hskrfan4life
Heisman Trophy Winner
i agree we did get a lot younger.
Year 2 Under Bo: Why Aren't We Getting Better?
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I disagree, there are alot of times where our safeties are all over the player over the top and knock the ball down or make a hit, secondary play as a whole has improved IMMENSELY in year 2 under Bo. Same players too.
Landlord
Banned
Do us a favor and get in your time machine and get out of 2008 and fast forward to the present
NoKoolAidForME
Starter
You will get a chance to see it over the next three weeks. Against any QB that is some what accurate I really think our secondary will struggle when our D-Line doesn't get pressure. I do see an improvement in talent. I think by far the best athlete in the secondary is Prince.
I know you may think this is unfounded, but just like having Suh on the line makes it easier for other D-Linemen to shine. It also helps having a dominant disruptive d-line that prevents the offense from throwing accurate passes; if they even get to pass at all. Due to this we really never get to accurately gauge or secondary. Sub par receivers have been able to move or get open with 8 in coverage.
I know you may think this is unfounded, but just like having Suh on the line makes it easier for other D-Linemen to shine. It also helps having a dominant disruptive d-line that prevents the offense from throwing accurate passes; if they even get to pass at all. Due to this we really never get to accurately gauge or secondary. Sub par receivers have been able to move or get open with 8 in coverage.
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BigRedPowerWagon
Banned
Heres a not bos falt question. But why the hell dont we have any depth behind those players that graduated. What happened, cally was a good recruter so why isnt there more hens in the cubbord.
Thre is an article out somewhere about this.
Heart, desire, character, were missing in the recruits BC got. Bo made coment about being soft and not ready to play.
I stated that the day Bo took the job. He has worked wonders with the defense, but the O is where BC put most of his efforts, the kids he took may just not fit in to what Bo and Watson want to do, but are limited by effort and belief.
Not to mention all the problems we have had with injuries, the transfers and graduation.
We are two more years away from having close to what Bo wants. We need to have patience until then.
Expectations ran sky high at the beginning of the season. Some warned that the wheels could come off, due to the inexperience at QB. True talent level of that position was in question.
Now we are reaping the rewards to thinking we were back by beating a few Sun Belt teams. WE have realized that our great close loss to VaTech may not have been as great as we thought. Our lucky victory over Mizzou was not as important as we thought.
So in fact we have not beaten a winning team. Problems and the over expectations make it worse to deal with.
We should make a bowl this year, I think we squeak one out of the four for sure, maybe two, but who knows, thats why they play the games.
Relax and support the kids, that is all we can do that helps. Bagging on them and the coaches does not good at any time.
Clarification, thinking a team is not going to win is not not supporting the team.
Heart, desire, character, were missing in the recruits BC got. Bo made coment about being soft and not ready to play.
I stated that the day Bo took the job. He has worked wonders with the defense, but the O is where BC put most of his efforts, the kids he took may just not fit in to what Bo and Watson want to do, but are limited by effort and belief.
Not to mention all the problems we have had with injuries, the transfers and graduation.
We are two more years away from having close to what Bo wants. We need to have patience until then.
Expectations ran sky high at the beginning of the season. Some warned that the wheels could come off, due to the inexperience at QB. True talent level of that position was in question.
Now we are reaping the rewards to thinking we were back by beating a few Sun Belt teams. WE have realized that our great close loss to VaTech may not have been as great as we thought. Our lucky victory over Mizzou was not as important as we thought.
So in fact we have not beaten a winning team. Problems and the over expectations make it worse to deal with.
We should make a bowl this year, I think we squeak one out of the four for sure, maybe two, but who knows, thats why they play the games.
Relax and support the kids, that is all we can do that helps. Bagging on them and the coaches does not good at any time.
Clarification, thinking a team is not going to win is not not supporting the team.
Here is my $.04, because I think my opinion is really that valuable. Seriously, I think we got fooled during camp that we were going to have a qb that could throw, so there was no reason to alter the playbook. Now we find the qb puts too much pressure on himself during games, basically "freaks out" and can't generate a passing game. Had the coaches known this, I believe we would have used the Sun Belt games to develop a powerful running game instead of a passing game. I figure that by the second half of the OU game, when we are well behind, the coaches will pound the rock with decent success and finish out the year with a run first (assuming one healthy productive back is available) and pass off of the running game approach. Next year Green will lead a run based offense (approx 250yds rushing per 150 passing) that will put up big numbers and we will win the Big 12 north. Or I'm completely wrong.
HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
Did anyone really and honestly believe this offense would be better than last year? I mean...seriously. It was said by fans and media that this offense would struggle this year. We lost Ganz, Swift, Peterson, Slauson, etc from the offense. We knew and expected this offense to struggle this year. We talked ad nauseum about it throughout spring and fall practices. Hell...there were some on here who predicted a loss to Baylor and TTU (ISU was a shocker...I'll admit). So why is the fact this offense is struggling, such a huge surprise for anyone?
Never Skerd'
Banned
OMG dude... we are WAY BETTER. Did you not read when Pelini first got here, people didn't even want to work hard. Callahan had them in half pad practices pretty much all week.
Just wait until you see a Pelini recruit 5 years through his hard work ethic. Championship.
Just wait until you see a Pelini recruit 5 years through his hard work ethic. Championship.
1) Our offensive scheme does not allow for depth production because of it's difficulty. Obviously, none of us have seen the playbook so we don't know, but when it takes guys to be Juniors or Seniors before they get significant PT, that says something about the system. We need a system that allows being able to plug guys in that aren't as experienced and be able to have significant impact. We only had one guy really stand out, and that was Burkhead.
2) A lot of talent we took for granted left on the offensive side of the ball.
3) We have a whole bunch of players that seem to be built to run different offenses. We've got big, tall pass pro offensive line men and some sprinkled in that would be better in a run oriented offense, we have possession type receivers with no consistent deep threat ability, fullbacks we don't know how to utilize in the run game, a freshman quarterback not really built to run our current offense, and tight ends built to catch balls that spend most of their time run blocking.
Especially considering the offensive line, look at a guy like Ricky Henry. Compare him to "pipeline" Nebraska players of the past, and he would fit right in physically. He's got the motor of a run blocker, yet he spends a lot of time pass blocking.
2) A lot of talent we took for granted left on the offensive side of the ball.
3) We have a whole bunch of players that seem to be built to run different offenses. We've got big, tall pass pro offensive line men and some sprinkled in that would be better in a run oriented offense, we have possession type receivers with no consistent deep threat ability, fullbacks we don't know how to utilize in the run game, a freshman quarterback not really built to run our current offense, and tight ends built to catch balls that spend most of their time run blocking.
Especially considering the offensive line, look at a guy like Ricky Henry. Compare him to "pipeline" Nebraska players of the past, and he would fit right in physically. He's got the motor of a run blocker, yet he spends a lot of time pass blocking.
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Fuzzy
All-Conference
Agreed. Its no doubt we are better than where we were last year, just not in every aspect of the game. Special teams and Defense have gotten better looking back to last year. But our offense has taken a nose dive.
Let's not pin the offensive woes against the stellar performance the rest of the team has given us.