Some plays that give me hope

[dand84]

1. After 2 turnovers, down 14 nothing, around 6 minutes 3rd and short, Ozigbo picks up the first down by running over people. Same drive, coming off two poorly executed plays, 3rd and 17 and AM keeps his composure, cycles through his reads and hits Mike Williams for the 1st down. Next play, TD.
2. CU gets the ball back and Aaron Williams makes 2 big tackles that makes it 3rd down and we hold them. Next time CU gets the ball, the d-line just explodes and Damion Daniels, like the terminator, just destroys the CU center pushing 5 yards back and into the RB trying to block. Mo gets the sack. 2 plays later, a 4 man rush just melts the CU o-line. K Davis with the sack.
3. Next series, the OLine and Ozigbo show what push means and just roll down the field.

Those are plays/series in just the first 20 minutes of the game or so. The change in player production and attitude from last year (i.e., Ozigbo), our line play, individual play, etc. show that we have the right coaching staff in place. Players are buying into this system and giving it their all. I am confident the mistakes for both the coaches and players will get cleaned up.

This team has heart again and while I am disappointed in losing a winnable game, I am a very happy fan this week.

 

[TruHusker]

I just went back and watched the game again, replaying many of the plays to isolate on various players. As the way it goes recording, it quit right before the penalty on Reed so that is fine, I was getting frustrated enough already.

If Chin lives and dies with the blitz, it is could be a long season. In the second half, CU handled that better and made players take the long way around, effectively just taking themselves out of the play.

So much for the theory that if we get pressure with the front 7, the back 4 do not have to cover as long or be as fine. What a joke, simply not true. Look how many sacks we had, pushing Montez out of the pocket and still he beats us with the long bomb. Sure you can say, it was the penalty but the reality is it was a play and they made it, we didn't. Get over it.

I wish I would have had a stop watch on both teams but it seemed like CU went faster than we did. We actually seem to go faster in the end, not looking to the sideline for signals. I could be wrong.

I agree with the assessment of our tackling. When the players watched the film there is no way they can be happy with that performance. Admittedly, teams get you out in space and that makes a difference but we flat did not tackle well. No way to sugar coat that.

When I was watching the replay I kept asking myself how in the world did we lose this game? At times we did not dominate but we made more mistakes than I can count with dropped balls, holding call that put us 1st and 20, the big penalty, turnovers, missing the fourth down plays when we were not even close and they blew us off the ball. Sadly it reminded me of BYU.

I actually think if Adrian sits this week, it allows the team to focus more on controlling the line of scrimmage and running the ball, work on the short game perhaps. You aren't going to have the quicks of Adrian making plays with his feet. Time to run it down someones throat and get the D clicking by truly stopping someone.

 

[jeans15]

I just went back and watched the game again, replaying many of the plays to isolate on various players. As the way it goes recording, it quit right before the penalty on Reed so that is fine, I was getting frustrated enough already.

If Chin lives and dies with the blitz, it is could be a long season. In the second half, CU handled that better and made players take the long way around, effectively just taking themselves out of the play.

So much for the theory that if we get pressure with the front 7, the back 4 do not have to cover as long or be as fine. What a joke, simply not true. Look how many sacks we had, pushing Montez out of the pocket and still he beats us with the long bomb. Sure you can say, it was the penalty but the reality is it was a play and they made it, we didn't. Get over it.

I wish I would have had a stop watch on both teams but it seemed like CU went faster than we did. We actually seem to go faster in the end, not looking to the sideline for signals. I could be wrong.

I agree with the assessment of our tackling. When the players watched the film there is no way they can be happy with that performance. Admittedly, teams get you out in space and that makes a difference but we flat did not tackle well. No way to sugar coat that.

When I was watching the replay I kept asking myself how in the world did we lose this game? At times we did not dominate but we made more mistakes than I can count with dropped balls, holding call that put us 1st and 20, the big penalty, turnovers, missing the fourth down plays when we were not even close and they blew us off the ball. Sadly it reminded me of BYU.

I actually think if Adrian sits this week, it allows the team to focus more on controlling the line of scrimmage and running the ball, work on the short game perhaps. You aren't going to have the quicks of Adrian making plays his feet. Time to run it down someones throat and get the D clicking by truly stopping someone.

You can't be serious.

Your entire assessment is jaded.

Yeah. We should sit back and let them convert 3rd and 19.

You think people are going to live off the plays that beat us....lmao..man please.

 

[MOHUSKER]

QB making his 17th start and in his 24th game I would expect more tempo than AM in his first start

 

[TruHusker]

You can't be serious.

Your entire assessment is jaded.

Yeah. We should sit back and let them convert 3rd and 19.

You think people are going to live off the plays that beat us....lmao..man please.

Oh, so tell me exactly where my "assessment is jaded". Seems to me they converted several third and long plays along with the 4th down plays. What game were you watching? Reality does stink at times

 

[huskerssalts]

Oh, so tell me exactly where my "assessment is jaded". Seems to me they converted several third and long plays along with the 4th down plays. What game were you watching? Reality dies stink at times

All I have to say is this, of course we made some mistakes. Brand new system, brand new coaches, bunch of new faces, TRUE freshman QB, yes Colorado had a junior QB that’s got experience and biggest point, this was Colorado’s second game while it was our first ever game under this new staff.

I think there are some of us forgetting this is year one under a new staff and system. It’s like we expect instant success with no growing pains (mistakes). A lot of our fans wanted to see the true freshman stud at QB this year and let him learn on the fly, well guess what, you guys got what you wanted. Now we have to deal with the mistakes that come along with it (this isn’t me crying that we should have went Gebbia, I’m over that and I’m all Martinez and excited about our future as I remember he’s a 18 year old freshman).

Like the OP said, there is plenty of good things to take away from this game. It’s sucked to lose a game we actually owned (when it comes to yardage, sacks and all that). 6-8 sacks in one game...I don’t remember the last time that happened for us. I’ll gladly take a few big plays here and there to see this type of pressure. Again, first year in this defense and defensive staff. We are going to be up and down. But guys, we have to remember. This is year one under a new staff. We got the right Head Coach in Frost. We now have to set back and let him do his thing. Cheer for our Huskers and be glad we are seeing improvements that we are this early on. I honestly expected to see us struggle a lot more then we did. I love what I seen Saturday (outside the mistakes that coast us the game in the end). Our future does indeed, look bright.

 

[TruHusker]

Oh my Huskersalts, you have been drinking massive amounts of the red stuff. Weren't you one making all of the predictions of a great improvement this season? I get the mistakes of a frosh QB, it happens at every level, freshman, rookie, etc. That is not what concerned me. Who dropped the passes? They weren't freshmen. Who had the holding penalty at a critical time? Who had the big penalty at the end to give CU a new set of downs? Those were not freshmen and you can't blame a new system on all of that. These are some of the same mistakes that haunted past teams at critical times.

The amount of yardage gained by the O is impressive and a positive to build on. Then you go back and look at how poorly our special teams were on covering returns and making them without a stinking penalty.

Frost and his coaches will figure this all out. But don't get hung up on the moral victories of having more yards than the other team or having more sacks than in the past. You get countered with, yea but we couldn't make a yard on 4th down more than once, and couldn't stop them when we had to.

Throw in this was CU, who many on here considered a shoe in win. Missing the Akron game hurt more than some want to admit. Now I guess we will see as we move forward into the eye of the storm with a difficult schedule. What "reasons" will be used then? Note, I am not disappointed in this team, they are playing, in one game, about where I thought they would be. But you can't simply ignore the pimple on your face saying it doesn't exist and will go away.