I’m tired of watching the team lose winnable games.
Sounds like we are in agreement we both hope the coaching staff coaches the players up to their respective talent level and starts winning.
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Sounds like we are in agreement we both hope the coaching staff coaches the players up to their respective talent level and starts winning.
Mavric
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I'm tired of people insisting on reminding everyone how bad we've been at every opportunity. We all know that already.
But I doubt either of us will get rid of what we're tired of.
admo
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Good for them! But we are going to beat those Quad City Losers!
They're not beating us in our home opener, at night, in Lincoln, with the lights on and a red out.
Aint ! Gonna ! happen !
(sidenote: Wait a second, ... Is Purdy starting? Or Haarberg? Or Sims? Or a combo style?)
hnoes
They're not beating us in our home opener, at night, in Lincoln, with the lights on and a red out.
Aint ! Gonna ! happen !
(sidenote: Wait a second, ... Is Purdy starting? Or Haarberg? Or Sims? Or a combo style?)
hnoes 
BigRedBuster
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ZRod
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I am I
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Scott Frost: 6’3 220lbs in a system perfectly established and then tweaked to exactly compliment his talents.
Sims: 6’4 220lbs pounding a round into a square.
if we ran the 96-99 system, Sims would excel.
but that would take years of crafting and tweaking for each player to learn and grow.
we’re pulling transfers, tweeners, petulants, and recruits together to try and make 7-8 win seasons, hopefully.
if TO had his hands on Sims as a freshman and taught him for 2 seasons he’d be in the Natty hunt, all things considered.
Sims is a freak athlete and can do well. But we don’t have the “block down-field WR” or the “mash your head fb” or the “3yr wait to play” road graders OL; the Ahman/Phillips/Brown type talent at IB anymore, w a walk-on dying to have N on helmet.
We have what looks like every single other offense in the country looks like. We won enough to become a blue blood because we did what we do, f all the rest. Win or lose, that’s who we are.
Disciplined, tough, unique, nasty.
Get under center and mash some folks. Spread em a little to make ‘em work.
Game in point: N v TaMU 1997, Sims could do that, if we decided to do that as a program. If we are “rebuilding” rebuild to what worked for us for decades. Like decades of success just being us.
Lorewarn
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First of all, anybody would excel if they're surrounded by an elite juggernaut of a system.
Second, Frost averaged about 15 passes per game and 13 rushes per game. Sims is averaging 17 passes and 15 rushes per game. We're giving him a run heavy offense with lots of play action, simple reads and traditional/zone read/RPO options. It's obviously not the same system, but what would be the more round hole that he would fit well into? What does he do well that we aren't setting up for him?
walksalone
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I think a little more than QB play is our problem big shoots, I think that is probably the most glaring.
Yeah, but we're 0-2, so that means f*ck all.
desertshox
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Did I miss something? I keep seeing round peg in a square hole. Round pegs still fit in square holes unless the circumference of the peg is bigger than the square.
Please fix for my sanity.
ZRod
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walksalone
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ZRod
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walksalone
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Then why aren't they exploiting the run game more? If you pound the rock like that, shouldn't you be at least 1-1?
ZRod
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Well, you see... We have a QB...
But for real, 4 turn overs a game is the problem. You take away the 2 late first half turnovers during the CU game and trade them in for TDs, you could be looking at a 21-17 or 28-26 win.
Take away any of the last 3 turnovers against Minny and we have a dub.
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