Hello From washington

[TheCheshireCat]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

I'll give you QB and WR, but I think we have a better RB position.

 

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

Slight advantage in the QB department for UW but in the RB and WR, I'd give the edge to NU.

 

[knapplc]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

 

[DownwiththeduckS]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

 

[Joe_5700]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

OK. See bold part above. You have officially lost any credibility on this board. Our O-line was positively HORRID last year. Does being "up there" mean leading the nation over there? If I am not mistaken, our D led the nation in scoring defense.

 

[NEBRASKANHEAT]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

Our offensive line was widely considered our largest weakness last year. So I'm not sure where you can say he benefited from them. We were injury riddled and flat out bad up front last year on offense..

And you're not ready to put our defense up with the nation's elite? We've not allowed a team to score 20 points in 10 straight games (second closest to us is 4 games) and we're not elite?

Well, if the measuring stick is now, we can only call our defense elite if we do it this year, against the big dogs, the same can be said for just about every team, player and unit in the country so far.

But until proven otherwise, our track record more than indicates our defense IS the nation's elite unit.

 

[RedDenver]

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

1) UDub's WR's are better than NU's but not by so much you can laugh at the difference.

2) Helu is WAY better RB than Polk. I've seen quite a bit of both and there's really no question. Helu was only healthy through the Missouri game last season (5th game) so that's probably why you remember him playing poorly. And Helu still put up 1147 yards with 5.2 yards/carry (9.7 against the 2 patsies this season). He ran for 169 vs VT and 138 vs Oklahoma (and was still injured against OU). Burkhead is the backup and is quite good with 9.6 yards/carry this season.

3) As another poster mentioned, last year's o-line was injury-ridden and played poorly because of it. That's the major reason our offense was so bad last year. This year we're much healthier and some younger guys are playing more giving us depth.

 

[DownwiththeduckS]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

Our offensive line was widely considered our largest weakness last year. So I'm not sure where you can say he benefited from them. We were injury riddled and flat out bad up front last year on offense..

And you're not ready to put our defense up with the nation's elite? We've not allowed a team to score 20 points in 10 straight games (second closest to us is 4 games) and we're not elite?

Well, if the measuring stick is now, we can only call our defense elite if we do it this year, against the big dogs, the same can be said for just about every team, player and unit in the country so far.

But until proven otherwise, our track record more than indicates our defense IS the nation's elite unit.

hmm, i see i've struck a chord with nebraska fans. my opinion stands, even though i think helu will have a better game because our D-line SUCKS. just watching the two, i've not seen helu do anything amazing (though i didnt watch the missouri game). seeing polk, i see him breaking tackles and getting YAC every week. i know i'm biased, but i think a neutral observer would agree with me.

and no, after wins over two of the most sorriest programs in the nation, your defense still needs to prove itself. of course they were good last year, but what i see is a group that last six starters, including suh, and a bunch of NU fans buying into preseason hype coming from the coaches. well you know what? our coaches said the same thing. yet we still suck on D. so no, until they go out and dominate teams that are any good, i will withhold judgement, positive or negative.

 

[NEBRASKANHEAT]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

Our offensive line was widely considered our largest weakness last year. So I'm not sure where you can say he benefited from them. We were injury riddled and flat out bad up front last year on offense..

And you're not ready to put our defense up with the nation's elite? We've not allowed a team to score 20 points in 10 straight games (second closest to us is 4 games) and we're not elite?

Well, if the measuring stick is now, we can only call our defense elite if we do it this year, against the big dogs, the same can be said for just about every team, player and unit in the country so far.

But until proven otherwise, our track record more than indicates our defense IS the nation's elite unit.

hmm, i see i've struck a chord with nebraska fans. my opinion stands, even though i think helu will have a better game because our D-line SUCKS. just watching the two, i've not seen helu do anything amazing (though i didnt watch the missouri game). seeing polk, i see him breaking tackles and getting YAC every week. i know i'm biased, but i think a neutral observer would agree with me.

and no, after wins over two of the most sorriest programs in the nation, your defense still needs to prove itself. of course they were good last year, but what i see is a group that last six starters, including suh, and a bunch of NU fans buying into preseason hype coming from the coaches. well you know what? our coaches said the same thing. yet we still suck on D. so no, until they go out and dominate teams that are any good, i will withhold judgement, positive or negative.

Am I missing something or is your only win against one of the worst programs in the nation? Syracuse? Did they suddennly become not a joke anymore and nobody told me?

 

[GMoose]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

I had that same thought last year a lot, but I think we got that mostly cleaned up last year after TTU. <_<

 

[DownwiththeduckS]

husky here. looking forward to a great game! i think we will show you that we are not to be taken lightly! however, while i think we have an advantage at the skill positions, we are thin at the lines, and our D is unimpressive, which doesn't bode well for us in the latter minutes of the game

I will guarantee you that you do not have an advantage in the skill positions. We have crazy good cornerbacks and safeties, and a lights-out defensive line that goes two-deep as well as anyone in the nation. Where you might have an advantage is if you run the ball straight at us, or use short crossing routes around our linebackers. We've lost our top two linebackers due to injury and that's the weakest part of our defense. Of course, our backup linebackers are very, very good, so we'll see what happens there.

Defense is my favorite side of the ball, and I'm very comfortable with our defense this year. We're certainly not unbeatable, but it'll take one hell of a game by an opponent to beat us.

by skill positions, i meant QB, RB, and WR. in each, i think we have a slight advantage. in everything else, i think we will be overwhelmed

As in, your QB is better than our QB? That I will agree with. While Martinez may have a great career ahead of him, we have a large body of work to look at for Locker, and he's impressive.

At RB... I don't think you have an advantage. I'm not familiar with Polk other than what I've seen on film this week, but he does not appear to me to be better than Helu, and I have no idea who your backup is, but I know we go four-deep with pretty darned good skill. If Helu goes down we put in Burkhead, with no dropoff. If Burhead goes down we put in Robinson, with little dropoff. If Robinson goes down we put in Jones, with very little dropoff. We legitimately have four very good RBs. How our #1 compares to your #1 is what you're talking about, I presume, and that I cannot say. Helu is good, like 150-something yards against last year's VA Tech defense good. So who knows there.

At WR I would venture your guys are better across the board. My guess is you want your WRs to be WRs, while our coaches seem to think our WRs must be WRs and offensive linemen - so much so that an inability to block has kept a few very good WRs on our bench at Nebraska. I think we have talent at WR, but we also have boneheadedness, and that boneheadedness has also cost us games. So this is also hard to say.

The true test, though, isn't Locker vs Martinez or Polk vs Helu. It's your offensive skill players vs. our defense, and vice versa. That's where I think Nebraska has the advantage, because our defense is WAAAAAAAY better than our offense. And our offense is OK.

:laughpound first off, lol@guy who says NU's recievers are better.

as for RB, you make an interesting argument. your certainly deeper than we are, but i watched a fair amount of nebraska football last year and was not impressed at all by roy helu. his line gets him his stats, not any elusiveness or YAC, like polk. comparing numbers though, i can see how you might think its close. but Our line does not help Polk out at all for the most part. he earns every yard he gets.

and yes, your D is good. not yet willing to say it measures with the nation's elite, seeing as youve yet to have any competition, but they were certainly up there last year.

Our offensive line was widely considered our largest weakness last year. So I'm not sure where you can say he benefited from them. We were injury riddled and flat out bad up front last year on offense..

And you're not ready to put our defense up with the nation's elite? We've not allowed a team to score 20 points in 10 straight games (second closest to us is 4 games) and we're not elite?

Well, if the measuring stick is now, we can only call our defense elite if we do it this year, against the big dogs, the same can be said for just about every team, player and unit in the country so far.

But until proven otherwise, our track record more than indicates our defense IS the nation's elite unit.

hmm, i see i've struck a chord with nebraska fans. my opinion stands, even though i think helu will have a better game because our D-line SUCKS. just watching the two, i've not seen helu do anything amazing (though i didnt watch the missouri game). seeing polk, i see him breaking tackles and getting YAC every week. i know i'm biased, but i think a neutral observer would agree with me.

and no, after wins over two of the most sorriest programs in the nation, your defense still needs to prove itself. of course they were good last year, but what i see is a group that last six starters, including suh, and a bunch of NU fans buying into preseason hype coming from the coaches. well you know what? our coaches said the same thing. yet we still suck on D. so no, until they go out and dominate teams that are any good, i will withhold judgement, positive or negative.

Am I missing something or is your only win against one of the worst programs in the nation? Syracuse? Did they suddennly become not a joke anymore and nobody told me?

your missing the fact that i never said we were all that great. we have a good offense and an excuse for a defense. and we're a lot better at home. see: 5-2 last year.

 

[NEBRASKANHEAT]

your missing the fact that i never said we were all that great. we have a good offense and an excuse for a defense. and we're a lot better at home. see: 5-2 last year.

How do you know you have a good offense? It didn't look good vs. BYU and according to you, beating teams that are "sorry" means nothing..

So, how can you claim your offense is good?

Oh yeah, and remember, you said last year means nothing.. So you're 5-2 record at home is not worth mentioning.

 

[74Hunter]

hmm, i see i've struck a chord with nebraska fans. my opinion stands, even though i think helu will have a better game because our D-line SUCKS. just watching the two, i've not seen helu do anything amazing (though i didnt watch the missouri game). seeing polk, i see him breaking tackles and getting YAC every week. i know i'm biased, but i think a neutral observer would agree with me.

and no, after wins over two of the most sorriest programs in the nation, your defense still needs to prove itself. of course they were good last year, but what i see is a group that last six starters, including suh, and a bunch of NU fans buying into preseason hype coming from the coaches. well you know what? our coaches said the same thing. yet we still suck on D. so no, until they go out and dominate teams that are any good, i will withhold judgement, positive or negative.

If that's your opinion of Helu, then you haven't watched him much, and you will likely be impressed with him if he gets enough touches. While he does not have Barry Sanders like elusiveness nor does he just run over people, he is shifty enough to not allow people to get many square shots, and he does get some YAC.

As for Polk, I don't know much about him except he will probably play in the NFL and I'm sure he is a decent back. He will have more luck running straight at our defense, if he tries to go wide, he won't have as much success.

 

[DownwiththeduckS]

your missing the fact that i never said we were all that great. we have a good offense and an excuse for a defense. and we're a lot better at home. see: 5-2 last year.

How do you know you have a good offense? It didn't look good vs. BYU and according to you, beating teams that are "sorry" means nothing..

So, how can you claim your offense is good?

Oh yeah, and remember, you said last year means nothing.. So you're 5-2 record at home is not worth mentioning.

it did fine vs. a solid BYU team on the road. Air force is good this year, and will likely keep close with oklahoma til halftime. unfortunately, stupid coaching decisions and poor play on special teams doomed us. our average starting field position was terrible, and theirs was really good. also, we return a ton of starters from last year, unlike you guys, so last year should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. and since home field advantage has little to do with personnel, your point is invalid. and if you keep bringing up stupid arguments, i will no longer feel obligated to respond.

 

[NEBRASKANHEAT]

it did fine vs. a solid BYU team on the road. Air force is good this year, and will likely keep close with oklahoma til halftime. unfortunately, stupid coaching decisions and poor play on special teams doomed us. our average starting field position was terrible, and theirs was really good. also, we return a ton of starters from last year, unlike you guys, so last year should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. and since home field advantage has little to do with personnel, your point is invalid. and if you keep bringing up stupid arguments, i will no longer feel obligated to respond.

Swifty, you're barely literate. Don't think I'll be bothered in the least if you choose not to respond.

However, if you do, perhaps leave the obvious double standards out of your arguement? If weak competition doesn't count for us, it doesn't count for you. If how we played last year doesn't count for us, it doesn't count for you either.

It's simple, try and keep up.