Your 2022 Nebraska Cornhuskers

suh_fan93 said:
Huskers now with 4 players on watch lists.  
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If your not adding to watch lists does that mean you can't be nominated? I ask bc what happens if a player has a breakout year but he was ignored before the season started. Example (Omar Manning)? He is turning into a sleeper or people have forgot he was the number #1 juco wr 2 years ago and have written him off and aren't expecting much from him. I say sometimes it takes time for kids to adjust to a new environment. Im hoping he proves people wrong!!!

 
Undone said:
@Mavric: I think this points as much as anything to Frost & Lubick's scheme & play calling being very overblown on the list of problems. We really didn't have much trouble moving the ball down the field, and we ranked ahead of Wisconsin & Iowa in points per game (and I understand Iowa's number goes down from that curb stomping in the B1G title game but still).

We had two games where Martinez was a huge liability (Illinois & Purdue). Then we had 2-3 games where in my opinion special teams ultimately lost us the game.

We had the talent and the offensive coaching overall to be a 7-5 team, general. Before anybody jumps all over that I'm not saying the talent and the offensive coaching was spectacular or anything - but it was enough to make us a 7-5 team.

It was the acute, catastrophic stuff that we couldn't overcome that was the difference IMO.
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This is exactly right.  The offense could have been better but wasn't as bad as people claim.  And I think it's probably more than your opinion that special teams lost us at least a couple of games.

I think 7-5 would have been pretty attainable even without any huge improvements.  By some statistical analysis, we were more likely to be 11-1 last year than we were 3-9.

 
Mavric said:
This is exactly right.  The offense could have been better but wasn't as bad as people claim.  And I think it's probably more than your opinion that special teams lost us at least a couple of games.

I think 7-5 would have been pretty attainable even without any huge improvements.  By some statistical analysis, we were more likely to be 11-1 last year than we were 3-9.
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I read that same statistical analysis that you're referring to and they basically ran a simulation using all of our statistics 5000 times and only came up with a 3-9 season twice.  The simulations showed the we should have been an 7-7 or 8-4 team.  You could easily point to 3-4 games where one play could have changed the outcome of the game.  Crazy really.

 
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We’ve got to score in the red zone.  In the red zone, as far as finishing drives, we’ve got to be better at that. It shouldn’t have come down to three field goals. We should have been able to punch a couple of those in."

 
The Dude said:
Guess the author of this quote:

We’ve got to score in the red zone.  In the red zone, as far as finishing drives, we’ve got to be better at that. It shouldn’t have come down to three field goals. We should have been able to punch a couple of those in."
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That was one game. Statistically over the course of the year, we were fine (not great) scoring TDs once we got to the red zone. Big improvement over 2020 anyway, when we only scored TDs about 50% of the time. There's room for improvement in getting into the end zone once we're close, but if we made our red zone field goals and kicked instead of going for it on 4th against Michigan and 1st half of Wisconsin (which we would have done if there was any confidence in the kicker), we're at 91% overall and top-15 in the country. Even building in a couple misses we'd be comfortably in the acceptable range.

I would love for us to have a higher TD%, but I agree with the people saying that was not our biggest problem. It feels like it when you're in close games and missed a red zone opportunity, but there were so many additional things that hurt us just as bad or worse.

 
Husker in WI said:
That was one game. Statistically over the course of the year, we were fine (not great) scoring TDs once we got to the red zone. Big improvement over 2020 anyway, when we only scored TDs about 50% of the time. There's room for improvement in getting into the end zone once we're close, but if we made our red zone field goals and kicked instead of going for it on 4th against Michigan and 1st half of Wisconsin (which we would have done if there was any confidence in the kicker), we're at 91% overall and top-15 in the country. Even building in a couple misses we'd be comfortably in the acceptable range.

I would love for us to have a higher TD%, but I agree with the people saying that was not our biggest problem. It feels like it when you're in close games and missed a red zone opportunity, but there were so many additional things that hurt us just as bad or worse.
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Incorrect. 

 
Now the one place where I'd call out Scott's program's play calling across his first four years is inside the opponents' 10 yard line.

Maybe last year was better in this area. And maybe some of the time the failures were just due to failed execution. But it seemed like Frost asked Adrian to make a lot of those plays instead of having gotten a power run formation dialed in.

However, that sort of flies in the face of stats that Mavric posted about where our TD count ranked us last year, so...    :dunno      :waste

 
The Dude said:
Guess the author of this quote:

We’ve got to score in the red zone.  In the red zone, as far as finishing drives, we’ve got to be better at that. It shouldn’t have come down to three field goals. We should have been able to punch a couple of those in."
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Find me any coach at any level that says "we're as good as we want to be in the red zone.  No need to get any better."

 
Mavric said:
As has been pointed out multiple times - including just now in this thread - this is completely inaccurate.

But some people want to believe it so the myth lives on.
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You can't just dismiss field goals. If you can't move the ball in the red zone you resort to a FG...I think you made a point it wasn't as bad as it seemed but end of the day you were 71st in PPG. Year before 102nd. We haven't been a top 50 offense since Frost has been here. 

Nebraska was 20th in yards per game last year and 71st in scoring...can't just be due to 8/16 FGs. 

 
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BIG ERN said:
You can't just dismiss field goals. If you can't move the ball in the red zone you resort to a FG...I think you made a point it wasn't as bad as it seemed but end of the day you were 71st in PPG. Year before 102nd. We haven't been a top 50 offense since Frost has been here. 
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You absolutely can just dismiss field goals if you're talking about how the offense performed.  The offense performed fairly decent.  The special teams were terrible.  You put it together and the team was below average.  That's really not that hard to understand.

 
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