Nebraska is not a good football team

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We’ve had flashes here and there since 2002, but the reality is, we don’t have a good cohesive team and we don’t have very good individual talent. 

I’m not here just complaining, I’m really just saying that in  our 3rd regime in 6 yrs or so, we aren’t good. Not together as a team and no real individual good players or stars 

it is what it is. Still my team and I’m still a fan, but I have zero expectations of victory or competitive glory 

 
No doubt. We Kansas. But even Kansas has a more recent accomplishment than us. Nebraska is a flaming pile of dog s***. 

 
No. No more delusion.

“Hey Omar is playing, we are gonna be good now!!”   that’s foolish. we don’t have talent or good coaching. 

talent, at times, can supersede coaching or refs, or game situations. Talent just makes plays, creates opportunities, and gets s#!t done despite coaching or whatever. 
 

we don’t have talent or coaching. 
 

tell me a sequence during the game today where we had superior talent or some decent coaching to take over the game? We had no sequence, no rhythm, no set-up, no ballers, no break opens, no rush, no physical presence, no identity, no creation.  We showed ZERO today. Who flashed? How were we in it? What are our threats? How is our scheme? 
 

we aren’t a good team and we don’t have any REAL good players. I can accept that. I’m good with that. I’m better off just watching the game, drinkin a beer, hanging out knowing we aren’t that good and being cool w that then thinking we might be a good team and having expectations. 

 
Discipline needs to be the primary focus in practice. Every day.
 

- too many penalties

- too many mistakes that show a lack of football awareness(some specific penalties, play calls, QB reads, etc.)

- too many risky designs in our base plays (in regards to ball security). In response, we need these changes:

      - Our centers snap too high and our QBs have a problem securing the shotgun ball. Call more plays under center.
      - We frequently put WRs in motion and snap the ball right when they’re near the QB in an attempt to draw attention to them. No one is buying Warner on a jet sweep, so this wrinkle only creates risk of the WR getting hit with the ball at snap and creating a fumble. Reduce these calls.
      - We frequently fumble when we attempt QB-HB meshes on zone reads. Our mesh on quick read plays isn’t secure enough. Reduce these calls.

      - Our QB’s often spontaneously fumble the ball in the pocket. Then they attempt to do crazy s#!t. These scenarios are way too high risk. Train this improv out of our QB’s; train them to go directly upfield after a fumble.

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We may be less explosive and have a lower offensive ceiling (at least in theory... since we’re not explosive), but these changes would make us resemble a football team.

 
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There's talent on this team but half of it is sitting on the bench for whatever reason. That needs to change but the young talented guys it. What's the worst that can happen at this point you can't lose uglier than that.

 
I'm over waiting for this team to figure it out and "turn the corner!" Earn those damn paychecks coaches! Fing embarassing... :bang

 
C-4 said:
Discipline needs to be the primary focus in practice. Every day.
 

- too many penalties

- too many mistakes that show a lack of football awareness

- too many risky designs in our base plays (in regards to ball security). Our centers snap too high and our QBs have a problem securing the shotgun ball. Call more plays under center. Reduce the amount of receiver motions at the snap; no one is buying Warner is getting it on a sweep and it only creates risk of them getting between C-QB at the snap. Reduce the amount of handoff reads between the QB-HB; our meshes aren’t secure enough. Train the QB to go upfield no matter what if they pick up their own fumble; Luke is particular bad at boneheaded mistakes post-fumble recovery 

We may be less explosive (at least in theory... since we’re not explosive), but these changes would make us resemble a football team.
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It’s even simpler than that... just throw some freaking posts, fades, downfield option routes. Even if we suck at it, the threat at least makes the defense think about it. These dumb 20 yard pass sideway routes that only

go 3-5 yards forward are called too often and they’ve NEVER been productive. It lets the defense creep up and stack more against the run threat

and its not a talent issue.:: there is speed and size at the wide out position. While they’re young, they aren’t out talented by a northwestern team that was trash last year 

 
There is plenty of talent compared to recent years. We clearly had the better athletes today but what we don’t have is good leadership we had 4 solid scoring opportunities in the first half and walked away with 13 and the only td was basically a pick 6. Fleming made a huge difference but somehow he wasn’t ready last week. The growth athletically has been obvious but where’s our coaching advantage 

 
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