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HANC
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Horizontal passing game or running? Serious question, how many jet sweeps did Rondale actually break during his 2 years. He is huge weapon, and I have mentioned jets, but then as I sit back, I cant think if many he has produced....honestly, not a ton of bubble or tunnel screens either. He just seems to make plays by finding holes in zones downfield
Lacks top end speed, small catch radius, gets armed tackled all of the time when running between the tackles, and only averaged 9 yards a catch last season. He is replaceable a lot easier then some people are making this out to be.
In the Big Ten, small WR's tend to have a limited impact. The Betts of the world is what you want across the file at WR. Those are the guys that will get wins in the Big Ten, not 4 Wandales out on the field at the same time. It hasn't mattered if Wandale has gotten 6 catches or 9 catches in a game, there have been wins and loses with both cathing stats.
Getting the ball spread vertically with bigger bodied WR's is what the offense needs. TE production was good last season and will only get better. Double TE's, with Betts, Brown, and Martin = more successful offense.
Frost's better offenses as a head coach have never had a Wandale at WR.
Brown, Betts, Martin, Nixon, they are all faster than Wandale. Wandale is shiffty guy in space, but you don't see him taking it to the house for a reason - lacks top end speed. Rahmir is faster too.
Even if I give you this point, I would still argue much easier to replace one Wandale esque type athlete compared to a competent OL. So, still the focus should be on the lines, and those seem to be coming along. That's the foundation, then you add the sparkles. I hope among hope that Wandale stays because we need the men with the experience of the past 2 years to help add gravity to the future improvement should the corner turn. I also really like the kid.. Seems like a class act and a great boon to the program.
One player is not a team. And if someone wants to go closer to home what can a coach do? Force him to stay? Lol good lord
Decked
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Wan’Dale was absolutely critical at making first down catches on 3rd down. A mistake eraser. Glue hands. RB fill in when Mills & freshman were down too. This guy plays about 4-5 positions. Probably the only WR besides Falck I would trust to catch a tight 3rd down ball. He’s not a crazy vertical threat due to his lack of top end speed. That’s why we so badly need one so we can use Wan’Dale around the LOS.
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Ziebol
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Well considering he is the majority of our offense and Frost and co can’t seem to keep their best playmakers happy 3 years in a row. When they trot Wan’dale as the face of the program and he bolts cause he isn’t happy that is not a good look, no matter how you want to spin it. This is a kid they had at the revealing of the plans for the new facilities and he just leaves? You’re a dolt if you don’t think it’s a bad look for Frost and this program. And what’s going to be the excuse when he doesn’t go to Kentucky and chooses somewhere else?
Speaking of this, so, I'm good with Jergens moving on, are you? I mean, it's only taken him three years to learn how to hike a football. Are we gonna endure this for five [5] years. The guy is gonna end up with a Masters at hiking the football and really suck at it.
I'm using this as a point ... we have endured three crappy years of his "learning" and it has killed enough drives or put the D in a bad spot. as you said, "give me a good OL". So, if we don't need a player like Wandale and he can just move on because hey, we can replace him with the next guy just like he's a piece of bread ... I'm fine with that view. But why in the hell do we put up with three years of a crap snapping Center when he obviously can't figure it out and having a good OL is everything? My thought is that he is probably gonna be worth it when he is a Junior or Senior. Okay, I get that ... but then why do we not care about keeping a player who has performed as a Freshman and Sophomore who you would think is a great face to the program and you can put pieces around and you would think will have a really good Junior and Senior year [that same one most use as to why to keep Jergens?].
None of it makes sense to me. It adds to the death of Scott Frost accomplishing anything here at Nebraska ... and that really bums me out.
Decked
Heisman Trophy Winner
Horrible takes for 500.
Mills may not even come back and our offensive line is average to below average. This is dumb. You need WRs.
You just want to make it seem worse than it actually is. Like I have said, Frost's best offenses, even at Oregon, didn't have a Wandale. I don't even want to see a Wandale in this program again. Give me the bigger body WR's that can win battles for a vertical passing game. We can easily motion out RB's for quick pass and catch plays that Wandale did all of the time.
FrantzHardySwag
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Yeah trying to imagine the offense without Wandale is grim. If we're without Mills and Wandale, it will be starting from scratch with a lot of early bumps. Also have to wonder if AM takes a step back without his safety blanket. We potentially could be going into next year with zero proven threats at RB and WR - and that's a problem for an offense that was ineffective WITH Wandale and Mills.