Bill Busch
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Good point.
At the same time, people have been saying Nebraska isn’t good (and rightfully so), so credit where credit is due… the coaches got the players prepared and they won the game. Good victory.
I am kind of blown away by our improvement on defense. Just one game, but considering where we were, wow.
The tackling is what really stood out to me. That along with the addition by subtraction of firing Chinander.
Maybe he's got some of that Ed O swag going on.Hope those young women are his family
Well don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I bet there were boatloads of fans like us who were shocked massively seeing our defense come on so strong. Haha.....it was great!
When is the last time a Husker team made adjustments and played better in the second half, taking control of the game?
With the way the first half ended, I thought we were heading to another embarrassment.
With the way the first half ended, I thought we were heading to another embarrassment.
some pass rush, some middle lb play, some db play, some special teams, some passing, some running, and blocking. really happy about overall team effort. new guys and old guys showing up to make football plays. not sure when last time i thought the overall team play had left as many possibles for me to think about. have to see how this works out.
Hertzog played well. Obviously the scoop and score but on the plays IU targeted him, he stepped up. Good adjustment Busch.
Yes he played a few snaps. I think they were mostly on obvious rushing downs. He has been really bad. #13 played really well for a freshman. And he was in man coverage almost every play.
I agree. I think Chinander absolutely refused to adapt to what these players are good at. He couldn't do it.
Consider the quality of the opponent we played. That might have a lot to do with the defensive improvement.
Right. This wasn’t a juggernaut like Northwestern, North Dakota or Georgia Southern.
I did consider the quality of the opponent. We gave up 642 yards to Georgia Southern just a few weeks ago.
Our defense got rolled the first 4 weeks against 3 terrible teams. And OU. Indiana is better than 3 of those teams.
This.
I think many didn’t read my full post. I want to see a lot more, but if Joseph can keep this up and say—get us bowl eligible for the first time since 2016–he absolutely deserves consideration. He took over a dumpster fire.
Matt Millen had some good commentary on what we’re doing in the second half from play to play on coverages. We were getting some pressure on him though and for the most part he couldn’t get the ball out to the right guy. Their QB isn’t a runner and doesn’t like to move his feet. Thank God we brought pressure
Against better teams we won’t run the same defense over and over. It was working against Indiana and so they stuck with it.
We really didn’t run the exact same D on every play. We blitzed from different places a mixed up coverage to some degree. I will agree that our alignments and coverages were similar and WAY more logical than the crap Chin called for OU
