Game Thread: Nebraska @ Illinois

[HuskerinBig10]

Mike Riley
Can you say looser? And it hurts me so to say this. I may not be double nickels young but will be six dimes old before the next spring game. I may never see another championship game. This shit a'int right.
GO BIG RED!!!!!!!

Stinky, our generation saw a great run. I am agreeing with your assessment of never seeing another championship in our remaining lifetimes.

A bad hire of an athletic director can really screw things up. 2002 Steve Pederson, 2013 Shawn Eichorst.

I look at Shawn Eichorst and for some reason I think Milktoast.

 

[it'sHuskers4me]

The thing that sux about my age, is I feel every surgery I ever had. I plan on getting my right knee replaced this spring after my daughter's wedding.

I look at Shawn Eichorst and for some reason I think Milktoast.

I see a soft Gingerbread man.

 

[Exorbitant]

it is sad --I know

that I am old enough ta know this
and that it is happening right now --again
GGAAASPP !!

As bad as Jennings was, he still would have made sure the clock was run down late in a game.

 

[huskers1217]

Double Nickels here too. was curious how you remember Jennings Pops. He was gone the year before you were born.

i shall be over the hill in a couple of weeks. y'all got any advice for my 40's?

 

[HuskerPower52]

I turn 30 Saturday

 

[HuskerinBig10]

i shall be over the hill in a couple of weeks. y'all got any advice for my 40's?

Las Vegas. Go out with full debauchery.

Get drunk, ogle beautiful young things that you have no chance at, eat great food.

BTW, my 50th in Las Vegas was quite epic. We had this HOTTTTTTTTTTTT young restaurant hostess at Nove Italiano, I went to the hostess stand and told her to call down to the Sportsbook and tell them I needed more comp money sent up. She said, "I want to party with you." Not meaning what you are thinking, she just knew that me, my wife, and my friends were really having a very good time.

Even better, the manager from the Sportsbook personally delivered the comp ticket and he really enjoyed the scenery when he and I talked about it the next day.(I had to thank him as I was very inebriated at Nove Italiano)

 

[Fumble_Rooskie]

i shall be over the hill in a couple of weeks. y'all got any advice for my 40's?

If you're still healthy but haven't been one to stay fit and eat right, better start considering doing it soon. 40 is usually the magic number for when your health starts going south. I'm 45 now and the last 5 years have not been kind.

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

i shall be over the hill in a couple of weeks. y'all got any advice for my 40's?

Enjoy life. The 40's were probably when I had grown up enough to realize most shit doesn't matter and life needs to be enjoyed. Maybe finally making enough money to enjoy it helped too.

 

[oaknightshockey1]

I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game yet, and I am normally not able to really see exactly what goes on on a given play without giving it a second look. Did anybody notice whether the passing calls were mostly vertical, or was there just a receiver that was supposed to stretch the defense going long that TA decided to throw it to seemingly every time? I ask because in the first few games when Armstrong had his most success, he was hitting on shorter passes, but the route designs would run off the defensive backs, usually with at least one deep route to back the safeties off and open things up underneath (consequently, this was why we struggled in the red zone...not as much space to move the coverage). Because I haven't had the chance to rewatch it yet, I was wondering if anyone else could answer this. I find it incredibly hard to believe that a coach would continually call plays where the first option is the deep ball.

 

[Red_Alert]

I just know that on the 3rd and 7 play (where they could have run the clock down to :15), all 4 receivers ran pass routes.

The explanation from Riley is that there are two similar calls out of the same formation. One is a run and one is a pass. A small tweak in verbiage determines whether it is a run or a pass.
The team thought the pass play was called.

To sum it up, the coaches tried to get fancy instead of calling something where there was no doubt.

 

[Exorbitant]

Even if Armstrong was told to take the snap and place a knee to the ground, that would have been a WAY smarter play than the jackoff play called. Again, thanks Mike Riley for gifting the game to Illinois. Be smarter next time!

 

[sandhill_husker]

I turn 30 Saturday

That's a big one. Have some fun. And Happy Birthday in advance.

 

[Exorbitant]

i shall be over the hill in a couple of weeks. y'all got any advice for my 40's?

If you eat a lot of sugary items, strictly limit those, assuming you don't already have diabetes. Also, exercise even if it's just walking 4 to 5 times weekly, 30 minutes per walk. By the way, time seemingly goes by much faster after 40. My first 40 years went by fast, but the last 17 have gone by a lot faster.

 

[Exorbitant]

I turn 30 Saturday

I turned 30 in 1988. I used to play a lot of tennis and didn't stretch beforehand. After I turned 30, one day because I was too lazy to stretch before playing tennis, one of my calf muscles snapped on me. I learned a lesson that day! lol I couldn't play tennis for about 6 weeks.

 

[HuskerPower52]

wow snapped! that one might tingle a lil bit

 

[oaknightshockey1]

I just know that on the 3rd and 7 play (where they could have run the clock down to :15), all 4 receivers ran pass routes.

The explanation from Riley is that there are two similar calls out of the same formation. One is a run and one is a pass. A small tweak in verbiage determines whether it is a run or a pass.
The team thought the pass play was called.

To sum it up, the coaches tried to get fancy instead of calling something where there was no doubt.

Now that is the one play I have rewatched. I don't know how you can be more clear than telling your QB to run the ball. The receivers were supposed to be running pass routes, just like on a draw play. It is supposed to look like a pass, and when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense if it is run the way it is supposed to be. If Carter motions over and blocks like he did on the far side, Tommy is home free for the first down, and even if he doesn't quite make it he takes more time off the clock than a straight dive or kneel down. It also eliminates a handoff, so there is one fewer exchange that can go wrong. Not to mention Jano and Ozigbo had put the ball on the ground recently. The one complaint I have about that one is the coaches not calling a time out when they saw Carter didn't motion like he was supposed to.

 

[tometom]

I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game yet, and I am normally not able to really see exactly what goes on on a given play without giving it a second look. Did anybody notice whether the passing calls were mostly vertical, or was there just a receiver that was supposed to stretch the defense going long that TA decided to throw it to seemingly every time? I ask because in the first few games when Armstrong had his most success, he was hitting on shorter passes, but the route designs would run off the defensive backs, usually with at least one deep route to back the safeties off and open things up underneath (consequently, this was why we struggled in the red zone...not as much space to move the coverage). Because I haven't had the chance to rewatch it yet, I was wondering if anyone else could answer this. I find it incredibly hard to believe that a coach would continually call plays where the first option is the deep ball.

TA was chucking it deep. there were always underneath routes, but similar to you, i would have to rewatch to see if they were open. TA never found a rhythm in the game no matter how many passes DL called, it's why they should have went to the run so much sooner. i could understand if TA was on target and the WRs weren't catching the ball like at Miami, but that wasn't the case in this game. coaches should be smarter than that.

 

[tometom]

and agree with you oak. it also made a lot more sense yesterday after hearing both MR and TA talk about it. it's one of those worse case scenarios where TA reacts kinda like you would expect when running the play earlier in the game, he lost his head and kinda forgot the situation when that defender came through unblocked.

 

[oaknightshockey1]

TA was chucking it deep. there were always underneath routes, but similar to you, i would have to rewatch to see if they were open. TA never found a rhythm in the game no matter how many passes DL called, it's why they should have went to the run so much sooner. i could understand if TA was on target and the WRs weren't catching the ball like at Miami, but that wasn't the case in this game. coaches should be smarter than that.

I guess my suspicion is that the play calling wasn't all that different from the first few games where we were lauding TA's development and the offense was looking good, TA just reverted to his old mindset of trying to hit the big play rather than going through his progressions like he did in games 1-4.

 

[oaknightshockey1]

and agree with you oak. it also made a lot more sense yesterday after hearing both MR and TA talk about it. it's one of those worse case scenarios where TA reacts kinda like you would expect when running the play earlier in the game, he lost his head and kinda forgot the situation when that defender came through unblocked.

Seriously go watch Carter on that play. He looks ridiculous...essentially lead blocking for no one on the wrong side of the field.