Northwestern: What did we learn?

Glass half full?

- The ST game was not memorable other than a good punter

- Casey is a quicker decision maker than 2AM

- Receivers look better, as a unit, than last year

- We have the best Hype video team in the entire world

The bad?

- We don't have the dimension of a running QB

- Our OLine is a poor run blocking unit.

- None of our backs stand out.  

- The defense has regressed at every level.  Every. Single.  Level.  Heinrich and Doman's (#31) replacement are especially bad

- Scott's small fingerprint on the game, an onside kick, killed us

- The last Husker drive literally looked like almost every 2AM game winning chance.  The worst deja vu I've had in years.

 
The defense did nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  We still don’t control the line of scrimmage on either side of the ball.

Specials Teams, other than that head scratcher, didnt lose the game.

Thompson will keep ‘em in a few games.  
 

I still think they make a bowl, but it appears we haven’t escaped Groundhog Day.

 
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1.  Strength and conditioning is way behind schedule.

2. O-line still cannot open holes consistently

3.  Defense looks as bad as the final Pelini years which resulted in him getting fired despite 9 wins

4.  Frost still sucks as a head coach...no other way around it.  He has one of the lowest football IQs I have ever seen.

On a brighter note, our punter looked amazing and likely has a future NFL career ahead of him. Based upon today's performance, he will get many opportunities to show his skills this season.

 
What I learned is that I really don't care if we got cheated out of 7 points and should've pulled it out and won by a couple points; I think we should've pummeled NW. I don't care if Fox wanted Paddy Fitzgerald to win in Ireland; the kind of team I want the Huskers to be would've pummeled Paddy and his 3-9 team. Most of the new coaches and players looked pretty good....most of the old ones looked awful. I'd go back to the Solich pro set style and take snaps under center.....this style of ball is weak garbage. I'd pressure on defense...we may not have the most talent, but we gave all day and the Heisman to their so-so QB once again. I don't expect any meaningful changes.

 
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