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The_Glove_Man_rivals300278

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You can't ask your team to play with fire when you won't go for it on 4th down with 0.5 yards to go for a touchdown to capitalize on an awesome turnover and take a commanding 14-0 lead.

You can't ask your team to play with fire when you wont blitz on the final drive of the game against a third-string, walk-on QB from a 2-6 team without its biggest receiving weapon, driving down the field for the win.

What happened to "it's ok to make mistakes, go for the throat?"

This is not a game we should just win. This is a game we should dominate. We won the field position battle, the turnover battle, the penalty battle. Their offense was decimated by injury. Does anybody think that Bo Pelini loses this game, with these same players, in his second year as a HC? No frickin' way.

Yesterday was the first time where it occurred to me that the Frost experiment might fail. Maybe he can't get buy-in because the players know his strategies aren't working, and he refuses to change them. Because they know there's a QB sitting on the bench that could have won that game, but their coach only brought him from Orlando to be a mentor to his prodigy.

Last time Scott Frost got booed for sucking at Nebraska, he turned it around. So boo, Scott Frost. Booooo. The product you are putting on the field is bad. Really bad.
 
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The_Glove_Man said:
You can't ask your team to play with fire when you won't go for it on 4th down with 0.5 yards to go for a touchdown to capitalize on an awesome turnover and take a commanding 14-0 lead.

You can't ask your team to play with fire when you wont blitz on the final drive of the game against a third-string, walk-on QB from a 2-6 team without its biggest receiving weapon, driving down the field for the win.

What happened to "it's ok to make mistakes, go for the throat?"

This is not a game we should just win. This is a game we should dominate. We won the field position battle, the turnover battle, the penalty battle. Their offense was decimated by injury. Does anybody think that Bo Pelini loses this game, with these same players, in his second year as a HC? No frickin' way.

Yesterday was the first time where it occurred to me that the Frost experiment might fail. Maybe he can't get buy-in because the players know his strategies aren't working, and he refuses to change them. Because they know there's a QB sitting on the bench that could have won that game, but their coach only brought him from Orlando to be a mentor to his prodigy.

Last time Scott Frost got booed for sucking at Nebraska, he turned it around. So boo, Scott Frost. Booooo. The product you are putting on the field is bad. Really bad.
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MR doesn't lose this game.
 
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either some changes or made or a transformative player or two need to show up and help reverse the culture.
generally how it goes...
 
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Smacks of soft practice to me. We look like a team that doesn't know how to hit or be hit. Our ball carriers consistently look like they didn't know the defense was allowed to tackle them hard.

I think the fear of injuries and lack of depth has them scared of having hard practices with much hitting. Ironically that lack of practice has guys taking bad hits and losing games because they're soft.
 
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HuskerLLM

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The_Glove_Man said:
You can't ask your team to play with fire when you won't go for it on 4th down with 0.5 yards to go for a touchdown to capitalize on an awesome turnover and take a commanding 14-0 lead.

You can't ask your team to play with fire when you wont blitz on the final drive of the game against a third-string, walk-on QB from a 2-6 team without its biggest receiving weapon, driving down the field for the win.

What happened to "it's ok to make mistakes, go for the throat?"

This is not a game we should just win. This is a game we should dominate. We won the field position battle, the turnover battle, the penalty battle. Their offense was decimated by injury. Does anybody think that Bo Pelini loses this game, with these same players, in his second year as a HC? No frickin' way.

Yesterday was the first time where it occurred to me that the Frost experiment might fail. Maybe he can't get buy-in because the players know his strategies aren't working, and he refuses to change them. Because they know there's a QB sitting on the bench that could have won that game, but their coach only brought him from Orlando to be a mentor to his prodigy.

Last time Scott Frost got booed for sucking at Nebraska, he turned it around. So boo, Scott Frost. Booooo. The product you are putting on the field is bad. Really bad.
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Not sure how many times that it has to be said after the game yesterday but Vedral is injured and only available in an emergency situation so everyone calling for a different QB to play significant time yesterday would have gotten Bunch
 
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HuskerLLM said:
Not sure how many times that it has to be said after the game yesterday but Vedral is injured and only available in an emergency situation so everyone calling for a different QB to play significant time yesterday would have gotten Bunch
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Why does Nebraska seem to have a lot of injuries? Is it lacking focus in practice, wrong strength and conditioning, or just bad luck? We had this under Riley some what under bozo, and now frost.
 
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The_Glove_Man_rivals300278

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And everyone that thinks Vedral's health would have mattered at all in who was starting yesterday, is wrong.

HuskerLLM said:
Not sure how many times that it has to be said after the game yesterday but Vedral is injured and only available in an emergency situation so everyone calling for a different QB to play significant time yesterday would have gotten Bunch
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Changes in the depth chart. Safe to say the majority of the starters feel that their job is safe.
 
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CatColumbia said:
Changes in the depth chart. Safe to say the majority of the starters feel that their job is safe.
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Until we get depth and or better players, their jobs are safe. Which is why this is going to take some time. Can’t throw a walk on in every possible position, or we lose by way more points in these last two games.
 
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HominidHusker

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The_Glove_Man said:
You can't ask your team to play with fire when you won't go for it on 4th down with 0.5 yards to go for a touchdown to capitalize on an awesome turnover and take a commanding 14-0 lead.

You can't ask your team to play with fire when you wont blitz on the final drive of the game against a third-string, walk-on QB from a 2-6 team without its biggest receiving weapon, driving down the field for the win.

What happened to "it's ok to make mistakes, go for the throat?"

This is not a game we should just win. This is a game we should dominate. We won the field position battle, the turnover battle, the penalty battle. Their offense was decimated by injury. Does anybody think that Bo Pelini loses this game, with these same players, in his second year as a HC? No frickin' way.

Yesterday was the first time where it occurred to me that the Frost experiment might fail. Maybe he can't get buy-in because the players know his strategies aren't working, and he refuses to change them. Because they know there's a QB sitting on the bench that could have won that game, but their coach only brought him from Orlando to be a mentor to his prodigy.

Last time Scott Frost got booed for sucking at Nebraska, he turned it around. So boo, Scott Frost. Booooo. The product you are putting on the field is bad. Really bad.
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All year he’s let fear get in his way and I think that says a lot about how the season has gone. It was key in the losses to Colorado and Purdue- possibly Indiana.
Add the fear to the lack of up tempo offense and it’s clear Frost has not followed his own philosophies, which translates to the players.
 
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Child of the Corn

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HominidHusker said:
All year he’s let fear get in his way and I think that says a lot about how the season has gone. It was key in the losses to Colorado and Purdue- possibly Indiana.
Add the fear to the lack of up tempo offense and it’s clear Frost has not followed his own philosophies, which translates to the players.
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but 'no fear of failure', man.;)
 
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Baxter48 said:
Why does Nebraska seem to have a lot of injuries? Is it lacking focus in practice, wrong strength and conditioning, or just bad luck? We had this under Riley some what under bozo, and now frost.
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I'm beginning to think we still have S&C problems. Way too many injuries plus our guys look slow and fat.

Sometimes the things you are the most proud of are the things that are holding you back. I'm good to fire the S&C coach
 
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HominidHusker said:
All year he’s let fear get in his way and I think that says a lot about how the season has gone. It was key in the losses to Colorado and Purdue- possibly Indiana.
Add the fear to the lack of up tempo offense and it’s clear Frost has not followed his own philosophies, which translates to the players.
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I agree 100%. He can’t let the pressure and the noise change him, he has to be who he is. And I think he has changed, gone conservative don’t lose mode, several times the last two years.
 
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The_Glove_Man said:
You can't ask your team to play with fire when you won't go for it on 4th down with 0.5 yards to go for a touchdown to capitalize on an awesome turnover and take a commanding 14-0 lead.

You can't ask your team to play with fire when you wont blitz on the final drive of the game against a third-string, walk-on QB from a 2-6 team without its biggest receiving weapon, driving down the field for the win.

What happened to "it's ok to make mistakes, go for the throat?"

This is not a game we should just win. This is a game we should dominate. We won the field position battle, the turnover battle, the penalty battle. Their offense was decimated by injury. Does anybody think that Bo Pelini loses this game, with these same players, in his second year as a HC? No frickin' way.

Yesterday was the first time where it occurred to me that the Frost experiment might fail. Maybe he can't get buy-in because the players know his strategies aren't working, and he refuses to change them. Because they know there's a QB sitting on the bench that could have won that game, but their coach only brought him from Orlando to be a mentor to his prodigy.

Last time Scott Frost got booed for sucking at Nebraska, he turned it around. So boo, Scott Frost. Booooo. The product you are putting on the field is bad. Really bad.
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14 points is NEVER a commanding lead for this years version of Nebraska football! :D
 
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