This is just a conversation, anything can happen, good and bad. State a rebuttal on why you're optimistic.Would you be willing to bet your hard earned cash on all 5 of those?
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This is just a conversation, anything can happen, good and bad. State a rebuttal on why you're optimistic.Would you be willing to bet your hard earned cash on all 5 of those?
PSU, Wisconsin and NW are the only teams with a returning QB. Of the remaining teams, Nebraska should have the QB advantage if Tanner lives up to his hype. tOSU will be able to make up for the QB inexperience will superior over all talent. I think we stack up talent wise pretty well against the rest with exception of PSU. It all boils down to how these guys are mentally. I don't want to overstate the Same Foltz factor. Outstanding individual. Obviously a great leader and friend of the team. I do think the season long tributes may have been a distraction especially the last couple of weeks.
So you're saying we lose all games that are in the toss up category and win the games we will be clear favorites in? If that is the case in the 3rd year we need a new staff total replacement. Honestly the seer negativity spewed on this board is getting more and more disgusting every month no wonder so many good insightful posters have moved on to TOSPenn St, Ohio St, Wiskey, Iowa possibly Minn or NW
TE: - This is, sadly, a position that is going to take a step back this next year. I just don't know that we have any great TE's ready to play?
its a point of conversation, nothing more. you're welcome to rebut any and all thoughts on the huskers.So you're saying we lose all games that are in the toss up category and win the games we will be clear favorites in? If that is the case in the 3rd year we need a new staff total replacement. Honestly the seer negativity spewed on this board is getting more and more disgusting every month no wonder so many good insightful posters have moved on to TOS
Just for conversations sake, looking ahead to next years huskers:
QB - unknown (maybe better)
RB - about the same, average
OL - plug and play some RS freshman about the same, average
WR - Morgan, Pierson El and (insert freshman) about the same.
TE - ?
Prediction - will struggle early
DL - maybe slightly better with year under JP
LB - About the same
CB - should be better with experience & an older Jackson
S - About the same, less than average
Prediction - maybe slightly better, real average and not a lot of depth.
Special teams - better
8-4 or 7-5
Bash away
A pocket passer behind the current OL is a scary thought. Hopefully they will be much better next year.
Not sure I would go that far. The pass pro is either designed for roll out or drop back. When the QB drops back, the OLine can't see him spin and run toward the sidelines and improvise instead of stepping up in the pocket and delivering the pass. Some of those failed protections are on the QB. A traditional QB is going to handle it differently. A traditional QB is going to be more comfortable with check downs and hot receivers. The game plan will be much different. QBs will throw on time and not late or off their back foot.
As I said originally. Far too soon to know how it will actually look in a game and basing future performance on what happened this past year is probably not relevant
Nate Gerry = Less than Average? You have rediculous standardsJust for conversations sake, looking ahead to next years huskers:
QB - unknown (maybe better)
RB - about the same, average
OL - plug and play some RS freshman about the same, average
WR - Morgan, Pierson El and (insert freshman) about the same.
TE - ?
Prediction - will struggle early
DL - maybe slightly better with year under JP
LB - About the same
CB - should be better with experience & an older Jackson
S - About the same, less than average
Prediction - maybe slightly better, real average and not a lot of depth.
Special teams - better
8-4 or 7-5
Bash away
I laugh at people who think they can predict wins or losses a year beforehand. Seems like what we have here is somebody who is bursting at the seems and just can't wait to tell everybody that we are going to have a disappointing season next year. I mean, why wait until the summer to spread your negativity when you can do it now? Such fun.
You assume people are going to be open.....our receivers didn't not consistently get open......good defenses take away your first option. If the line can't block long enough for the 2nd option they can't just stand their and take a sack...there is a reason our sack totals where low. It wasn't great protection.
Im sure we will have a better passes...but better defenses will force our QB to be a playmaker, hopefully he has the arm talent to make plays, not just hip wide open receivers.
I have photos of our WR running wide open and check down receivers being wide open.
#4 does some nice things with his legs and prevented some sacks. But he also locked in on his first read and ran too quickly just as often.
I get you are a fan of #4, I am too, but unfortunately he isn't the type of QB that this offense needs to be successful.
When coaches temporarily adjust their offense to fit the skills of one player, it creates enormous problems for the future. In This case your offensive line technique, especially in pass pro, is not designed to account for a QB to scramble side to side. So do you teach 16-18 guys one way for the current QB, then start over the spring after he leaves? Or do you try to teach 1 guy to adapt and let the other 16-18 learn the way of the future. I don't know the answer, I just know that many times our QB would rather run outside to avoid a sack and pick up 2 yards than he would step up in the pocket and throw a ball to an open or about to be open receiver.
Your posts also indicate that you are a believer in the running QB. Great. I am too but only in an offense designed for a running QB. Many fans who are proponents of a running QB often confused anything else as a statue. That is a mistake in my opinion.
Point being there are many Offensive schemes that when run with appropriate personnel are very effective.
Sort of like a cocktail. If Vodka is the scheme, orange juice works a whole lot better as the QB than vitamin D milk does. Doesn't mean vitamin D milk is bad, it just doesn't work well with Vodka.
Like hell! How dare he say those things! (takes a big pull of vodka & milk)Well said.
I have photos of our WR running wide open and check down receivers being wide open.
#4 does some nice things with his legs and prevented some sacks. But he also locked in on his first read and ran too quickly just as often.
I get you are a fan of #4, I am too, but unfortunately he isn't the type of QB that this offense needs to be successful.
When coaches temporarily adjust their offense to fit the skills of one player, it creates enormous problems for the future. In This case your offensive line technique, especially in pass pro, is not designed to account for a QB to scramble side to side. So do you teach 16-18 guys one way for the current QB, then start over the spring after he leaves? Or do you try to teach 1 guy to adapt and let the other 16-18 learn the way of the future. I don't know the answer, I just know that many times our QB would rather run outside to avoid a sack and pick up 2 yards than he would step up in the pocket and throw a ball to an open or about to be open receiver.
Your posts also indicate that you are a believer in the running QB. Great. I am too but only in an offense designed for a running QB. Many fans who are proponents of a running QB often confused anything else as a statue. That is a mistake in my opinion.
Point being there are many Offensive schemes that when run with appropriate personnel are very effective.
Sort of like a cocktail. If Vodka is the scheme, orange juice works a whole lot better as the QB than vitamin D milk does. Doesn't mean vitamin D milk is bad, it just doesn't work well with Vodka.
Yah there's a whole ton of folks that don't think Langsdorf can find his way out of the bathroom because TA throws the alert route, basically no matter what.
I actually like Langs quite a bit.
I do not know the offensive philosophies in-depth and fully understand every position's job on each play to know for certain if a play has check downs and TA missed them, but from what I have read on here, it seems like much of the talk is about TA's inabilities and not a knock on Langs ability to teach him (although as I type this I am thinking maybe it should be some of Langs fault for not getting TA to run the offense correctly).
It has been documented that Langs and Riley had little expertise in the QB run-game but went out and learned about it. Kudos to them.
From what I have gathered on here, it seems like TA doesn't have the mental capacity to understand the passing game like some other QBs.
He may be able to understand where the check downs are when Langs is teaching him, but just isn't able to actually do it when the bullets are flying.
Who knows, but that could be 100% due to the lack of time given from the OL and not TAs fault or Langs fault that TA just can't get comfortable in the pocket.
I have photos of our WR running wide open and check down receivers being wide open.
#4 does some nice things with his legs and prevented some sacks. But he also locked in on his first read and ran too quickly just as often.
I get you are a fan of #4, I am too, but unfortunately he isn't the type of QB that this offense needs to be successful.
When coaches temporarily adjust their offense to fit the skills of one player, it creates enormous problems for the future. In This case your offensive line technique, especially in pass pro, is not designed to account for a QB to scramble side to side. So do you teach 16-18 guys one way for the current QB, then start over the spring after he leaves? Or do you try to teach 1 guy to adapt and let the other 16-18 learn the way of the future. I don't know the answer, I just know that many times our QB would rather run outside to avoid a sack and pick up 2 yards than he would step up in the pocket and throw a ball to an open or about to be open receiver.
Your posts also indicate that you are a believer in the running QB. Great. I am too but only in an offense designed for a running QB. Many fans who are proponents of a running QB often confused anything else as a statue. That is a mistake in my opinion.
Point being there are many Offensive schemes that when run with appropriate personnel are very effective.
Sort of like a cocktail. If Vodka is the scheme, orange juice works a whole lot better as the QB than vitamin D milk does. Doesn't mean vitamin D milk is bad, it just doesn't work well with Vodka.
Are you RedRover? This team may very well be improved in all areas but so will the teams we will be playing.
"DE – Akinmoladun, Davis, Neal, Natter, Miller"
I really like, on paper, this line up. Natter is really my only concern athletically. Can the other four play well enough to have an impact? Other than of TE, this is my biggest position group of concern. TE can be productive I think, DE's have to step it up.
Very few coaches have the ability to bench a player selected captain
Say what? That is an astounding yet baseless claim. Every head coach has the ability to bench any roster player at any time.
It's a claim with support, unlike your nonsense.