In all honesty i think this game might have been one of the best things that could happen to us and the young defense. Memorial Staduim and the N on the side of your helment and number of stars some neat website gave you doesnt mean crap. We were not only out played but 100% out coached, the sad part about that is that in the Pelini Era this has happened quite frequently. I understand the defense is young but there was still bad tackling and terrible ball skills in the secondary. Bo said after the game that there were several times players were in the right spots to make plays but just didnt, i wish the reported had asked one simple question WHEN? The defense was put in horrible position, we gave them underneath routes and played 10yd off the outside recievers and let them run the secondary deep and leaving the middle open for the slot to run free. The man to man seemed to hurt, i would have liked to see maybe some zone underneath and more creative blitzing from corners and safeties.
the offense seems to struggle adjusting from spread fast pace and slow power football, this is no surprise because even the great Oregon offensives had this issue. The difference is Oregon knew it and didnt change what worked and played fast and put 70 on anyone they could, Beck go too conservative and didnt "play to win the game, hello!" - Herm Edwards
Dline- looked good, sometimes the edge rushers got too much pentration by using their speed and going out too wide to get around the tack and opened up throwing lanes (not too woried this will get fixed). Terrible call on the roughing the passer on the sack, this is were we seemed to loose the momentum and WY got it back, to me that was the turning point and instead of maning up we got sad and took after our coach and complained about the call versus sucking it up and getting mad and tearing WY to hell.
LB- where were they??? Seriously anyone, i saw them maybe a handfull of time. Zarie Anderson, Santos, Afalava, these guys CAN play so geth them out there and let them make plays.
SS- played below average for the most part, great tackle Green (hope that got him some time on the pine, this guy is a senoir and we can put the waterboy out there and see a better attempt to tackle). Also on the deeper passes they seemed to struggle finding the ball, should have had another pick on one of those flaoting passes
CB- SJB (he can play and we are FINALLY using him!). Everyone else is ummmm maybe ok, its hard to tell when they were forced to cover for at least 7 second, for all the talk this unit got they played pretty poor but they were put in terrible positions by the coaching. I dont care what you say Pelini, they were NOT in good position SEVERAL times!
Offense
QB- nothing needs said, minus the pick and fumble (which didnt matter) Taylor played good. Bad play calling by not taking more shots down field to keep the safeties honest
RB- WOW! Ameer, Imani, Newby, good luck B1G
WR/TE- good as i figured, Turner, Bell, Enuwa beasts. TEs dont care because we dont use them anyways (see Reed and McNiel).
OL- best under Pelini hmmm well probably because we have always had a bad line in the Bo era and this line isnt terrible more like mediocre to above average, so I guess this is correct. They did look like they were in great shape for how early and hot it was out, they wore down the Dline of WY
ST- outside of the odd missed extra point, check
Penalties- Alot and not a big surpise, see the last 5 years under Bo. Not trying to bash Bo just being honest.
Coaches need to hold themselves accountable for getting these guys in positions to make the plays, the defensive play calling was flat out bad. We have a short peroid of time before UCLA but we will see. They say you make the biggest jump from week 1 to 2, so here is hoping we hold 0-12 (from last year) to under 500 yards.