My biggest complaint and praise

[WestCoastCornhusker]

I don't like the fact that Riley and Langsdorff are not comfortable running the ball. This has led to losses in tight games via bone headed coaching decision making. The passing game is improved as well as the D schemes.

It could be a function of Riley and Langsdorff spending their entire college coaching careers not having the OL and backs to really embrace. They had a few nfl running backs so I was wishfully thinking they would be comfortable running the ball but they are clearly not, even against Illinois, BYU, and Miami.

 

[dinglefritz]

I don't like the fact that Riley and Langsdorff are not comfortable running the ball. This has led to losses in tight games via bone headed coaching decision making. The passing game is improved as well as the D scheme s.

I think Riley and DL are very comfortable running the ball in the right situation. I think a better critique would be that they are not CONFIDENT running the ball in certain situations. That lack of confidence comes from watching our offense in practice and game situations. They KNOW our O-line's deficiencies. The know our RBs' deficiencies. DL is a VERY bright guy. He sees what the defense is doing and knows what gives us the best chance to be successful IF our QB can do what he did the first 4 games of the year. Unfortunately TA has reverted to some old bad habits from his previous 2 years. Earlier this year when most were ready to name him an All-American I posted that we needed to tap the brakes and see what happened when he faced more adversity. It would be hard to argue against that we should have thrown a play action pass that last 3rd down against Wisconsin. You had NINE guys crashing the LOS and a quick play action dump pass might have gone for 6. Instead we got 3 straight runs including one where our back missed the hole that would have given us a first down.