[Husker] Cosgrove asked about comments by Misouri coaches and players

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

Consider this perspective: 

Taken at face value, he sounds foolish, but the fact is, there probably 
aren't a lot of different things we could do with this defense. 

We knew that our defense sucked going into this game, so the performance 
by the defense isn't all that unexpected, is it? His 3-3-5 defense was the 
same we used to destroy Mizzou in Lincoln last season if memory serves me. 
Granted, we don't have Adam Carriker and Jay Moore this season, and if you 
go back and watch the game, you'll see the DE's get sucked inside on fakes 
instead of containing, so consider that the scheme wasn't bad. 

The defense doesn't operate by itself, it has to rely on an offense for 
ball controll and scoring. We didn't do that. You could say that the 
problem with last weekend's game was that the offense was the cause of the 
massive yardage by Mizzou. The defense performed right where they were 
expected, which is awful. The offense vastly underperformed given their 
expectations. 

Given all that, I don't think Cos has much of a clue how to defend a 
spread offense. How many more do we play? 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 10/10/2007 01:28:24 AM:

> http://www.journalstar.
> 
com/articles/2007/10/10/huskerextra/football/doc470c1654b71e8150689088.txt
> 
> > Cosgrove said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on Daniel's thoughts.
> > 
> > Does Cosgrove wish he would have shown Missouri's offense some more
> > defensive looks?
> > 
> > "You know what, I'm going to say just one thing: With what they do,
> > the way they spread the field, there's only so much you can do,"
> > Cosgrove said. "If you try to get into a blitz game with them, they'll
> > tear you apart, because they spread you out. They go sideline to
> > sideline and goal line to goal line, and you have to be smart in how
> > you defend."
> 
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