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joshwfo said...

You completely overlooking his patience, his vision, and quickness. He doesnt have extreme shake, but he could change directions at full speed. No one can ever say he would or would not be able to take the daily pounding of the B1G, but kid was electric.

Just curious were you upset at all when Aaron Green left?

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joshwfo said...

Wasn't referring to you Zonie ....

...It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. W. C. Fields

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PittHusker said...

good point about getting to playing multiple positions and not getting alot of reps....but all we see is game time, the coaches see everyday in practice multiple reps. I think the coaches love his athletism and were placing him in different positions to get that speed on the field, but I still think he will never be the #1 RB barring injuries, more playing time yes...starter no. I say if he wants to be a starting RB he may need to tranfer thats it.

BTW...I feel Rex had amazing shake and wiggle with hard power...just not alot speed.

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Zonie87 said...

Amigo, wow. Our offense led the B1G. It obviously wasn't so "huge" that the players couldn't execute it... TOTAL OFFENSE G Rush Pass Plays Yards Avg/P TD Avg/G 1. Nebraska 14 3547 2904 1040 6451 6.2 57 460.8 2. Indiana 12 1570 3734 939 5304 5.6 45 442.0 3. Ohio State 12 2907 2178 837 5085 6.1 54 423.8 4. Penn State 12 1732 3278 931 5010 5.4 42 417.5 5. Purdue 13 2135 3100 957 5235 5.5 46 402.7 6. Northwestern 13 2942 2203 964 5145 5.3 45 395.8 7. Wisconsin 14 3309 2197 926 5506 5.9 53 393.3 8. Michigan 13 2389 2591 820 4980 6.1 47 383.1 9. Michigan State 13 1942 2729 957 4671 4.9 27 359.3 10. Minnesota 13 1975 2203 847 4178 4.9 33 321.4 11. Iowa 12 1476 2249 793 3725 4.7 22 310.4 12. Illinois 12 1534 2026 797 3560 4.5 23 296.7

PASS EFFICIENCY G Comp Att Int Pct. Yards TD Effic. 1. Nebraska 14 233 378 13 61.6 2904 24 140.2 2. Ohio State 12 161 278 7 57.9 2178 17 138.9 3. Penn State 12 272 456 5 59.6 3278 24 135.2 4. Wisconsin 14 170 291 6 58.4 2197 15 134.7 5. Michigan 13 169 318 19 53.1 2591 20 130.4 6. Purdue 13 296 482 14 61.4 3100 30 130.2 7. Indiana 12 331 540 13 61.3 3734 24 129.2 8. Northwestern 13 231 369 7 62.6 2203 14 121.5 9. Minnesota 13 175 330 15 53.0 2203 19 119.0 10. Illinois 12 223 354 14 63.0 2026 11 113.4 11. Iowa 12 223 389 8 57.3 2249 7 107.7 12. Michigan State 13 244 465 10 52.5 2729 14 107.4

We were very good except for Rushing Defense and Turnover Margin.

PASS DEFENSE G Comp Att Int Pct. Yards Avg. TD Avg/G 1. Nebraska 14 187 397 13 47.1 2354 5.9 18 168.1 2. Michigan 13 198 330 7 60.0 2203 6.7 16 169.5 3. Michigan State 13 223 425 14 52.5 2285 5.4 10 175.8 4. Minnesota 13 231 404 13 57.2 2426 6.0 15 186.6 5. Wisconsin 14 255 464 8 55.0 2711 5.8 18 193.6 6. Illinois 12 180 288 7 62.5 2324 8.1 21 193.7 7. Iowa 12 224 353 10 63.5 2634 7.5 16 219.5 8. Penn State 12 244 430 10 56.7 2715 6.3 15 226.2 9. Indiana 12 222 356 7 62.4 2786 7.8 23 232.2 10. Purdue 13 260 447 14 58.2 3041 6.8 21 233.9 11. Ohio State 12 267 457 14 58.4 2922 6.4 15 243.5 12. Northwestern 13 289 497 13 58.1 3257 6.6 18 250.5

PASS DEFENSE EFFIC. G Comp Att Int Pct. Yards TD Effic. 1. Michigan State 13 223 425 14 52.5 2285 10 98.8 2. Nebraska 14 187 397 13 47.1 2354 18 105.3 3. Wisconsin 14 255 464 8 55.0 2711 18 113.4 4. Minnesota 13 231 404 13 57.2 2426 15 113.4 5. Penn State 12 244 430 10 56.7 2715 15 116.6 6. Ohio State 12 267 457 14 58.4 2922 15 116.8 7. Northwestern 13 289 497 13 58.1 3257 18 119.9 8. Purdue 13 260 447 14 58.2 3041 21 124.6 9. Michigan 13 198 330 7 60.0 2203 16 127.8 10. Iowa 12 224 353 10 63.5 2634 16 135.4 11. Indiana 12 222 356 7 62.4 2786 23 145.5 12. Illinois 12 180 288 7 62.5 2324 21 149.5

There is nothing about the defensive playbook that hurt the Rushing defense other than lack of talent.

Braylon didn't affect or detract from our offense. He just was.

Let's get real, okay?

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TunaGill said...

Each individual situation that has happened in the past few years can be reasonably explained if isolated. Jamal Turner wasn't going to unseat Taylor, and he needed to see the field, so that's why he was switched to WR. Green missed Texas, so he transferred to TCU. Moore was pussywhipped, and a baby, so he went back to Florida. Klatchko didn't pan out. Etc. Other examples that we could individually go into if necessary (we could also talk about on-field performance, but I'd rather not in this post).

However, I'm not someone who believes in a lot of coincidences. I think that where there's a lot of smoke there's usually fire.

In other words, to speak more clearly, I have a lot of doubts about Bo and the program. Do I think he should be fired? Of course not. But I don't think he'll ever get us to where I would like us to be, perennially winning conference championships, playing in BCS bowls, and being a Top 10 team that's feared.

As I have posted in the past, Bo is a nice head coach with nice players. And that's fine. But I don't think we'll ever become elite again with him at the helm.

Yes, I know we're close. I know we've played in 3 conference championship games in the last 4 years. I know we're a player here, a turnover there, not making a penalty, etc., from being where we want to be. But that's just it. We're close, and we'll continually to be close, and that's fine. But I don't think we'll ever get there.

I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I am.

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IowaHusker79 said...

If you look where the program was under Callahan and where it is now, yes it's moving in the right direction. At times it feels like we're spinning our wheels but I'll take the last five years under Bo over what we had under Callahan. Bo is off to a better start than Osborne, has won at least 9 games every year and has come within 1 second against Texas and one bad half against Oklahoma from winning two conference titles and being in two BCS bowl games. We aren't where we want to be but we sure aren't where we used to be!

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602Husker said...

Rex didn't have much shake, wiggle, or juke. Did he make guys miss sometimes with a move, yeah. But you can't say he had moves like described above. Heard was never given a chance to string any runs together, it was a play here and there and that was it. He never played for multiple series, let alone more than two snaps at a time.

You can't put a guy at multiple positions, rarely play them and then say, well if he was good then he would have caught on somewhere. As we have seen with both the offense and defense, the playbook at Nebraska is difficult to pick up and moving positions three times in two years is not conducive to picking up and understanding your responsibilties and role. Nebraska coaches (defense in particular) preach knowing your position is not good enough, you have to know what everyone is doing around you, know the foundation or reasoning not just the play call. The offensive playbook is said to be huge also.

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westoaksarthur said...

What's Rex Ryan got to do with this?