[Husker] Observation

[Martin, Douglas]

We did try to pressure the quarterback.
 
I could not figure out why we kept trying to rush the middle.  Kansas offensive line uses a "bubble" protection scheme which means they have narrow splits and the tackles peel not perpendicular but just backpeddle if you will to form a "bubble" for the qb.  This type of protection is designed to protect up the middle blitzing and rushing and it did just that.  Why we did not rush our ends from the extreme outside the tackle, or try a corner blitz (our corners could not cover the receivers anyway!) is beyond me.  Now don't get me wrong, KU offensive line did a great job with this, but good heavens do we not have any schemes to counter this sort of thing?
 
Doug Martin, MD
UNL '87
UNMC '91

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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Mike Jaixen
Sent: Sun 10/1/2006 1:03 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Observation



I'm not so surprised about the receivers being open;
our secondary has been the weak point of the defense.
My surprise is that defensively, we didn't try to
pressure Barmann until overtime.  Late in the 4th, we
showed blitz a few times and checked out of it, but we
let KU's backup QB look like Peyton Manning tonight.

On the positive side, Nebraska made KU pay for
stacking the line and shutting down the running game.


--- S JOHNSON <jfpgroup at msn.com> wrote:

> I am still de-compressing from a night in section
> 39.  I still don't know how to size-up the Husker
> defense.  I saw receivers open all night long.

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

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