** 2017 Opponent Previews: Northwestern (Game 9) **

[Mavric]

Any guesses why the Huskers have not had much luck at home with these guys? (Taking them for granted, sloppy performance, them being fired up?)

Not trying to dis Northwestern but the results of the games are significantly more about us playing poorly than them playing well.

They could say the same thing. It's a matter of perception.

That's the way Oregon views itself vs NU last year. How many of you would be willing to attest to that?

Not really. Doesn't take much to look at the stats and see we mostly killed ourselves.

2011 - The one time they actually "beat" us. Out-gained us by 50 yards. Managed to win by 3 points.

2012 - We only won by 1 point thanks to three turnovers (to their 0) but we out-gained them 543-301.

2013 - It took the Hail Mary to win but we again out-gained them 472-326. Killed ourselves with 4 turnovers

2014 - Finally played a good game and beat them by 21

2015 - We out-gained them by 40 despite letting a freshman QB run for 126 yards which was about a third of his total for the year. Lost the turnover battle and the game.

2016 - Beat them by two scores despite fumbling twice inside the 10.

 

[Treand3]

The Northwestern series has been an interesting one. No one wants to make the home crowd happy for the most part.

Any guesses why the Huskers have not had much luck at home with these guys? (Taking them for granted, sloppy performance, them being fired up?)

Some taking them for granted but mostly sloppy play imo.

Taking them for granted? How about Pat Fitzgerald just knows how to put a competitive group on the field? Christ almighty, taking them for granted would be something a great team does. Literally nothing Nebraska has accomplished warrants that mindset. It's time for the fans to stop using that as an excuse.
If you have a loss to Purdue in the last 10 years. You can't take anyone for granted. Or else you're an idiot.

As Mav said, not trying to diss NW BUT many times Nebraska rested on their name(or their perception of the opponent) and didn't come ready to play. Don't have to be a great or even good team to overestimate the other team. I agree that Nebraska isn't in the position to overlook an opponent, but their losses against NW gave been largely self inflicted.

 

[Treand3]

Any guesses why the Huskers have not had much luck at home with these guys? (Taking them for granted, sloppy performance, them being fired up?)

Not trying to dis Northwestern but the results of the games are significantly more about us playing poorly than them playing well.

They could say the same thing. It's a matter of perception.
That's the way Oregon views itself vs NU last year. How many of you would be willing to attest to that?

Not really. Doesn't take much to look at the stats and see we mostly killed ourselves.

2011 - The one time they actually "beat" us. Out-gained us by 50 yards. Managed to win by 3 points.

2012 - We only won by 1 point thanks to three turnovers (to their 0) but we out-gained them 543-301.

2013 - It took the Hail Mary to win but we again out-gained them 472-326. Killed ourselves with 4 turnovers

2014 - Finally played a good game and beat them by 21

2015 - We out-gained them by 40 despite letting a freshman QB run for 126 yards which was about a third of his total for the year. Lost the turnover battle and the game.

2016 - Beat them by two scores despite fumbling twice inside the 10.

Totally agree AND in that '11 game Burkhead, who regularly had sure hands, fumbled on NW's 5. Ironically, as you mentioned, Nebraska lost by 3.
Oh and in '15 Tommy threw a pick 6.

 

[Mavric]

I don't think it was a matter of not being ready to play for the most part. We dominated a lot of those games. But we've been mistake probe for a long time. And Northwestern is good at playing solid, not beating themselves and taking advantage of other teams mistakes.

 

[Treand3]

I don't think it was a matter of not being ready to play for the most part. We dominated a lot of those games. But we've been mistake probe for a long time. And Northwestern is good at playing solid, not beating themselves and taking advantage of other teams mistakes.

Sure but the other side of being ready to play is not being sloppy/mistake prone, but I'm on your side of the ledger.

 

[Mavric]

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[hskrfan4life]

Any guesses why the Huskers have not had much luck at home with these guys? (Taking them for granted, sloppy performance, them being fired up?)

Not trying to dis Northwestern but the results of the games are significantly more about us playing poorly than them playing well.

They could say the same thing. It's a matter of perception.
That's the way Oregon views itself vs NU last year. How many of you would be willing to attest to that?

Northwestern is a well-coached team that isn't going to out-talent many teams, but takes advantage of opponents' mistakes to win close games. That's how come they have records between 5-7 and 9-3 every year.
Oregon probably had way more talent than NU last year, and had more talent than a lot of their opponents last year. But, they weren't a well-coached team and that got their coach fired. It will be interesting how Taggart is able to improve Oregon's sloppiness and game mistakes going forward.

Could very well be a turn around like Pelini had. Inheriting alot of talent just need the coach to do it.

 

[Mavric]

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[suh_fan93]

Dienhart: 5 things I learned at Northwestern fall practice




1. Northwestern needs some wideouts to step up.

2. QB Clayton Thorson is looking good.

3. This secondary is the best part of the defense.

4. The defensive line has nice potential.

5. I like the LBs a lot. 

 

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