Husker Z
Five-Star Recruit
Maybe we shouldn't press the panic button on defense. Should we for offense? Against SDSU when we had to and our backs were against the wall, our defense rose up to the challenge and stopped SDSU from scoring. They were able to up their level of play. You can't say the same for the offensive side of the ball. Our offense showed that if someone game plans to take out that zone read, we have no answer for it. For all intents and purposes we were in a dog fight with the game very much on the line in the waning minutes of the 4th quarter and all our offense had to show for it were punts and picks and to put the win back on our defense. This is a red flag for 2009 repeat.
Didn't they have a 96 yard drive one of those times they were backed up?
I'm not ready to panic on the offense, quite yet. Sometimes you'll get a weird game where you aren't ready to play, whether you gameplanned wrong, you overlooked the game, you weren't jacked up to play, strange things happen during the game with ball control/ball security and everything all of a sudden snowballs and you can't make it stop. It happens to the best teams out there, almost on a weekly basis.
I think the offense has some things to address, no doubt, but I think they will and I think they will get back on track next Thursday. Our boys like the spotlight and they like playing on the road where everyone hates them, demoralizing an opponent and their fanbase in THEIR HOUSE is something our coaches and our players take pride in, they LOVE IT!