I have to ask though why our RB crew always seems to have somebody injured: Mills, Scott and Thompkins. Never seems to be a time when they're all healthy. And we haven't seen anything of Thompkins for some time. And how come we haven't seen anything from the other Freshmen back?
His biggest value might be as a blocker. Very physical and willing blocker. Hope he comes back next year.
Exactly. We are very weak at that position. Hopefully Morrison will be an improvement next year.
Injury this year, wasn't he the one last year that put up 188 yards rushing against Wiscy's vaunted top 5 rushing D. and had other big outings last year the 2nd half of the season, thats saying awful lot right there! Yes he is the best we have and I'll take it!
Agree. Yesterday I was perplexed at half why they weren't trying to establish the run game with him. They ran him more in the second half, including the critical first drive and for all the reasons you mention, the team was better.
Mills isn’t All World, but he is experienced and competent. With Amart and Mills, the opposing D have to respect the base run game. Wandale and Betts are a serviceable WR pair. Falck seems to fit in out there as well. It’s been a mess of a season, but maybe things are gelling at the end.
People are way underestimating the talent we have at RB. Scott is going to be a stud. Rhamir has some speed and is a good receiver. Both of those guys are just going to get better every day they're at NU. Mills is a good back period. Our backs have struggled at times because our O line has struggled at times and our QB hasn't given us a downfield pass threat. IF you put our RBs behind Bama's O line they all would look like first round RBs.
We could probably use them more if we could rely on our defense. Average running backs behind a bad OL with no downfield passing threat and a bad defense to boot equals very few wins.
What a ray of sunshine you are.
I'm actually a very optimistic person if there's reason to be. The reality is we're on losing season #4 in 4 years and there's not much reason to be optimistic. It's year 3 of this staff and it honestly doesn't look much different than year 1.
The next 2 games will tell a lot in my opinion. Win them both and we have a .500 season for the first time under Frost, with momentum going into next year. Lose them both and we'll have a worse season than last year.
I can’t argue against you being generally optimistic, but when it comes to the huskers you’ve bashed the defensive line, the running backs, the receivers, the QBs, the linebackers, the DBs and the coaches. That’s everyone. Except Daniels. He measures up in your eyes.
That's because they're all not playing up to the standards of what Nebraska football should be, especially in year 3 of a coaching staff. I've been positive about the few good players we have including Daniels, CTB, and Betts. I also think guys like Nelson get a lot more **** than they deserve and I've defended them. If you only want to look at the negative, that's on you. Glossing over obvious problems and pretending like things are improved when they're not isn't helping anything either.
At the same time, acting like you are always right and no one else sees what you see isn’t helping either. You have been extremely critical of everyone not named Daniels, CTB or Betts. Others (a lot of others) have told you to slow your roll, but you know better than the rest.
We're on a discussion board, are we not? I'm staying on topic and discussing Husker football. Telling others what they can and cannot discuss on a message board gets pretty old.
You’re not discussing anything when you tell people they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s one thing to say “let’s agree to disagree.” But you don’t even know what that means. You are so opinionated and know better than the rest.
That’s what you see?seems we sporadically use mills a few time a game then abandon the run for incomplete passes.
I really liked the play calling on the first drive after half. Started with a Mills 8 yard run, which made the play action believable after that. He got stuffed on a couple runs after that, but the run wasn't totally abandoned as Frost has seemed to do in the past and Mills had a nice run at the end to get us close to the goal line. I think he had four or five carries on that drive.
