Matt Rhule and close games

[Walleye79]

I have been a big Rhule critic. But I do like some young guys he bought in. Lots of young defenders did play in defense and made plays.

 

[headcard]

Rhule plays to win by 3 to 10 points which is weak and dumb.

Agree. Why are we constantly talking about winning close games? We had the chance to blow out Iowa, do that.

 

[SLOHusker]

The biggest issue I can see is we don’t have any alpha players yeah we have a couple cheap talkers, but we have way to many submissive players, we don’t have the Peter brothers types or Tommie Frazier types that wouldn’t stand for someone taking a play or two off. The wanted to control the game no different than Michael Jordan in the final minutes he wanted the ball and he made to plays. Imo I think We’ll have some in the freshman class maybe sophomore class. You can’t coach that. We need more talent plus guys with a attitude that they can back up

The Peter brothers and Frazier were some of the best players in college football and they knew it. They expected to beat the hell out of every team we played. Frazier was the best run-pass QB in his recruiting class and the Peter brothers were 4 star players that developed into NFL players. Jason Peter was a first round pick. I guess my point is we don't have the talent that we had in the 90s yet. Great players win close games.

 

[SomedayHusker]

Be careful not to hurt yourself twisting yourself into a pretzel avoiding giving Rhule credit.

He’s just thankful that Governer Jim Pillen got Dana Holgorsen to help coach our football team. We got it right

 

[mikecanale]

How did he go from this:

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The player most likely to win close games is the QB. Callahan had Zach Taylor; Pelini had Taylor Martinez. Next year DR should be the type of QB who can pullout close games for us.

 

[Wasker77]

Why not win games by 10-14 points? In every game with the exception of the Indiana game the Huskers had chances to score more points and blew it. Receivers did not catch a wide-open pass, players touched the ball when there was no good reason to do so, defenders play a great game then make an error that cost the team giving up points (How many times did the Huskers score a TD and then right after that the D gave up a touchdown?), missing FGs and how many times did the O line choke and move on a crucial play? Changing a 4th and one into a 4th and 6. Talk about the Nebraska curse? How about no discipline and accountability for bad play.