Nebraska needs to run the spread to beat the spread

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Just thinking about how the Huskers can beat teams that run the spread and I started thinking. What made Nebraska allways beat teams with the option? All the teams never ran the option. You can't defense the option in only 1 week. Most team defenses pratice against what offense there running. Take for instance Nebraska back in the day. Every day the defense faced the option. They knew what to look for and how to stop it. Today Nebraska only practices against the spread the week of the game. How is a year of work for Missouri like teams to work on the spread to Nebraska's week of practice for the game? If Nebraska ran the spread and faced it everyday do you think it would know the in's n out's of the spread? Just think 4 wide receivers. Swift, Peterson, Holt, Paul. 1 tightend. McNeil. Run pass option with Ganez and Lucky. This style of offense can be better than the WCO. The defense would practice against it everyday and when gametime comes, they wouldn't look like chickens with there heads cut off. Just a thought. Win or lose GO BIG RED. 25 years of cheering for the Huskers and counting.

 
How are they going to run the spread, they can't even run a basic offense at this point, and they have been working on it since spring practice.

 
Who runs some sort of spread offense in the Big12. Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas Tech, Baylor, and Texas A&M? Every day those Defenses are practicing against the spread. What does Nebraska do everyday. Practice against the WCO. What I'm saying is Nebraska needs to practice against the spread more and not just during game week. Or every year you will see Nebraska get its a$$ kicked by these teams.

 
They practice against the Offense they will be seeing each week.

It is called a Scout Team. Made up mostly of Redshirts.

 
black label society said:
Who runs some sort of spread offense in the Big12. Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas Tech, Baylor, and Texas A&M? Every day those Defenses are practicing against the spread. What does Nebraska do everyday. Practice against the WCO. What I'm saying is Nebraska needs to practice against the spread more and not just during game week. Or every year you will see Nebraska get its a$$ kicked by these teams.
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OU and A&M do not run a spread offense.

That's all well and good, practicing against it all week, but you can't simulate the playmakers these teams have.

 
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black label society said:
Just thinking about how the Huskers can beat teams that run the spread and I started thinking. What made Nebraska allways beat teams with the option? All the teams never ran the option. You can't defense the option in only 1 week. Most team defenses pratice against what offense there running. Take for instance Nebraska back in the day. Every day the defense faced the option. They knew what to look for and how to stop it. Today Nebraska only practices against the spread the week of the game. How is a year of work for Missouri like teams to work on the spread to Nebraska's week of practice for the game? If Nebraska ran the spread and faced it everyday do you think it would know the in's n out's of the spread? Just think 4 wide receivers. Swift, Peterson, Holt, Paul. 1 tightend. McNeil. Run pass option with Ganez and Lucky. This style of offense can be better than the WCO. The defense would practice against it everyday and when gametime comes, they wouldn't look like chickens with there heads cut off. Just a thought. Win or lose GO BIG RED. 25 years of cheering for the Huskers and counting.
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That's all well and good but if your D practices against the spread all the time because everybody else runs the spread. Wouldn't it stand to reason that all the teams defenses that you play are going to be able to stop "your" spread as well? Food for thought
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My guess is, within the next couple of years, DC's are going to find a very, very good way of stopping the spread and when it does, the spread offense will become just another "offense". Like paperspun eluded to, IMO the spread offense is nothing more than a "fad" right now because it's so effective. What Watson and Pelini need to do is sit down and study the spread in every way possible. Hell, why couldn't they come up with a "new" style offense?

 
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