RedDenver
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The article looks at how teams performed against teams with winning records. McKewon compares NU against other schools and shows NU is average running the ball compared to other teams. I think that's what you're looking for.
McKewon: Are We Overestimating Our Ability to Run the Ball
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True2tRA
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What team in the country just runs the ball? No team can just run the ball. This is such a bullsh#t argument. He acts as if he is influencing the coaches to pass the ball a bit.
Beck has already said he wants balance. Beck has already shown he is committed to the passing game, even with a qB that left much to be desired in that aspect, we passed.
We will pass the ball to back defenses off our run game just like every other team in the entire freaking history of football. I don't get this debate at all. Why are we acting as if we have no passing game now. Why do we have to get creative to back them off of us? It's called a passing game. We will have one obviously. Play action pass. Its been a part of the game for years. Or to hell with play action, let's sling it all over. We tried it with Taylor. Do we really believe Tommy is less capable in the passing game than Taylor was? If so, y'all are on some of that good sh#t.
We have more passing game now, you all just don't know it yet. We will run, and we will pass. But Nebraska at this point, all circumstances accounted for, should be a run first team until forced otherwise. If someone forces us to throw 35-40 times a game, we have shown the willingness to do so. We did it with Taylor Martinez, why wouldnt we with Armstrong.
MSU and Georgia didn't stop Abdullah. Nobody on the schedule this year scares me out if the run game and they shouldn't ever scare Beck away from it. He abandoned it too quickly sometimes. Still, if we are forced to pass, we pass.
He acts as if he foreshadowing or predicting. the coaches have already told us. They've already said they want balance. I think Beck has demonstrated as much. You set up the pass, with the run, you set up the run with the pass. We have a senior Heisman candidate at RB, so let's start with him and go from there.
Armstrong is gonna light it up when we need him and this is all going to go away,
What team in the country just runs the ball? No team can just run the ball. This is such a bullsh#t argument. He acts as if he is influencing the coaches to pass the ball a bit.
Beck has already said he wants balance. Beck has already shown he is committed to the passing game, even with a qB that left much to be desired in that aspect, we passed.
We will pass the ball to back defenses off our run game just like every other team in the entire freaking history of football. I don't get this debate at all. Why are we acting as if we have no passing game now. Why do we have to get creative to back them off of us? It's called a passing game. We will have one obviously. Play action pass. Its been a part of the game for years. Or to hell with play action, let's sling it all over. We tried it with Taylor. Do we really believe Tommy is less capable in the passing game than Taylor was? If so, y'all are on some of that good sh#t.
We have more passing game now, you all just don't know it yet. We will run, and we will pass. But Nebraska at this point, all circumstances accounted for, should be a run first team until forced otherwise. If someone forces us to throw 35-40 times a game, we have shown the willingness to do so. We did it with Taylor Martinez, why wouldnt we with Armstrong.
MSU and Georgia didn't stop Abdullah. Nobody on the schedule this year scares me out if the run game and they shouldn't ever scare Beck away from it. He abandoned it too quickly sometimes. Still, if we are forced to pass, we pass.
He acts as if he foreshadowing or predicting. the coaches have already told us. They've already said they want balance. I think Beck has demonstrated as much. You set up the pass, with the run, you set up the run with the pass. We have a senior Heisman candidate at RB, so let's start with him and go from there.
Armstrong is gonna light it up when we need him and this is all going to go away,
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Mierin
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It's too soon to know, but people who think he's less capable than Martinez are not "high."
Martinez made 59.2% of his passes and a 10-7 TD-INT ratio during his freshman year.
Armstrong made 51.9% of his passes and a 9-8 TD-INT ratio during his freshman year.
It can be argued that Martinez got high percentages vs cupcakes, and Armstrong didn't play against as many cupcakes because he wasn't starting in the earlier games.
Anyhow, I don't care if Armstrong isn't as good of a thrower if the team is in the top 50 for turnover margin.
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The King
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Didn't read the entire article, read peoples comments above me that I would assume were related to the points made by the author and countered them.
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The King
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I'd be surprised if Tommy wasn't at least a little more accurate considering his knee is 95-100% instead of 75% or so.
True2tRA
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...the fact that he's not a freshman and he's now actually played and practiced with his WR's, .....that usually helps.
Martinez's freshman season and Tommy's shouldn't really be compared. It's an unfair comparison.
Timing and familiarity with the offense, with his WR's, and with the speed of the game is all huge, HUGE for a QB. Now if he improves on reading a defense and making the correct audibles, I would expect a huge increase in production and a large decrease in turnovers.
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It'sNotAFakeID
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1) I think we are going for balance.
2) Maybe not better schemes, but better...execution?
knapplc
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Except the injuries are the elephant in the room, and Sam doesn't address that at all. Aside from a cursory mention of Martinez' injury, Sam says nothing about the loss of key components of that offensive line throughout the season. We lost the best O Lineman on our team during the stretch Sam wants to bemoan, and he doesn't even mention the guy by name. That's where the analysis falls short.
Because the guys we got coming back my not be household names, they may not be pre-season All-American candidates, but they actually got quite a bit of experience last year. And saying that we can't hang our hat on that running game, when we had a 1,600-yard rusher despite a patchwork offensive line and no QB rush threat, leaves out too much of the variables we faced last year (and will see this year) to make a compelling argument.
If we remain healthy across the line, and if Ameer remains healthy, he'll get another 1,500 yards easily, and that's not even presuming Armstrong begins to terrify opponents like Martinez did. Even if Tommy is just OK, but the line stays healthy and Ameer doesn't run out of gas, we'll be fine.
Sam is saying Husker Fan is putting too much stock into one game (Sparty). The fact is, Sam is putting far too little stock into almost every single other factor. All things considered, I'll hang my hat on Ameer, not on Sam's stats.
Rocketsocks
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Do they even keep track of pancake blocks anymore? They need to do that.
RedDenver
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I don't think anyone is saying the running game won't be good. The question is, "How good?" Sam's article is saying that it won't be so good that we'll just run over everyone and rarely need to pass - or at least that's what I took from it.
UCLA was the only good team we played early, and I don't remember us even coming close to man-handing them up front. And that was before any OL were hurt (I think Spencer was the first during the Purdue game). Does anyone really think we'll have the kind of talent at OL to be able to run over the better teams on the schedule?
True2tRA
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You might be right, but then I guess i don't get the rocket science behind this or the need to write a full article about it. Isn't this the most no brainer thing ever? Not to be too all over the guys writing because I think he does a fine job, but this article you're telling me is basically saying this: Nebraska can run the ball pretty well, but sometimes they will have to pass.
No kidding. Hmm....
Again, I've said this before but I hate the percentage discussion if run/pass. It's about being effective when you pass. If Nebraska runs the ball 40 times, and throws the ball 10 times, but each of those ten times is a completion and effectively moves the chains, it will make the defense have to be honest. The main thing for me right now is that all evidence supports Nebraska at least being committed to the run game first and building it's passing attack off the run.