[Husker] Game Observations

[Mike Jaixen]

To put it in perspective, two stops of Texas Tech is double what happened against Kansas.  But because we got into an "I can score faster than you can" war, it melted down into Rout 76.

I'm not sure I'd call it defense playing well as much as defense not playing as horribly.  It's improvement...with room for a lot more of it.

Mike Jaixen
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--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Game Observations
> To: husker at tssi.com, sstone at pvtnetworks.net
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 8:56 AM
> > 5) That NU played as well as it did on defense seems a
> minor miracle 
> > what with its raft of back-seven injuries. Amazing
> that TT couldn't 
> > rack up 80 points.
> 
> I have seen several posts referring to the defense playing
> well.
> Here is the drive chart:
>   TT  1st T32  15:00  Kickoff     T45  12:49  Punt        
> 5-13   2:11
>   TT  1st T20  08:07  Punt        N00  04:49 *TOUCHDOWN   
> 7-80   3:18
>   TT  2nd T32  11:46  Kickoff     N09  08:13 *FIELD GOAL  
> 6-59   3:33
>   TT  2nd T30  02:37  Downs       N00  01:18 *TOUCHDOWN   
> 4-70   1:19
>   TT  3rd T23  08:00  Kickoff     N00  04:47 *TOUCHDOWN   
> 7-77   3:13
>   TT  4th T20  12:10  Kickoff     T28  10:10  Punt        
> 3-8    2:00
>   TT  4th T20  06:06  Kickoff     N00  02:21 *TOUCHDOWN  
> 10-80   3:45
>   TT  4th T20  00:29  Kickoff     T34  00:00  End of half 
> 3-14   0:29
>   TT  OT  N25  15:00  Possession  N00  15:00 *TOUCHDOWN   
> 4-25   0:00
> TT had 8 possessions not ended by the half.  They scored
> five TDs and
> a field goal.  Effectively, NU twice stopped TT and once
> held them to
> a chipshot FG.
> 
> The main reason that TT didn't rack up 80 points was
> that NU's offense
> held the ball for more than 40 of the 60 minutes and TT had
> only 8
> possessions, including one in OT.  The defense gave up
> nearly 5 points
> per possession.  With that level of defense, a team's
> offense has to
> be nearly perfect.
> 
> There was an article in the LJS this morning about how few
> turnovers the
> defense has generated again this year.
> 
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