[Husker] Offense: this year vs. last

[David Elfering]

The offense laid an egg last year versus Texas, so the gaudy numbers
were often against over matched teams or people who under estimated
the new QB (in my opinion).

We aren't even a year into a new system so it may be early to judge it.

David Elfering
aroundomaha at gmail.com

On Nov 23, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> Yeah, it wasn't until the 8th or 9th game that offense started to show signs of weakness.  Against KSU and WASH and all of our preseason games we ran like mad.  Against Missouri Helu set the all time rushing record. Against OSU Taylor looked like a Heisman candidate.
>
> Obviously the 2nd half of the season, the offense was putrid, but the season totals were already established early on.
>
> The offense this year vs the offense at the end of last year is a LOT better.
>
> --
> Skylar
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Aaron Wolfson wrote:
>
>> The offense had some pretty excellent games last year. I seem to recall
>> some guy setting a quarterback rushing record. Oh, and some other set some
>> other silly rushing record.
>>
>> At the end of the year, the offense was bad because the team's only
>> halfway-decent quarterback was playing hurt and scared.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM, David Elfering <aroundomaha at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Last year it was 80 yards or nothing. This year I felt the offense was
>>> more consistent, so oddly despite the lower numbers I consider this
>>> year's move to a new system a relative success.
>>>
>>> David Elfering
>>> aroundomaha at gmail.com
>>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Angry Dad weighed in with a pretty scathing article on why this season
>>> is a
>>>> bust.  Link:
>>>>
>>> http://www.huskermax.com/vbbs/content.php?170-The-Numbers-are-Already-In-The-2011-Season-is-a-Bust
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't go that far, but he did say one thing that surprised me: This
>>>> year's offense is worse than last years, going from 35th to 58th to date.
>>>>
>>>> I thought last years offense by the end of the year was a pretty much
>>>> complete failure.  And this year's is worse?  Is that really true. Angry
>>>> Dad is right in that we are now ranked 58th nationally in total offense,
>>>> but is that really worse than last year?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
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