CFL Roundtable: Nebraska

[Hunter94]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

i need to go back and review those plays, but boy, the guy was lightening in a bottle his first season, he seemed so darn quick with his burst, just amazing back then...

 

[bshirt]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

Yeah, that was the thing. "Sometimes", but not often, last year he looked like the old Tmart that got shot out of a cannon. I'll be very, very surprised if we don't see a lot more of that this year. But who knows? I really, really hope Beck unleashes him a LOT more this year. We got Carnes and others ready (I hope) so there's no need to play it safe anymore.

No matter what the status of our defense this year we'll need all the offense we can get.

 

[knapplc]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

i need to go back and review those plays, but boy, the guy was lightening in a bottle his first season, he seemed so darn quick with his burst, just amazing back then...

Watch the burst he shows on that Read, the play before the TD. His first few steps were QUICK, then once he got into traffic in the secondary he slowed visibly.

I watched it twice to be sure I was seeing what I thought I saw.

 

[Hunter94]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

i need to go back and review those plays, but boy, the guy was lightening in a bottle his first season, he seemed so darn quick with his burst, just amazing back then...

Watch the burst he shows on that Read, the play before the TD. His first few steps were QUICK, then once he got into traffic in the secondary he slowed visibly.

I watched it twice to be sure I was seeing what I thought I saw.

so he is now tentative once he is in the secondary?.....or..........worried about a big hit?

 

[knapplc]

so he is now tentative once he is in the secondary?.....or..........worried about a big hit?

He was running toward traffic. He burst through the line but the safeties (or someone) were in front of him. You'll see when you watch it.

 

[PaulCrewe]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

The other time, off the top of my noggin that I remember seeing the RS Frosh Taylor burst, was the first TD in the comeback vs OSU. When he was that monster lane open up he was onto the second level in a heartbeat.

 

[Fuzzy]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

Yea the zone-read Taylor Martinez is gone. What we need to look for is the option Taylor Martinez and see what kind of improvement he has made in that department.

 

[knapplc]

Yea the zone-read Taylor Martinez is gone. What we need to look for is the option Taylor Martinez and see what kind of improvement he has made in that department.

That first play against Penn State in the two-play combo I'm talking about was a Zone Read.

 

[zoogs]

Still think the zone read is where we have seen Taylor at his deadliest running the ball. Not weaving through traffic downfield or dodging or powering through defenders, or making quick cuts upfield in the option. Just straight zoomin' through a crease given by a DL that took Rex.

 

[bshirt]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

Yea the zone-read Taylor Martinez is gone. What we need to look for is the option Taylor Martinez and see what kind of improvement he has made in that department.

??????? Says who?

 

[IvabigN]

if we're going to use lame nicknames for ex-players, can someone clarify the correct spelling of said lame nickname?

Thank you very little

Can we just agree to stop calling him "Fonzie"

That'd be a start to his rehab

ok then, phonzee it is

I'm sure there's a reason for this obsession. But I'll be damned if I can figure it out.

If you don't like it, just ignore it. You call way more attention to something by going on about it like this.

I could say the exact same thing about the obsessive need of some people to call a grown man they've never met, by a moronic nickname, ........or I could just ignore it-: which I'll do from here on out, since I noticed you're a mod

 

[knapplc]

if we're going to use lame nicknames for ex-players, can someone clarify the correct spelling of said lame nickname?

Thank you very little

Can we just agree to stop calling him "Fonzie"

That'd be a start to his rehab

ok then, phonzee it is

I'm sure there's a reason for this obsession. But I'll be damned if I can figure it out.

If you don't like it, just ignore it. You call way more attention to something by going on about it like this.

I could say the exact same thing about the obsessive need of some people to call a grown man they've never met, by a moronic nickname, ........or I could just ignore it-: which I'll do from here on out, since I noticed you're a mod

Cool story.

 

[Hunter94]

i don't think we will ever see the same guy who ran the zone read in his first season. that guy is no longer with us.

You might be right. But there were flashes last year where that guy showed up. Not all the time, and honestly not nearly often enough, but he was there. I'm rewatching the Penn State game, and on the drive where we scored our second TD, Taylor had a great read/run right up the gut with old-Taylor acceleration. He followed that by a pretty decent and gutsy Option, including a late pitch to Rex after both had run past the Safety, leading to Rex's 14-yard TD. That was a heck of a set of back-to-back plays.

If he can put that together for a season he'll be scary for opponents, especially combined with Rex. We have yet to see that, though.

Yea the zone-read Taylor Martinez is gone. What we need to look for is the option Taylor Martinez and see what kind of improvement he has made in that department.

??????? Says who?

opposing defenses sure know what the zone red looks like, maybe we can get TM into a different wrinkle for using that straight ahead speed, i hope Beck is working on some different looks......

 

[zoogs]

Still think the zone read is by far the best way to get him to use simple straight-ahead burst. Nothing else will put him in that much space from the point of the snap.

 

[RedRedJarvisRedwine]

Mark my word. Taylor Martinez will be lights out this year. Denard Robinson is overrated and always has been. He's a ticking time bomb of interceptions and bad decisions. Martinez will outplay Robinson, all year long.

Who's overrating Denard? Sure seems like from this board and every other non-Michigan internet bastion that Denard is an absolutely terrible QB, that Braxton Miller is already 100% better (not to mention his potential) and that the entire team lucked its way into 11 wins. Denard will get hurt in the first week of B1G play and Hoke will be exposed. Everyone knows this.

Still would like to know who stole Bo's copy of the UM-MSU game last year!!! MSU blitzed Robinson from the time they finished breakfast till they went to bed!!! We must have lost the video or had it stolen cause we didn't bring anybody!