Interesting graph

[junior4949]

Fum-dumbles seem to happen more of their own accord than anyone's direct effort. I saw a lot of ball reaching in the SC game especially at the beginning. I hope that the coaches, using a variety of tactis up to an including benching captains and starters for our next couple, can get the message across. And that message is simple: if the guy doesn't go down, he's going to go forward. I can live with fewer turnovers as long as the counter result is a lot less offensive yards gained. Let Keller and Co. take care of the scoring.

Same thing happened in the WF game and it's mainly the LB's at fault (I don't always like to call out the same people, but I see Ruud and McKeon doing this the most). The mentality at LB should be to hit and hit hard.

Absolutely!!!!! I get frustrated and pissed everytime I see them trying to strip the ball instead of trying to bring the player down. The more they jack with that crap the more YAC the runner gets. Knock his a$$ to the ground and make him pay for his transgressions and worry about getting the ball later.

The sad part is even if we would have stripped the ball, more than likely we wouldn't have gotten it. USC fumbled the friggin rock 5 times. We got the ball just once from those 5 fumbles. My dad God rest his soul used to always say if there was a fumble Nebraska was going to get it because our strength was always that good. I'm still in the camp that believes a lot of the problems is the strength and conditioning. Just look at Bowman's hamstring problem now. Hamstring injuries typically can be prevented through conditioning. I just think our team is soft and undisciplined. I think the percent recovery of USC's fumbles shows how weak we have become.

Part of all of this reminds me a lot of the CU program. When Big Dan was coach, the Buff's were a physical take no crap kind of team. In walks Nudeheisel, and the program becomes soft and weak with his finness coaching. I just think NU's strength and conditioning should be coming into question as much if not more than the players themselves. Maybe, this is why the incoming recruits are not on the field yet. They haven't had the development and strength and conditioning yet.

 

[skersOVRsc]

OWH

NU Football: Run-defense numbers prove alarming

 

I think Coz is a very mediocre DC, but these #'s show that most of the time there were guys in position to make a play, just didnt. Initial contact for the most part was made early, we just didnt tackle. You can scheme around players being outmanned, and IMO Coz did OK scheming around the fact that our D line was gettig owned. The problem is that the blackshirts are not fundamentally sound tacklers, it isnt smart to go for a strip every time you make contact. You have to "feel" the runner has lost all momentum and see that you are in a gang tackle situation before it is worth going for the ball. Coz clearly teaches constant "strip mode" and it will continue to haunt us till we become more fundamentally sound at wrapping up and tackling.

 

[BigRedWeatherman]

Correct me if I am wrong, but according to this chart, if we had tackled each of these plays on first contact and stopped them for negative yards when we actually reached them in the backfield, then we would have only given up 69 yards rushing to USC?

It sounds like we could get there in time if you look at it that way. But lacking the tackling and strength fundamentals puts us in a Pee Wee football category!

 

[Glendower]

Correct me if I am wrong, but according to this chart, if we had tackled each of these plays on first contact and stopped them for negative yards when we actually reached them in the backfield, then we would have only given up 69 yards rushing to USC?

It sounds like we could get there in time if you look at it that way. But lacking the tackling and strength fundamentals puts us in a Pee Wee football category!

I don't know if that's every rushing play-- but it sure looks like they'd have been 3-and-out on that first possession if the first contact would have stuck.

 

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

The sad thing is, those first two plays listed happened back to back on their 1st possession

 

[captain obvious]

That's 197 yards after contact, by my calculations.

F U C K !

One of their yards after contact stats makes no sense, though. How does Washington's 12 yard run ad up to 18 yards after contact if he was hit -3 yards into the backfield?

 

[I Bleed RED]

We did miss too many tackles but there are always about 70% or more of your yards come from YAC in college when you have big rushing plays. You are rarely NEVER touched. We added to it by missing tackles 2 or 3 times on each play.