Our defense played a FAR better game against UCLA than it did against Purdue. The defense gave up 55 points to the Boilermakers, why isn't that the issue that we talk about? We also gave up 183 rushing yards and 274 yards through the air.
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Maybe the defense didn't do the offense any favors? Regardless of how many mistakes the offense may have made it still put up 45 points and 484 total yards. The defense gave up 457 yards. To PURDUE. What the frig?
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I won't disagree with this but the narrative on this board is generally that it is the fault of the offense. No one wants to talk about how the defense gave up 55 points and 450 yards.
84HuskerLaw
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I think the defense bears its share but certainly blaming the defense as the primary problem is not fair either as a goodly portion of all those points were the result of turnovers keeping Purdue out on the field vs. our D and putting the Defense in a hole so many times. It also fired up Purdue and depressed the Huskers.
As the score got out of line, the offensive playcalling became desperate times call for desperate measures (pass / pass / pass). This gives the opponent even more time to run offensive plays as our offense has terribly short possession times. It was an all around awful game (game plan, play calls, offensive execution, defense scheme and performance, etc.). We should have RUN the ball. This is almost inarguably true. But it is understandable and for many 'conventional' football thinkers, playing behind means throwing the ball. It is not inconceivable that had we had quarter number 5, we would have caught them and won. But too little far too late.
As the score got out of line, the offensive playcalling became desperate times call for desperate measures (pass / pass / pass). This gives the opponent even more time to run offensive plays as our offense has terribly short possession times. It was an all around awful game (game plan, play calls, offensive execution, defense scheme and performance, etc.). We should have RUN the ball. This is almost inarguably true. But it is understandable and for many 'conventional' football thinkers, playing behind means throwing the ball. It is not inconceivable that had we had quarter number 5, we would have caught them and won. But too little far too late.
AFhusker
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No they stacked the box against us, just like every other team did.Purdues DL was too good to run against? That's the argument you're going with?They were two different games with two different QB's. It is easier to run against a team that had a DL that averaged 250lbs than it was against teams who's DL weren't ravished by injures. If anything that shows that the coaching staff took what was given to them. But a lot on here just want to complain just to complain.
AFhusker
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Right? But all we ever talk about is how bad the offense was. Overall, it was one of the worst games I've ever seen played by Nebraska. On January 1st 1971 I got to stay up late for the first time ever and watched the Huskers beat LSU in the Orange Bowl. In fact, that is the first football game I can remember watching and I've been a fan ever since. In all those years I've never seen the team play as poorly as it did at Purdue this year.
MichiganDad3
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Its frigging Purdue. Even with 5 turnovers the Husker defense should shut the Boilermakers down. I mean...its frigging Purdue.
MichiganDad3
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I'm guessing you were smart enough to avoid going to the Tech game in Lubbock were they laid 70 on us. I don't recall many turnovers in that game - we just got steam rolled. The purdue game was more like the ISU game where we had like 9 turnovers. Turnovers can drain a team real quick and some turnovers are just bad breaks. I think the purdue loss falls somewhere in the top 10, however everybody talks about how bad it is because it is the most recent.
Redux
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I'm still trying to figure out why it's fairly obvious yet ignored that after Purdue we turned a corner and beat Michigan State, yet we are still bitching about Fyfe throwing the ball a bunch against Purdue.
We hung 40+ points on them after letting them get up a bunch on us. What were we supposed to do? Was Riley supposed to call Tom Osborne and beg for running plays to call in the 2nd half?
We hung 40+ points on them after letting them get up a bunch on us. What were we supposed to do? Was Riley supposed to call Tom Osborne and beg for running plays to call in the 2nd half?