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ldiet_rivals313918

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How does one not defend a 6th grade fleaflicker? What
happened to the tackling in the second half? And why
keep calling plays between the tackles when only one
went for five yards and most for two yards or less? And
when you only need 6 points to win in over time run two
plays for loses and get sacked on the third. Even the
announcers knew that Adrian should have carried the ball
on roll outs. Coaches need to coach for sixty minutes so
that the players can play for 60 minutes. Hopefully Scott
Frost take responsibility for this loss.
 
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vs540husker

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Neither the playcalling, nor Martinez are aggressive this year. Everything seems to be playing not to lose instead of playing to win.
 
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huskerfan1414

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Wont entirely agree. There were times in the 4th where running was the smart thing to do and we passed. Not exactly playing not to lose.
But playcalling sucked, yes.
 
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WuTang_Husker

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huskerfan1414 said:
Wont entirely agree. There were times in the 4th where running was the smart thing to do and we passed. Not exactly playing not to lose.
But playcalling sucked, yes.
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The play calling sucked, and Martinez has lost it. He's just flat out bad in his decision making. He was so much better last year because he was instinctive and didn't try to live in the pocket. He's trying to be a damn pocket passing NFL QB and simply going through the motions. The play calling isn't helping him but then again I doubt the coaches want him in the pocket for hours every pass play.
 
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onechase

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Play calling is horrible. SF needs to hire an OC. Throwing side line to side line over and over worked 1 time and nothing else the entire game. What are we thinking and Why does our QB play scared or look like he is lost.
 
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Feb 2, 2005
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So in this thread we learned that: we ran too much, we passed too much, we ran between the tackles too much and we sent sideline to sideline too much.
 
otismotis08

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When the plays that were called don't work, it's easy to say that play-calling was the problem.
 
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HominidHusker

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We look like we lack confidence and we’re playing tight. They need to cut it loose.
In two games only 3 WR’s have even had the ball thrown to them more than once, and only 2 of those have caught a pass. Then McQuitty caught one pass on one target. Only 4 WR have been targeted total and 3 have caught passes. That is insane to me. And it’s not like we’ve been riding our TE’s either. We refuse to go downfield or throw many crisp timing routes. AND the tempo has been slow- head scratcher.

All of that is contributing to our predictability for opponents to easily sniff out what we’re doing.

To inject some optimism, I think Frost is capable of turning this around. I think the play on the OL in particular may improve drastically (which is sorely needed). Martinez will get his head right, and we can get this thing humming.
But it starts with Frost and there’s no time to wait. It has to happen now. This week has to become the turning point in the season where we find our mojo.
 
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kerpal_68

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HominidHusker said:
We look like we lack confidence and we’re playing tight. They need to cut it loose.
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Following their head coaches lead. He has been a different play caller since he took the Nebraska job. It doesn't help the teams confidence when in the post game he comes out saying he was scared to throw the ball. Pretty sad from a coach that preaches his team no fear of failure.
 
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Redscarlet

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kerpal_68 said:
Following their head coaches lead. He has been a different play caller since he took the Nebraska job. It doesn't help the teams confidence when in the post game he comes out saying he was scared to throw the ball. Pretty sad from a coach that preaches his team no fear of failure.
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+1 This also has me scratching my head, he is contradicting his own beliefs...
 
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cubsker_rivals142943

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what I don't get is how you can be afraid to call pass plays while at the same time you tell the media how awesome your QB is. If you're scared to pass on 2nd and 20, which we were with 6 mins left after the intentional grounding, then how awesome can he be? And if that's really how you feel about him, then shut up to the media about him.
 
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huskerbaseball13

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“We didn’t want to throw an INT in OT.”

That was apparently a real quote from Frost. If that doesn’t scare the **** out of Husker fans. It should. We went from Frost and company(Osborne included) bowing down to Martinez to not trusting the kid with the ball after two games.....knowing full well you don’t have a FG kicker.
 
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huskerbaseball13 said:
“We didn’t want to throw an INT in OT.”

That was apparently a real quote from Frost. If that doesn’t scare the **** out of Husker fans. It should. We went from Frost and company(Osborne included) bowing down to Martinez to not trusting the kid with the ball after two games.....knowing full well you don’t have a FG kicker.
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Big time. How have we gone from "no fear of failure" and a Heisman candidate QB to this? Just let lose and play the game. I thought we learned this lesson last year at Northwestern.
 
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cubsker_rivals142943

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huskerbaseball13 said:
“We didn’t want to throw an INT in OT.”

That was apparently a real quote from Frost. If that doesn’t scare the **** out of Husker fans. It should. We went from Frost and company(Osborne included) bowing down to Martinez to not trusting the kid with the ball after two games.....knowing full well you don’t have a FG kicker.
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unfortunately, our lapdog media won't ask the obvious follow up question to this comment
 
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cubsker_rivals142943

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jlb321 said:
did they ask about the 15 yard penalty on the kick return fumble that moved us from around the 45 yard line to the 30 - late in a one score game??
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not sure. i didn't even realize why that happened until my dad told me yesterday. absolutely ridiculous.
 
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Huskred01

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huskerbaseball13 said:
“We didn’t want to throw an INT in OT.”

That was apparently a real quote from Frost. If that doesn’t scare the **** out of Husker fans. It should. We went from Frost and company(Osborne included) bowing down to Martinez to not trusting the kid with the ball after two games.....knowing full well you don’t have a FG kicker.
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I wasn’t ever as big on Frost as most on here.

You need tough line play to win in this league & I’m not sure he’ll get us there.

As I said in another thread, I’m afraid Frost is what I thought he was & not what I hoped he was.

If we don’t make a bowl this year with this incredibly weak schedule, he better be on the hot seat next year. IMO
 
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ZJSARENOTFREE

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Huskred01 said:
I wasn’t never as big on Frost as most on here.

You need tough line play to win in this league & I’m not sure he’ll get us there.

As I said in another thread, I’m afraid Frost is what I thought he was & not what I hoped he was.

If we don’t make a bowl this year with this incredibly weak schedule, he better be on the hot seat next year. IMO
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