*** 2019 Game 7 "Expert" Picks: Nebraska at Minnesota ***

[Clink-beard]

1 hour ago, Moiraine said:

we let the slowest guy on the opposing team run on us for his biggest game of the season.

Offensive coordinators wait all season just to use it against us and Nebraska gives up big/ key plays in the game.  Definitely has been painful to watch in the past.  

[GBRFAN]

2 hours ago, lo country said:

Weather dependent, this might be a great plan. Press the pace and hit them quick and often.  

 

i think it works in all conditions.  I hope we go under center with a lot of pulling lineman.  Similar to what happened to Warren Sapp during the bowl game in the mid 90's.  My biggest knock on AM is that he isn't fast thinking in this offense and that is 50% of what makes it work.  Either NV goes full speed with a 80% playbook or LM goes full speed with a 60% playbook.

[lo country]

38 minutes ago, GBRFAN said:

 

i think it works in all conditions.  I hope we go under center with a lot of pulling lineman.  Similar to what happened to Warren Sapp during the bowl game in the mid 90's.  My biggest knock on AM is that he isn't fast thinking in this offense and that is 50% of what makes it work.  Either NV goes full speed with a 80% playbook or LM goes full speed with a 60% playbook.

He doesn't plal like the same AM from last season.  I know I know look at lawrence and the soph slump (and OL and center), but he just "plays" different than last year.  Not decisive, missing open guys even with time, missing reads, not running when theres a lane....Just not the same.  I've seen flashes for sure, but not the same consistency as last year.

 

And I agree, Frost's O is dependent upon the motions and fast pace to keep D's off balance...

[The Scarlet Pimpernel]

I honestly don't think this game will be that close, and not in a good way.

 

Gophers 31-13.

[MyBloodIsRed16]

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

I am trying to think of them

 

Who was the Texas QB that sort of went off?  Gilbert?

 

The NW QB that one game.

 

 

 

 

Purdue the one year had their slow qb go for some long runs and then of course the NW qb gashed them 

[lo country]

21 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

I honestly don't think this game will be that close, and not in a good way.

 

Gophers 31-13.

I'll give you a shout out for the brutal honesty!  Hope that you are way wrong.  

[BigRedBuster]

26 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

I honestly don't think this game will be that close, and not in a good way.

 

Gophers 31-13.

Why???

[ColoradoHusk]

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

Why???

It’s not far-fetched. NU’s offense could struggle under Vedral and Minny hits a few big plays with their stud receivers. 

[Husker in WI]

54 minutes ago, lo country said:

He doesn't plal like the same AM from last season.  I know I know look at lawrence and the soph slump (and OL and center), but he just "plays" different than last year.  Not decisive, missing open guys even with time, missing reads, not running when theres a lane....Just not the same.  I've seen flashes for sure, but not the same consistency as last year.

 

 

I'm not claiming Martinez is playing exactly the same as last year, but I think some of the critiques this year are just persisting from the first few games. Since Frost yelled at him, I've only seen one instance of him not running when he should have or running tentatively. That play he also missed an open Spielman, but only after the play broke down so that's forgivable - hard to find receivers ad libbing sometimes. And frankly I haven't seen many concrete examples of him missing open receivers since the first games. Just anecdotal "guys are open, I can see them from the stands!" 

 

Unfortunately until he has a massive game, I think the indecisive/missing open guys narrative will persist. 

[ColoradoHusk]

2 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

 

I'm not claiming Martinez is playing exactly the same as last year, but I think some of the critiques this year are just persisting from the first few games. Since Frost yelled at him, I've only seen one instance of him not running when he should have or running tentatively. That play he also missed an open Spielman, but only after the play broke down so that's forgivable - hard to find receivers ad libbing sometimes. And frankly I haven't seen many concrete examples of him missing open receivers since the first games. Just anecdotal "guys are open, I can see them from the stands!" 

 

Unfortunately until he has a massive game, I think the indecisive/missing open guys narrative will persist. 

You mean like the massive game he had against Illinois where Martinez nearly had 450 total yards offense?

[BigRedBuster]

12 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

It’s not far-fetched. NU’s offense could struggle under Vedral and Minny hits a few big plays with their stud receivers. 

I’m not saying it can’t happen. I was asking why he thought it would happen. 

[Husker in WI]

11 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

You mean like the massive game he had against Illinois where Martinez nearly had 450 total yards offense?

Yeah, so make it 2 massive games until the narrative changes I guess. I'm not claiming all of the things people are complaining about didn't happen, I just haven't seen them the past few weeks. 

[Hayseed]

That first review was WAY OFF. It didn’t say anything about Vedral being a fast blinker or Mills running for 200 yards.

I honestly have no idea how either team will play, but away games have not been great for us. Maybe not getting to hear Prelude to Guy In the Sky is keeping our guys from being suitably peppy?

[Nebfanatic]

Run game finds a groove and we hit quick passes to keep the offense in rhythm. Our offense finally exploded on the scoreboard against these guys last year, lets do it again

[Hayseed]

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