What Did We Learn: Miami Edition

1. We have to come to play a whole game.

2. Our defense needs much work, in all areas.

3. That I miss this guy!

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zoogs said:
Oh! Good deal, thanks. I didn't realize we had a 6'5, 225lb true freshman DE on the bench. That sounds like exactly what we need. Play the man!
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I should note that when I talk about Alex playing, I mean it only in passing situations.

I've went back and watched some points in this game watching McMullen 'rush the passer', and I become more convinced the coaches will play Alex very soon.

If anyone is a glutton for punishment, watch this game defensively and focus in on McMullen. He will make you miss Demoine Adams and Bernard Thomas. Yes, it's that bad, and it's been that bad for a while. McMullen is very lucky he is at a school with terrible problems at DE, because he should rarely, if at all, see the field at any P5 school.

 
BigWillie said:
zoogs said:
Oh! Good deal, thanks. I didn't realize we had a 6'5, 225lb true freshman DE on the bench. That sounds like exactly what we need. Play the man!
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I should note that when I talk about Alex playing, I mean it only in passing situations.

I've went back and watched some points in this game watching McMullen 'rush the passer', and I become more convinced the coaches will play Alex very soon.

If anyone is a glutton for punishment, watch this game defensively and focus in on McMullen. He will make you miss Demoine Adams and Bernard Thomas. Yes, it's that bad, and it's been that bad for a while. McMullen is very lucky he is at a school with terrible problems at DE, because he should rarely, if at all, see the field at any P5 school.
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Maybe he should play more often than just passing downs. The rushing defense is giving up very few yards, although yards per carry is fairly high. We can afford a slight reduction in performance against the run if we can pressure the QB. I want to see old time NU football where the QB is hit hard and often.

 
MichiganDad3 said:
Maybe he should play more often than just passing downs. The rushing defense is giving up very few yards, although yards per carry is fairly high. We can afford a slight reduction in performance against the run if we can pressure the QB. I want to see old time NU football where the QB is hit hard and often.
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Depends a lot on the team we are playing.

McMullen...was a stud DE recruit out of Ohio and a major recruiting score. This is a disappointment. Hope he can turn it around.

 
RedRex said:
The 5 men in the backfield penalties drive me crazy. If we can't get lined up right then scrap the formation. I'm sure we can find other ways to lose 5 yards.
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It was a weird penalty for both teams tonight because most of those penalties were on lineman. Alot of lineman like to cheat when they pull by lining up further back of the LOS. You can really notice it by just looking at where their butt is in relation to the rest of the o-lineman. And at some points, lineman from both teams were cheating too much to get out on their pull block assignments.

 
And they were BS calls. Could easily have warned the coaches. I think one of those calls (on 68) wiped out a nice gain for the Huskers... A pass play for around 25 yards IIRC.

 
Just saw the post game PC with HCMR. He said they normally get warned about the tackles (68 Nick Gates) lining up too far back before they call it a penalty, but never did. He said Gates thought he was lining up fine - no one said anything to him.

 
That makes a lot more sense. They wouldn't show the replays during the game so I had no idea what was going on. I was thinking, how on earth can you get so many formation issues in a game? And it did affect both teams.

 
And they were BS calls. Could easily have warned the coaches.
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As a general rule, refs don't write warning tickets. Coaches are officially warned of what is not allowable when it is printed in a rule book and handed to them to read.

 
I learned two main things.

The first is that I just love football. I've gotten past the point where I put too much personal investment into wins and losses, but damn do I love the sport for what it is. There's nothing else that results in me screaming and losing my mind with excitement in a bar packed full of people that were strangers a few hours ago but I'm now hugging and high fiving. Too much fun.

Second, everyone here has been wanting to gloss over our defensive approach with the rose colored glasses and sorry to say I expected, or at least guessed, this was coming. I get the feeling that Banker will end up exposing himself as Cosgrove-esque, and from the very start my question has always been, "Will Riley be done in by the same thing that has done in our last two coaches, uncompromising loyalty to underperforming assistants?"

 
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