What’s up?
I will start off by saying that the way that most teams have hurt our defense is not their thing. Rugby pushing us and hitting the middle hard with runs ..
A few other reasons this week MAY be different:
> Nebraska’s QBs are high school passers to difficult areas of the field. It’s no different than asking Eric crouch to do to us what tanner Morgan has ..
> They are coming off a very physical game with Iowa. They already aren’t a physical offense
> If there’s a team that plays dumber than us and craps more at the worst times, it’s them.
That said I expect a physical defense that’s hard to run on. I expect plummer to need to be on the high end of his accuracy to stay on the field and the play calling has to be good (stay with what’s working). There should be plenty of open receivers in the intermediate zone, but Plummer needs to be accurate and the receivers need to catch the ball.
Defensively I still don’t expect it to be pretty in spite of what I said. Diaco’s alignment, wandale and Martinez escaping on third down, and probably at least one big reverse to Xavier betts...
Karlaftis’ absence, Barnes absence, and the fact that we give up the only thing that Adrian Martinez and luke mccaffrey can hit.. the short passes.
If we contained Martinez and played up on the pass, those two QBs would NEVER BEAT US DEEP. But we haven’t liked to do that since about 03.
Maybe Reeves and Rodgers can come back lol
I have:
Nebraska 27
Purdue 28
In a sloppy game where we are gifted a victory and Nebraska’s fan base is enraged beyond anything we’ve seen so far
I will start off by saying that the way that most teams have hurt our defense is not their thing. Rugby pushing us and hitting the middle hard with runs ..
A few other reasons this week MAY be different:
> Nebraska’s QBs are high school passers to difficult areas of the field. It’s no different than asking Eric crouch to do to us what tanner Morgan has ..
> They are coming off a very physical game with Iowa. They already aren’t a physical offense
> If there’s a team that plays dumber than us and craps more at the worst times, it’s them.
That said I expect a physical defense that’s hard to run on. I expect plummer to need to be on the high end of his accuracy to stay on the field and the play calling has to be good (stay with what’s working). There should be plenty of open receivers in the intermediate zone, but Plummer needs to be accurate and the receivers need to catch the ball.
Defensively I still don’t expect it to be pretty in spite of what I said. Diaco’s alignment, wandale and Martinez escaping on third down, and probably at least one big reverse to Xavier betts...
Karlaftis’ absence, Barnes absence, and the fact that we give up the only thing that Adrian Martinez and luke mccaffrey can hit.. the short passes.
If we contained Martinez and played up on the pass, those two QBs would NEVER BEAT US DEEP. But we haven’t liked to do that since about 03.
Maybe Reeves and Rodgers can come back lol
I have:
Nebraska 27
Purdue 28
In a sloppy game where we are gifted a victory and Nebraska’s fan base is enraged beyond anything we’ve seen so far
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