[Husker] NU vs UCLA

[scott71lawson at yahoo.com]

To me the sad part is UCLA will lose to USC by 30. Is Nebraska really THAT far behind teams like USC? I sure hope not.

Scott in NY

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On Sep 9, 2012, at 7:06 PM, "rczeranko at juno.com" <rczeranko at juno.com> wrote:

> It was a fugly game, and unfortunately Nebraska did not come out on top. The safety hurt a lot and probably the nail in the coffin. Momentum swung to UCLA and Nebraska could not get it back.
> 
> Nebraska go too conservative on the drive that led to a missed field goal. I was surprised that Nebraska did not use the screen pass to exploit UCLA's attacking defense. I was also surprised that Nebraska did not throw play action when they had success running the ball. I do think that Nebraska gave up on the running game too soon.
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> While I will grade the defense a C, I will not be too hard on them. They had three great stops and only gave up one big play in the first quarter. The short field after the interception. It was just too much to ask them to stop UCLA a fourth time. There was too much hand tackling, but that is fixable. I also think that being on grass hurt Nebraska. The defense looked a half step slow yesterday.
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> Special teams were a little of a disappointment. Hopefully, Maher gets his mojo back. I think he will, but it may take a game or two. And luckily Nebraska has two easy games coming up!
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> The offense was okay, with shades of goodness and shades of badness. The receivers were back to their old ways not catching ball. But at least Taylor Martinez had great form! Sorry, but form does not always lead to receptions, and the receivers have dropped a lot of passes over the past three seasons. When they catch the ball Nebraska does well, as in the Southern Miss game. Not have Rex Burk head in there really hurt. Ame er Abdul did good job, but Rex's experience was really missed. And give UCLA some credit, they made good adjustments to Nebraska's running game.
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> And a new coach can make a team more dangerous, ala Michigan last season. This make Ohio State dangerous this season. And Jim Mora so far has gotten UCLA to play out of their minds. However, UCLA did not come out of there without any injuries. The ankle injury the UCLA's QB could hurt them down the road (aka Taylor Martinez's injury his freshman year).
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> I do believe that this game will pay dividends when Nebraska gets into B1G play. And the B1G was shut out by the Pac-12 yesterday. But this early in the season, does it really matter. If the B1G wins the Rose Bowl (provided it is a B1G vs Pac-12 match up), then these second games of the season will be meaningless.
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> Have faith true believers. Nebraska had to good opponents so far are 1-1. I know, I wanted them to be 2-0 also. But really, if they had beaten UCLA, then the list would have been full of posts about how Nebraska may win the national championship. So, we all must face a dose of reality.
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> I don't think that UCLA wanted it more than Nebraska, but it they may have had more to prove. They had the home field advantage and it paid off for them. Nebraska is still growing and have two more games to improve. I think that they will, so don't lose the faith!
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> Go B1G Red!
> 
> Rob Czeranko 
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