[Husker] Some Comments

[Tommy Thompson]

After reading the coaches comments, I understand a lot about the play 
calling.  They were trying to keep the game close for a chance to win in the 
4th quarter.  3 dropped interceptions, 1 fumble, and untimely penalties kept 
the team from having that opportunity.

I really feel the Huskers looked good last night.

Taylor, with the exception of a couple of poor passes...one on 4th 
down...was effective.

Running game was there at times, but that holding penalty absolutely killed 
what looked like a scoring drive.

O-line looks tremendous.

Front 7 on Defense is very, very good.

CB's are way too small.  I do like the adjustment of moving them up closer 
for coverage, though.

Bottom line...unless Missouri is the real deal...which I doubt...Huskers are 
going to walk through the North.

Tommy Thompson
"GO BIG RED...RETURN TO GLORY"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Stone" <sstone at pvtnetworks.net>
To: "husker-tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:28 PM
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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