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Love this guy.. enjoy!
Love this guy.. enjoy!
Banker Interview
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Good guy, appreciate his insights and knowledge. Wish he could coach a better defense though
Thanks for sharing Nikki. Love Banker as well. Admits when he makes a mistake. Doesn't get mad when he goes and explains his (and staff's) thought process. During the game I was pulling my hair out. At the end, we can see that the stats don't lie. Main difference between this team and last year's team is that we are finishing games. We own the 4th.
"You were there. You saw it. What do you think? Defense is complicated stuff. You wouldn't understand."
It's so refreshing to hear actual football talk from this staff and not the defensive a hole talk we were so used to.
It's so refreshing to hear actual football talk from this staff and not the defensive a hole talk we were so used to.
we held Illinois to its fewest yards per game thus far this year ... only 3 points the second half
some very timely 3 and outs late 3rd and 4th quarter
now some of that was a result of our offense keeping the D off the field
Yes it was. Some of it was the result of adjustments by Banker and staff.
He's one and 1/3 a season into his time here.
He completely changed the defensive system.
He's got a pretty inexperienced true Sr DT, another with a somewhat bad knee, and two redshirt freshmen rotating at those spots.
His entire first year was a revolving door at linebacker.
He's got one decent pass rusher at DE, and an instate walkon at the other.
We don't have enough up front to create a consistent pass rush with just the front 4.
The secondary, which was everyone's whipping boys last year are playing pretty damn well this year, and tackling pretty well in space.
We haven't been absolutely boat raced by the opposing offense (don't give me Purdue last year, with the amount of turnovers by the offense), or had the ball absolutely jammed down our throats (a la Melvin Gordon).
Considering some of the flat out embarrassing losses and how many teams ran at will on us in the BIG under Pelini, I dont get the constant Banker bashing. Personally I'm pretty encouraged at what his D will look like when he has more depth at DL and DE than we have now.
Everyone who likes to jump on the Banker bashing bandwagon ask yourself this. Based on what you've seen, do you think Nebraska had been absolutely embarrased and given up 70 in Indy vs Wisconsin under him?
No, I don't
But, I didn't think they would let up 55 to Purdue or lose to Illinois.
The Purdue loss is probably the worst loss in the last 30 years.
With that said, Banker is just fine with me!
Like I said don't give me Purdue last year. How many times dId the offense give Purdue the ball with a short field in that game? 5 turnovers and a few 3 and outs. I don't care who you are, you can't do that and win vs very many teams. 55-45 and Nebraska doesn't turn the ball over once, even 2 or less, maybe. FIVE, and people want to blame the DC????
That aint the worst loss in 30 years. If TA plays, sure, I'd agree. 70-10 Texas Tech, 9-7 Iowa State, and numerous others were worse than that.
Worst loss ever for me was the 2012 B1G CCG. Nothing else comes close.
Most humiliating walk out of a stadium in my life.
We were ranked. Wisky was not. They ran the same play over and over and over and over and over. Our defensive guru adjusted nothing. Most embarrassing game ever.
Nebraska would have beat Purdue with Ryker at QB if Riley had implemented the game plan he has used through five games this year. We didn't even try to establish the run at all and I don't want to hear the well we were down early reason because it didn't become a blowout until mid-late 3rd quarter. Purdue was ranked in the 100s in rush defense and we didn't try to exploit it. Riley has seemed to learn his lesson this year which he deserves credit.
So you agree that you can't blame Banker when you team turns it over 5 times and doesn't move the ball more than 3 plays on a few other drives?
Purdue has had like 2 wins in conference over the last 3 seasons.
It was the most embarrassing loss in the last 30 years. I think their only other win that year was Indiana state. 55 was the most points they had scored in like 3 seasons.
It was the most embarrassing loss in the last 30 years. I think their only other win that year was Indiana state. 55 was the most points they had scored in like 3 seasons.
I guess I would lift up Oklahoma state as the most embarrassing loss in the last 30 years... to see the mass exodus at halftime couldn't have been more embarrassing as a fan base.
Purdue last year was embarrassing, Wisconsin 2012 was embarrassing, Oklahoma state was embarrassing... but I think we're splitting hairs...
Purdue last year was embarrassing, Wisconsin 2012 was embarrassing, Oklahoma state was embarrassing... but I think we're splitting hairs...
I don't think the defense played well but the best way to protect a bad defense is to play ball control. I blame the offensive game plan more than anything for the Purdue loss. Yesterday is a great example. Ball control was the key to winning and pulling away in the 4th quarter. If a similar offensive game plan we used against Purdue last year was used yesterday we lose the game I believe. I give credit to Riley for figuring it out even though he should have known better last year with the personel he had.
What the F does "with our current roster" mean? Just like you don't like guys on here talking smack about Banker or the staff, I HATE guys making those comments about our players. We have a ton of talent on the defensive side of the ball. Don't give me that shit. We may have 2 all Americans in the secondary, cant remember the last time we had more quality depth @ LB, and our D-line is getting there. They are just young. Go away with acting like we don't have talent. And I agree Banker is doing a nice job.
Easy fonzy. It's not a crack on individuals, per se. Just like the offense, the staff needs time to recruit their guys to run their schemes. Right now it's a patchwork. We have a depth problem at various positions. And we're not doing too shabby.
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Ugh.. I was sitting on the 50 yard line at that Iowa State game. Took some ribbing by Iowa State fans, but they weren't mean-spirited at all. Treated my girlfriend and I respectfully.
Lived on the east coast at the time, for some reason I didn't get to hear the score (before Internet) that day. I'll never forget picking up a Sunday paper and just staring at the score in disbelief NEBRASKA 10- IOWA ST. 19.
I think another way to look at it would be to say that the defense has some talent but isn't fully developed. Any of our defensive starters could start or contribute on a championship level defense, but all of them together don't quite equal one. We are young and thin across the D line. It's not that any of the players we have are bad, it's that we don't have anyone in the front seven playing at an All American level right now. We have some young guys who could get there and we have some really solid upperclassmen who would be important pieces of a championship type defense, but not stars. If you look back at our great defenses there were some really good players like Brian Shaw or Jeff Ogard or Donta Jones or Troy Branch who were vital and necessary pieces but weren't superstars like Wistrom, Peter, Peter, Tomich, Tyrone Williams, Farley or Mike Minter, etc. A defense made up of players like those in the first group would be a solid unit, but it would need a few guys from the second group to be a championship caliber defense.
It seemed that every time my mother made chili, Nebraska lost. I had assumed this was just a weird coincidence until that game. From then on out I made sure she never made chili on a football Saturday again.
I've seen this said before, but the data from that game just simply doesn't bear it out. This idea that we basically abandoned the run early on and just started slinging the ball all over the field just simply doesn't hold up to what actually happened.
At the end of the first half, the score was 21-9 Purdue. 14 of Purdue's 21 points came off of turnovers, one fumble by Ryker Fyfe and an interception. There was also one other interception thrown in the first half. The first interception came on a 2nd and 11 play, after a false start penalty moved us back 5 yards, after a 4 yard rush on 1st down. Not really all that strange to be throwing the ball when you have 11 yards to go. The other interception came late in the half, when Nebraska got the ball with 1:19 left, so again, not all that strange to be throwing the ball there.
At the end of the first half, Nebraska had run the ball 19 times and thrown it 18 times, so clearly this idea that Nebraska abandoned the run early on and started slinging the ball all over the field is incorrect. Those 19 runs netted 55 yards, or a 2.9 yard average, so it's not as if the run game was hugely successful. I would also point out 4 of those 18 passes came on that drive that started at 1:19, when you are obviously going to be exclusively passing the ball; and another 5 by my count came on plays where 10 or more yards were needed for a 1st down, on 2nd or 3rd down, also situations where you are more likely to pass.
To be fair, on the net yards gained rushing, those are drug down significantly by Ryker Fyfe officially having negative 22 yards rushing that half. Most of that came from the fumble play, it officially went down as a negative 24 yard rush, which does skew the statistics a little. Take out his negative 22 yards and 4 rushes, and you have 15 rushes for 77 yards, and a much more respectable 5.1 yards per carry.
There is, however, another big factor that often seems to be overlooked. Of those 15 rushes for 77 yards, 10 for 56 of that came from Terrell Newby. He was by far the most successful running back for Nebraska that first half. 3 of the other 5 rushes were by Imani Cross, for 6 yards and a 2.0 ypc average. 1 of those was for 20 yards on a reverse by Brandon Reilly and another was for negative 5 yards on a reverse by DPE. Newby was easily the most successful RB going that game, and he got injured in the first half, and didn't play the rest of the game. In fact, his last play was a 22 yard run on the second play of Nebraska's first drive of the second quarter; and from then on, the running game went downhill. Prior to that play, other than reverses by Reilly and DPE and Fyfe's negative 24 yard "rush", the only other run play was a 3 yard run by Cross, who was probably spelling Newby after he ran the ball 3 times and caught a pass in a 6 play span.
It's pretty clear the gameplan was to run all over them with Terrell Newby, and early on it was working. Nebraska's first drive they went right down the field, with a number of runs from Newby, and if not for the hiccup of a 5 yard loss on a DPE reverse, may have scored a TD but instead settled for a field goal. Then on Nebraska's next drive, they were moving right down the field, methodical like the first drive which was 12 plays and took 5:34 off the clock. Newby had a number of runs again, and after 8 plays and just over 4 minutes, Nebraska had the ball at the Purdue 33 yard line. Then came the Ryker Fyfe fumble. There was only 23 seconds left in the quarter after that play, if not for that fumble, Nebraska probably continues the drive and scores. Two drives in the first quarter, both very successful with many runs by Newby. Nebraska's first drive of the second quarter they also scored their one TD of the first half, Newby had a big 22 yard run, and than didn't play the rest of the game.
The start of the second half, without Newby, Nebraska drove right down the field and scored a TD on a 8 play, 75 yard drive, which only consisted of one run play. Without Newby, you had Cross, who was good in situations but not quite a feature back; Ozigbo, who was a true freshman and had played sparingly up to that point; and Wilbon, who had his own issues that kept him from playing. From what I remember, Purdue was also stacking the box against the run, trying to force more throwing because of an inexperienced QB playing. Passing worked just fine early in the second half, and early on, it was the defense who didn't do their job. After scoring on the first drive, to make it a 21-16 game, Purdue turned right around and went on a 13 play, 80 yard drive and scored a TD to make it 28-16.
Then on Nebraska's next drive, after gaining 19 yards on the first two plays (one run, one pass) an incomplete pass on first down, and a dropped pass on second down, and an incomplete pass on 3rd down led to a punt. A great punt by Sam Foltz pinned Purdue fairly deep, at their own 16; but two plays later, Purdue scored on an 83 yard TD pass. Now it's just over 5 minutes left in the third quarter, and Nebraska is down by 3 scores, and their best running back for the game is out. Then on the very first play of the next drive, Fyfe throws an INT, and Purdue gets the ball, up by 3 scores, at Nebraska's 19 yard line. 5 plays later, Purdue scores another TD, and now it's 2:34 left in the 3rd quarter, and Nebraska is down by 4 scores.
From then on, Nebraska is obviously going to be mostly throwing the ball. All but one drive (not counting the last 2 play drive after recovering an onside kick) saw Nebraska score a TD, and that one that didn't was a first play interception again, which was returned to the Nebraska 6, and Purdue scored on the next play. At that point, Nebraska had closed to within 11 points with just over 6 minutes left in the game, and still plenty of opportunity to finish an amazing comeback, but still needing to score fairly quick with passing. That INT pretty much eliminated any chance of a comeback.
All of that was to say, the notion that Nebraska just went into that game, slinging the ball all over the field, is just plain wrong. There was an apparent plan to run the ball, and when the only back who the coaches had confidence could carry that workload was injured early on, and out of the game; the game plan had to be changed up.
That sucks that that had to happen. Chili and football...Mmmmmm.
11+ Minutes of genuine football talk after a game. I don't remember hearing anything like this from other Coordinators. Very refreshing and insightful and I just love hearing Riley mention how great the fans are over and over and over again. 5 and 0 sure helps but it is still a wonderful change of character.
Our roster is paper thin at DL with a walk-on, a converted TE, and young DTs that wouldn't be playing if it weren't the NFL and/or attrition. I'm pleased with their work to date, no question, but we have room to continue to build our roster and to develop depth.
The point is that Banker's doing a nice job and we haven't re-built our roster yet - those gains are due to coaching accomplishments.
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