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Nope. We are in agreement. I think we are as talented right now as we have been in a long time. Maybe since those first years under Bo.
I couldn't make sense of what McKewon was tryng to say either. Regardless, I would be extremey disappointed if we only managed 7 wins with these players and our schedule.
Actually, almost every expert I've heard has said Nebraska has more talent than Wisconsin. Really the question is whether Riley, Langsdorf, and Banker will better utilize that talent to result in playmakers making plays. We've got playmakers on both sides of the ball. Tommy, Pierson-El, Westerkamp are easily on the list offensively. Gerry, Banderas, Collins and Velentine on defense. There's seven right there. Let's hope this staff creates a few more.
What happened?
I know you think you're being really smart, and you're rag tag bunch that +1's every word of your stuff thinks you are clever, but I'll tell you flat out, you only sound like a Bo-Lover who's been waiting to pounce on this stuff. You almost seem happy at the possibility of the team failing just to prove you right.
So what happened, seriously? Let me tell you what happened.
Point number one I've got to make with guys like you, the sky is not falling for me. I've got hope. I like some things I've seen. So when you ask what happened as if this team is a giant failure, I think you're full of it.
We lost on a Hail Mary to what turns out to be a very good BYU team that still even had their Heisman hopeful QB at the helm for most of the game. The game was called a toss-up game by many people all off season, but then when Nebraska loses the toss up, it's Bo Lover marathon here about how terrible we are. Get real. It was one play, a fluke play, that ended up costing us a game we really had won.
Oh, and by the way, that was the first game with an entirely new coaching staff. If you're not smart enough as a football fan to understand the challenges facing a new staff, then I can't help you. If the facts don't smack you upside the head, then you're hopeless. I spent half the off-season trying to explain to you and your posse, the challenges of new staff, new system, and cultural issues left by the former staff. You've clearly ignored those conversations, and at this point, it only shows your ignorance.
We smashed Southern Alabama like we were supposed to. It's never good enough for most of you when we win those games, but boy if we lose them its wah wah wah all the way home. It's a lose lose situation for the Huskers. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
We went to Miami, another toss up game in many eyes all off season. We come out ugly, we fight back and make it a hell of a game and lose in overtime. Why is your world falling all around you after that loss? I don't get it? What do you mean what happened? We went to Miami, battled the elements, got exposed by a QB named Kaaya who is going to expose a lot more defense than ours, which happened to be in only their third game in this system. But a near comeback, a hell of a team effort, and a brilliant game by our QB and instead of talking about any positives, your digging up months old quotes trying to throw sh#t in peoples faces.
The fact that you're a mod on this board demonstrates the direction of this board. Sad.
So what happened? Banderas has been hurt all season. Micheal Rose Ivey has had one game. Dedrick Young is a rising FRESHMAN. Our CB's have never played in a system like this. J. Rose, one of those starting CB's was suspended first game. Our starting DE Gangwish got injured first game. We've been beat up and injured all over the place on defense, plus suspensions. We've got talent, but the inexperience in some spots is evident. Kalu, Cockrell, and Williams have never been tested like this. Valentine was injured last game. There's a few "what happened's" for ya.
Offensively, what is there to whine about? We do have a ton of talent offensively, and even then, our greatest talent got hurt in the offseason. DPE is a game changer. I'd bet everything I own that DPE healthy in BYU or Miami makes atleast one play on special teams or offense that probably changes the outcomes of those games.
And even still, we lost two games by a total of 8 points. Good lord, what the hell are some of you so fragile and negative about? This is football. Those games could've went either way, they just didn't go our way and all of a sudden everybody sucks?
This staff is rebuilding this team, it's gonna take maybe more than three games, and yet the good things about this team are already evident as hell to some of us.
The guys like you, and the handful of others running around this site pissing on everything, has gotten so stale so fast. Ban my a$$ if you don't like what I'm telling you Saunders, because I think you're one of the most subtle sneaky Bo-Lovers on this site. You're good about how you do it, and you think you're sly about it, but I don't think you are at all. And then you go back and quote stuff like this to get a haha moment at the expense of people who are trying to spread some positivity, and really I think you're the one looking foolish.
