This. The punters have no confidence, but you tell one of them to go perform a directional kick??? Idiocy.
The Punt Return
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Nickname: “The Blunder from Down Under”
Cerni was also coming off his second injury in his 1 year here. Need to bubble wrap our kickers.
Not to keep bagging on our punters as I kind of put more blame on Frost for not getting a competent punter in 4 years, but…
This game carried special significance honoring the legacy of Foltz and Sadler.
Pretty unfortunate way to honor their memory with the display we saw.
This game carried special significance honoring the legacy of Foltz and Sadler.
Pretty unfortunate way to honor their memory with the display we saw.
You'll have to ask him if he "decided". He probably missed. QB's miss passes, receivers drop passes, defenders miss tackles, pitchers can't throw strikes, batters swing and miss, basketball players miss shots, ...
They would have to turn their backs to the field in the process. If executed properly, no problem. Kicking to the right side of the field doesn't seem like a huge ask, to me. I was disappointed in the shell we crawled in, offensively, prior to the punt. No need to air it out, but a couple first downs would have been really, really nice.
learn some skills in under 3 minutes and maybe you could kick like this peewee kid who even caught a high snap:
It was simple. A bad punt. The ball was on the right hash. They always kick the ball to the right to pin the returner in. And dude decided to shank it 30 yards left to the other returner. Other than MSU faking the fair catch it wasn’t a trick play per day. It was just a terrible kick.
I didn’t notice that closely but did they have two punt returners on all of our punts Or just the final one?
Yes, something doesn’t pass the smell test with this play. I saw some headlines that it was a trick play designed by Ross Els. Why would MSU put their best returner on the opposite side of where they thought the ball would go. Why did “almost” the entire MSU team go right instead of blocking for the returner. I think it was a trick play and MSU duped us into thinking the ball was going right. If that is true the defense is following MSU blockers instead of watching the ball. I think this is a case of such disastrous social teams “coaching” that frost preferred to blame the kicker instead of admitting how badly they were fooled.
My thoughts exactly. He chit on his punter rather than his coaches look like bigger morons.
Yep, definite waste of scholarships on these guys! Have to blame the coaching staff though for not doing their recruiting research to find a reliable kicker and punter. They’re too busy trying to dazzle everyone with stupid swing pass plays that go nowhere!
If he is from down under, is everything reverse? I mean they drive on the other side of the road, winds blow in the opposite direction (Cyclone for example). Maybe if we told him kick to the left then he would have kicked to the right and we would have won the damn game!
We've been really spoiled with our punters and kickers over the years at NU. Of course many of them have been those dreaded walk ons to start out. The failures of our scholarship holding punters and kickers over the past 5-6 years has been frustrating but it's not unique to Nebraska or even college. Kickers are notoriously unreliable. It's so damned mental.
I'm kind of wondering if it these kids aren't struggling with the pressure and playing in front of large loud crowds. No doubt they were really good in high school or they wouldn't have gotten a scholarship. Scholarships for kickers and punters aren't all that common and IF you get one you really stood out. Pro kickers fall apart too
LOL. I had the same thought. Maybe the kid can't tell his left from his right.
I've seen shanked punts in the NFL and it seemed like it USED to be that every visiting team that came to Lincoln would shank at least one punt per game. Some kids just don't handle the noise and pressure well IMO.
If you arent smart enough to figure out what happened on your own, stop watching football.
Ok come on you arent that f'ing stupid. The plan was to kick the ball to the right. Every kick even kickoffs have a plan on where the ball is supposed to go. Your players shouldnt be running down looking up in the f'ing air to see where the ball is at, thats how you get your *** knocked the hell out by a blocker. You are running to an area as fast as you can. Watch any football from high school yo NFL amd watch the players on ST kicks and see if they are looking in the air to see whwrre the ball is at as they are running down the field. The only time they start looming is when they get near the goal line to stop it from going in the endzone.
Holy **** Husker fans are getting dumber every year with Frost as a coach.
I'm 63 years old with a left hip replacement and I need my right knee replaced and I COULD PUNT IT 30 YARDS TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FIELD. No problem. These guys all are getting too cute with how they're trying to drop the ball on their foot to put a certain kind of spin on it. Get it 30 yards and to the right and we win the game. Damn.
I agree. I have no idea what type of punt return formation MSU typically deploys, but I doubt they put two return men out there very often. My guess is that their coaches spotted a tendency for our punters to kick the ball to the left, or shank them to the left, so they put the extra return guy over there and masterfully faked our coverage team into thinking the ball was in fact going to the right. And the result was they looked like geniuses and our we looked like idiots.
Shanks happen too. The ball doesn't always go the right direction It doesn't always result in nearly the entire coverage team ignoring the flight of the ball.
That’s funny as there are others not sure what happened either.
You are just butthurt as I come from a different forum.
To the golfers out there: Have any of you ever hit a hook or a slice on your drives? If so, give our punter a break. No one feels as bad as he does and he doesn't get a mulligan.
I wondered about it, but figured no one said anything before so assumed it was a legal play.
I actually do hate ragging too hard on the individual players (even if I do a little). They’re young, in high pressure situations, and will make mistakes on occasion.
I think the frustrations boil with the frequency of errors, which really points to coaching.
We spotted Mich St. something like 190 yards of net punting advantage!!!! That’s more than just a mulligan away from getting it right.
But also regarding your analogy (not that it was intended to be overly literal), it’s also a question of scale. A shanked punt of approx 40 yards travelled about 30-40 yards horizontally the wrong direction.
A similar golf drive traveling 300+ yards would have to go 225+ yards sideways. Generally guys who practice golf 5-7 days per week don’t do that and still get scholarships to play D1 college.
Yes- plenty.
Also capable of hitting enough long and straight despite barely playing the game….. and never been offered a scholly for golf.
… and I can also punt a football more than 7 yds likely 100% of the time (but not trying to brag).
There is no reason to be butthurt over an idiot Herkie fan. Your QB has to tell you morons to quiet down during games when they are on offense. Those others that cant figure it out on their own need to stop watching football too. Or they need to start asking their wives questions during games about what happened. They are obviously as dumb as you.
Its the running rugby style of kicking he does. There is zero consistency in that style of punting as you run one way and your leg comes across your body to kick the ball. Just aim straight and kick the damn thing.
FWIW I ran the game back at 2X speed and paused when NU was 4th down. All night MSU had 10 guys on the line for the punt, until the final one when they used double returners. It looked like Cerni caught the ball and intended to kick it to the right side and just hooked it. The Right side returner did a nice job of decoying the where the ball was.
You know what’s funny, you will certainly appreciate this.
A couple games ago, your offense just took the ball over. One of your offensive linemen was raising his arms up repeatedly to get the crowd louder.
I just shook my head and chuckled.
I remember thinking, what a typical Scott Frost/Nebraska moment.
Don't the Australian s drive on the wrong side of the road too?? I've always wanted to see if toilets flush the opposite direction