I think this is where I'm at. I understand we don't have top level edge rusher. I understand that we don't have an elite level NT. BUT with that in mind, get a scheme that maximizes the talent you do have. They had no run game. They came in with a team that was completely one dimensional. We didn't have a game plan designed to get to the one weapon they had-Thorson.......We used Gifford as a standup edge rusher. He was going up against a 300lb OT....That's a mismatch for a OLB. Gifford was game and made some plays, but was that really Chins best idea? Hell, the last drive, I would rather have had all DB's on the field. They were not going to try and run 99 yards.......
When Chin first came here he talked about an aggressive D. DB's who could play press coverage. That it really wasn't a 3-4, but something flexible. A D that would be adaptive. It has been none of this. A base 3-4 and really not much else. Little to no press and sure not dynamic and aggressive. Hard to reach the QB when you start your blitz from 10 yards off the LOS....No stunts, no confusing looks.....Vanilla. If our strategy is to score 50 if you score 49 and to use the D to simply give our O a rest, we will continue to lose. Even if we get the horses, this bend don't break will get you bent over in the B1G. We sure don't have the horses now so how about going to a 4-3 in passing downs and blitz a DB. Or putting in extra DT's to go to a 5 man front and use 6 DB's when it was fourth and 10 twice....Anything to put the "less" athletic players in a position to win and succeed.
The repeated penalties by DB's game in and game out....Start a true freshman. I'd rather lose by playing for the future than getting repeated penalties for getting beat like a drum in pass coverage.......Failing to cover and repeatedly having your back to the ball etc....Some of that is talent, but 6 games in after being with the guys since Dec and that's the product that is put on the field is BS.
Here is a quote from Chin explaining part of his D........
“We’re more on the side of a one-gap 3-4 with occasional two-gappers,” Chinander said. “Very aggressive in bringing a fourth or a fifth rusher and
playing up on people in coverage.”
Nebraska will prioritize pressuring the quarterback, Chinander said. Nebraska’s leading sack returner is defensive end Ben Stille, who had just 3½ sacks last season.
“Either we’re going to have the personnel to get to the quarterback or I’m going to have to manufacture it,” Chinander said. “That’s my job. We’re going to get it done. I don’t know if it’s going to be we line up with four or we line up with three and do blitz packages and get there, but we’ll get there.
It’s a very aggressive style.”
(Where in the hell is this D^)
So IMHO, the staff owns some of this craptastic season....0-6 First time in 126 seasons......
https://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/husker-defensive-coordinator-erik-chinander-wants-to-build-a-blackshirt/article_b54a55f5-1955-5bc0-a65a-1584acbd326f.html