I have been here a while so here are my post game long time Husker fan thoughts.
AM overthrew a ton of guys in the first half. Have no idea what that is about. He seemed to decide he was gonna run a lot more in the second half and it resulted in positive results. Having said that, when he ran in the first half he seemed much slower. Perhaps both have a lot to do with making a decision much quicker.
Mo Washington is obviously our best RB. Dude is sick in the open field and often leaves jock straps on the turf when he is in the open. He also has shown he will turn it upfield and take on contact.
Diedrick Mills looked a lot better with a G-Tech line and triple option offense in front of him. He seemed a lot more unafraid of contact back then in his golden years. He has shown glimpses of that Mills like when he stiff armed the guy while in route to the end zone yesterday and a couple short yardage situations, but he seems much softer than we all anticipated.
Wandale seems like this years Mo, and much tougher in traffic than Mills has so far. If you have any guess who the staff trusts so far, just look at the fourth quarter yesterday. They had Wandale running literally ALL the runs they brought Mills into do this year. Wandale got them to the one yard line with three minutes left. That is Mills time. Put him in and literally end the game with a bulldozing TD. That didn't happen. They didn't even put Mills in to try. Tells me everything.
The defense played pretty damn good again against a crap Illinois offense. Once again, the offense and kickoff team put the D in a horrible position over and over. Imagine how awesome this pretty damn good D would look if our 700 yard offense and competent kickoff team just gave them a chance to go kill the other team?
Mo Berry was the leading tackler, but I did not see him at all like I used to see Lavante David or other great Husker LB's of the past. Tonight the guys I saw were Will Honas and once again Jo Jo Domann. Domann is a missile at times. The D-line was pretty good. The secondary was also pretty good and Lamar Jackson once again showed he can hit when expected, save for that one TD where he looked like he was playing touch football and Cam missed yet another downfield tackle to save a touchdown. In years past, you all hated Nate Gierry for a variety of reasons like he hated going to class, but he a million times was the guy who ran down a runaway runner or receiver going for a TD and prevented that. I would love for Cam or literally any other secondary guy to show he can tackle a guy on the loose forty yards downfield.
We won yesterday. Dismuke obviously interfered on the last offensive play for Illinois. Jackson obviously interfered on a first half play where he latched onto a receiver that was wide open. I encourage them doing that kind of stuff until the zebras call it. I also encourage AM to go play like he knows how to play.
AM overthrew a ton of guys in the first half. Have no idea what that is about. He seemed to decide he was gonna run a lot more in the second half and it resulted in positive results. Having said that, when he ran in the first half he seemed much slower. Perhaps both have a lot to do with making a decision much quicker.
Mo Washington is obviously our best RB. Dude is sick in the open field and often leaves jock straps on the turf when he is in the open. He also has shown he will turn it upfield and take on contact.
Diedrick Mills looked a lot better with a G-Tech line and triple option offense in front of him. He seemed a lot more unafraid of contact back then in his golden years. He has shown glimpses of that Mills like when he stiff armed the guy while in route to the end zone yesterday and a couple short yardage situations, but he seems much softer than we all anticipated.
Wandale seems like this years Mo, and much tougher in traffic than Mills has so far. If you have any guess who the staff trusts so far, just look at the fourth quarter yesterday. They had Wandale running literally ALL the runs they brought Mills into do this year. Wandale got them to the one yard line with three minutes left. That is Mills time. Put him in and literally end the game with a bulldozing TD. That didn't happen. They didn't even put Mills in to try. Tells me everything.
The defense played pretty damn good again against a crap Illinois offense. Once again, the offense and kickoff team put the D in a horrible position over and over. Imagine how awesome this pretty damn good D would look if our 700 yard offense and competent kickoff team just gave them a chance to go kill the other team?
Mo Berry was the leading tackler, but I did not see him at all like I used to see Lavante David or other great Husker LB's of the past. Tonight the guys I saw were Will Honas and once again Jo Jo Domann. Domann is a missile at times. The D-line was pretty good. The secondary was also pretty good and Lamar Jackson once again showed he can hit when expected, save for that one TD where he looked like he was playing touch football and Cam missed yet another downfield tackle to save a touchdown. In years past, you all hated Nate Gierry for a variety of reasons like he hated going to class, but he a million times was the guy who ran down a runaway runner or receiver going for a TD and prevented that. I would love for Cam or literally any other secondary guy to show he can tackle a guy on the loose forty yards downfield.
We won yesterday. Dismuke obviously interfered on the last offensive play for Illinois. Jackson obviously interfered on a first half play where he latched onto a receiver that was wide open. I encourage them doing that kind of stuff until the zebras call it. I also encourage AM to go play like he knows how to play.
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