REX BURKHEAD???

[It'sNotAFakeID]

No they're not. But to peg this game on the coordinators is kinda unfair as much as pegging the loss on Taylor is. I think Beck was calling his game like he wanted, then the turnovers forced him to call the game differently. Who knows how he would've called it if the turnovers didn't happen. It might've been the same, it might've been different. There's a lot of grey area.

[Enhance]

No they're not. But to peg this game on the coordinators is kinda unfair as much as pegging the loss on Taylor is. I think Beck was calling his game like he wanted, then the turnovers forced him to call the game differently. Who knows how he would've called it if the turnovers didn't happen. It might've been the same, it might've been different. There's a lot of grey area.

I agree there's a lot of grey area, but there hasn't been one game Martinez has dominated the passing game in his career except against Oklahoma St., and they had one of the worst pass defenses in all of division one football last year. Even so, why on earth would Martinez throwing one interception make Beck think we needed to pass the ball more? That seems backwards to me - failing at one thing, so lets keep doing it.

 

I still think Beck is to blame for only calling what...seven run plays for Burkhead in an entire half. Seven? Seriously? He's one of the best players on our team and he only gets seven carries? I know Martinez has some control over play-calling, so it's possible he also changed the play for what he saw in the defense. Either way, it was the wrong judgement.

[walksalone]

Still trying to figure out why NU all but abandoned the run game when it was only down by 6.

 

Because Beck caught a case of the dreaded "Watson-itis".

 

Symptoms are..

 

1. When plays are working well, stop running them

2. When plays aren't working well, keep running them

[Landlord]

Agreed on the previous post, it was uncanny how much our offensive scheme resembled a Shawn Watson product in the 2nd quarter against Wisconsin.

[chickenheart]

My friend and I who were at the game came to the same conclusion. We need more handoffs to Rex. Seems like Martinez kept audibling to his own number. Rex needed the carries, and the tosses weren't getting anything.

This!

[VectorVictor]

I don't think the Rexcat is a cure-all when 7+ defenders are in the box.

[zoogs]

I don't think it's a cure-all, but it's a consistent package of the offense that I think we should employ. Just another way to attack a defense and keep drives going.

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Just a thought. Can anyone name another athletic quarterback that is more inept at scrambling out of the pocket than TMart? Guy turns into Drew Bledsoe when he makes up his mind to run..

Yeah he often is a click slow in making the decision on when to take off. Sometimes it's like you see a rusty hamster wheel grinding away up there.

[Enhance]

I don't know if it's Martinez being slow so much as Martinez just being completely indecisive. I seem to recall him having worse happy feet when he scrambles than when he is just sitting in the pocket.

 

This isn't new, though. It was the same deal with Martinez last year. When he takes the ball on a designed run it makes sense to him, but when tries to make something out of nothing then it just looks awful.