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

[Mike Jaixen]

Consider Coz rushed three men against Texas Tech in
2004 in that 70-10 rout.  And we only rushed three
early on against Tech in 2005 until we fell behind
21-0.  Personally, I would have taken a chance and
rushed 5 or 6 frequently.  Are you running a risk that
Daniel would find wide open receivers?  Yep.  But that
was already happening with his three man rush. 
Heck...send the house at times.  You might get a sack,
you might cause Daniel to throw the ball away.  You
might get him out of his groove.

A Missouri fan I know was incensed that Pinkel never
attacked Nebraska's secondary last year, prefering to
hand the ball off to Tony Temple and throw 4 yard
outs.   Perhaps Coz thought that it was his game plan,
not the Pinkel Factor, that allowed the Huskers to win
last year.

Okie State runs a spread.  I believe Texas, Colorado,
and Kansas use some of it as well.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1200&u_sid=10152410

--- jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> 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."


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


       
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