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Tarylor Martinez is not as bad a QB as I thought (I'll have some crow now thanks) Beck is not as bad as I thought This team has the heart of a winner Burkhead and David are...well, Burkhead and David, the two best players on the team. This team looked like the same team that lost to Wisconsin in the first half and in the second half (after David picked Miller's pockets), looked like a championship caliber team. Taylor Martinez looked like a completely different QB in this game, he looked comfortable running the offense and throwing the football. His mechanics still need a lot of work but compared to last week, was like night and day. And did you notice he was going through his progressions! Unbelieve turnaround for this team and could be the game that leads this team to the Big Ten championship game.

Has Tim Beck ever coached the triple option? I feel like Bo hired him because they are friends and we are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. We should only pass when the safeties come up to stop the run and Taylor needs to do a better job of finding the open receiver when that happens and not just tossing it to the guy he thinks will be open.

I don't believe that we would even be having this discussion if: 1. TM took better care of the football and didn't fumble so much (hold on with both hands tight!) 2. TM would throw the football out of bounds if his primary receiver is not open (since he doesn't look for any other receivers) As it is, these are the two big things he needs to fix. I have seen too many times this season and last where Taylor just heaves the ball into the air and hopes that a receiver comes up with it. He needs to just throw the ball out of bounds or take the sack. I would be OK with his completion percentage being 30% as long as he doesn't throw picks. If you review all of the games this season, he really should have 10+ picks which is just absurd through five games.

Braxton Miller can give the D some headaches. He has good accuracy and can beat you with his feet. Nebraska had better put a spy on him for this game or it could get ugly. He did have a horrid game against Michigan State but they do have a good defense and the weather was very nasty that game. He just may be better than Terrelle Pryor though he has a lot of growing to do yet.

This is exactly what I was thinking. He needs to protect the ball better when he catches it though.

NU 17, OSU 13

I try not to post when I believe it is negative so I have kept myself from posting this season on the issues I seen in the first four games because I was still hoping that the team would turn it around. After last nights debacle and everyone else now seeing what I had been seeing since the beginning of the season, I figured why not? Taylor Martinez The good. He can run like the wind. The bad: He is not a quarterback. When running the option he looks like he isn't sure what to do on many plays and I'm surpised there hasn't been more fumbles when he runs it. When he goes back to pass, every time this season, I hold my breath and want to close my eyes because the majority of his passes looks like something a high school players throws up. He has been lucky this season he doesn't have 10+ interceptions (which is horrid considering how many passes he has thrown). His judgement is terrible and he always looks at his primary target which will lead to more interceptions against better secondaries this season. Perhaps he can be moved to another position? The Offense The good: I love the option, when Nebraska left it was when the team began its decline. I am very happy that we are running the option again. Rex Burkhead has been great, I wish he would get the ball more often. He is a brusing runner that can deliver the kinds of hits on linebackers and secondary that make them not want to make the tackle later in the game. The bad: The play calling has not been very good, Tim Beck is wanting to throw the ball with a QB that can't throw a good pass. I understand the importance of throwing in a pass to keep the secondary honest but when your QB sucks at throwing the ball, you kill drives with incompletions and even worse, interceptions. The option has not looked good when the Huskers have run it this season and I think that has a lot to do with the QB situation. I have been watching Georgia Tech all season and if you have seen them run the option this year, you wonder what the heck the huskers are doing in practice. Georgia Tech looks incredible on offense. The Defense The good: Jared Crick and Lavonte David. Lots of youth, the defense will get better. The bad: Can't stop the run, can't stop the pass, not good in the short term. This team can still go 11-1 (11-2 if you include the championship) but I am thinking 10-2 or 9-3 is more likely. Wisconsin is a very tough place to play in especially at night; Ohio State found that out last year and that was a very good team. They were blown out also so don't worry about the score too much. I would like to see Carnes more this season, he may be better at running the option and when asked to pass, may not be as likely to just throw up a jump ball as TM.

Triple option! Pass when they bring up the secondary to stop the run.

Turnovers (including potential turnovers from fumbles which result in a lost play) and penalties is what killed this team this year but there were other factors (including bad play calling when other teams made adjustments). How many drives were stalled because of a fumble (lost or not) or a penalty in these games? Without the turnovers and penalties this season this team could be unbeaten right now. Texas: 10 penalties, 94 yards 5 fumbles, 1 lost A&M: 16 penalties, 145 yards (a lot of this was on the cheating refs) 2 Int 2 fumbles, 0 lost Oklahoma: 3 penalties, 15 yards 1 Int 5 fumbles, 3 lost Injuries and a rookie QB (take it easy on him all!) didn't help matters any.

Really sad, Texas has brought their A game today, Huskers look beat.

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I'm hoping for the same, embarrass them worse than what UCLA did to them in the 90's.

Texas’ Brown has handled Nebraska since ’98 By JIM VERTUNO, AP Sports Writer Oct 9, 4:22 am EDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Texas coach Mack Brown needs something to turn around a season teetering on collapse. How about the Nebraska Cornhuskers? No. 7 Nebraska (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) will be favored to beat Texas (3-2) next weekend in Lincoln, but there’s no escaping history that shows Texas and Brown have had little trouble with the Cornhuskers since the berth of the Big 12. Brown is 7-1 against Nebraska since 1998, including several of his biggest wins with the Longhorns. And don’t think Brown, who cut his coaching teeth against Nebraska in the old Big 8 conference as an assistant at Iowa State and Oklahoma, isn’t quietly proud of that record. With Nebraska bolting the Big 12 for the Big Ten next season, next Saturday could be the last time these league heavyweights play each other. “I’m sorry that Texas and Nebraska won’t be playing in the future,” Brown said. With that record, it’s easy to see why. Brown also has deep respect for a program that he considers among the greats in the game. In 1979, Brown left a job at Memphis to go to Iowa State specifically so he could coach against Nebraska’s Tom Osborne and Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer. “They were winning and I wanted to see how they did it … Coach Osborne was a guy who I wanted to be just like him,” Brown said. The young coach marveled not just at the success on the field but also the Nebraska fan support. “They were all wearing red before fans did that sort of stuff,” Brown said. “Everything they had,” he said, “is what I wanted.” Once he got to Texas, Brown started beating Nebraska. Again and again and again—in agonizing fashion for Huskers fans. In 1998, Brown took his first Texas team into Lincoln and ended the Cornhuskers’ 47-game home winning streak. Nebraska beat Texas in the 1999 Big 12 championship, but Brown has been getting the best of the Huskers ever since. In 2002, Texas returned to Lincoln and did it again, snapping the Huskers’ 26-game home winning streak. For 11 years, the only team to go into Lincoln and win was Texas. Texas started its run of dominance over Nebraska in 1996, when the Longhorns, three-touchdown underdogs, shocked the defending national champions 37-27 in the Big 12 championship game. Brown knows the Longhorns will play a Nebraska program itching to unleash 14 years of payback and sensing a wounded Texas team primed for a pounding. Brown expects his last trip into Lincoln to be a memorable one. “Now we’re on the edge of history,” Brown said. “For a young guy who grew up in Cookeville, Tenn. … Nebraska is still big to me. It’s still a moment that regardless of how we play and how the game comes out, there are moments in your life that are historical and you will remember them. I’ll remember going to Nebraska for the last time.” Texas has its problems with an offense struggling to score touchdowns. Quarterback Garrett Gilbert has yet to produce the sort of game-saving magic that defined Colt McCoy’s career. McCoy beat Nebraska three times. The last win came in last season’s Big 12 championship game when game officials put 1 second back on the clock after a pass out of bounds, allowing Texas to kick the winning field goal—angering the Huskers and coach Bo Pelini. The Texas defense also has struggled the past two weeks, with sloppy play helping UCLA and Oklahoma put together game-changing scoring drives. Brown has shown he can fix problems post-Oklahoma. He is 12-0 in the first game after the biggest game on Texas’ schedule every season, with five of those wins coming against ranked teams. Nebraska will be the highest-ranked opponent of that bunch and it will be the first time since 2002 that Texas had to play a ranked team on the road after facing the Sooners. Win and Texas ends a two-game crisis—and the rivalry—with another heartbreaker for Nebraska. Lose and the Longhorns are stuck in the long slog of a rebuilding year just one season after they played for the national championship. “Games like this one are games coaches live for,” Brown said. “You want that moment. You want that chance. Everything will be against us. That’s a cool challenge for these coaches and a team that’s got some growing up to do.” Texas’ Brown has handled Nebraska since ’98

That was one great post. I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I can somewhat understand a lower ranking but not 13th. With all of the fumbles, penalties and inability to stop the run, lucky to be undefeated and ranked in the top ten. If we can fix those issues, top 3 team easy.

I voted OU, hate Texas far to much to ever vote for them. I hope they lose the rest of their games this season and their 5 star commits decommit (and come to Nebraska instead). Would love to see a undefeated Nebraska versus an undefeated OU in the championship.