Nebraska @ Northwestern Week 2012

[JonJon]

...like with any spread it tightens due to uncertainty...

 

[Brasky]

It moved down to 4.5 now.....the opening line was 7

I'm not touching that. Matter of fact I'm not touching Nebraska again this season. Way too unpredictable.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Statistical rankings this season vs. FBS opponents....

Offense Passing
Nebraska 69 (221.6 yds)
Northwestern 99 (187.5 yds)

Offense Rushing
Nebraska 5 (273.4 yds)
Northwestern 21 (220.3 yds)

Defense Passing
Nebraska 14 (177.6 yds)
Northwestern 106 (284.5 yds)

Defense Rushing
Northwestern 27 (119.7 yds)
Nebraska 105 (220.8 yds)

Offense Pts/G
Nebraska 19 (37.8 pts)
Northwestern 50 (30 pts)

Defense Pts/G
Northwestern 47 (24.7 pts)
Nebraska 82 (31.8 pts)

 

[JonJon]

I'm with u, Brasky. Smart $ stays in pocket on this one...

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

I think it's pretty obvious why Northwestern is ranked so high in Rush Defense.........it's because nobody really needs to run the ball on them, they're so bad in Pass Defense.

For Nebraska it is the exact same thing, just switched around between Rush Defense and Pass Defense.

Penn State ran at will against Northwestern. I think Nebraska will as well, and we will be able to throw the ball around whenever we want to.

This game has potential to be a higher scoring affair if neither team shores up their Defensive problems before game time.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Northwestern only had 275 total yards against Minnesota this past weekend..........only 13 first downs.

If Minnesota didn't turn the ball over 3 times to Northwestern's 0, this is a double digit win for Minnesota.

Take care of the ball, Taylor.

 

[Brasky]

Too bad we can't stop the run and force a team like northwestern to throw. This game would be a blowout.

 

[Brasky]

Bo has gotten opportunity after opportunity and week after week to prepare for the zone read game and he has failed every single test.

This Northwestern team is just as good as any zone read based scheme that has torched Bo.

If he can come up with a plan to stop Northwestern, it would be the exception to the rule for sure.

 

[Brasky]

The one thing that bodes incredibly well for us is Kain Colter is not the starting quarterback.

I just pray they use Colter exclusively at WR because Siemian is a true pocket passer which OBVIOUSLY plays right into Bo's hands.

 

[Brasky]

If bo is smart he'll tell his guys to try and tackle Siemian as nicely as possible. Knocking him out of the game would actually be a bad deal.

If you'll remember last season, Nebraska was shutting Dan Persa down and then Eric Martin knocked him out of the game. Enter Kain Colter, end scene.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

The one thing that bodes incredibly well for us is Kain Colter is not the starting quarterback.

I just pray they use Colter exclusively at WR because Siemian is a true pocket passer which OBVIOUSLY plays right into Bo's hands.

Why in thee hell would Northwestern do that? They would have to be absolutely retarded.

Their coaching staff surely sees where our weakness is and how badly they hurt us last year with Colter's legs.

 

[NE1tm2nv]

Nap time part of NU's plan for Nebraska - chicagotribune.com

This is the result of the Sept. 15 game against Boston College, which also was a 2:30 start. NU coach Pat Fitzgerald noticed that his team came out sluggish, trailing 10-9 in the second quarter.

So he asked members of his Leadership Council: “What’s the deal? Why didn’t we start fast?”

They told him the game clashed with nap time.

NU players typically arrive at the team complex at 6:50 a.m. for meetings, practice from 8:50-10:30, attend class and then snooze in the early afternoon. So Saturday’s itinerary will call for an early breakfast and a nap at around 9:30 a.m. Fitzgerald almost could not believe he agreed to it.

“Unbelievable,” he said. “This is what I get paid to do. Seriously. Create nap time. It’s pathetic.”

A snooze-in at the team hotel six hours before kickoff? Quarterback Kain Colter loves the idea.

“We’ll wake up, have our pregame meal, do our mental things and then have a mandatory nap,” he said. “Those hotel beds are really comfortable and the pillows are soft ... (Then) we’ll come down refreshed and ready to kick some butt.”

 

[antone112]

Something I was thinking about yesterday as I watched the Baltimore Dallas game... One of the commentators was talking about how these days coaches try and get into the perfect look for every single play and more often than not it backfires. They try and over complicate things and it slows their players down.

We've heard it said many times that Bo does this exact thing. He wants the perfect call for every play. Well with these hurry up offenses you have Bo's kids running a complicated defensive scheme shuffling personnel in and out, making check after check after check...

It's time to SIMPLIFY things. The players heads are spinning out there.

That may be why spread teams have more success, because spread often goes hand in hand with hurry up.

It is definitely flawed. But Bo is stubborn, so was BC. Bo's D worked at OU and LSU because he had tremendous talent to work with and even if players were out of position their speed made up for it. That is not the case here though. I don't see things changing. Maybe we can outscore em all.

 

[Red_Alert]

Nap time part of NU's plan for Nebraska - chicagotribune.com

This is the result of the Sept. 15 game against Boston College, which also was a 2:30 start. NU coach Pat Fitzgerald noticed that his team came out sluggish, trailing 10-9 in the second quarter.

So he asked members of his Leadership Council: “What’s the deal? Why didn’t we start fast?”

They told him the game clashed with nap time.

NU players typically arrive at the team complex at 6:50 a.m. for meetings, practice from 8:50-10:30, attend class and then snooze in the early afternoon. So Saturday’s itinerary will call for an early breakfast and a nap at around 9:30 a.m. Fitzgerald almost could not believe he agreed to it.

“Unbelievable,” he said. “This is what I get paid to do. Seriously. Create nap time. It’s pathetic.”

A snooze-in at the team hotel six hours before kickoff? Quarterback Kain Colter loves the idea.

“We’ll wake up, have our pregame meal, do our mental things and then have a mandatory nap,” he said. “Those hotel beds are really comfortable and the pillows are soft ... (Then) we’ll come down refreshed and ready to kick some butt.”

Heard that on USC today.

 

[NE1tm2nv]

Heard that on USC today.

I read that and was like

I definitely would publicize it.

 

[NE1tm2nv]

Just for the laughter of it

 

[NE1tm2nv]

 

[Red_Alert]

“Unbelievable,” he said. “This is what I get paid to do. Seriously. Create nap time. It’s pathetic.”

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Bo said that?

 

[NE1tm2nv]

Actually listening to a leadership council seems unethical.