[personal] [Husker] the D

Fri Dec 8 15:55:19 CST 2006

At least Steve's outburst and my counter outburst appear to have
provoked real discussion.  Thanks, Skylar and others who have
actually began writing about the game.  I was getting very tired
of deleting unread posts about changing the BCS.

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> Hello Husker Fans,
> 
> wjc> And no, it is NOT Courtney Grixby and our d-backs.  We will never really
> wjc> know how good (or bad) Courtney or any of our d-backs are because of the
> wjc> total lack of coaching.  The coaches are questionable and the schemes are
> wjc> "high school"at best. 
> 
> I really think there is a two part answer to this.
> 
> 1) I don't think our coverage schemes are the greatest. I don't know
> about 'High School at best', but they're not great. I personally think
> Coz subconsciously was saying, "If you want press/bump-and-run
> coverage, I'll give it to you".  Grixby was up on the receiver at the
> line of scrimmage all night and I think we now know why they play 10
> yards off.
> 
> 2) Grixby is part of the problem, he just is. He got abused all night
> because he's not big enough to play physical with Big XII wideouts.
> Like it or not, good guy or not, he just doesn't have the tools to be
> a cover corner in the Big XII.  He would probably make a STELLAR
> nickle back, but unfortunately we have sustained too many injuries to
> move him into that role.
> 
> OU's safety play wasn't all because of the scheming / coaching. Bottom
> line, on all but 1 of Zac's INTs, he made a BAD PASS.  Especially down
> by the end zone, he REALLY under threw both balls.  He puts enough
> ketchup on both of those and we probably win the game.
> 
> Heck, they were SO out of position, that even when Taylor made a bad
> pass the safety still had to come from the other side of the field and
> make a diving catch just to get to it.  When you have to come from out
> of nowhere and make a diving catch on a vastly under thrown ball,
> that's not genius scheming, that's luck that the pass wasn't very
> good.
> 
> How about when Tefatiller (sp?) was all by himself in the endzone?
> Was that brilliant scheming too?
> 
> I'm not trying to take anything from Stoops, he's a great coach.  I'm
> not trying to take anything away from OU's safeties, they've got some
> bigtime talent.  Let's just not give them too much credit.
> 
> wjc> And what is worse is Cosgrove never changes anything, never mixes
> wjc> coverages.  Every "blue moon," we go to a nickel.  We blitzed OU ONE time
> wjc> and got Thompson to panic and throw an interception.  Where was that
> wjc> blitz a 2nd time?  
> 
> I hate to break it to you, but we blitzed Thompson probably 20+ times
> that night.  The difference is we only ran 1 SAFETY blitz and 0 CORNER
> blitzes.  Our Linebackers came on a blitz constantly, but OUs strategy
> for the most part was pretty simple, when the middle linebacker(s)
> blitz, rollout and buy yourself time.  Since we hardly ran any blitzes
> on the edge, that strategy was very successful.
> 
> There was 3 or 4 times on that 99+ yard back-breaker where they had
> passed on every down and our middle linebackers bit HARD on the run
> fake.  If they don't bite on even one of those, we could probably have
> held them.  There was one specific where Stew bit on a run fake up the
> middle on 3rd and 10 or so.
> 
> Blaming the defense on Saturday is not a very good idea.  We flat
> out sucked on offense and pissed away opportunity after opportunity
> that the DEFENSE provided the offense.  There's plenty of chances to
> jump all over this defensive staff, THIS is not one of them, IMHO.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Go Skers,
>  Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
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