USC: What Did We Learn

[Undone]

We needed that fourth quarter magic from Dylan. Damn.

It was a good game.

Didn’t love the decision to kick the field goal instead of go for it on the one we missed…but we were leading early in the fourth anyway.

When you’re up by any margin in the fourth you need you defense to shut the game down.

 

[Stumpy1]

The coaches need to grow a pair and coach to win.

 

[presidentjlh]

most everyone was predicting a husker loss...but many doom and gloomers are still pissed that the huskers lost

I just want to be proven wrong in a game against a ranked team.

And no, this is not a horrible loss. This isn’t like Minnesota.

Still disappointed though.

 

[DefenderAO]

Oh, the pass D sucked?

How many sacks? How'd that work towards our run D?

 

[Packerhuskerfan]

6-6 is very likely, especially if Dylan is out or even more slower than usual.

 

[Mavric]

The numbers guy is here to tell us differently than our eyes saw.

Your eyes see everything as horrible. That doesn't make it accurate.

 

[ZRod]

Yeah, totally agree.

This is the least mad I’ve been at a Husker loss in basically ever.

I don't know how you can be mad when we beat the spread, and most thought we'd lose by 2 scores to a legitimately better team. With Dylan we're a top 25 team, without him we're a crap shoot.

The defensive game plan was fine. We made USC uncomfortable all night and they had to adapt. Offensively, there are some critiques to be made, but I thought Dana did a good job of not being predicable in run/pass selection. Blowing timeouts really hurt us, and has been an Achilles of Rhule's for a long time. Special teams was lackluster and Archie isn't getting it done in the punting game. He just doesn't seem to have enough power.

 

[Crusader Husker]

How many sacks? How'd that work towards our run D?

3 sacks.

 

[TGHusker]

Yeah, totally agree.

This is the least mad I’ve been at a Husker loss in basically ever.

I’m not surprised by the loss just the way we lost. The O goes quiet and the D can’t stop the run.

 

[Matt634]

The D held USC to 21 points, their lowest total of the season. Butler and the D did their job tonight.

 

[Red Five]

Do people remember how terrible our 3rd/4th and short offense has been?

I mean people get mad at Rhule when we go for it on 4th down because we’re leaving points on the field. And people get mad at Rhule for kicking a FG on 4th and short.

Hindsight is always 100%

 

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I learned that Nebraska isn't ready to take that next step, Rhule and Dana are terrible, we needed Raiola more than I thought and Lateef isn't ready.

 

[Undone]

It’s really not worth handwringing super hard over the field goal though, I suppose. Because ultimately we were leading in the fourth quarter.

We might’ve just gotten stopped on that drive and missed a field goal anyway, etc., etc.

I will say…we were missing a middle linebacker presence in this game. We got washed on the run or didn’t have anybody home in the middle - or both. Ugh.

 

[huskerfan74]

I learned that whenever I am sad after a loss, all I need to do is look at some stats and I immediately start feeling better about our progress.

 

[DefenderAO]

3 sacks.

To be that "dominant" I pass defense to then be so inept in the run tells me there's a big problem overall. Pass D was bad or USC was off? Don't know. But the D overall got smoked.