Does NU win today with AM?
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About the only difference I saw today was...
They ran more option
They passed a few times less.
A safety, a fumble, and an interception at the most inopportune times? Seems like he played to me.
I have no idea how to look it up but how many teams have a dominant lead at halftime over a **** team...but then give up a punt block for TD and a safety in the second half to lose?
That has to basically never have happened, right?
That has to basically never have happened, right?
Not defending Frosty, but Frost didn't have a punt blocked for a touchdown. And Frost certainly didn't draw up that last pass to be executed the way it was.
One could certainly ask why we were running two consecutive passing plays out of our own endzone, though. That was on him.
Yeah, and then the playcalling went way downhill and Iowa made adjustments. That pass over the middle to Manning and those darts to the outside were a product of stepping into passes. I'm not saying we would've won more games this year with Smothers, but AM has had awful form of throwing off his back foot which caused balls to sail on him. Hearing it was due to injuries just makes it worse. He shouldn't have been playing. Today's game solidified that Martinez wasn't the main reason we lost games, but it also showed we had options that we just never tried and instead stuck with what wasn't working
We are not winning with AM.
Logan has a much higher football IQ, so I think he can be more successful than Adrian.
The offense still has too much emphasis placed on the QB position.
#41 on the blocked punt took the wrong defender, just letting the first guy right on by to block the kick.
Logan has a much higher football IQ, so I think he can be more successful than Adrian.
The offense still has too much emphasis placed on the QB position.
#41 on the blocked punt took the wrong defender, just letting the first guy right on by to block the kick.
Maybe. I hope everyone keeps in mind that Iowa scored only one offensive touchdown, though. Our special teams cost us this one. Again.
Agreed. I still have no idea why he was calling a play action pass out of our own endzone. With a first-time starter. With Nebraska leading. Makes no sense.
Someone obviously missed an assignment. No doubt he called the play, but I doubt it was designed to throw the ball into a group of Iowa defenders, with no Nebraska receiver anywhere in the area.
Probably same result and same score. Special teams blunders would have been the same.
We've seen Martinez make the same endzone mistake and he's usually good for a fumble and an interception. Smothers made some sideline throws I don't see Martinez making. Martinez probably would have scrambled better.
Even.
We've seen Martinez make the same endzone mistake and he's usually good for a fumble and an interception. Smothers made some sideline throws I don't see Martinez making. Martinez probably would have scrambled better.
Even.
My only guess is that they must code the plays with a # system and that certain #'s have play action attached to it...
That is where a vet Qb either does the fake much faster or just skips it.
No would not been a different outcome ifYo Adrian had played. For one we would not have scored on open8ng drive.
It would be a lot easier to give Frost a pass on the blocked punt if his special teams were not a projectile diarrhea **** show, week after week, year after year.
Adrian has led his share of opening drive TDs that gave us false hope. It's a Frost thing.
Who ever coached the blockers to shift right with a left footed kicker is probably the problem.
It all seemed simple enough to me. Frost didn't trust Smothers with a lot today, especially over the middle. The first half Iowa was not playing the option well and they changed that, you knew they would, just like Minny did although some say they never stopped our option attack, yea right. Frost mostly wanted Smothers to throw to the outside where he had less chance of INTs until late in the game when there wasn't much choice. Frost also tried to give Smothers the best chance of completing something over the middle in early "run downs" which helped Smothers get his feet wet. Then Iowa stopped the option the second half and forced Smothers to do what he is not good at, work within the pocket and always from behind the sticks and you could see the struggle developing. Frost also clearly had told Smothers that if it wasn't there early to go to his safety. My the looks of Smothers head, he wasn't looking around very much and very long, in a hurry to get rid of the ball and this led to several swing passes or dump offs that everyone complains about as bad play calling.
Iowa had to know that you just have to be patient with Nebraska, keep things in front of you and eventually they implode like we always do. That is how I would coach my D against them.
Iowa was patient and confident and just stayed within themselves, made adjustments and waited for us to make our typical mistakes. Smothers was playing out of his head the first half and our D was just good enough but Iowa quickly figured they just needed to switch QB's and it worked. What wasn't there earlier, all of a sudden was. It also didn't help we dropped a ton of balls we should have intercepted.
Bottom line is we first got out coached. They adjusted, we had no answer. We really needed a strong running game today, we weren't going to live through the air even with some of the secondary out of the game. Smothers looked lost, the game was moving too fast for him the second half.