[Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Skylar Dodds]

That's a pretty myopic view of things and a silly interpretation of what
I've said.  My response was to your implication that 'closeness' of the ISU
game falls squarely on the shoulders of the defense and the reason it was a
close game was because of the defense. 

Myself, Bo, Carl and pretty much everyone else have stated that the defense
has room for improvement, so you can lay off the childish response of "I was
wrong...Our defense does not
need to play better" camp does not apply.  I take issue with your claim that
Bo is spouting 'political speak' or 'lying' about the defense.  The
conclusion of your axe to grind was from your own admission that you do not
like Bo at all, not from your comment about how the defense needs to play.

We have a very good, but not great defense.  But our defense is CERTAINLY
good enough to win every game and would share a very small portion of the
blame for the ISU game.  It would be much more the offense and the starting
field position they gave ISU all day long.

Lastly, sports fans are fickle.  3 years ago, we would have drooled over a
defense like this and now we get "The entire defense is going to have to gut
up and play a whole helluva lot better than it did last Saturday."  We got
spoiled last year when at the end of the year some of the best offenses were
unable to move the ball against us.  So this year, since we're not #1 in
scoring defense, fans complain.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Rietsch [mailto:drr at livgenmi.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:22 PM
To: 'David Strong'; husker at tssi.com; 'Skylar Dodds'
Subject: RE: [Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)

Yup, I with Dave and am now in "The NU defense is awesome" camp.  I made a
big pitcher of Kool-Aid and drank it all in one sitting. Now we just have to
convince Brendan Stai to jump on board. But then what does HE know about
football?

Donnieray70 

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
David Strong
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:50 AM
To: husker at tssi.com; Skylar Dodds
Subject: RE: [Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)


Well Laughing Boy, I'll tell you what I find funny.  All this venom and
attack from you and your stooges over an innocuous comment like "the defense
needs to play better."  Now it's an "axe to grind".  Putting together these
long justification posts showing how our defense it really awesome.  But it
was not work in vain.  You have convinced me.

I now publicly state for the record:  I was wrong...Our defense does not
need to play better.

Dave

--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net>
> Subject: RE: [Husker] Nebraska vs Kansas stats (UNCLASSIFIED)
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 10:39 AM
> 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
> > 
> 
> 
>