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OLine should be a C. I don’t think some on here realize how bad Colorado is especially on the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. They are in for a very long year. Probably a 4 win season. Special teams was awful outside of Buschini. Punt return game was adequate.
 
I give myself an F for Coin Flip stress.

I didn't want to see the CU offense get the ball first, see them score, and then be playing from behind with a freshman QB.

But I forgot we have Tony White. The Buffs went 3 & out. We took the ball and moved down the field to score. That was story book stuff.
Then we don't convert on 3rd and wondering if they're going to get the ball and move it. Pick six! Absolute dream first half and get to say we went conservative(we sid) and it was clear we could have scored 40+. Great weekend to be a Husker! GBR!
 
We were opening holes on their defense with our OL and DD was running great, better than we've seen.

I wouldn't give the OL a C because they put 6 and 7 guys in the box in the 2nd half. That's on the coaches to call the right plays and burn that look.

Didnt Rhule say he was going to murder you if you played 1 high safety? Looks like we're not there yet. We need to get there asap.
 
There was so much PI on Colorados DB’s and they loaded the box with 7 rushing as many as they could. Our receivers are good, that officiating was trash, you will see how good this offense is going forward.
I encourage you all to rewatch the game sober and see what you can (camera views don’t show everything) and then come back and post.
 
Second half Colorado said, “**** it” and blitzed and put their DB on islands. Combined with our vanilla play calling it made the second half lackluster

And the officiating went into “protect the sanders” mode.

I’m very happy with what I saw yesterday. We beat them up. All of them. They won’t have much of a team to field next week
 
We were opening holes on their defense with our OL and DD was running great, better than we've seen.

I wouldn't give the OL a C because they put 6 and 7 guys in the box in the 2nd half. That's on the coaches to call the right plays and burn that look.

Didnt Rhule say he was going to murder you if you played 1 high safety? Looks like we're not there yet. We need to get there asap.
Their secondary were allowed to play far too physical by the refs and we still burned them on a few which were called back on phantom holding calls. Officiating won't be like that rest of the season.
 
Their secondary were allowed to play far too physical by the refs and we still burned them on a few which were called back on phantom holding calls. Officiating won't be like that rest of the season.
Our receivers should be prepared for the big 10 after last night, I think every team in the big 10 grab and hold our receivers
 
We were opening holes on their defense with our OL and DD was running great, better than we've seen.

I wouldn't give the OL a C because they put 6 and 7 guys in the box in the 2nd half. That's on the coaches to call the right plays and burn that look.

Didnt Rhule say he was going to murder you if you played 1 high safety? Looks like we're not there yet. We need to get there asap.
6-8 in the box and a fair number of blitzes. One well devised blitz they did had a backer come on our right side and either a safety or backer come a split second later as Rhamir’s eyes went to the guy on the right. The left side blitzer got a sack. They executed it perfectly.
 
6-8 in the box and a fair number of blitzes. One well devised blitz they did had a backer come on our right side and either a safety or backer come a split second later as Rhamir’s eyes went to the guy on the right. The left side blitzer got a sack. They executed it perfectly.
They were getting decent pressure on DR but I don't think he was sacked last night.
 
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I'd rate QB a B+ maybe even A-. DR's awareness of the game on top of his skills just dazzles me.

Field Goals are a concern. At this point I trust DR's arm, and even his scrambling ability, in going for it on 4th down over attempting a Field Goal.
He is 1-2 in FG . Let’s see who Rhule trots out there next week in a FG situation.
 
6-8 in the box and a fair number of blitzes. One well devised blitz they did had a backer come on our right side and either a safety or backer come a split second later as Rhamir’s eyes went to the guy on the right. The left side blitzer got a sack. They executed it perfectly.
No he didn't. Got a QB hurry. Dylan never got sacked I don't think.
 
I think the teams were closer than the score showed. Crowd really got to CU.
No. Absolutely not.
Our lines are much better than theirs, obviously D line is much much better. Talent - probably, cohesion and experience in systems-most definitely.
Skill positions - we have way more options than they do. Sure, Shadeur and Hunter are damn good, but you need more than that.
They’re not a team.
 
DR was probably a solid b- he had one almost turnover and other than that protected the ball. That is what they wanted in this game a probably all year.
 
DR was probably a solid b- he had one almost turnover and other than that protected the ball. That is what they wanted in this game a probably all year.
He's going to probably be asked to do more a few times this year. We might need a comeback.
 
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