What is most to blame for Nebraska's two losses?

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1 hour ago, MichiganDad3 said:

It is the Solich curse. Lightening eliminated our tune up game. Our best receiver drops in East TD that would have sealed the win. Then we lose our starting QB after the backup quit. We need a committee to create ba plan to end the curse.

 

Actually it wouldn't have necessarily sealed the win. I think it was 28-27 at that point. So we would have gone up by 8, and then driving back and scoring (along with a hypothetical two point conversion) would have tied it up.

 

But yeah...Morgan's drop hurt pretty bad.

 

[r06ue1]

Akron cancellation

Colorado playing dirty

 

Snowball from there

[MountainMan]

3 minutes ago, r06ue1 said:

Akron cancellation

Colorado playing dirty

 

Snowball from there

 

While there's probably some truth to it, its incredibly curious how the cancellation hasn't hurt Akron's start

[Mavric]

11 minutes ago, MountainMan said:

While there's probably some truth to it, its incredibly curious how the cancellation hasn't hurt Akron's start

 

Funny how Akron got their "warm-up" game against a woeful FCS team and then played a good game.  Plus has their starting QB playing the whole time.

[Undone]

13 minutes ago, MountainMan said:

 

While there's probably some truth to it, its incredibly curious how the cancellation hasn't hurt Akron's start

 

I get it, MountainMan. You're mad about being 0-2. And you're not here to discuss the topic of any given thread.

[TGHusker]

3 hours ago, StPaulHusker said:

Colorado marched down the field in the 4th quarter on a 7 play 77 yard drive for a TD.  We aren't 2 plays from being 2-0

True - but give me the SM dropped TD pass - and we are still up.

[StPaulHusker]

1 minute ago, TGHusker said:

True - but give me the SM dropped TD pass - and we are still up.

It doesn't mean we win.  

[TGHusker]

1 minute ago, StPaulHusker said:

It doesn't mean we win.  

It would have changed the whole complexion of the game from that point forward.  I believe they would have needed a 2 point conversion to tie us if things went the same after that.  We did stop them on the 2pt conversion they did try.

Think also of the momentum change on the 1st fumble by Bell on the opening drive. It looked like we were going to score (not on that play) but the drive.  That probably ends up being a 14 pt swing.  But as the saying goes  "If "IFs and Buts" were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas all year long."   So regardless - we lost the game by poor execution (TO and penalties), not stopping the better QB/WR tandem on the field, and some questionable time mgmt calls.

[Landlord]

Why do we need to assign blame? 

[StPaulHusker]

1 minute ago, Landlord said:

Why do we need to assign blame? 

Because we are Nebraska and that's what we do

[Landlord]

[StPaulHusker]

BECAUSE WE ARE THE GREATEST FANS!!!  IT SAYS SO AT THE STADIUM!!!

[BIG ERN]

One thing that wasn't good at UCF and still doesn't look good is special teams. We need to find a specific coordinator 

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As I look down the active threads on the first page of the Football forum, one thing sticks out to me pretty clearly - I don't think there's a single thread topic about poor defensive play after week 2. 

 

Seems pretty safe to say that Chinander is a big upgrade over the past three defensive coordinators we've had. So that's incredibly encouraging to me. That was my primary concern heading into the season.

[4skers89]

3 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

One thing that wasn't good at UCF and still doesn't look good is special teams. We need to find a specific coordinator 

450? Not sure if he’s available.