[Husker] Perspective

[Martin, Douglas W.]

Some items that I would like to add after seeing the game in addition to what I have read so far:
 
1.  Kunalic is a good kick off guy but we have some issues on kickoff coverage when he does not get it in or out of the end zone.  There are all speed guys on the coverage team and Lawson and Castille I assume are supposed to be the wedge destroyers.  Problem is they were held up by average blocks at mid field and we don't have the instinct from the outside to cave in like we should.  I think this is fixable.
 
2.  Our offensive line does not sustain blocks like I hoped they would.  If we are going to compete in the Big XII this absolutely must improve.  I was disappointed in that.
 
3.  Holt is just like Purify.......big presence, hard to cover.
 
4.  Our defensive line is not even what I would call average.  We are going to have to live by scheme, not brawn in the Big XII.  I am very fearful of what a decent running game will do against us.  God forbid a mobile quarterback.
 
5.  Everyone seems to like Dillard, unfortunately he was pretty non-existent from my seat.
 
6.  There are some new wrinkles on offense with double tight end sets that I did not see at all last year.
 
7.  It takes Lucky an inordinate amount of time to see the hole.  He got "Lucky" on the sweep play to the left for a TD because their entire defense overran the play and we had a hat on everyone of them anyway.  Maybe I am spoiled, but Green, Jones, Hipp, Redwine, Berns, Davis, et al. would have been standing in the end zone at the time Lucky finally saw the hole on that play. 
 
Douglas W. Martin, MD
 
UNL '87
UNMC '91
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