Just saw an article that Nebraska is dead last in the Big 10 with NFL draft picks in the past 3 years. Both of those were 5th and 6th rounders. We have a talent deficiency... and it is a big time deficiency.
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27 points (total) in the last three games
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imo......We have recruits coming out of high school that other "Blue bloods" covet.
We get a few......and 4 years later they are non draftable.
Other blue bloods get their high school teammates.....and 4 years later they are 1st and 2nd rounders.
Seems to be imo..a developmental problem?
We get a few......and 4 years later they are non draftable.
Other blue bloods get their high school teammates.....and 4 years later they are 1st and 2nd rounders.
Seems to be imo..a developmental problem?
Or we have a serious development problem. If Nebraska got Alabama's players would we still put them into the NFL at the same rate? To me that is the million dollar question. You can fix talent with recruiting-how do you fix development? Good coaching and time.
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Let's just shut the program completely down and then hire this Rat fella to start from scratch and build us a national championship caliber team in 2 years.
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Zero turnovers the week before either and that was under Martinez. QB play isn't the big problem.
Good coaching certainly helps... but talent is still the #1 ingredient. I know Nebraska will rarely, if ever, have a top 5 recruiting class. However, we need to figure out how to get a handful of elite players here soon or we're stuck where we are for many years to come.
Year (Rank) = 4 star recruits
2019 (#18) = 8 [Henrich, Ty Robinson, Benhart, W. Robinson, McCaffrey, Noa Pola-Gates, Darrion Daniels –transfer, Green]
They're coming. Patience is necessary.
I'd like to see them start playing some of these guys. I think they've waited a little too long on a few of them, but sounds like they are preserving red shirts. I guess my theory is that if you have talent, play it... don't wait for it. Who knows what might happen in the next 4 years.
I've been mystified why Frost runs little or slight built guys up the middle. Washington and Robinson. I'd think that would be Mills territory.
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If you always run outside with Washington and Robinson and always run inside with Mills you make the opposing defensive coordinator's job easier. All they have to do look at who the back is and they can eliminate part of the guess work.
Robinson runs between the tackles well (he is small, but he can be effective).
Washington should never carry the ball between the tackles. I don't understand that at all. He's a one trick pony at this point.
Or it makes your play-action all the more better. I've always sold a tendency for the other guy to 'see' knowing full well what I'm hoping to do when he makes his adjustment. Football is a check match, so you can anticipate moves. Are we doing that? Right now, not so much. The defensive side of the ball is getting leaned on way too much. We've had half a season to get the offense some momentum and so far we've seen just the opposite out of the defense. Hopefully the break gives them time to regroup mentally and physically.
Totally agree with your sentiment. NU can’t play in the B1G with their best players so slight of frame. MW, Wandale and Spielman have all been dinged up with just a 1/2 season completed. NU paid the price with Wandale’s injury as I mentioned as a likelihood last week. Change of pace or picking your spots on matchups with the speedsters is great. Bell cows, not so much.
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I'd like to see him used like Burkhead where he can get lost in the traffic hiding behind a flow of pulling linemen. Dallas used to run Emmitt, who we all remember as a powerful guy but in reality was also short, behind a wall of people in a sort of Counter Trey style. Normally in Counter Trey the tailback starts his way to the backside in an effort to allow the backside guard-tackle duo to pull as lead blockers to the playside, then the tailback follows. The fullback would cut off anyone trying to follow the pulling tackle. Dallas instead left that tackle and pulled both guards. Like Counter Trey, the Dallas Buck was tailback and fullback move to the backside to allow the pulling guards a chance to get out in front, then the fullback led the tailback to the playside. The wall of blockers helps the short tailback get lost in traffic. You can also do it similarly with a toss play behind pulling lineman, only the tailback has to look for a cutback lane if he overruns the linemen, because it lags a little behind him most of the time. We've also used a naked bootleg action to set up a flanker sweep back across the grain of the bootleg to get those smaller guys loose in space. You have to be creative when QBs have difficulty throwing the ball to them.
That decisive run early season by Washington was brilliant. But ever since he's been hesitant to get to the sideline. The guy could get loose on the sideline if he'd just commit. But now that he is dancing most of the time, it's hard to say he's a one-trick pony. He isn't really finding success unless he reverses course altogether. I fear in time teams will anticipate his cutback and crack him a good one as he hesitates. That could get him hurt. But if he could be decisive again getting to that sideline, it opens up a whole can of worms for a defense. It is something the offense can build misdirection off of and all sorts of offshoots.CornhuskerinWI said:
