Two Reasons Nebraska Fans Will Love Mike Riley’s 2016 Offense

[ScottyIce]

 

 

Lol, the amount of people that are sour on here about eightlaces references. These people must be having a bad day. I thought it was a great piece, references aside, the point of the article was to show that Carter and Snyder could be deadly together. Man, Snyder can run for a big guy!

 

Objectively, what was great about it?

 

What I found interesting was the call out against Sam Cotton in the headline, but then no reference of him (or his alleged lack of production) in the body of the doc. By the way, Cotton's played in 11 games and started 6; he's been an important contributor in ways other than catching passes.

 

The other baffling reference was to Tim Beck's comment about college football. Inclusion of this random statement seems like a jab at a former coach who is actually having strong success at his new gig. He's actually right, though:

 

1. among the top 10 most productive offenses in the country, how many are getting more than 5% or so of production from their TEs or FBs).

 

2. Only one TE is among the top 100 receiving yardage gainers in CFB -- UCLA's TE at #51. Only 3 total are among the top 150 yardage gainers, with the two others eeking in at #142 and #144.

 

3. Of the half dozen or so teams that have gotten more than 400 yards (or 40 yards a game) receiving out of a TE, only Western Kentucky has a top 30 offense in terms of scoring, and their TE accounts for only about 12% of their receiving offense (and 8% of their total offense).

 

4. FB measurable production is even less evident, although, admittedly, that doesn't mean it can't be a valuable part of an offense. It's hard to tell how many teams are still using them in their normal sets, but it's definitely becoming extinct in anything other than goal line (i'd bet there are as many teams that run goalline out of shotgun/pistol as there are teams running a FB out of their base sets).

 

By the way was "cradling" not a reference to carrying after catch, but rather catching the ball? Typically, guys shouldn't cradle catches, which implies letting the ball get into the body during the catch. Odd word choice. Though not as odd as introducing wide receiver records and saying TEs may (in tandem?) break them.

What were you saying about Beck and strong success? He just put up 150 yards of offense in 1 entire game...