Most Boneheaded Play Since 2000

[KJ.]

The inability to plant your a$$ on the ground and win the game rather than trying to look like a superstar and lose the game #anotherstupidtexasloss

Are you speaking of the Nunn fumble because that was a pretty bang-bang play. He caught it, turned, and then the defender put his helmet right on the ball and popped it out. This thread is bringing back some heart breaking losses.

Yeah. But I think I blame the play-calling more than Nunn now, even though I think he should've smothered it. 1) He should've been TOLD to smother it if he caught it, and 2) Weather, crowd, defense...just run the ball and kick it. Because not only was it an awful turnover, but it left a lot of time on the clock.

That play call won us the game if not for an All-American making an All-American play.

It was a perfect call; just didn't work.

An interesting thing about that play is that we ran it earlier in the game in a similar situation and it worked perfectly. It was out of the same formation, but Texas changed their defense the second time around. The first time around, they were basically in a cover two which worked to our advantage because we didn't have a single player on the far side of the field so they had a safety being useless. Next time, their safeties shifted over so the outside corner had help down his sideline which allowed him to leave his guy and cause the fumble.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

The pass to Nunn was a great call and great execution. Well, except for the fumble part, and that could have happened on a running play, too.

Anyone remember the first Texas Big 12 CG, where Texas was ahead, but facing third and long, in position to run out some clock and punt the ball to Nebraska with just a couple minutes left in the fourth quarter? But somehow feeling the momentum had shifted and the Husker offense was rolling, and everyone in the stadium was expecting a rushing play they lobbed a little pass over the middle and won the game?

Cause that may have been on someone's mind.

 

[True2tRA]

The entire 2009 Nebraska vs. Iowa St. game was one giant boneheaded Charlie Foxtrot.

 

[beanman]

Jammal Lord chucking the ball to Vasher

I'd have to go with Solich not kicking field goals in the same game even though we had one of the best kickers in the country at the time. Solich blew that game. Another example of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in a game vs. Texas.

 

[True2tRA]

This thread reminds me of some things my mind must have voluntarily let go of............now it's all coming back again. Damn those Osborne teams were so f'ing well coached. You just didn't see a lot of this boneheaded kind of nonsense before 2000 did you? Or has my mind just voluntarily blocked out those plays too?

 

[beanman]

Worst. Thread. Ever.

But also heartbreakingly accurate.

LeKevin Smith was the first to come to mind because a big game was literally in his hands. But if we're gonna be mad at him for not just falling to the ground, you'd have to be mad at Suh for running that interception in for the TD against Colorado.

Forgot about the Kunalic kickoff. Great kicker who saved his worst possible play for the worst possible time.

Forgot that Joe Dailey ran out of bounds to end a game, possibly because he'd done this at other times in the season, running out of bounds and making no attempt to get a first down, often when it seemed like his for the taking.

God that one killed me.

 

[walksalone]

Hiring Bill Callahan

 

[VA Husker Fan]

I just can't see Nunn's fumble as bone-headed. He got hit before he could do anything, didn't he? A bad result doesn't equal a bad call or a bone headed play.

This thread reminds me of some things my mind must have voluntarily let go of............now it's all coming back again. Damn those Osborne teams were so f'ing well coached. You just didn't see a lot of this boneheaded kind of nonsense before 2000 did you? Or has my mind just voluntarily blocked out those plays too?

I can remember one boneheaded play, by Mike Rozier. He took the opening kickoff vs K State around the goal line, took a step, then backed up and kneed down in the end zone. For a safety. That's truly boneheaded.

The play wasn't so critical by halftime, when the score was 38-5, on the way to a 51-25 win, led by Rozier's 200+ yards and 3 TDs.

 

[Warrior]

The Fake Punt call in the bowl game against Auburn... Not that I was ever on board with Callahan, but that sealed my total dislike of the situation..

 

[KJ.]

The Fake Punt call in the bowl game against Auburn... Not that I was ever on board with Callahan, but that sealed my total dislike of the situation..

That was a brilliant call. It gains 40 yards if our player doesn't fumble the pitch that hit him right in the hands.

 

[MichiganDad3]

Kunalic kicking the ball out of bounds in the CCG of '09.

Probably this. Not only did it cost us the game, a conference championship and a BCS berth, but it affects the entire perception of Bo's career here. And it was about the only time he did that in four years.

You have to add the stupid personal foul that followed.

 

[MichiganDad3]

Bo's decision to go for it on 4th and 4 against OU in 2010 with the game on the line. There's absolutely no way Martinez has a better chance of completing a slant than Henery did of making a 64 yarder. Absolutely no chance.

I don't think I'll ever be able to think about that game without getting incredibly pissed off, and that play was the worst of the worst.

Henery wasn't about to make a 64-yard field goal. But then, he wasn't going to make a 57-yarder with the game on the line either

It definitely wouldn't have been a distance issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq7z4VCZO0o

That's our last CCG you're talking about, right? The boneheaded play in that game was on 3rd down when Taylor took a sack. We were inside the 40 before the sack. Well within Henery's range. After the sack it was 4th and infinity, so we punted.

I was screaming at the television for Watson to run the ball up the middle 3 times and kick the field goal. I was in disbelief that he had TM drop back in the pocket for repeated sacks.

 

[Treand3]

Kunalic kicking the ball out of bounds in the CCG of '09.

Probably this. Not only did it cost us the game, a conference championship and a BCS berth, but it affects the entire perception of Bo's career here. And it was about the only time he did that in four years.

You have to add the stupid personal foul that followed.

That was 1b for me. He straight panicked.

 

[lilred]

This thread is painful yet hilarious. I am out of +1s to give for all of the heart breaks over the last couple years.

 

[HuskerThor]

Suh leaving his feet instead of making the tackle against VaTech. This allowed the game winning TD.