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He also seems to have a slower release, mostly due to dropping his arm angle to sidearm on so many passes.

How much did the owners of Vala’s Pumpkin Patch bribe the Big Ten so Nebraska could have 2 straight Saturday’s in October with no game?

You seriously don't know where Kearney is? Have you ever been to Nebraska? In terms of Nebraska cities, Kearney isn't a "small town". I thought I was bad with me being from Omaha and thinking anything west of Lincoln is "Western Nebraska".

Mav, thanks for posting that recap of Haarberg's passing. if I look at things objectively, the passing was pretty average, but not as bad as everyone made things seem. Here is my summary of HH's passing from that video. - He started out very well on the first drive, hitting big plays to Washington and Fidone - Of the 12 incompletions, 3 of those are what I would call "throw away" passes where he was under pressure or no receivers were open - On what I am going to deem "deep passes" (20+ yards down field), he was 2 of 4 with an INT. NU was able to score 10 points on the drivers where he completed a deep pass. One incompletion was on a well-covered wheel route and the INT was basically the same as a punt on 3rd and 14. The DB didn't get any yardage after the INT, and that was Haarberg's last pass of the night. - IMO his worst pass/read of the night was on 3rd and 5 in the 2nd quarter. Haarberg looked for a slant route, and thankfully the ball was knocked down at the LOS, because there were 2 other defenders covering the slant route (including one who was under the WR). - The good news is that HH followed that poor 3rd down pass with maybe his best pass of the night on 4th and 5. He moved right in the pocket as he felt some rush, and hit the WR with a nice pass right at the first down line. - His worst drive was the possession right before half. I was frustrated with the play-calling on that drive. I know Satt is looking to get points before the half, but right after Illinois scored to cut the lead to 17-7, I thought the prudent play calls would have been to run the ball, run clock, or force Illinois to use their timeouts. I thought the play calls weren't good, especially considering NU was going into the wind, which wouldn't have been good for a long FG. - On that drive before half, Haarberg had some passes sail on him, and weren't close to the receiver. He also made a poor decision on a pass over the middle which could have been picked by a LB. - In the 2nd half, it seemed like the offense was more conservative due to the good field position and the score of the game. Haarberg did have a poor pass/miscommunication down the middle to Fidone when NU was in the red zone. Haarberg did have good execution on a 3rd and 2 pass to pick up a key 1st down in the 4th quarter. Unfortunately, that was followed by one of the fumbles by a RB. I expect DC's to play zone defenses against NU with either Haarberg or Sims at QB, because that will force them to read the defenses to find an open man. However, zone defenses also might be good for NU because that really wouldn't force the NU WR's to win one on one battles,. That would enable our WR's to find soft spots in the zones.

Well, with Washington’s injury last night (which didn’t look good), the coaches had no choice but to play Coleman, and Coleman was in for 57 snaps. Coleman will be getting first team reps in practice now, so maybe we can see good things from him the second half of the season.

Yeah, the call for Purdy to start by someone was an interesting one.

I think Haarberg changed the play call on 2 of those plays near the end of the first half. Of course, the coaches need to emphasize to him to not change the play call in those situations.

Or the defense allows points on Illinois’ first drive and who knows what happens the rest of the game. I’m just glad NU did what we needed to do to win the game. Winning ugly is a better feeling than “losing pretty”.

Waking up this morning after a win is a lot better than waking up after a loss. It wasn’t pretty, but the team played TOGETHER. That’s what you want as a coach. A team can’t blame one side or the other. They pick each other up. Who knows, maybe the offense will have a game this year where it responds and picks up the defense. Honestly, the offense had a good response after the defense made the stop at our own goal line. The offense retained the ball, moved down the field, and scored points. That time allowed the defense to figure out what Illinois was doing, and it led to three straight 3 and outs. Rhule wants to coach a cohesive team, and for some parts of last night’s game, it was like that. The next steps in the rebuild are to do that more and more of the game.

NU gets penalties called against us for those things, but the rest of the Big Ten doesn’t.

Yeah, the bye week is coming at a great time. Plus, we need to get some young WR’s to know the playbook.

We didn’t

For the past 5 years under Frost, teams played for NU to make the mistakes which cost NU the games. Now, tonight, NU relied on the other team making mistakes. I agree that NU didn’t play well, but NU won. That’s all I care about.

He is an assistant coach for Omaha Westside, and they had a game tonight.

Dude, Bert is FAT!!!

The D adjusted to what Illinois did in that first drive and shut them down for over 3/4 of the game.

The best full back was out against Michigan, so he was probably limited tonight. They did use Bonner as an H-back a lot tonight.

I actually feel bad for Satterfield when his players have trouble executing simple play calls.

Don’t you put any blame on the players? Do you think the coaches teach them to make mistakes?

You all may want style points, but I don’t care how NU got a win this week. It was very ugly, but let’s just win and move on.

Thanks for confirming. Very weird.

I haven’t listened to much of his show, but they just gave Benning a new co-host in Ravi Lulla. Seems like odd timing if true.

Do you have a direct line to John Lynch? RG has been traded to the 49ers.

NU is one of the worst first quarter teams in the country, yet you can’t resist this bet.

Iowa’s scoring figures include at least 2 defense/special teams TD’s, so NU and Iowa’s offenses are about as equally inept.