Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Nebraska
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It is a problem. First and goal with great momentum we should’ve gotten a TD on this drive. Neb has the ball before and after halftime…
First and goal from the 10 is the hardest to score a touchdown on, I would think.
Ugh, the poor angles and positioning continue to kill us getting off the field, now Fussel may have been concussed??
The D did not come to tackle today and the O is limited to FGs. Barring a huge halftime speech and adjustments, this one’s going to get away from us.
What is with the doom-and-gloomerism. It's going to be a 1-point game at the half and we've held them to 1 score.
Our defense is better than it started but still giving up big plays. Nebraska missed an easy field goal. Turnover. And Nebraska didn’t score a touchdown last week. But your point is largely not unfair.
Well our D has played horrendous by their standards, by far the worst since Tulane, so it’s a positive that we’re only down 1. It is proving to be very difficult to score TDs so something needs to change for us to flip this game. At least one explosion play on O and one on D (I.e. a turnover in plus territory or a pick six to give us a non offensive TD).
NU is right where they want to be. Need for Stone to make a few more plays in the 2nd half. Hard to punch it in for a TD in the red zone if the defense doesn’t feel like our passing offense can keep them honest. This game is very winnable with a few tweaks and breaks in the 2nd half.
I haven’t seen this many missed tackles by our D in a long while. Also it’s worrisome that Fussell seemed concussed, and with Adeyi a pre-game scratch, our secondary is suddenly thin. And our offense playcalling continues to be a head scratcher. Let’s see what the second half has in store. Feels like another Cardiac Cats finish coming up.
Somebody is gonna need to articulate the issues with playcalling to me. Seems like some around here will never be happy. Always run on first, we’re too boring and predictable. Dont run on first sometimes, we don’t like that either.
But that’s not coaching. We were gashed twice before that too.
Did you see the third and 16 right before the turnover? We had no one on the receiver.
Do you put anything on the execution of the playera? Special teams have been an issue all year and I’ve said I don’t think we have the right guy coaching those units. That’s an isolated issue.
God he's missing some basic throws.
When our guys are noticeably yards away from their offensive player on multiple plays, and that’s not the case in reverse, I tend to blame our coaches.
LOL, you don’t think that has anything to do with overall level of athelticism and talent?