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Why I'm worried going forward

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"He wasn’t the only Husker in the trenches to play every snap at Miami. All five starting offensive linemen did, just as they did in the season opener against BYU."

This makes me sad on so many levels.

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"He wasn’t the only Husker in the trenches to play every snap at Miami. All five starting offensive linemen did, just as they did in the season opener against BYU."

This makes me sad on so many levels.

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I have been very supportive of the coaches in just about every way, but this one does greatly confuse me. I understand the need to gel as a unit but I don't understand why the line doesn't get a break...
 
In Langsdorf's PC he was asked about playing fresh players and totally agreed that this was the strategy. This must be all Cav...hopefully Lang steps in on this.
 
We obviously very limited on our offensive line choices. The coaching staff has been very professional in keeping this problem in house.
 
We obviously very limited on our offensive line choices. The coaching staff has been very professional in keeping this problem in house.
I don't disagree with this. I just don't want fatigue to be an issue the last third of the season because we ran our starters into the ground. Maybe the gap between starters and backups is much larger than we thought...
 
I don't disagree with this. I just don't want fatigue to be an issue the last third of the season because we ran our starters into the ground. Maybe the gap between starters and backups is much larger than we thought...

I suspect if they could they would substitute. And since they're not that tells me it a serious problem.
 
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I hope you're right. I can't believe Foster couldn't spell one of guards or Thurston at C for 10 plays a game....

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I suspect if they could they would substitute. And since they're not that tells me it a serious problem.

I think that Cavanaugh is trying to develop continuity and consistency and to eliminate offensive penalties which are more likely to happen if you bring someone fresh off the bench that hasn't taken a snap yet. I thought that Bo substituted too much last year and the offensive line lacked consistency in the run game.

The S&C seems to be better this year for the players when they get to the 4th quarter. You may say Miami lost focus with the lead or perhaps it was the offensive line that controlled better at the end. We came back at BYU in the 4th quarter as well.
 
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I suspect if they could they would substitute. And since they're not that tells me it a serious problem.

I tend to think it's just Caoch Cav's philosophy. Through the pre-season we kept hearing how close the battle was between Utter and Foster at G and Sterup and Gates at T.
 
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Should be substituting....continuity has nothing to with being physically overwhelmed in one on one battles.


We don't have a bye week for 2 months.
 
The topic of "won't be rotating much" came up over a month ago in a press conference. So, this is not new news. It was announced.
 
In Langsdorf's PC he was asked about playing fresh players and totally agreed that this was the strategy. This must be all Cav...hopefully Lang steps in on this.
Cav has stated outright that it is his strategy to only play the starting 5. It's a bad strategy.
 
We obviously very limited on our offensive line choices. The coaching staff has been very professional in keeping this problem in house.

I'm hearing this staff is choosing to not play certain players because of academic issues, and this is applies directly to some back up offensive linemen.

But... the offensive line "blame" is a bit much right now. This team is averaging 470 yards per game and has only given up 5 sacks in 125 pass attempts. That's 1 sack every 25 pass attempts.

Last season, the Huskers had about a 1 in 15 ratio.
 
I'm hearing this staff is choosing to not play certain players because of academic issues, and this is applies directly to some back up offensive linemen.

But... the offensive line "blame" is a bit much right now. This team is averaging 470 yards per game and has only given up 5 sacks in 125 pass attempts. That's 1 sack every 25 pass attempts.

Last season, the Huskers had about a 1 in 15 ratio.

Facts are overrated. Don't use those. Making up BS is so much better.
 
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I'm hearing this staff is choosing to not play certain players because of academic issues, and this is applies directly to some back up offensive linemen.

But... the offensive line "blame" is a bit much right now. This team is averaging 470 yards per game and has only given up 5 sacks in 125 pass attempts. That's 1 sack every 25 pass attempts.

Last season, the Huskers had about a 1 in 15 ratio.

Just stop already, folks need something to be mad about. This logic of yours will only add fuel to the fire. ;)
 
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Cav has stated outright that it is his strategy to only play the starting 5. It's a bad strategy.

If you have a serious depth problem on your offensive line how would you spin it??? Would you call out the old head coach then proceed to announce to the world that you've got a patchwork of five players that you trust. You can't even rotate one player with that starting five because you've been playing catch up in your games.
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Were gonna play five guys without any rest in two of the warmest games imaginable.

Forget for a second what we know about our travel roster situation. You are seriously gonna believe that having 3 to four players ready to go in on any snap isn't in our coaches bullet points???
 
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This is what I wrote a month ago, I still think it's appropriate (quoting oneself is silly, but I chose not to rewrite my original thoughts):

I think unity/chemistry is important. Different coaching staffs have different approaches when it come to splitting/not splitting OL time. In any case, I don't like the message "won't be rotating much". To me, not knowing how the staff handled rotation previously, I interpret that as basically zero playing time for non-starters. I won't blow it up (too much), because I don't exactly know what "won't be rotating much" truly means to this staff. Rotation isn't to help unity. It's to help underclassmen develop, allow for limited drop off in the case of injury, provide "fresher" bodies throughout a game and the entire season, and to retain younger players that would otherwise transfer due to lack of playing time.

Gary Andersen is sitting up in Corvallis right now trying to decide which qb to play, because there's not a single qb at OrSU that has ever taken a snap in college football.

We could have a depth problem if the skill/ability drop off is too steep going from #1's to #2's. Or we could have coaches with a credibility issues if the coaches say there is still competition for starting spots the week before the first game.

Will we have problems playing only the "best" 5 on OL? Maybe, maybe not, that question will be answered near the end of the year.
 
Is it a bad strategy because it doesn't work, i.e., because no one uses it successfully, or are all of you just expressing your dismay regarding the offensive line's performance thus far, i.e, the fact that it doesn't appear to be working as of yet? Obviously, the latter does not show the strategy to be flawed.
 
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