[Husker] Cousin Rich, the sequel

[weldoc at juno.com]

(Caution: sarcasm employed--proceed at your own risk...[brackets]
indicate editing to tone down the invective...so as not to hurt anyone's
feelings)

Bill: I don't know how you can stand to read what some of these
[geniuses] have to say !!

-What kind of [person] thinks we played our best defensive game??  Yes,
we stopped the run . . . and gave up 265 yards thru the air to the 2nd
worst passing attack in the Big 12!

-Also, I don't think Zac Taylor calls the plays and forgets about running
the ball the last 25 minutes of the game.

-The FACT is, our defense is something like 70th in the nation (much
worse against the pass 89th(?).  Our offense is 9th(?).  Enuff said.

-Zac Taylor admitted that he was confused by OU's defense.  That is
coaching and scheming.

- Grixby was not lined up on the line of scrimmage all night long.  If he
would have been playing press coverage, they would have gone deep all
night.

- Zac underthrew one ball that was picked, but it wasn't against
man-to-man coverage.  He had to throw it between the corner and the
safety.  Something that other QB's never have to do against us.  The one
in the end zone should have been thrown with more zip, but it was not
underthrown.  Again, against our defense, it would have been 6, because
the safety would not have been around to make the int.

- According to him we blitzed 20+ times, all linebacker blitzes except
the ONE that worked.  What does that tell you?  He said their strategy to
roll out was pretty simple.  Again, what does that tell you?  It tells
you how [ridiculous] our defensive coaching is!  The one blitz that works
and he only runs it ONCE?  [*%$#@ !!!]

- Tight end gets open for a TD.  Was that brilliant coaching?  I would
say it was pretty damn good, since that was the ONLY score that we had.

- all of the verbage about coverages . . . and we don't have safeties . .
. I have one question for him:  Does he think Bullocks and Bullocks were
above-average safeties?  Well, with Bullocks AND Bullocks AND Fabian
Washington, this great coaching staff managed to be 107th in pass defense
with their great scheming and coaching.  The year before, with Pelini, it
was "Top 
10."  So quit [complaining] about the players and focus on the real
problem - coaching!

Cousin Rich
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Guess we will just have to get back into that newly-comfortable "rut"
(for some) of  saying "wait until next year."

Bill Laughlin
Wichita, KS