[Husker] amazingly quiet

[Mike Jaixen]

There were a lot of problems on defense last year. 
The schemes were horrible and predictable.  Today's
Omaha paper quoted former UNO coach Sandy Buda saying
that Nebraska's "prevent" defense last year was
"playing right into their hands".

In the offseason, Cosgrove did change.  More zone
defenses, and new ways of implementing it.  They
brought in NFL coaches and totally revamped the
defense.  The defensive ends now line up on on the
strong-side or weak-side, rather than a left or right
designation.  There is increased depth on defensive
line, which means we have fresher guys attacking the
quarterback.

In other words, things look 180 degress different on
defense to this point.  That alone is worthy of
optimism about a turnaround like Arizona State pulled
on us in 1996, or Syracuse in 1984.

--- jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> It's amazingly quiet. Too quiet. It stinks, the
> quiet, it stinks. 
> 

> One thing that hasn't been discussed - Nebraska's
> inability to play zone 
> last year versus our ability to play it this year. I
> went back and watched 
> the Nebraska game last year a few times, and I
> remember posting about it 
> on the list. We didn't have a clue how to play
> defense against Tech. It 
> wasn't just Cosgrove's bad scheme of rushing three
> most of the time. It 
> was the fact that Nebraska's linebackers and
> secondary didn't appear to 
> have a clue what they were doing. I believe that's
> changed. We may not 
> have as much skill in the secondary, but we'll be
> better nonetheless. 
> 
> I believe that Nebraska will win this game because
> I'm am optimist. I want 
> to believe in Bill Callahan. I want to believe in
> this offense, this 
> defense. A loss tomorrow won't change that desire.
> I'm going with a score 
> we're familiar with: 
> 
> Nebraska        27
> Texas Tech      20


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


	
		
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