Lighten up a little people

HuskerGBR

HuskerGBR

Special Teams Player
I hate Watson's offense...just going to come right out and say it. I hate how we have lost our offensive identity of power and imposing our will on the defense.

I looked up some scores from the Tom Osborne era and I have to say I was surprised. We had a few games where we were shutout or just scored 7 or 3 points. So I think we need to lighten up a little and show patience. There will be games like this. We just need to be patient for the pieces to fall into place.

In the meantime, I will take 10 win seasons all day long until we can sprinkle in a few championships. We should be thankful for those many wins after the last decade we went through. Can we really dispute that we haven't been competitive in almost all of our games with very few exceptions?

That is all we can ask for IMO. I am not a Watson supporter and never really have been...I also hate the spread and zone read. I think Watson should stay...but only if he is willing to change some things and show he can learn/evolve, take responsibility, and inspire the offense. I just never see passion from the offensive side of the ball. So if Bo has to inspire Watson to inspire the offense...then that is what needs to be done.

Mostly just wanted to say that even Osborne struggled to put points on the board at times. He also did show that he can have some potent offenses as well. The coaches just need to put it all together and we might have a powerful offense again. We need to keep continuity and it will all come together.

I guess until that happens, I will be happy with 10 wins a season...it is what I figured we would have this year anyways. I also really hope if Watson stays, that he will learn something new...his playcalling is just terrible at times.

 
Well with this offense you will see a bunch of 10 win seasons if we have a crap schedule like we did this year, but change "until we sprinkle in a few national championships" to "until we sprinkle in a few 8 win seasons"

 
He didn't call the best game, but he sure as hell didn't cause 3 fumbles and a horrible interception...

 
No but he continued to call plays that left the ball in the hands of the guy committing most of the turnovers

 
The other side to that is when your only option at QB is that freaking much of an anti-quarterback, for lack of a better term, what are you supposed to do?

Hand of and Rexcat it up for the rest of the day in the most predictable offense, ever. But that would have given us a better chance to win. I don't like that we didn't do that, especially at the end - but at the same time, I will recognize the crap situation we were in anyways.

 
Why not? OU's rush defense has been average all year. Challenge them to shut us down. Let Rex throw a little bit and continue using misdirection. If you must have Taylor throw then roll him out of the pocket that collapsed on him all night. I see what you're saying but I just can't excuse going back to playing into the opposing team's hands over and over.

 
My grief is that this thing has happened time and again over the last couple years. 7 losses and would love to hear the explanation on why the offense didnt lose us all 7. It's pathetic, and it's obviously not improving. The offense this year had degressed and last night was a piss poor example of playcalling. There was no feel for the game and for what was working. We have seen enuff of this. Solich got rid of Darlington and Bohl and they only had really 1 bad season plus the end of 01, maybe you could say 00 was below par too, but hell, he made the change and it was working out quite well. Sometimes it's just time to cut a man loose.

 
DaveH said:
He didn't call the best game, but he sure as hell didn't cause 3 fumbles and a horrible interception...
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You are dead on DH. We had a RSF make a couple freshman mistakes. Our O-line is not what it should be. We drop the rock way too often. Our head coach is very defensive minded and perhaps a bit too firery on the sideline. Ozzie needs to take a long, hard look at the assistant coaches on the offensive side of the game. Watson will, I think be gone, either hired by another school or let go by Nebraska. Not really too sure about what to think about Cotton. He is working with kids recruited by Cally and Coz. I expect so much more from our O-line. Who ever it is who works with the skill players and has responsibility for teaching them to hang onto the ball should be gone. The Pelini Era of Husker Football is only 2 years old. We have come an incredibly long way from where we were. 10-3. A bowl game for the second straight year. A fan base that certainly grew by leapes and bounds during the last 4 years of the Osborne Era has come to expect more than, far more than, any football program can deliver. Husker Nation needs to show a little patience. We are on our way back and I became a Husker fan during Davaney's last two years. I waited years and years for Dr. Tom to get his first Championship and finally it happened. Patience, trust, Husker Nation, patience and trust.

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irafreak said:
Why not? OU's rush defense has been average all year. Challenge them to shut us down. Let Rex throw a little bit and continue using misdirection. If you must have Taylor throw then roll him out of the pocket that collapsed on him all night. I see what you're saying but I just can't excuse going back to playing into the opposing team's hands over and over.
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No I agree with the first part. It's why I said, that would have been better and it's what I think we should have done. But it's a different ball game when the other team knows you have no threat to throw (Burkhead...not really. His throws are like fake punts, but a little more usable. You get a few shots to use them instead of just one, but that's it. Maybe reverses are a better comparison. You can run 2 or 3 in a game, but it's never a threat on its own, just something to keep defenses honest.).

Without the presence of a throwing threat, OU's defense or even most any defense could just load up and stop the run with a good degree of effectiveness. Still, that could have happened and we could have still protected our lead, or clawed back to get the FG at the end. So I completely agree.

On the second sentence, I hope it's the last time to say this but Taylor can't roll out because he can't throw on the run.

 
zoogies said:
irafreak said:
Why not? OU's rush defense has been average all year. Challenge them to shut us down. Let Rex throw a little bit and continue using misdirection. If you must have Taylor throw then roll him out of the pocket that collapsed on him all night. I see what you're saying but I just can't excuse going back to playing into the opposing team's hands over and over.
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No I agree with the first part. It's why I said, that would have been better and it's what I think we should have done. But it's a different ball game when the other team knows you have no threat to throw (Burkhead...not really. His throws are like fake punts, but a little more usable. You get a few shots to use them instead of just one, but that's it. Maybe reverses are a better comparison. You can run 2 or 3 in a game, but it's never a threat on its own, just something to keep defenses honest.).

Without the presence of a throwing threat, OU's defense or even most any defense could just load up and stop the run with a good degree of effectiveness. Still, that could have happened and we could have still protected our lead, or clawed back to get the FG at the end. So I completely agree.

On the second sentence, I hope it's the last time to say this but Taylor can't roll out because he can't throw on the run.
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He could take one second to stop, plant his feet, and throw if there is someone wide open, otherwise he would keep it himself or throw it out of bounds. That's a much better strategy than letting him watch a pocket collapse around him all day.

 
Yeah, or he could throw across his body into a defender's arms, which he did on the goal-line last night.

Taylor is not a complete QB in many ways so it's not realistic to ask him to do things a complete QB will do. Next year or in the future perhaps, if he develops those skills. Taylor could have also gotten rid of the damn ball instead of standing around for five full seconds, ducking his head down and running into his OL, turning around and standing some more, and then getting gang-tackled 7 yards behind the line of scrimmage, all night last night. If he can't get know to get rid of the ball in a situation like that, it would take a lot of imagination (or a playstation) to see him being used on roll-outs.

 
DaveH said:
He didn't call the best game, but he sure as hell didn't cause 3 fumbles and a horrible interception...
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Watson wasn't the reason for the fumbles and the int, but his calls were horrible. We scored a TD running between the tackles, and seemed to be having decent sucess doing so. Why did we stop doing that, and switch to a zone read that wasn't working?? And then continue to run the hell outta that play, until the situation was past salvaging?

 
scott frost and eric crouch weren't the best passers either, but they could hit a wide open TE or WR once in a while...that is, after a nice mis-direction or roll out pass.

I wouldn't be as pissed as I am about the state of our offense, if it weren't the case that our defense is so good, it gives our offense SO many more good chances that most teams in the country don't get, and yet....well, you see the result when we play a good defense

 
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