Speed City

[Moiraine]

9 minutes ago, Elaida said:

Nebriska with a large amount of smoked brisket.  

 

 

  

 

You're acting addlebrained.

[Scarlet Overkill]

4 hours ago, knapplc said:

I'd say this is a reference to both the speed of the players and the speed of the plays. I think the Offense is ready to move FAST. Sounds like they're practicing about as quickly as the coaches want, and they're ready to unleash it live.

 

If the coaches are speaking publicly about it, they're confident.

 

I like it.

 

I like it until they need to bleed clock and don’t know how.

[Pedro G]

3 hours ago, Scarlet Overkill said:

 

I like it until they need to bleed clock and don’t know how.

Now that you said that, a few practices ago, the offense struggled with the four- minute and two-minute offense. Being accustomed to moving fast, I can see how that will take time to master. 

[ZRod]

12 hours ago, Scarlet Overkill said:

 

I like it until they need to bleed clock and don’t know how.

 

8 hours ago, Pedro G said:

Now that you said that, a few practices ago, the offense struggled with the four- minute and two-minute offense. Being accustomed to moving fast, I can see how that will take time to master. 

I don't think that's how Scott wants his offense to operate. I think if he gets things humming like he wants, it's stand on the gas and don't let up until they're finished. It's like when you tell a racing driver to slow his lap time down to conserve his tires. He loses his rythm and can end up losing the car. Better to just tell them to be smooth 

[WyoHusker56]

5 minutes ago, ZRod said:

 

I don't think that's how Scott wants his offense to operate. I think if he gets things humming like he wants, it's stand on the gas and don't let up until they're finished. It's like when you tell a racing driver to slow his lap time down to conserve his tires. He loses his rythm and can end up losing the car. Better to just tell them to be smooth 

 

I agree. It'd be interesting to see a stat on how often bleeding clock works vs doesn't. I can think of so many games where a team tried to waste time, but instead went 3 and out, gave the opponent great field position and ended up tied or losing. It's risky yes, but go for the win. 

[4skers89]

I wouldn't mind fast forwarding through this season to next year's spring game.   Having Smothers, Martinez and McCaffrey will be a program high point of the past 20 years for QB.  They all seem to have "it" as well as being fast.

[ColoradoHusk]

13 minutes ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

I agree. It'd be interesting to see a stat on how often bleeding clock works vs doesn't. I can think of so many games where a team tried to waste time, but instead went 3 and out, gave the opponent great field position and ended up tied or losing. It's risky yes, but go for the win. 

I think there's a balance between trying to bleed clock and going for the win.  For example, Ohio State was up 2 scores last year against Nebraska early in the 4th quarter and they threw 3 incomplete passes.  IMO, I thought that was a terrible series.  If Ohio State runs at least twice, at least a minute and a half comes off the clock.  Not only did Ohio State go 3 and out, but the 3 incomplete passes took no time off the clock.

 

If NU is up by 2 scores early in the 4th quarter, I think it would be prudent to slow the offense down just a bit.  If the clock is running, I think NU could take the clock down to around 10 seconds on the play clock, rather than snapping the ball early in the play clock.  There are opportunities to let the clock run which NU should take better advantage of.

[Mavric]

26 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

If NU is up by 2 scores early in the 4th quarter, I think it would be prudent to slow the offense down just a bit.  If the clock is running, I think NU could take the clock down to around 10 seconds on the play clock, rather than snapping the ball early in the play clock.  There are opportunities to let the clock run which NU should take better advantage of.

 

IMO that's way too early to be doing things differently.  Once you change what you're doing, it changes everyone's mind-set.  "OK, we're just going to relax and take it easy now."  Maybe go a little more run-heavy but not changing how you're doing other things

 

Once you get under about 5:00, then maybe tweak some things.  Before that I'm not in favor of the Frank Solich Prevent Offense (TM).

[Moiraine]

 

 

 

We built speed city on Frost and Duval

 

[Undone]

Just now, Moiraine said:

We built speed city on Frost and Duval

 

So good.

[Toe]

@Moiraine Does this mean we're going to have even more mullets on the team soon?

[Moiraine]

22 minutes ago, Toe said:

@Moiraine Does this mean we're going to have even more mullets on the team soon?

 

 

I sure hope so. 

[Pedro G]

What on earth is Gerry DiNardo talking about that Nebraska doesn’t have a real fast deep threat? I believe that was a quote from the Lincoln Journal Star. Where has he been? 

[84HuskerLaw]

It appears we will have the fastest set of receivers in the conference as a group and one of the fastest in the country.   We have a load of sprinters and most run under 10.8  hundreds or 4.5 in the forty.   Quick and speedy both.   Dinardo just doesn't know what he's talking about, often frankly.

[Moiraine]

I'm wondering if DiNardo is just thinking making an assumption based on height.