So You're Telling Me...

cm husker said:
People have always held NU QBs to an unfair standard. People tell me that the kid from Iowa is a great QB and all NU needs to be championship level. Then that kid has an awful game against Stanford. Same with Connor Cook, who was by most accounts a great college QB and a 1st round pick.

Armstrong did a better than admirable job trying to run a system that was new to the whole offense and which didn't highlight or take advantage of some of his strongest attributes.
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Unfair standards? When a pass play is called I fully expect the qb (on ANY team) to get the ball into the hands of his receiver far more often than he doesn't. I expect him to manage the game and not turn the ball over.

 
Testing at the end of the season is completely understandable. Testing is done year round. It's not like Eply has never seen test numbers after a season of wear and tear. I'm sure in his experience he is more than capable of telling the difference in season ending scores and pre season scores.

The man developed this sh#t. He is Yoda.

 
cm husker said:
I'll just say that it's time for Cavanaugh to wake up to the notion of rotation. These longer seasons are even more reason to give OL some rest. Because, that's what 4 weeks of rest and a commitment to the run looks like.

also why I discount epleys test results that apparently taken after a season of intense wear and tear.
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Maybe this is what happens when we run against a team that is really crappy against the run. They have been all year. Yeah, it was low hanging fruit, but we actually picked it this time.

 
But only testing at the year end, as it seemed in the report is unfair to the athlete and the record it would seem. That is what I based my comment on.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
UCLA is notoriously bad against the run.

It wasn't a secret that Riley intended to commit to the run to test that defense. UCLA couldn't stop us, so we kept running, with 19 passes thrown in to keep the defense on its toes.

Of course it's the offense we'd love to see, but it requires an opposing defense willing to play along.

I know some fans can't believe it, but Nebraska also came out with run-heavy offenses in several games this season. It worked well in some games -- and some quarters -- but not against better defenses that made the proper adjustments. This really shouldn't be a surprise.

(Same fans may not have noticed UCLA's first touchdown came on a fourth and one where they completed a 25 yard pass. It's not a bad call when it works.)

I do think Langsdorf made a decision to run Tommy more, and Tommy was generally willing (despite another Illinois-like brain fart) and that should definitely be a template for next year.

If you are blaming Nebraska's W/L record on offensive play calling, while refusing to notice the major deficiencies in the Nebraska defense (on display again last night) I think you lose a huge amount of credibility as a football analyst.

It was a good win and a fun game. Happy New Year. Seriously.
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+1, seriously, good post.

I would like to add that committing 27 turnovers during the course of the year isn't conducive to achieving a winning season. And last night we actually won the turnover battle. How many times have we lost that battle this year? I think most of us can agree that some of the turnovers resulted from play calls many of us would not have made but many others were just poor decisions on the part of our quarterbacks.

You're absolutely right about our defense and the Purdue game is a good example. How do you lose when you score 45 points, I mean that should be more than enough to win right? Well, when your defense gives up 55...

 
It must be hard living such a miserable life. This was the most complete game we played all season, yet some guys still want to b!^@h about. Good god it's pathetic

 
husker B-rent said:
He's saying that they should have used the same game plan all season.

In theory that would make a lot of fans happy! Myself included.

However, you also run the risk of being too predictable. Some of those points last night were because ucla didn't game plan for us to play that style.
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To predictable? Didn't hurt Iowa Mich St to much. There are a ton of other teams that are pretty predictable and had a lot of success

 
BaytownHusker said:
husker B-rent said:
He's saying that they should have used the same game plan all season.

In theory that would make a lot of fans happy! Myself included.

However, you also run the risk of being too predictable. Some of those points last night were because ucla didn't game plan for us to play that style.
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To predictable? Didn't hurt Iowa Mich St to much. There are a ton of other teams that are pretty predictable and had a lot of success
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I'd rather be unpredictable than predictable. I'd rather have the defense guessing what's coming next.

 
The testing is done throughout the year. Not just at the beginning of the season or the end of the season. It is averaged out and that is where the numbers come from.

I agree that some rotation would be good but there are a lot of teams that don't rotate. Stanford is a team that we wish we could be like with their power run game and they don't rotate linemen. They play extra linemen by bringing them in as extra blockers on their heavy sets. That is how they get their backups game time.

 
PTPer said:
Hope you're all happy by winning a battle and losing the war. I am a realist husker fan and one thing I can't stand about my bretheran is their blind focus on the local team. One game and forget how far we are from the ultimate goal of championship football. Do you know what other coaching staffs are doing across the country to bring winning programs? You have no idea how far we are falling behind, do you? Here you go, just one example: http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2015/06/18/michigan-recruiting-website/28873677/
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If you're pointing to this as evidence of what other teams are doing that is so vastly ahead of what Nebraska is doing then you haven't been paying attention to what Nebraska is doing.

 
Stumpy1 said:
The testing is done throughout the year. Not just at the beginning of the season or the end of the season. It is averaged out and that is where the numbers come from.

I agree that some rotation would be good but there are a lot of teams that don't rotate. Stanford is a team that we wish we could be like with their power run game and they don't rotate linemen. They play extra linemen by bringing them in as extra blockers on their heavy sets. That is how they get their backups game time.
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I can see the argument both for and against rotation. If I was the coach it would depend on my current line. Maybe I have 5 guys that have a synergy no other combination of linemen on my team has, in that case, its doubtful I would rotate at all unless we had a commanding lead. If I don't have a combo that has the aforementioned synergy in all likelihood I would be far more inclined to rotate linemen in order to keep them as fresh as possible throughout the game and season.

 
I thought the staff started pushing the right buttons in the last 4 games.

Maybe it was unrealistic for us to think that a new coaching staff would have a perfect plan the whole season? Players getting accustomed to the new schemes, coaches figuring out the capabilities of players they've never coached and didn't recruit, the players trusting the coaching staff etc. can take time.

It was a rough transition for the first 9 games but I think it started to come together at the end. Excited to see what they can do in the coming years.

 
Elf said:
cm husker said:
I'll just say that it's time for Cavanaugh to wake up to the notion of rotation. These longer seasons are even more reason to give OL some rest. Because, that's what 4 weeks of rest and a commitment to the run looks like.

also why I discount epleys test results that apparently taken after a season of intense wear and tear.
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Maybe this is what happens when we run against a team that is really crappy against the run. They have been all year. Yeah, it was low hanging fruit, but we actually picked it this time.
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Unfortunately, I think this is the same lesson our staff will take from the game too...

 
Stumpy1 said:
The testing is done throughout the year. Not just at the beginning of the season or the end of the season. It is averaged out and that is where the numbers come from.
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Link? I'm very skeptical that they are regularly tested like that. That would be an awful way to assess

 
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