Huskers in 2019....

A freshman QB that often played like a Heisman candidate.....I think he has a higher ceiling than people seem to acknowledge with these criticisms like decision making.  Isn't this his 1st season in like a year and a half?

 
spurs1990 said:
Hardly anyone could have projected Ozigbo to step up and produce the way he did. I think the offensive staff will find a way to maximize what we have and help someone step up into those roles.
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This looks spot on and that is why this staff will continue to be successful - not sure how anybody could be "confused" by the above statement 

 
suh_fan93 said:
Frost is still putting the pieces of this puzzle together.  We've got some ballers coming back but yeah losing guys like Devine, Morgan and Gifford to name a few will hurt of course.  Guys will have to step up.  Anxious to see what our O line is going to be like next year.  If we can get Martinez some protection back there he is deadly.  Barry back on D is huge.  I think other guys feed off him.  What freshmen step up next year?  I'm excited.
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Stumpy1 said:
I think the national perception of us is only going to go up from here.  The Hawkeye fans around us yesterday had nothing but good things to say about Martinez and crew.  

During the halftime show last night of the Washington/Washington St game,  they showed our highlights and both commentators said that they think we are going to be scary good next year.  

It really is a great feeling to hear stuff like this.
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One HUGE advantage going into next year that can't be overlooked is it's year 2.  The staff finally has the culture defined and established.  I think whoever hasn't/didn't buy in is gone or will leave.  The staff will not have to spend precious limited practice time to teach and install new schemes.  This spring the staff will have MUCH more opportunity to teach specifics to the positions as opposed to an around the world view.  Throw in more depth, competition etc and we should see a much improved product game 1 of 2019 over the team we saw play against Iowa.  Oh, and another year with Duval.  Frost won't let the team forget Iowa was bigger and stronger.....I'm guessing this is the last time Frost will ever make that comment about any of our opponents in the B1G.

 
spurs1990 said:
We can hope at least
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Yeah, there's pretty much always this talk.

But I do think it's entirely plausible that they spent all last off-season making up ground.  They had to back off work-outs to fit where the players were.  That part isn't speculation.

So hopefully one year in they've at least gotten everyone back to "average" and can move forward from there.

 
B.B. Hemingway said:
Urban won at a clip never seen before at Ohio St. You think Day is going to come anywhere close to 83-9? 

Ohio St. will be Ohio St, I'm sure.... But they won't be Urban's Ohio St.
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The difference is that this will actually happen instead of just talk.  I was and am still a fan of Mark Philipp.  He was hindered on what he wanted to do and it cost us.  

Ellis will be the biggest part of this off season IMO and that is where we will really see the difference. 

 
Our inability to rush the passer this season was really terrible. It cost us the game against Purdue, Northwestern, and probably Iowa. 

I have a real fear that the roster and some tendencies by the coaching staff will continue the poor pass rushing well on into next season. Don't anybody flame me for this; it's a thought-out prediction and I'm just being honest. I want to be wrong so bad.

If we fixed that, got our offensive linemen a bit stronger so that they don't need to hold because they're out of position, and continue the good special teams play from the second half of the season, we're no doubt worth 8 wins. Whether that wins the West, I'm not sure. Northwestern only plays one tough team for their cross-divisional games, so they're potentially set up to make a good run like they did this season. 

I have said and will continue to say that I think we will only win the West by having a 2017 UCF sort of a year where despite relatively mediocre defensive stats, the offense is so good that it just finds a way to win games. I see putting the whole thing together in 2020 and bludgeoning the f*** out of the nobodies that are Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern, Purdue...and giving whoever we match up against in Indy a real run and possibly getting into the playoff.

 
Undone said:
Our inability to rush the passer this season was really terrible. It cost us the game against Purdue, Northwestern, and probably Iowa. 

I have a real fear that the roster and some tendencies by the coaching staff will continue the poor pass rushing well on into next season. Don't anybody flame me for this; it's a thought-out prediction and I'm just being honest. I want to be wrong so bad.
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I think our lack of a pass rush has a lot more to do with a lack of the correct personnel for the job than our lack of being able to coach them up. We don't have a real NT or a pass rusher at DE. If Fair isn't a bust we're on our way to having the lack of NT remedied.

 
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Moiraine said:
I think our lack of a pass rush has a lot more to do with a lack of the correct personnel for the job than our lack of being able to coach them up. We don't have a real NT or a pass rusher at DE. If Fair isn't a bust we're on our way to having the lack of NT remedied.
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Definitely agree, but I'm not going to sit here and say that it's fixed in 2019 to give us some magical season.

 
Undone said:
Definitely agree, but I'm not going to sit here and say that it's fixed in 2019 to give us some magical season.
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Why are you holding "magical season" up as something to argue against? Your comment was "...some tendencies by the coaching staff will continue the poor pass rushing well on into next season." Mine was we lack personnel (in that area).

Who said anything about having a magical season?

 
Moiraine said:
Why are you holding "magical season" up as something to argue against? Your comment was "...some tendencies by the coaching staff will continue the poor pass rushing well on into next season." Mine was we lack personnel (in that area).

Who said anything about having a magical season?
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Not you, but several others.

 
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