[Husker] Cousin Rich, the sequel

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weldoc at juno.com wrote:
>
> (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 !!

Hey, can I play too?  
How about this one:  Bill is a [jerk].  Did I get that right?  

> Yes, we stopped the run 

Yes, we stopped the vaunted Oklahoma running game.

> and gave up 265 yards thru the air 

So what?  We only gave up 14 points (to a Top 10 team).

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

Who exactly was supposed to carry the ball for the last 
25 minutes?  Brandon was gone.  Marlon had a bad back
and was too important to the passing game to risk
pounding the rock.  Cody, I believe, had some sort of
injury.  Kenny played for a short while, but didn't
play well.

Besides, we were down by 14 points for the entire 4th
quarter.  We naturally looked to the passing game for
some quick scores.
  
> Zac Taylor admitted that he was confused by OU's defense.  
> That is coaching and scheming.

Please.  Zac is confused, and you blame it on the coaches?  
Zac is a big boy.  He's watched the film.  He's done the 
reps.  He carries the can.

When Zac plays well, we justifiably sing his praises --
Zac gets the credit, not the coaching and scheming.  So 
when Zac plays poorly, the blame goes on him, not on the 
coaching and scheming.

> Again, against our defense, it would have been 6, because
> the safety would not have been around to make the int.

It's amazing.  Our defense was so bad, yet Oklahoma was
only able to score 14 points on them.

> It tells you how [ridiculous] our defensive coaching is!  

I don't know why you guys want to keep rehashing this [crap].
We did not lose to Oklahoma because of our [ridiculous]
defense.  We lost because Purify fumbled in the first minute.
We lost because Zac turned the ball over four times.  

> So quit [complaining] about the players and focus on the 
> real problem - coaching!

Turnovers lost us the game.  It wasn't the coaches; it wasn't
the gameplan.  We out-yarded Oklahoma on the ground.  We out-
yarded them in the air.  Our defense held them to 14 points.
The game was ours for the taking.  The fact that we fumbled
the game away is not the fault of the coaches.