It’s very strange seeing one of those called and not immediately yelling “jump on the ball!” Every darn time
By the time Dylan is a senior global warming will have advanced to the point we can chuck it 40 times a game in November so
Just posted this in the B1G thread but it's gonna be 96 goddamn degrees Saturday. Rutgers is gonna cook on the East sideline.
Why did Cook morph into a Cowboy randomly the fast few years? Or was that always the case and he’s just decided to make it his thing.
It’s going to be an interesting match up when Nebraska is in offense. Schiano defenses are typically known for being pretty solid against the run but with our best LB out for the year and our next best still recovering from an ACL, we’ve been playing younger guys that are quite talented but have been boom or bust on a play to play basis, with more busts via poor gap discipline and even worse angles. On top of that, our safeties (we largely play a 4-2-5 with 3 seniors at the safety and nickel spot) have been uncharacteristically bad at tackling. Last week we had zero tackles for loss and zero sacks. We haven’t blitzed nearly as often as Schiano normally has in the past. He’s talked a lot about getting push with just the front four, but it’s become apparent that our d-line is made up of some solid lunch pail guys, but none of them are the type of athlete that can really force an OC to change their game plan. From what I’ve seen, the Huskers can def throw the ball around, but I think to beat RU, they will need to stick to the run. If you watch our game against Washington, you can see that they went away from the run, despite being quite successful, and it hurt them- especially in the red zone. On offense, our passing game hasn’t looked this competent in about a decade. But that doesn’t make us the great show on turf. It means that 3 and 8 is no longer a running down. I think Monangai will have a decent day, but the o-line holding their blocks is going to be the difference between decent and great day for him. We need great to win. How are you guys on special teams? I know it was a real sore spot the last time we played you guys, but I would guess Rhule has shored a lot of that up. On our end, we don’t even try to return kick offs or punts. Greg has decided that he’d rather block a couple kicks a year. If your punting unit isn’t sound, this week could be one of them.
Special times might actually be worse than whatever weird thing you witnessed the last time we played
Hey, be nice. I have known husk TMBers to generally be upstanding, decent folk and ball knowers. Don’t fuck that up for me please.
This is bad enough on its own but my phone claims it’s going to be 77 on Friday and 74 on Sunday. Can we play another FNL game please
I’m a Rutgers fan. There’s nothing I could have done in this life, or the last, to deserve that. And yet, here we are.
I don’t care to invalidate your opinions. I rarely agree with you, but you are a voice that causes thought. That said, stop with your homophobic insults. They have no place in the topic.
Our special teams are fine everywhere except for the kicking game but that's so bad that it drags down the average substantially
4 down offense in the redzone. Punt anything >4th and 4 outside the opponents 30. There is zero reason to attempt a FG
Has anyone ever seen someone's kicking game all of a sudden get good inside the same season? Don't think it's possible. Let's just not
I laughed out loud last week when we had a perfectly placed punt but the gunner was in the back of the end zone for some reason and didn’t down it.
Is anyone buying this discussion that it’s the long snappers that are the problem, not the kicker? Apparently Rhule dropped that at some point during a presser to give it legs. I understand that is sometimes a contributor but I never saw Hohl shuffle his feet when he was approaching and the holder seemed to do his job getting the ball where it needed to be. I dunno, maybe I’m looking past something and we can make a single field goal in the next month or two.
I think both are the problem, but they have performed better/worse between each game. I do think snapping was the primary issue at Purdue. Rhule may be protecting the psyche of his kickers but I don't know and that seems to be a little bit of a stretch. He's pretty calculated about what he says to the media though.
30+ mph winds forecasted for Saturday. Might actually help our kicking game. Worried for a potential impact on the passing game. The pass usually gets there on the dot, but it seems like DR adds too much touch at times so hopefully the wind doesn’t impact it too much. Could just be the angle from my seats and the routes we call, but it’s the one thing I’ve noticed.
Usually there’s the 1-2 fall feeling weeks that tease us, this year has been super weird. Almost like a 10 day rotation now between being 70s and 88+ degree. I guess if there’s a positive humidity is way down, but won’t help much for kickoff unless there’s some cloud coverage.