[Husker] the D

[RJ Wessel]

Your  "Cousin Rich" pretty much summed it all up. They can get rid of Phil and make him a scapegoat for this year. Next year when we still suck at defense it will be time for Callahan to look at Cosgrove and tell him bye.  



---- weldoc at juno.com wrote: 
> I sent "Cousin Rich" Skylar's "Opposing Receivers 2006 Stats" which I
> found intriguing, and he said this: "Great stats!  Too bad that Callahan
> doesn't read stuff like this."
> 
> Then he sent this:
> 
> Our problem is not o-line.  Of course, I know that you think you know
> what I am going to say next, because I'm sure it is what EVERYBODY
> complains about . . .
> 
> And no, it is NOT Courtney Grixby and our d-backs.  We will never really
> know how good (or bad) Courtney or any of our d-backs are because of the
> total lack of coaching.  The coaches are questionable and the schemes are
> "high school"at best.  
> 
> Grixby and Jones have to play man-man every down and get no help from the
> safeties.  The difference on how OU plays in the secondary vs. how we do
> it is incredible.  Just watch the interceptions that Zac threw.  There
> was always a safety there to make a play or if the cornerback didn't.
> Simple zone defense.
> 
> Zac would throw for 400 yards against our pathetic coverage.  We made
> Thompson look like a good QB.  All he had to do was lob balls out in
> front of receivers and they run under them.  He never had to try to
> figure out what coverage we were in, because it never changes.  If the
> corners get beat, it's all over, because our scheme is so bad.  
> 
> And what is worse is Cosgrove never changes anything, never mixes
> coverages.  Every "blue moon," we go to a nickel.  We blitzed OU ONE time
> and got Thompson to panic and throw an interception.  Where was that
> blitz a 2nd time?  
> 
> Zac Taylor, after the game: "They did a great job disguising their
> coverages, that was probably the thing that gave me the most trouble".
> Wonder if Callahan and Cosgrove heard that one?
>  
> If someone had asked Paul Thompson about "reading" our coverages, his
> quote probably would have been: "are you kidding?  I saw more complex
> coverages when I was in the 7th grade".
> 
> It was pretty cool to watch OU's defense line up in what looked like
> man-coverage, and then at the snap of the ball, they would rotate their
> safeties over to a different coverage.
> 
> Without changing a few defensive coaches we will never get back to where
> we want to be.  Better corners and safeties are not the answer.  By the
> way, it was recently pointed out to me that Zac Bowman was a 5-star
> recruit, Grixby a 4-star and Andre Jones a 4-star.  Not the players, but
> the coaches!
> 
> And then we can get to the offensive problems  . . . I don't have time
> right now, but how about zero rushes in the last 25 minutes!
> _____________________________
> 
> (I've invited "Cousin Rich" to get on the List several times, because his
> level of intensity re: NU football has always been several notches up
> above mine. But he's not gonna do it.)
> 
> FWIW, there's another opinion...
> 
> Bill Laughlin
> Wichita, KS
> 
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