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Eric the Red

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How does everyone honestly feel about the front four the last two games.

I'm not as impressed as these announcers are I guess. There were plenty of time that Gregory had plenty of time and luckily he sucks and couldn't find the receiver that was open or maybe there was good coverage. But I noticed unless we blitzed, we had trouble getting pressure.

tHoughts?

 
Suh was a difference maker in the 4th qrt, but Crick's name was rarely called and I was not inpressed with the effort

Dunno, maybe we're spoiled, but I think we only had one or two sacks. I kept yell'n for the line to bust through

 
Eric, I've been saying this for a while now. Turner and Allen do not get off blocks. Suh and Crick are great, but bottom line, without all four guys going all-out, we don't shut teams down.

Combine the weak play of the Ends with our refusal to blitz more than a couple of times a game, and you get teams moving the ball on us.

What was really disheartening was our inability to control the middle of the field. KSU had guys running free there too often, and without real pressure on the QB, they hit those passes enough to hurt.

Our D Line is Big XII North good. They are not National Level good, because our Ends are all too often AWOL.

It's going to burn us against Texas, and it may burn us depending on who we play in the Bowl.

 
I've noticed too. Not sure if it's by plan to keep containment (which didn't work to well tonight) or if the offenses have changed their schemes a bit a more. Whatever the reason, it doesn't seem like our front 4 get the QB as often has they have in the past. Nonetheless, still a great game by the front 4. To have only a 4 man rush that can cause as much havoc as these guys go is a great feeling.

 
HuskerfaninOkieland said:
I've noticed too. Not sure if it's by plan to keep containment (which didn't work to well tonight) or if the offenses have changed their schemes a bit a more. Whatever the reason, it doesn't seem like our front 4 get the QB as often has they have in the past. Nonetheless, still a great game by the front 4. To have only a 4 man rush that can cause as much havoc as these guys go is a great feeling.
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Right, but why not have a LB or DB spy about five yards back? On pass plays we have, usually, seven guys in coverage. We do a pretty good job back there, but against a mobile QB we leave lanes open and we give up big runs when a spy back there would help shut those down.

 
I would agree. Another problem I seen tonight though was several busted coverages on the part of LB'ers. Most if not all of them, came on the crossing routes. On the replay you'd see two LB'ers on one guy leaving the other receiver open going across the middle.

 
knapplc said:
Eric, I've been saying this for a while now. Turner and Allen do not get off blocks. Suh and Crick are great, but bottom line, without all four guys going all-out, we don't shut teams down.

Combine the weak play of the Ends with our refusal to blitz more than a couple of times a game, and you get teams moving the ball on us.

What was really disheartening was our inability to control the middle of the field. KSU had guys running free there too often, and without real pressure on the QB, they hit those passes enough to hurt.

Our D Line is Big XII North good. They are not National Level good, because our Ends are all too often AWOL.

It's going to burn us against Texas, and it may burn us depending on who we play in the Bowl.
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It was Dillard's job to control the middle of the field and spy the RB. Half the time he looked like he didn't know where to be in coverage and he drops too far back - almost into the secondary where he ends up double covering a TE which is supposed to be the responsibility of the OLB's.

 
CENTEXHUSKER said:
Suh was a difference maker in the 4th qrt, but Crick's name was rarely called and I was not inpressed with the effort

Dunno, maybe we're spoiled, but I think we only had one or two sacks. I kept yell'n for the line to bust through
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This is what I was wondering - could be spoiled

BUt the KSU QB had an awful lot of time to sit back and look. I felt only because he was so bad we were eventually able to get to him. But he easily had 4 or more seconds to throw before we started to get near him. If the KSU QB could throw with any kind of accuracy, this would have been a different ball game.

Example: in his own endzone, #83 got behind the Husker DB and with a good throw, this guy goes 99 yeards.

Several throws over the middle were quiet inaccurate or else could have resulted in several first downs and more.

I'm curious if anyone agrees with me. :dunno

 
I was also waiting for the line to bust through. They did have to block our four with five guys mostly, sometimes six.

Gregory was a decent scrambler which created a lot of time to throw. He sensed pressure often and escaped. Even on that last blitz by Dillard, he averted it and created time, although eventually getting hit when attempting to throw.

I have noticed that when not enough attention is given to the DT's, they usually make the offense pay in some way.

 
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i think the whole game plan was to contain him and make him throw. that kid wasn't going to beat anybody throwing the ball. this is a microcosm of bo and carl's defensive philosophy. contain the qb, limit big plays, trade space for time and pinch them off at the red zone. like it or not, it is working.

 
Our d-line is good but they underachieve a lot. I think most of this has to do with our D-ends. We have world beaters at the DT position but our DE's haven't really had huge impacts this year.

 
wooow, people find the most worthless things to complain about, we held them to count them...3 points. Our D line was putting pressure and causing the qb to be jumpy. our d line is good for example maybe the va tech game? wow people this is sad.

 
GBRsal said:
i think the whole game plan was to contain him and make him throw. that kid wasn't going to beat anybody throwing the ball. this is a microcosm of bo and carl's defensive philosophy. contain the qb, limit big plays, trade space for time and pinch them off at the red zone. like it or not, it is working.
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This. I like that Watson has adjusted his offensive philosophy to match. It is working. It's ugly as hell, but it's working. I was wondering when they were going to start having the linebackers sit in the middle to cut off those crossing routes. They did in the second half and we didn't get hurt by it much again.

 
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