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HuskerBCS said:
RB's...banged up but still solid down to the 4-5 string guys (Robinson real good, Ward very hard downhill runner..get him in the I formation with a lead blocker and see what he could do...I almost guaranteed he'd have 100 yard rushing games if they would stick with it).
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If Ward is so good then why did TIM BECK put AJ Jones in the game before him? Not just this week but against Texas Tech as well. Once again the position coach is responsible for in game substitutions. Also if the RB depth was so good then why did they totally pass over Ward, Mendoza, Okafer, Jones in favor of Robinson? They didn’t plan on playing that kid until they HAD to. If the RB depth was so good then when Burkhead went down they shouldn’t have HAD to play Robinson, they should have been able to plug in any of the four I just mentioned. :dunno

HuskerBCS said:
OL....starting to get criticism but I don't think they are bad. I think their philosophy on offense breeds a soft lineman. How can u pass block being passive one down and then be expected to run block and be aggressive the next...and do that the whole game.
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Why can other offensive lines around the country that run a spread/zone read/quick pass offense run & pass block then? :dunno

Offensive Line play falls on the shoulders of the position coach not the Offensive Coordinator. This is on Barney Cotton.

IMO the offensive line is bad. Mike Smith can’t run block, Ricky Henry can’t remember the snap count, Marcel Jones can’t block period, Hickman is banged up so he is a liability. That leaves Keith Williams as the lone decent one so we are looking at 1 of 5. That doesn’t look like a line that is “not that bad”. <_<

 
OL....starting to get criticism but I don't think they are bad. I think their philosophy on offense breeds a soft lineman. How can u pass block being passive one down and then be expected to run block and be aggressive the next...and do that the whole game. A lot easier to run block every down and get that mind set. You can then start using ur adrenaline to blow people off the line.
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Pretty much the same way that every NFL team does it. Pretty much the same way any other balanced offense across the country in Division 1 football does it.

Were you serious with that comment? Maybe I missed the sarcasm, and if so sorry for that.

 
Enhance89 said:
I think I know what could make this offense great, and here it is...

Stop this style of offense and do something that can play to Nebraska's strengths.

Let's face the simple truth. Nebraska is never going to beat Texas, Florida, USC, or even Oklahoma in the recruiting game. It is their game and they play it perfectly.

Why do you think Nebraska ran the style of offense they did for so long and it worked so well? T.O. knew that Nebraska wasn't a place that he was going to reel in 5 star recruits like USC does. He knew he could take guys maybe nobody else wanted that badly and make them successful in his offense.

Former opponents, after playing Nebraska, would feel the pain and soreness from the game for long after they would any other. Even if we lost, we would be extremely physical and pop them in the mouth every play. Now, we finesse our way down the football field, "take what the defense gives us", and we don't impose are will on anybody not in the Sun Belt.

Take that 320 play playbook, cut it down significantly, perfect those plays, and then give em to another team. I think our team is average at every play and great at nothing, which means we pretty much have a 50/50 chance of being successful on any given play.
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I understand kind of where you were going with this, but can you please explain to me what the strengths of Nebraska's offense is? Our WR's can't catch. If they do happen to get lucky enough to catch a ball, they fumble it. And, they don't block. Then, we have an OL who can't get any push. Then, we're down to what our 4th or 5th string RB because everyone else is hurt. To cap it all off, we have 2 QB's that had little to absolutely no experience at all with regards to D1 football prior to this year.

It sounds good to say we need to play to our strenths. However, I don't have a clue as to what offensive strengths we have. Offensively and Defensively, it all starts in the trenches. If we win the trench war, most other wrinkles work themselves out. The D wins the trenchwar. The O doesn't.

 
I haven't read all the posts on this thread, but I want to say let's see how Watson does once the Callahan holdovers are gone and it's all Pelini's players. I read somewhere that the coaches are frustrated that those holdovers lack mental toughness and are not capable of operating a power-running offense. Remember early last year when we tried it?

 
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