Hammerhead

Ride or die with Martinez... some things never change

Oh, Adrian...

Not much on that punt.  Too much time for Wisconsin to score before halftime.

Now Wisconsin knows how we feel with the crappy officiating.  It's definitely not just us being victimized by it.

Would be nice if we could keep things working on both sides of the ball.  Seems like whenever one unit does well, the other takes a series off and kills our momentum.

Anyone who thinks Martinez is capable of playing on Sundays need only watch that last throw.  NFL scouts would puke if they had to watch that.

(EDIT: Then he actually makes a nice throw.  He's full of surprises, I'll give him that!)

Absolutely have to take advantage of that short field.  Anything less than a TD on this drive would be a massive disappointment.

Great series by the defense!  Should get great field position out of this.

Terrible way to end that drive when we had 3rd and 1 in 4-down territory.

4 minutes ago, huskerfan74 said:

So why start this thread if you already know what we learned?

To make people ask why I started the thread if I already know what we learned.

In that endeavor, I was successful.

4 minutes ago, Huskinator said:

Over under on how many times close is dropped?    I mean we are but that’s about all we’ve got 

At this point, all I can think of is horseshoes and hand grenades.

I considered going with "Did We Learn Anything?" for the title, but I don't want to break the format.  Honestly, it doesn't feel like we did learn anything today.  This has been the Huskers' MO all season long against opponents with a pulse: the defense keeps us competitive but gets gassed and gives up just what the other team needs to beat us, the offense has a few big plays here and there but spends most of the game spinning its wheels, and special teams... yeah.  I don't need to say anything more about that.

I think I said something similar in another WDWL thread here: this team has heart, but heart ain't enough.

1 minute ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

What coordinators are going to want to risk coming to a school where the HC's seat is white-hot? 

That's Frost's job to figure out if he wants to keep his.

Did anyone predict this game to end in any other way than exactly how it ended?  

It's like clockwork.

1 minute ago, The Duke said:

Well....

 

Trev Alberts has a lot to decide in the next few weeks.

 

Keep Frost - but he has to make coaching & scheme changes.

 

OR

 

Clean House.

 

What should Nebraska do?

I'm fine with giving Frost another year to sort it out, but with the caveat that he needs to find some assistants who know what they're doing.  Austin and Verduzco need to go and we need a dedicated ST coordinator at the very least.

If only we had a kicker half as good as Ruggles.

Needed a big punt from Przystup there.  Good to see special teams actually rising to the occasion for a change.

Just now, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

And THAT is why Frost is on the hot seat. You have a beautiful drive and then instead of going for it, you try a FG knowing how piss-poor our STs are.

To be fair, having to decide between which unit we trust less between offense and special teams isn't a good time.  

Then again, I think you have to give a slight edge to our offense, just because they occasionally make a good play.

I get that holding happens on about every play and doesn't get called, but how does a DL get straight up tackled and not get the call?

Can we have their kicker?

That's as good of a defensive stand as we could've hoped for to end the half.

1 minute ago, 87skers said:

Can someone please explain to me why we run it on 3rd and 16

Low odds of converting, can't afford an incompletion that stops the clock and gives OSU 40 more seconds on the clock

Good thing OSU is out of time outs, I'm not thrilled about running it and trusting our punter to flip the field.

Just now, Micheal said:

Oh whatever you do, don't take a sack. 

Right on cue...

Was that 2-yard return the longest punt return of the season for us?

(I wish that wasn't a somewhat serious question)