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Tuesday notebook: Despite flaws, Lee playing best football yet
***Running back Tre Bryant was back in pads on Tuesday for the first time since re-injuring his knee in Week 2 at Oregon.
***Nebraska was without two Blackshirt defensive backs on Tuesday, as safeties Aaron Williams (neck) and Antonio Reed (knee) both sat out.
***Receiver De’Mornay Pierson-El (shoulder/ankle) practiced but wore a green no-contact jersey.
***Linebacker Dedrick Young practiced with a big club cast on his right hand.
***Cornerback Chris Jones, who made his 2017 debut vs. Wisconsin after missing the first five games to a knee injury, was awarded a Blackshirt again this week. Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco said Jones’ went exactly how they planned, and expects him to take on an even bigger role this week.
***Jones said there was point when he debated taking a redshirt this season, but with how well he was rehabbing off the injury he knew he would be back this season. Jones said in retrospect the injury was one of the best things to happen to him because he gained a new perspective on the game and the defense.
***Diaco said he was “crushed” and “disgusted” after the loss to Wisconsin, and when he went to bed Saturday night he felt like his defense got beat up and pushed around all game. Looking back on the film, though, Diaco said that wasn’t the case at all. What really hurt Nebraska was its own mistakes, and he was actually more encouraged than anything because all of those errors were correctable.
***Running back Devine Ozigbo said it’s definitely been “different” this week with all three top running backs at practice again, and he wasn’t sure how the workload was going to be distributed this week. He said he felt he’s earned a place in the backfield rotation with the work he’s done the past three weeks.
***Diaco called Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer the “founding father” of the modern spread offense, calling the system not “a spread offense”, but “THE spread offense.” Diaco said you have to defend so much of the field against OSU and do so at such a fast tempo, as the Buckeyes can get plays off after just 11 seconds.
***Diaco said the defensive staff has definitely reviewed the game film of last year’s loss at Ohio State to try and pick up on any keys or hints from what the Buckeyes did on offense. However, he said they had to be “very crafty” in how they review that film with the players as to not hurt their confidence at all.
***An NFL scout from the New Orleans Saints took in Tuesday’s practice.
Tuesday notebook: Despite flaws, Lee playing best football yet
***Running back Tre Bryant was back in pads on Tuesday for the first time since re-injuring his knee in Week 2 at Oregon.
***Nebraska was without two Blackshirt defensive backs on Tuesday, as safeties Aaron Williams (neck) and Antonio Reed (knee) both sat out.
***Receiver De’Mornay Pierson-El (shoulder/ankle) practiced but wore a green no-contact jersey.
***Linebacker Dedrick Young practiced with a big club cast on his right hand.
***Cornerback Chris Jones, who made his 2017 debut vs. Wisconsin after missing the first five games to a knee injury, was awarded a Blackshirt again this week. Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco said Jones’ went exactly how they planned, and expects him to take on an even bigger role this week.
***Jones said there was point when he debated taking a redshirt this season, but with how well he was rehabbing off the injury he knew he would be back this season. Jones said in retrospect the injury was one of the best things to happen to him because he gained a new perspective on the game and the defense.
***Diaco said he was “crushed” and “disgusted” after the loss to Wisconsin, and when he went to bed Saturday night he felt like his defense got beat up and pushed around all game. Looking back on the film, though, Diaco said that wasn’t the case at all. What really hurt Nebraska was its own mistakes, and he was actually more encouraged than anything because all of those errors were correctable.
***Running back Devine Ozigbo said it’s definitely been “different” this week with all three top running backs at practice again, and he wasn’t sure how the workload was going to be distributed this week. He said he felt he’s earned a place in the backfield rotation with the work he’s done the past three weeks.
***Diaco called Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer the “founding father” of the modern spread offense, calling the system not “a spread offense”, but “THE spread offense.” Diaco said you have to defend so much of the field against OSU and do so at such a fast tempo, as the Buckeyes can get plays off after just 11 seconds.
***Diaco said the defensive staff has definitely reviewed the game film of last year’s loss at Ohio State to try and pick up on any keys or hints from what the Buckeyes did on offense. However, he said they had to be “very crafty” in how they review that film with the players as to not hurt their confidence at all.
***An NFL scout from the New Orleans Saints took in Tuesday’s practice.
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