can you point to where I said that, if you will? All I said is that he was was too conservative and way too predictable. If I, as a 21 year old with 0 coaching experience, can sit there a tell you what he is going to do, don't you think all the DC's out there who are a hell of a lot smarter than me can figure it out? What Watson was doing was not difficult to figure out.

My family and friends know very well about how I feel when it comes to Watson's play calling. I think every game last season other than the Arizona game you could hear me bitching about Watson. I never understood his logic. He was the most predictable play caller in college football last year. I would call before each play what was going to happen and I think I was right about 75% of the time. I don't know how many times we ran the same run play in the same formation in the same game when it didn't work the first 4 or 5 times. I don't know how many times we did a QB Draw on 3rd & 6 that failed. I don't neccesarily think our offense was as bad as the stats show, because you can't do anything without good play calling. Now, his play calling is the only real problem I have with him. I think he does a great job in preparing the kids and bringing them up to their full potential. He was pretty conservative in the bowl game but atleast he tried something new that work. Every other game he was doing something over and over that didn't work. Atleast in the bowl game what he was doing over and over worked. The Arizona game has got me excited for this upcoming year and I can't wait to see what Helu Jr. and Burkhead are going to be able to do. But if Watson comes back with his approach that he took last season then it's going to be a disappointing year because of the high expectations. Am I the only one who think the play calling shouldn't be in Watson's hands? I know there probably really isn't anyone else to take the duty.

I'm going to have to agree with what one user said on Corn Nation. We might as well take out that all our girl's are the fairest and our boys are the squarest. Forde just has nothing better to do than to pick on Nebraska during the offseason. These signs aren't something the fans went in a put in. Many, many people have stated that Nebraska fans are the best fans. 300+ sellouts deserves something.