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Lately, Nebraska's run defense has resembled a slot machine, conceding nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then ch-ching - big payoff. The past two games, NU has allowed 311 yards on 58 carries, but 199 yards have come on these four plays:
• Texas A&M's Mike Goodson breaks through Tierre Green and Andrew Shanle and races 53 yards.

• A&M quarterback Stephen McGee takes advantage of a safety blitz and runs an option left for a 57-yard score.

• Colorado's Hugh Charles maneuvers through a blanket of Blackshirts for 44 yards.

• Buffalo Mell Holliday weaves past defensive backs for a 45-yard third-quarter touchdown.
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Conversely, we gave up 112 yards on the other 54 carries - just a smidge over TWO YARDS A CARRY!

Damn. If we can just play 60 minutes of sound defense!!

JUST ONE TIME!!

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I hope our secondary can tackle well on Saturday...if this happens, it will increase our chances of winning greatly since our offense has been able to win the TOP most games this year.

 
Touchdown Tommie said:
I hope our secondary can tackle well on Saturday...if this happens, it will increase our chances of winning greatly since our offense has been able to win the TOP most games this year.
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Well if you count LB as secondary, maybe, but I am hoping that the front four step up and with the LBs, make 80% of the run tackles. If they do that, then OU has to pass. Then the D Line can gets about a six pack-o-sacks.

Yeah, that ought to do it.

I'm pumped for this big time. I got that kind of calm but nervous feeling that this team will get it done. I dont know how exactly, but there seems to be a certain expectation, a certain knowledge, that they will win their way back into national respectability.

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"Conversely, we gave up 112 yards on the other 54 carries - just a smidge over TWO YARDS A CARRY!

Damn. If we can just play 60 minutes of sound defense!!"

Just reality-check me chiming in. To keep up the stats of 2-yards per carry....that is playing PERFECT defense. Not just sound defense. Stuffing 9 runs and giving up one big gainer is pretty common. That's why AVERAGE yard per carry for teams is often 5-7 yards. They all get stuffed before cracking off a long run.

Example: Barry Sanders in Detroit. He is considered by many as one of, if not THE top RB in NFL history. But he was known for (and many times due to his shoddy line) for getting a 2 yard gain, losing a yard, no gain and then jitterbugging around for a 76 yard TD run.

You can't stop every play every time. Opponents defense could say that about us...."Damn we had them on 3 straight incompletions, a 2 yard gain, a 3 yard gain and then Hardy takes a quick out 70 yards." It's part of football.

 
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cmb23 said:
"Conversely, we gave up 112 yards on the other 54 carries - just a smidge over TWO YARDS A CARRY!

Damn. If we can just play 60 minutes of sound defense!!"

Just reality-check me chiming in. To keep up the stats of 2-yards per carry....that is playing PERFECT defense. Not just sound defense. Stuffing 9 runs and giving up one big gainer is pretty common. That's why AVERAGE yard per carry for teams is often 5-7 yards. They all get stuffed before cracking off a long run.

Example: Barry Sanders in Detroit. He is considered by many as one of, if not THE top RB in NFL history. But he was known for (and many times due to his shoddy line) for getting a 2 yard gain, losing a yard, no gain and then jitterbugging around for a 76 yard TD run.

You can't stop every play every time. Opponents defense could say that about us...."Damn we had them on 3 straight incompletions, a 2 yard gain, a 3 yard gain and then Hardy takes a quick out 70 yards." It's part of football.
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Yeah, I guess popping the big runs every so often is not as big a concern as your opponent getting 3 to 6 every time they hand off. That's when you start to feel like it's going to be a long day.

 
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cmb23 said:
"Conversely, we gave up 112 yards on the other 54 carries - just a smidge over TWO YARDS A CARRY!

Damn. If we can just play 60 minutes of sound defense!!"

Just reality-check me chiming in. To keep up the stats of 2-yards per carry....that is playing PERFECT defense. Not just sound defense. Stuffing 9 runs and giving up one big gainer is pretty common. That's why AVERAGE yard per carry for teams is often 5-7 yards. They all get stuffed before cracking off a long run.

Example: Barry Sanders in Detroit. He is considered by many as one of, if not THE top RB in NFL history. But he was known for (and many times due to his shoddy line) for getting a 2 yard gain, losing a yard, no gain and then jitterbugging around for a 76 yard TD run.

You can't stop every play every time. Opponents defense could say that about us...."Damn we had them on 3 straight incompletions, a 2 yard gain, a 3 yard gain and then Hardy takes a quick out 70 yards." It's part of football.
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I'll have to disagree with you to a degree on this, because of those 4 plays listed; that McGhee play was defended completely wrong by Moore(although a poor call by Cosgrove), the long run by Goodson should have been stopped by Shanle before he even got a first down if he just tried to make the sure tackle instead of trying to strip him, and those 2 runs by CU were complete meltdowns. Yes, you are going to have plays when the defense will "give" and the offense finally gets a good play, but 40, 50, 60 yard gains because of a missed tackle or a player being completely out of position can be avoided. The defense won't stuff every run, but some of these big plays can be lessened. I just want some consistency tomorrow when they play. Hopefully, consistently good.

 
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cmb23 said:
"Conversely, we gave up 112 yards on the other 54 carries - just a smidge over TWO YARDS A CARRY!

Damn. If we can just play 60 minutes of sound defense!!"

Just reality-check me chiming in. To keep up the stats of 2-yards per carry....that is playing PERFECT defense. Not just sound defense. Stuffing 9 runs and giving up one big gainer is pretty common. That's why AVERAGE yard per carry for teams is often 5-7 yards. They all get stuffed before cracking off a long run.

Example: Barry Sanders in Detroit. He is considered by many as one of, if not THE top RB in NFL history. But he was known for (and many times due to his shoddy line) for getting a 2 yard gain, losing a yard, no gain and then jitterbugging around for a 76 yard TD run.

You can't stop every play every time. Opponents defense could say that about us...."Damn we had them on 3 straight incompletions, a 2 yard gain, a 3 yard gain and then Hardy takes a quick out 70 yards." It's part of football.
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I'll have to disagree with you to a degree on this, because of those 4 plays listed; that McGhee play was defended completely wrong by Moore(although a poor call by Cosgrove), the long run by Goodson should have been stopped by Shanle before he even got a first down if he just tried to make the sure tackle instead of trying to strip him, and those 2 runs by CU were complete meltdowns. Yes, you are going to have plays when the defense will "give" and the offense finally gets a good play, but 40, 50, 60 yard gains because of a missed tackle or a player being completely out of position can be avoided. The defense won't stuff every run, but some of these big plays can be lessened. I just want some consistency tomorrow when they play. Hopefully, consistently good.
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I'm not really disagreeing with you but it seems to me that every play is a result of good call by one side, bad call by the other, good running by one side, bad tackling or position by the other. If every play was perfect on both sides there couldn't even be a game. That's an impossibility. Some plays we win, some plays the opponent wins. We just need more and better winners at the per play level than the opponent.

From a fan's perspective usually every winner for their favorite is a good play and every winner by the opponent is a bad play. usually the opponent's fans have the opposite opinion.

 
I assume that sometimes what looks like a loosing play on offense could be designed as a setup to the next play. I'd think the guys in the booth are looking for things in the opponent they can take advantage of, and this could involve setting up a short sequence of plays to set up an ambush.

 
Our tackling really is better than we get credit for. Our front seven do a fantastic job of wrapping up 97% of running plays. Remember Texas? They could barely run at all.

 
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