Eric the Red
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Husker Quarterback Weekly #7: KU Review - The good, the bad, and the ugly
Mon Oct 4, 2004
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Are the games getting boring to you? I have never been one to sit and watch a Nebraska game. I jump, yell, scream, curse at the television. The last couple games I have done none of the above. What has happened?
I guess for one I’m an offensive guy. I like more scoring. Our offensive struggles have possibly put a damper on my game-day excitement. Our offense, more specifically Joe Dailey, took a major step backwards on Saturday. Yes, he was 13-24, but the turnovers are so glaring right now. The first two were his fault, the last being deflected. Those two were because he lacks arm strength and velocity. He put everything into them and couldn’t reach the wideouts. The second one, the receiver had his guy beat and Joe couldn’t reach him. Also poor fundamentals on his mechanics. Threw off his back foot. We have a running game, but before too long teams will stack the box. Then what??
Perhaps there are simply no players on the team that can give me the excitement. We have no game-breakers. We most certainly have players who try as hard as possible, but game breakers they are not. Pilk caught a bunch of balls yesterday, but took none to the damn endzone. No moves, no jukes, just catch and run as fast as he can and then get tackled or run out of bounds. Same results with Pork Chop. Obviously he makes a bunch of moves, scampers, slashes all for about an 8 yard gain. Longest run of the year?? Maybe 25 yards. Solid back, great work ethic, but no break away speed. No game-breakers!!!
Change in offensive scheme. Maybe I just don’t understand what Callahan is trying to do. Maybe it’s too complex. The option was simple. Everybody knew what was going on. All this moving around, motion, sit, hooks, dragon routes. They aren’t running the same play over and over again out of the different formations. Maybe I’m just dumbfounded by the whole thing. Gazing into the television screen as if I were being recruited by some cult who entered my television.
Special teams are atrocious. Maybe this should be renamed Special Needs. I find it so hard to believe we don’t have one friggin’ athlete to put at punt returner. Panico can catch but again he’s no play-maker. Twice we were tackled inside the 15 on kickoff returns and DeAngelis has decided to go through his “I really suck” motions again. Both field goals needed to be made. Just f'ing pitiful and painful. Disgraceful…
Whatever it may be, I do know one thing. This is what it is the rest of the year. We had a perfect opportunity after a bye week to refocus, analyze our weaknesses, had the perfect opponent, at home in Memorial Stadium and couldn’t get the job done. Our defense will need to carry us, that’s excruciatingly obvious. John Blake was quoted as saying the Baltimore Ravens did that very thing while winning the Super Bowl a couple years back. Maybe I just need to realize this is the way it’s going to be. Nobody really anywhere is blowing anyone out. Ohio St. lost to Northwestern, KST got beat by A&M, and Miami is just barely squeaking by - and they are ranked number 4 in the nation. As of right now I would consider the Huskers beating Texas Tech next week a mild upset.
Hold on Blackshirts. NU 28-27. Leach and Tech try for two and miss as the game ends.
Keep the faith
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