Dylan Raiola

I thought he played good overall. He is a little too Mahomes/Favre at times with half their ability. The lack of a threat to run and make the defenses pay for being aggressive hurts. We just can never seem to get a QB that both passes and runs well. If he plays as well as this game, I think we get to 7 wins in the regular season which is a slight improvement although not the leap most were hoping for.
 
Dylan played fine. Seemed like when UM played man coverage, their DLine wrecked through our offensive line so quickly that we couldn't get a pass off, or decide where to throw.

It will be interesting to re-watch the game tonight or tomorrow. Specifically the match-ups with our receivers and UM's secondary.

Would have been nice to get a lot more passes to Hunter and Key. I feel we took what they gave us on the short routes to Lindenmeyer and EJ.
 
Interesting notes, per PFF:

In a clean pocket, Raiola got the ball out in 2.34 seconds. When pressured, his average release time was 3.55 seconds. That would seem backwards. But I wonder if they really tightened up their coverage when they were blitzing so we didn't have any quick throws.

Although I was also wondering (before I saw that stat) if we really have many checkdowns available. I don't remember a lot of them off the top of my head.
 
Nebraska ranks:
  • 118th nationally in run play percentage at ~42%
  • 85th nationally at 3.9 yards per rush
  • 83rd nationally at 129 rushing yards per game
We are about as one dimensional as you can get, especially for a power 4 conference team, and we cannot hold up in pass pro. Short of hoping the doors to Nebraska's locker room get rusted shut during pregame and the team can't come out to play at all, as a D Coordinator you can't realistically hope for a better scenario.

Dylan went 30/41, 308 yards 73% comp rate, 3 TDs and 1 INT, 7 sacks. What else is the kid supposed to do? You can't scheme away being as one dimensional as we are. Taking it a step further, there's no real in-season solution, besides playing lesser talented teams.
 
Mavric said:
Interesting notes, per PFF:

In a clean pocket, Raiola got the ball out in 2.34 seconds. When pressured, his average release time was 3.55 seconds. That would seem backwards. But I wonder if they really tightened up their coverage when they were blitzing so we didn't have any quick throws.

Although I was also wondering (before I saw that stat) if we really have many checkdowns available. I don't remember a lot of them off the top of my head.
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Thought when he was doing those pirouettes in the pocket he had EJ and Luke as checkdown options? But even those guys had UM players nearby them.

I was surprised he didn't fumble, and a few of those doink attempts plus the under hand pass was not fun to watch.
 
zero_blitz said:
Nebraska ranks:
  • 118th nationally in run play percentage at ~42%
  • 85th nationally at 3.9 yards per rush
  • 83rd nationally at 129 rushing yards per game
We are about as one dimensional as you can get, especially for a power 4 conference team, and we cannot hold up in pass pro. Short of hoping the doors to Nebraska's locker room get rusted shut during pregame and the team can't come out to play at all, as a D Coordinator you can't realistically hope for a better scenario.

Dylan went 30/41, 308 yards 73% comp rate, 3 TDs and 1 INT, 7 sacks. What else is the kid supposed to do? You can't scheme away being as one dimensional as we are. Taking it a step further, there's no real in-season solution, besides playing lesser talented teams.
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This should not come as a surprise. Despite what Holo has said since he took over, the only time he's been remotely close to a balanced offense is when he's had a significant running threat at QB.
 
Mavric said:
This should not come as a surprise. Despite what Holo has said since he took over, the only time he's been remotely close to a balanced offense is when he's had a significant running threat at QB.
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I can't lie. I was very skeptical of the hire being a run the damn ball guy. Looked into his previous stops and seasons and was like ok, maybe not so bad. 4 games in? The dude uses the run game as an after thought. It's not a priority. But with a struggling OL it's hard to run. Or no big 225lb bruiser.

Games are won and lost in the trenches and too date, we are lacking.
 
DR played a good game. The 7 sacks weren’t all on him of course. I haven’t rewatched any of it yet but my only gripe would be not throwing the ball away *if it was even an option* and not eating the -5-10 yds when we were already really struggling on the oline. The problem with our line isn’t going away anytime soon.
Idk what the exact # is without looking it up but our ypc had to be really really bad

Edit- 1.4 ypc. Even adding the negative sack yds doesn’t change that much
 
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Mavric said:
Interesting notes, per PFF:

In a clean pocket, Raiola got the ball out in 2.34 seconds. When pressured, his average release time was 3.55 seconds. That would seem backwards. But I wonder if they really tightened up their coverage when they were blitzing so we didn't have any quick throws.

Although I was also wondering (before I saw that stat) if we really have many checkdowns available. I don't remember a lot of them off the top of my head.
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This my first thought for those saying he held onto the ball too long. He held onto the ball because he had guys bearing down on him as soon as the ball is stopped. I think I maybe saw one or two times when he had a guy open but he's also running for his life so zi dont think he saw them. I'ld rather have a few sacks than a few INTs
 
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