[Husker] TO respect, NFL etc

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 10/18/2007 06:51:15 PM:

> 
> The statements of BC regarding TO per Ostergard (the new book) suggest 
lack
> of respect for TO. Apart from the soap opera aspect and maturity 
question
> this raises, I suspect this has to do with NFL versus College 
approaches.

I suspect that this has a lot to do with marketing a self-published book. 
What a bonanza this whole thing is going to be for the author, Crowl. 
Doesn't matter what the whole rest of the book says, people are going to 
be interested solely because of a single titillating line. Wow. 

I can tell that you when Brook Berringer through that interception in the 
endzone in the '95 Orange Bowl, I said much much worse things about 
Osborne than are attributed to Callahan. 

> I
> am curious how the great football minds on this list might react to the
> following: 
> It seems to me that the NU style of the 1994-5 teams might work in the 
NFL
> if quarterbacks were not so highly paid and protected in the NFL. The 
old NU
> offense had QBs who would throw a block and run into tacklers rather 
than
> slide. I liked that. Maybe the rules are now so skewed you have to have 
drop
> back passers in the NFL but I wonder of the tough QB paradigm could not 
work
> there if the economics were different. Vince Young has made a pretty 
good
> impact as a young QB who runs with the ball. What do the experts out 
there
> think?
> -Stuart Jones
> 
What is the average career of a running back in the NFL, maybe 2.5 years 
if that? That's because they get the hell beat out of them, not 
necessarily because they're not good enough to play the game. Can you 
imaginge the lifespan of a running quarterback that's running an offense 
where they expect to get hit? 

The defensive lineman in the NFL are so much bigger and faster that it's 
impossible to run that kind of offense against them. You have defensive 
ends who can run down running backs or receivers in some cases. That has a 
lot to do with what kind of offense you're able to run. 

It's the same reason you won't see the option again at a championship 
level in college. Used to be you could pull guards who were fast enough to 
get to the edge and block a linebacker or defensive back. No more. In the 
last ten years, you've seen nearly everyone move to zone blocking because 
of the defensive players. They're just too big, too fast, and too strong. 

 
Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com