I’m putting much of the blame on the play caller. Throwing the ball 44 times against Indiana was not a recipe for success. The game plan other than beating bubble screens to death, was much better against OSU. No doubt Raiola would perform better with a Saquan Barkley RB and Justin Jefferson WR.
First, we can’t see the entire field on each passing play to see who is getting open and who is not. If you have that film, share it with all of us.
Illinois, agree. The receivers make plays and we score 28 in the first half, or hit the FG or TD pass late, we probably win. But tOSU, I'm not so sure. One more play means tOSU has to make more plays, and they probably do. The offense is going to have to put pressure on the other team to compete with top teams, and they generally don't. Since the first half of the Illinois game, if they can stumble to 20 points against anyone with P4 athletes it's a miracle. I think part of it is our freshman QB, but that's only one part.
Josh Allen had maybe the worst game ever for a Husker opponent? 5 int with a pick six.
Exactly. Our inability to see whole field post game video is extremely limiting. Then you couple that with the fact that we don't know what play was called in the huddle and who the primary receivers are supposed to be or what Raiola's progression is supposed to be makes it difficult for most of us to comment intelligently. We see the result. We see a missed receiver but it's tough for us to know for sure if the receiver ran their route correctly or not.
And our staff is afraid to let HH throw an option pass apparently to break the tendency. Raiola just showed that he can run any play that Haarberg can and teams don't expect Raiola to run. I wouldn't be against letting HH have 4-5 plays in a row but running him out there for one doesn't mean much.
We'd be 6-2 if we had a kicking game for our first 7 games.
Ok, there may have been worse starting WR’s but the two hyped portal guys who had tons of experience — and lots of prior coaching by adults older than 25 — have been flops. You certainly agree with that? It’s no longer surprising we could nab them from the portal.
I haven't seen them drop easy balls. We have to scheme them open and I'm not sure Satterfield is able to do that. Raiola hasn't been willing since the Illinois game to throw 50/50 balls to them either. They're big strong guys who aren't going to outrun many DBs. Dylan needs to give them a chance to make plays.
I also believe that Satterfield and what he does with Raiola has been figured out and schemed for.
Not flops. We had 2 WRs wide open in the end zone for sure TDs - and a likely Neb win. They aren’t WRs at the level of Ohio State and other talented squads. But they are not the sole problem in the passing game. And again, I point to the last game.
Good for him. He should. This entire program is an unmitigated disaster year after year.
that was on Dylan he missed game changing throws. Major problem playing a freshman.
It’s not Dylan’s fault he’s a freshman. It’s this programs fault we all thought a true freshman was the answer to the last 20 years of problems.
