[Husker] Some Comments

[Mike Jaixen]

I think there is a glass half empty or half full
argument that could be made here.  While we ran the
ball better than I thought, I thought our play calling
severely hampered our ability to win this game. 
Personally, I think we played not to get embarrassed,
not to win.  Or perhaps, more like played hoping that
USC would lose.

If Callahan had opened the play book in the 2nd
quarter like he did in the 4th quarter, I'd like to
think we could have made a game of this.

--- Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:

> Did the last 2 posters to the list watch the same
> game tonight or what? Call me crazy (or just really
> tired) but those 2 posts are about as opposite as
> can be...
> 
> I too am absolutely perplexed as to why the Huskers
> did not at least attempt to throw the ball more. I
> will have to watch the game tape (hopefully it will
> show a bigger field than the tv coverage) to see if
> USC was shutting down the NU receivers or what, but
> that is my guess. Taylor was flushed out of the
> pocket quite a bit too, but there are several things
> that can at least be attempted in that situation.
> 
> Maybe we didn't want to show too much for the Troy
> game?
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Steve
> Stone
> Sent: Sun 2006.09.17 00:28
> To: husker-tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] Some Comments
>  
> 1. Starting with the end, the final score was better
> than hoped.
> 
> 2. The Huskers played a much more promising game
> than anticipated on 
> both sides of the ball, especially on run defense
> although pass 
> defense turned out less effective than anticipated,
> especially in 
> regard to three missed clear shots at interceptions.
> 
> 3) Zac Taylor did not have one of his best nights.
> Several passes 
> were downright shoddy, but I suspect he wasn't able
> to find his 
> passing rhythm. The Trojan defense had something to
> do with that.
> 
> 4) The Husker offensive line can play the running
> against anybody. 
> What a change from last season! Repeatedly they
> cleared good holes in 
> USC's rightly vaunted defensive seven. And that was
> without Kurt 
> Mann. This is a very young offensive line with the
> potential of 
> developing into another Pipeline. But we'll probably
> have to wait 
> until next year to see that happen.
> 
> 5) The hugeness of the loss of Zack Bowman was all
> too apparent 
> tonight. That's not a knock on Andre Jones who
> played pretty well 
> considering the circumstances. (Although I suspect
> that in the future 
> he'll be more circumspect in commenting on future
> opponents.)
> 
> 6) Let's not even talk about four absolutely
> brainless 15-yard 
> penalties at key points, the sort of thing that
> happens when players 
> are trying too hard against top opponents.
> 
> 7) Penalties, or no penalties, there was no quit in
> the Huskers.
> 
> 8) Any word on Marlon Lucky's injury?
> 
> 9) The announcers probably set a new World Record
> for fatuous remarks.
> 
> 10) Perhaps it's only my jaundiced eye, but it
> seemed to me that 
> Calllahan was using the USC game at least in part as
> a proving ground 
> for the Huskers' major objective, winning the North
> Division. I think 
> he may have succeeded.
> 
> Steve Stone
> 
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Mike Jaixen
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