[Husker] Wah Wah Wah

[Andy Knipp]

One other point to bring up is that this was not an average QB.  Murray may
be the first QB taken in the draft this year. While he is not an Andrew
Luck/RG3 prospect, he is a Locker/Ponder type prospect.  In a normal year,
maybe a 2nd round pick, though he will probably go up in the middle of the
1st round. 



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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Nick Chevance
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Husker] Wah Wah Wah

A minor issue with an earlier post in this thread - Shawn Sherlock indicated
good and great are not synonyms but antonyms.  Maybe in business-speak they
are, but not in English.  But I can see the argument that settling for "good
enough" isn't the same as great.  And I'm not sure anyone is settling for
good is good enough.

I saw a pretty good offensive team yesterday wearing the N on their helmets.
A fumble may have been the key to reversing our fortune, but none of us here
really had much hope for that game, did we.  I think we acquitted ourselves
well yesterday, better than most of us thought we would, probably far better
than some of us thought. We out rushed them by
100 yards but sacks (5 for 26 yards) dropped that to about 77 yards
difference.  Still, we allowed only 162 yards rushing to a team that we all
thought was going to put up Wisconsin-like numbers on us.

I saw a decent defensive team hold in check a very good offensive team for
most of the game. Their QB was average in the first half, pretty good in the
second.  Take away their 4 touchdown passes (the shortest was 24 yards) and
the total yards passing goes down to 250, 8.6 per attempt and 18 per
completion.  That's not that different from Martinez (204/7.6/13).  They
wanted to exploit our corners with their speed on the outside, and were
pretty successful.  But for the most part, they made really good catches on
good, but not amazing, throws.  The best throw was to the back out of the
backfield after the D-line forced the QB to scramble to his right.  Compton
had him covered but the throw was to the back's outside shoulder, the runner
adjusted, caught the ball, and ran it it before Compton could adjust.
Compton was just unable to keep up, and I'm not sure anyone else could have.
And two of those other catches were to wide open receivers because of  blown
assignments (but the offensive scheme had a lot to do with that, I'd bet).
We held their rushers pretty much in check, but they are a more complete
team offensively than we faced all year, and managed to convert several long
3rd downs when they needed to.

The guys on BTN last night in wrapping up the bowls mentioned that Georgia
controlled Martinez's feet, didn't let him run, and forced him to throw.  I
saw something a bit different.  The third and especially the fourth quarters
saw several sell out blitzes at Martinez, giving him little time to select a
receiver.  There were receivers open, but he didn't have time to find them.
They had impressive speed on the ends, and Martinez didn't react well under
the pressure.  Overall, we got beat by a superior team.
But we didn't get embarrassed.  The defense did well, the offense did really
well.

I'm not satisfied with a 14 point loss, but that team did something that a
lot of fans didn't think they'd do.  They were in it until the 4th quarter.
I'm hoping for better next year.  I'm always hoping for better the next
year.  I'm not some like some crazy Cubs fan, hoping against hope that next
year they'll go 13-0 and start of string of 4 or 5 national championships.
But this year was an improvement over last year, and I anticipate
improvement next year.  Let's hope Bo's statement about the red-shirted
freshmen D-linemen proves correct, that they will be the monsters we hope
they are.  Can't wait til next year.

Nick
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