For dang sure they now know he won’t throw to the wide open receiver. Let the coaches off the hook for that call, but going forward with Sims he can’t be trusted and if the coach calls passing play it’s a very bad decision.
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Then they have a giant problem at hand, Sims can’t do it. Will they give another QB a chance?
Osborne would have won the same game with the same players running the ball with the proper personnel. We are Nebraska. People need to get it out of their minds that we need a balanced offense to be successful. We need to run the ball and play D=bowl game every single season.
This team doesn’t have the running backs, and certainly not the OL, that Osborne had. I don’t think they can just run it down the throat of other teams.
I'm just saying that the dude can run. He also fumbles. I'm just as baffled at the decision to have him in. Rhule had an answer for it at the press conference. They gave him a chance and he blew it. So did Sims. So did all the false start offenders. All just crushing mental mistakes.
I'll be pretty curious about the rb rotation and distribution of carries going forward. I really thought that we'd see GE get 17-20 carries and RJ would get around 10 touches.
I'll repeat. Osborne would have won THIS game against THIS team with THESE players by running the ball with the correct person el.
People are right this line sucks. At pass blocking. Run blocking isn't anything to complain about.
Agree with almost all of this JOHNNY. About an hour ago, I did watch the Rhule PC after the game.
One thing I disagree with what he said. He said Grant was fighting for extra yards, when it looked to me like a defender from the side/behind just swiped at the ball and the fumble occurred. Haven't watched the replay, its just I remember when it was live and the one replay on tv.
If, as Rhule said, its a play Grant runs well, it seems to me like Rahmir could run it just as well.
**Edited** Another thing, not trying to "dog" Rhule here, but he said you won't see me be someone who's going to do something different on game day just to win a game. When in fact, they did just that with Grant. They thought he could make a big play, so they played him despite his recent fumbling issues.
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Most of the pass plays they called were there with proper execution by Sims. They were only bad calls because of his inability in a game situation to execute them. Hopefully they’ve figured out what he can’t handle now.
More whining about coaching when the 2 biggest plays that lost the game were the false starts by two good Ol Nebraska boys (Boerk and Piper)! These were critical, bonehead errors at the worst possible times! I guess those plays were coaching too...
You can only pray , a couple years of tape and one game live should give em a clue.
Washington being back will help.
I also think reverses, and threats of reverses with some speedsters will tend to keep the DE's at home more and less pressure on the outside, given our poor OT play.
Nobody said you can't run the reverse/fake reverse one direction and have the QB bootleg the short side of the field.
The thing that always slays me is coaches who hesitate to play really physically talented freshmen because they "make mistakes."
Then we have 4 experienced guys, Piper, Boerk, Sims and Grant that make the glaring mistakes, yet they continue to get playing time.
I was at the game, I believe they were prepared. It was penalties and turnovers that cost us the game.
There may be a depth issue that cost us the game, we lack large D line bodies. The secondary substitute slot in the last few series, the players looked a bit gassed. It’s obvious that we needed another quality qb, losing Casey is a bigger loss than I thought.
Then NU better minimize mistakes and run the piss out of the ball, or our secondary will get toasted as the game wears on.
Our secondary is going to get a real test Saturday. If we can't get pressure I don't see a victory.
You are clueless, the guy is our best back period. Stay away from football and stick to your video games. If Grant didn't fumble you would be bitching about why he wasn't getting more carries.
BS, that was football 101. Every coach and I mean every coach would have tried for a touch down and a pass play with no timeouts was the right play.
You realize on the first pass play Tommie hill was open by 10 yds . If Sims throws it right away it’s a TD .
People equate bad outcomes to coaching mistakes. They have no insight into whether the play called was able to exploit the defense. They provide no reasonable alternative. Only results based opinions. If it didn’t work, it was a bad call. So simplistic. Especially with a new staff and new roster where they are still figuring each other out.
Ok then the blame switches to the coaches for trying to expect Sims to suddenly change his ways and see guys open and to not throw interceptions.
Ha ha. "If Grant didn't fumble, everything would have turned out fine." But he did fumble, and he had such a fumbling problem during practice that Rhule said something about it during his press conference. Are you a troll or an idiot?
I’m not talking about that play only. I’m talking when they are even thinking about calling a pass. Just like Adrian Martinez, Sims interceptions will cost Nebraska multiple wins this year. It has already been big cause of being 0-1. It’s disgusting watching them force square peg into a round hole but hey with the exception of last year it’s the norm for Nebraska and it’s QBs. Just run the damn ball.
Maybe Rhule should not have mentioned Grant fumbled twice during the scrimmage so that data made it into Minnesota's scouting report.
By any accounts I’ve read or heard Sims was not having those passing problems in practice. So it’s hindsight to say they shouldn’t have called those plays.
I’ll give you that. But it’s now evident since it happened in a game. If the coaches trust him to make throws to the right team, well then it’s on them if he doesn’t. People loved to blame frost when Martinez failed so we need to keep that sentiment going here.
On the 3 and out series in the fourth quarter I propose they should have run the ball with play action mixed in if necessary.
The previous NU possession went 80 yards and took 7:37 off the clock. It used 9 runs and 3 passes, of which one was incomplete. The series resulted in a NU FG. After that drive NU laid wood on the kickoff returner sparking our bench. MU went 3 and out in 27 seconds and punted. Nebraska fans were stoked and loud, MU's defense came out looking tired, The MU fans and bench looked worried, and the TV announcers were lauding Rhule for bringing smashmouth 4th Q football back to Nebraska just like Trev Alberts wanted. Needless to say I was beyond astonished at the three passes starting at 12:16 left to play. That just sucked the air out of our MO. It doesn't matter that Hill was wide open and Sims missed the pass or that the next one was there if the ball wasn't tipped. Going away from running, which they had been at 5 or 6 yards a pop the previous series was horrible coaching in my opinion. Why, why, why???? At worst if you burn off two minutes going 3 and out the game would have gone into OT even with the Grant fumble later.
Here is the breakdown of the preceding series:
80 yard drive 7 minutes 37 seconds
3rd Q 5:19 remaining from NU 11 yard line after interception
Ervin 27 yard run
Ervin 4 yard run
Lloyd 9 yard run
Washington 15 yard reception off play action
Grant loss of 1
Sims 7 yard run
Sims 4 yard run
Sims 7 yard run
End of 3rd quarter
Ervin 6 yard run
Boerkircher 4 yard reception to Minny 4
Boerkircher false start (negating Grant run w/3 blockers)
Incomplete pass to Castinada
Sims 1 yard run, drive stalls at Minny 9
Alvano FG, time 12:43
P.S. What happened to Alexander DeLarge?
The worst thing with Grant was he only had one hand on the ball. Late in the game, they're trying to strip it and he made it easy!
No doubt dudes that can string together 15 straight national championships would be really good real life coaches.
Legitimate question here JOHNNY.
Out of 1,000 guys on this board, how many of us would have had Grant carrying the ball with the game on the line?
Me too. I know exactly what the coaches should've done.
That said, it's a pretty tough look when the guy you called out for fumbling in practice is in a position to fumble in crunch time.
The rb rotation Thursday wasn’t exactly what the coaches made it sound like it was gonna be.
blame Ted Carter.. the AD was going in a different direction before TC took over the process.