The Hardest Question You Will Answer All Week

Who is the best defender in Nebraska's secondary?

  • Amukamara

    Votes: 26 36.6%

  • Dennard

    Votes: 9 12.7%

  • Gomes

    Votes: 24 33.8%

  • Hagg

    Votes: 10 14.1%

  • Thenarse

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Total voters
    71
JOEY said:
What are we going to do next year when we lose most of our secondary?

Amukamara

Gomes

Haag

Thenarse
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Reload. Dennard returns. We bring in PJ Smith, Courtney Osborne, Andrew Green, Ciante Evans, etc. These guys have all had time with the Bros. Pelini and will do just fine.

 
JOEY said:
What are we going to do next year when we lose most of our secondary?

Amukamara

Gomes

Haag

Thenarse
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Rely on experience of Dennard, Blue and Thorell and a talented group of youngsters (PJ Smith, Ciante, Green, Cooper, Bell, Washington and Middleton to name a few). No doubt we better enjoy the incredible corps of guys we have RIGHT NOW b/c there's no telling when we'll see a force like them again.

 
knapplc said:
JOEY said:
What are we going to do next year when we lose most of our secondary?

Amukamara

Gomes

Haag

Thenarse
Click to expand...
Reload. Dennard returns. We bring in PJ Smith, Courtney Osborne, Andrew Green, Ciante Evans, etc. These guys have all had time with the Bros. Pelini and will do just fine.
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I think we will do well, but I think it might take a year of having them play together before they are as good as our current secondary unit that we have starting now. I hope that I am wrong though

 
no vote for me but here is how i look at it. we have 4 really good players and several good players. the best part about this is if one isnt having a stellar game, someone else is and they can rotate the love every week. IMO and many of yours this is the best secondary unit in the country. Hagg had the big week this week. Gomes played well last week. who knows who is going to make the big plays this weekend and so on but the point is, is that we have a plethora of guys that can get the job done.

 
JOEY said:
I think we will do well, but I think it might take a year of having them play together before they are as good as our current secondary unit that we have starting now. I hope that I am wrong though
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We lose a lot of game starts, that's for sure. Prince has been starting forever. Gomes will have been nearly a two-year starter. Thenarse has been around since the Clinton administration. But that's why we brought all those young guys in and redshirted them. There will likely be a dropoff, but we'll have Compton, Fisher, David and Martin, plus The Stache, Steinkuhler, Crick and Ankrah up front to wreak havoc.

No matter what happens, it's not going to be easy to throw on us next year. It'll probably be more like 2009 where we had this crazy pass rush that gave QBs no time to throw instead of this year where you could take 10 seconds to find your receiver and it wouldn't matter because they'd still be blanketed. Front side of the DEF or back side, we're going to be damned hard to throw against next year.

 
Had to take Gomes. I think he's just as good in coverage and stopping the run as anybody, but some of the plays that he can make sets him apart, IMO

 
I know Amukamara, Gomes and Dennard are good, but I am really surprised to see Hagg and Thenarse with only one vote each so far.

 
knapplc said:
JOEY said:
I think we will do well, but I think it might take a year of having them play together before they are as good as our current secondary unit that we have starting now. I hope that I am wrong though
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We lose a lot of game starts, that's for sure. Prince has been starting forever. Gomes will have been nearly a two-year starter. Thenarse has been around since the Clinton administration. But that's why we brought all those young guys in and redshirted them. There will likely be a dropoff, but we'll have Compton, Fisher, David and Martin, plus The Stache, Steinkuhler, Crick and Ankrah up front to wreak havoc.

No matter what happens, it's not going to be easy to throw on us next year. It'll probably be more like 2009 where we had this crazy pass rush that gave QBs no time to throw instead of this year where you could take 10 seconds to find your receiver and it wouldn't matter because they'd still be blanketed. Front side of the DEF or back side, we're going to be damned hard to throw against next year.
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Prince really came into his own last year, didn't he? In 2008, it was mostly Murillo and West, with Prince emerging over West as the year went on if I remember correctly.

That patchwork secondary in '08 with sophomores West, Hagg, Thorell, Prince...really growing into its own now. We'll take some licks after graduating Prince, Hagg, Gomes, but fortunately we will have Dennard to hold down one corner spot while we reload.

 
Voted for Hagg, he does it all and he is the big12 defensive player of the week.

Edit:sidenote, hows lazzarri middleton(sp?) developing?, he had promising size and speed coming in from cali. and i have always been encouraged by that.

 
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I picked Prince, but more important than who is the best athletically is how well they play as a unit. Wasn't that long TD pass from Locker the only long-range passing TD of the year? They are all over their receivers and then some. Scary, scary unit.

 
ESPY said:
JOEY said:
What are we going to do next year when we lose most of our secondary?

Amukamara

Gomes

Haag

Thenarse
Click to expand...
Rely on experience of Dennard, Blue and Thorell and a talented group of youngsters (PJ Smith, Ciante, Green, Cooper, Bell, Washington and Middleton to name a few). No doubt we better enjoy the incredible corps of guys we have RIGHT NOW b/c there's no telling when we'll see a force like them again.
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where's this guy even playing now? i remember he was a decently ranked recruit but never hear his name come up on the depth chart :dunno

 
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