[Husker] Rietsch's Ramblings or Dons Downers

[Pam Rietsch]

Donnie is right, these opinions do not necessarily reflect the entire
household but ONLY because I have NO idea what is going on during the game.
I did not know football at all until I married Don and even now I only know
about 4 plays. :(((

Don has tried to explain to me what is going on, but sadly being visually
impaired from a red light runner that slammed into me I just cannot
understand the fast action.

It is obvious to me that as he said something is really wrong in the system.
I have never seen this many fumbles in the almost 40 years I have watched
the games. Don has passion for the game and because he understands what is
going on gets really upset when they are not doing things right. I commend
him for that. Fans should be passionet for their team.

Me I will be a fan no matter what they do, and can just sadly accept a loss.
I sure hope we turn it around because I get a lot of flack from the itiot U
of M fans that see the large red N's on the side of my truck. Oh well they
are still losers...we beat them fair & square in that split season.

Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Don Rietsch
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:08 AM
To: 'furyii'; husker at tssi.com
Subject: [Husker] Rietsch's Ramblings or Dons Downers 

NOTE:  THE FOLLOWING WORDY RAMBLINGS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS
OF THE ENTIRE RIETSCH HOUSEHOLD

Rich in NV is thinking exactly what I am.  "Something is rotten in Denmark".
I sense, and I pray I'm wrong, that there is something very wrong between
the offensive players and the defensive focused head coach that goes much
deeper than the X's and O's.  

This offense is on a downward spiral and the coaches don't seem to know how
to stop it.  The buck has to stop with the head coach.  As for Watson, you
don't go from a genius to a goat in one year. 

I see our problems on O as follows:  The probable starting QB transferred, a
starting RB got kicked off the team, NP, the best RB on the team, is trying
to play receiver, Gilleylen doesn't have the hands to play receiver but with
his speed could be a fine DB, NU has only one true receiver, McNeil, that
has played to date, etc.  In summary, I see receivers who don't have great
hands trying to catch balls that are thrown a little off target.  If the
balls were delivered on target these guys would catch most of them.  On the
other hand, if they all had great hands like McNeil, they would catch most
of the slightly off target balls.

Now the fumbles: Helu is not a fumbler; he has a shoulder stinger (the MU
game clearly showed he got injured) which means he has little strength in
that arm (I can attest to this personally) and should not have been playing.
Robinson played well and I don't fault him for his fumble.  ISU must have
had half their team trying to tear the ball out of his hands.  His forward
progress was stopped and there should have been a whistle. The NP fumble was
no excuses as was Holt's and Lee's.

 

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