Coach Rhule agrees with the overall sentiment in this thread
Offense needs to be better around DR
Offense needs to be better around DR
Fire Satterfield
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We have some dumb ass fans posting in this thread. Awesome.
I thought I needed to account for the possibility that this was a well-considered strategy to maximize chances of winning the game by shortening the second half with minimal errors. And that Satt was just executing the agreed plan.
But Rhule did say he wanted to be aggressive when we were 28-0. And some offensive players need to dial it in and focus. Particularly WRs, which makes me wonder how good is our WR coach.
Rhule officially put Satt on notice during todays presser
Hopefully he gets the memo. If not, he will be gone, Thomas will take over, and we will not miss satt for a millisecond.
Do you think he would fire his buddy after only two years? I have my doubts.
He doesn’t have to fire him
Rhule has already demoted Satt once in their careers together
Worst officiating that I’ve seen since last year. They completely ignored Colorado’s offensive holding.
Why not enjoy the win without micromanaging the process? Without those key penalties on those chunk plays in the second half we probably put up another 2 TDs. I'm sorry but I don't get calling for firing coaches given what I've seen so far. We look organized and well coached. Players have to make plays and avoid penalties. Once the game starts there's only so much a coach can do and IMO we look well coached. Personally I would have liked us to continue to attack CU down the field in the second half but we were having trouble protecting Raiola when they brought 7. We tried to run clock with a lot of run calls but CU was stacking the box and bringing frequent blitzes. That's why we hit on a couple of long runs only to have them brought back with the dropped hankies. The second half was deflating but it isn't about my joy. It's about sealing the W and they did that.
I was responding to this in your post: "Hopefully he gets the memo. If not, he will be gone,..."
I'm not a fan of Rhule passing off blame to Satt. Rhule is right there. He can tell Satt to go for the jugular. This game plan was arrived at by Rhule, Satt and Thomas. We did make some aggressive play calls in the second half but they don't always work. CU's defense played much better in that second half and a large part of that was all of the blitz packages they thew at Raiola.
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I think he’ll make a change if he deems it necessary
If he doesn’t want to fire him, maybe he’ll tip off the LPD after a long night so they can do it for him
He was pretty visibly frustrated on the sideline during the 2nd half
I didn’t take it as him passing the buck, more like “we talked about this and it didn’t happen”
But this is a fair opinion
I definitely don't think he did anything that would be worth firing him lol. I just didn't like a few calls. As far as I'm concerned this is Satterfields first year. Last year was a wash and if anything I give him credit for pivoting and trying to do anything to help our QB .
I thought he called a good game 1. Game 2 wasn't AS good to me but that's jmo. At some point I'm assuming HCMR may have told him just get us out of here with minimal risk. I also agree that without those BS calls you could add at least another 10-14 points to that total.
Hindsight I don't feel as bad as I did about the calls Saturday night.
Holla
We had a design to attack the short outside in the passing/sweep game, plus run up the middle. That didn't change from 1st half to 2nd half. The execution against a different defensive game plan in the 2nd half was not good. It was on the players, not the coach.
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Hunter covered half the field. Other teams won't be able to load up that way. That said, our WRs missed a lot of opportunities.
Slanting the D-linemen, blitzing. I heard it described as a FBS defensive plan. And it worked well as long as we stayed conservative. Great point about the outside runs being there-- Ramir and Emmitt would have been more effective at finding those soft spots.
He's a spoiled and immature, but where would Colorado be without Hunter? He's literally their best player (as a DB) and also their 3rd best player (as a WR) on their team.
We did pop a couple of long ones with Barney and Rahmir, but both were called back for holding.
I think we would feel a lot better about that second half if we had gotten at least one score. a goose egg for both quarters was disappointing, horrific officiating aside.
We’re not gonna really be able to bring him in on obvious running downs. Don’t expect to see him much this year.
If we see much of Heinrich it’s one of two things. Either things are going amazingly well or things have gone horribly wrong. Blowouts or an injury…..
Having watched a lot of 2015 Temple vs 2016 Temple offense I did like Thomas's version of Rhule's Temple offense in 2016. Not that i'm saying we should change anyone though.
with just 2 games with a qb with a arm..I'm interested how raiola/wr will perform when the run get shut down some....like what sat's game calling and raiola's arm will come up with in pressure moments....thus far raiola has just had to do what a logical qb with a arm would do...but when we have a two minute offense at the end of the game and have to score..that will be interesting..I think rhule has alot of say cause when I watched sat with rattler at sc..it was pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, some more then pass
to me the offense did good, we got up 28 points before they put the cruise controll on, ussually it's 10 max...
the dr.tom killer instinct on a good opponent hasn't been seen yet...but I think rhule will get them there..I'm enjoying the ride..
my problem is I haven't found much NIU video to watch yet, to get a idea on the upcoming game, (compared to cu).
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CU had some athletes but they're not a good defensive team. There will be stiffer challenges than CU going forward for Raiola. People need to remember that before they start calling for coaches to be fired when things don't go well.
Its a long season. IF Raiola gets injured all bets are off. I expect that Heinrich would be much better this year than last, but he doesn't have Raiola's arm talent or processing ability IMO. Just enjoy the ride. Win or lose GBR.
Well, that's now a well ingrained habit in Huskerland. But fret not, there was a movement to fire Osborne as well; he considered going to (yech!) CU. They said he couldn't win the big one...until he did. In any case, I think Husker fans are off the scale great, otherwise. I've sat next to blue haired ladies who would call the play by number. The fans are loud, but respectful of the opponent (now WHO does that?), and win or lose, LOVE a good game. Frankly, that part is unmatched. The worst for firing coaches are Yankee fans. But since they've won around 25% of all WS, well...
I will never agree that a guy making more than a surgeon, doing less good than a roofer is not at fault. He is the coach, and he has a million dollars of position coaches whose job it is to call the plays the guys can execute and to design a script that exploits the defense as it adjusts. Colorado knew we were playing a VERY CONSERVATIVE style of play. They knew we only didn't have recievers who could beat their corners one on one. They knew our line couldn't block long enough if they sent pressure. So in the 2nd half they had 8-9 guys within 4 yards of Dylan on every play, they dared us to beat them 1 on 1 on the outside and Dylan, bless his heart knew to check it down every time. Of course their weakness was in the screen game and wheel routes from the backs or slot and we held on those plays.
Just to depress you Satt has been OC the last 3 years at major power colleges. Twice he has been worse than 80% of the nation in total offense, once he was worse than 60%. He has never even been average. And rarely close to average. Rhule will have to fire Satt if he wants to be great at NU...but Rhule is already paid, and he can simply lose 4 games a year and say he has finished the process like at Temple, Baylor..since he doesn't have a championship, he has no championship standard. Not hating, just objective truth.
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I made my call earlier than each of you liked. But I was right. Coming around yet?
only a year after my original call for his head.
not bad by this board's standards.
I just don’t think winning the race to call for coaches to be fired is the flex you guys think it is.
Some people strive to be “right”. They care more about being able to say “told you so” than they do about supporting the program. Also….Nebraska has sucked at football for 25 years. Chances are Rhule will fail. Chances are the next guy will fail and the guy after that. Being the first guy to call for a coach to be fired is actually the easiest thing to do if you’re a fan of this program. But if that’s the approach, why be a fan? Support the kids, staff and program until it’s clear something needs to change. Right now we need a change. Not at head coach. But the offense can’t keep going like this.
