[Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Skylar Dodds]

Well, I keep getting new things to laugh at!  

Our defense is in the top 25 in SCORING DEFENSE (if you're wondering, this
is the only stat that really matters on defense).  We play a style of
defense that is designed to give up yardage ON THE GROUND, but rarely give
up big plays and force offenses to go 10+ plays to score (save for a short
field). 

ISU scored on short fields all day.  Here's their scoring drive chart:

How they got it	Start		Plays		Yards		Result
Punt into wind	N47		7		47		TD
Fumble (Helu)	N41		4		2		FG
Kickoff		I25		13		75		TD
Fumble (NP)		N13		3		13		TD
OT Start		N25		3		25		TD

So, in short.  We gave up 1 drive that started in ISU territory.  ONE DRIVE.
And, we made them go 13 plays to do it.  The fighting Pelini's have said
that their defense is designed to say, if you can execute perfectly for
10-15 plays in a row, we'll give up the small chunks of yardage.

Was it the best performance by the defense? No.  Was it good enough to win?
100% yes.  The offense continually gave ISU short fields all day and to hold
them to 24 points in regulation is not bad at all.

Not to mention, 3 out of the 4 TDs came against our 2nd string (true frosh)
and 3rd string corners and our 1st stringer will be back this week.  But,
why look at the facts?  Instead let's just continue to not realize what's
going on and play the role of arm-chair coach.  Let's ignore the fact that
our coaches took a 'worst defense in college football' and 2-3 years later
only allowed more than 21 points twice over a stretch of about 25 games.
Let's bury our head in the sand and complain about a defense that's in the
top 25 in scoring defense because they're not better than last year's #1
scoring defense that lost 4 of the biggest 'cogs' (Suh, Dillard, O'Hanlan
<-- biggest loss IMO, Asante).

Keep grinding your ax against Pellini and his defenses and I'll keep
laughing.

--
Skylar

-----Original Message-----
From: David Strong [mailto:gbrlist at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:08 PM
To: husker at tssi.com; Skylar Dodds
Subject: RE: [Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)


If you are done cracking up yet, I think you better check on current events.
We just came very close to losing a game to 4-4 Iowa State.  In fact, we
would have lost if the holder had put any mustard whatsoever on that pass.
And all the stats you want to quote don't change the fact they hung 30+ on
our defense.  When you are down to your 3rd string QB, the other members of
the team have to assume the responsibility to play just a little bit better.
Our defense did not.  Lucky to get away with it, probably can again this
Saturday too.  

Dave

> Wow, how quickly do we get spoiled
> with a Pellini defense.  We gave up 24
> points in regulation last week, all from short
> fields.  ISU ran about 20
> more plays than we did.  We gave up 100 yards to their
> RB, but it took him
> 33 carries.  Yet "the defense better shape up".
> 
> In the Cosgrove era, this would have been an inspired
> effort.  LOL, just
> cracks me up.
> 
> --
> Skylar
> 

> 
> The entire defense is going to have to gut up and play a
> whole helluva lot
> better than it did last Saturday.
> 
> Dave
> 



      
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