Nebraska Snowflakes: The Offense

5 guys ran the ball well.  4 QB's played well and engineered scoring drives.  JJ terrific.  O Line terrific.  Blake & Mullings terrific. No TO's, no penalties (though a couple missed PI's committed against Mich).  Excellent.

Who's got it better than us today at least ?

Thank you very much, boys

Wilson SC top 10.  Book it!

Chewed up a lot of corn, hope it digests okay.

Ok, why isn't Orji playing?  Is he the secret weapon vs OSU?   Because it doesn't make sense.

And I like Denegals poise.... I wanted to see him throw more because he might be good.

Did Hinton play? I feel like he didn't bc the OL looked much better today. 

Ass Kicking!!

I really like throwing it to Wilson a lot. If the other WRs want more targets and TDs then they know what they need to do: Make Plays

“The little lights are not twinkling.”

Hard to find much to complain about today. Good showing by the offensive line and good win!

Just phenomenal football all around. The interior 3 OL had themselves a day. The TEs are superb blockers. Tackles were just okay. Henderson did some good things on the ground but got beat pretty badly a couple times in pass pro. Barnhart is a B level B1G OL and most times that’s more than fine when you’re in-between Zinter and Barner or Bredeson. Blake is Blake again. Mullings is the mooseback who has some wheels too and gets to top speed pretty quickly. Edwards at times today looked much better but still I don’t get him having 5+ inside carries or ones out of a deep single back. Wilson is worthy of #1. CJ is a great #2 WR. Clemons and Morris are looking good. And JJ was dealing.

Only question I have is I just wonder what happened to CJ Stokes. He was the clear #3 guy as a true freshman last year for most of the season and we played 5 RBs today and he wasn’t one of them. QB depth chart looks like JJ, Tuttle, and the  Denegal; the latter who has looked pretty solid actually given the bear zero chatter about him the past two years.

OL finally right.... looked like Barnhart at RT and Henderson at LT. Will look forward to UFR grades but I thought it was best the OL had looked all year. Lots of rotation at the end too

Wilson could catch 15 TDs this year, holy cow

Hello, Mullings. He's looking fantastic

Great offense. Fearless JJ today and Wilson is a monster. Love that Loveland is a safety blanket. That move today on that 3rd & 10 was amazing. I know Bowers is pretty amazing but it feels like we got our own version getting there.

Running game picked up today. We are mashing people. Need a little bit on pass pro but with the way JJ is playing, it would not matter. There will be a day some of the small window throws may not work in our favor, but I am happy to see Harbaugh have the confidence in JJ. 

Even if this team gets down in score, they have the firepower to put up big numbers.

It is never easy to win on the road. This team just dismantled NEB on the road. A complete contrast from 2021. 

Really liked what I saw from Mullings. Runs hard, low pad level, and a good burst. With Corum and Edwards both being dinged up at various points last year, having a third back, who may be RB#2 before long, is an incredible asset. 

It's really nice when things you are thinking during the game, end up posted by other fans in here. 

JJ is an amazing QB. Would be be nice to see him go through progressions a bit more instead of locking into a guy and making an incredible (but great) throw every time. Also, does he have a touch pass or is everything a bullet.  Other than those nitpicks, he is an amazing QB and even his scrambling today was on point. 

- Edwards doesn't play like a RB. He doesn't take contact well, find holes or have good vision. He DOES have elite straight line speed but not the wiggle or nimble feet or YAC that is needed from a back.  Starting to think that the major plays he has made at Michigan so far was more of a bit of luck and good blocking vs great running on his end.  The coaching staff definitely knows better than me in this, but I'd love to see him start as a WR/PR/KR for us. 

Anyway great game and GO BLUE!

Kinda doing whatever they felt like doing. 5ypc with a long of just 21 against the best statistical run defense in America. 
 

passing game went to next level with Roman and JJ

Edwards looked better today even though his stats didn’t quite show it

Seems like the team is back on track with Jim Harbaugh back. Looked pretty sharp out there this week and Mullings looks like a bulldozer out there. Has solidified himself as the number three back at minimum.

JJ making some nice throws. Also loved the shoutout to the offensive line by JJ. Screw that radio guy that said he isn’t about the team.

Domination. Fantastic. Nothing to even really mention except a couple issues in pass pro that need to be cleaned up before PSU.

I was absolutely wrong about my score prediction, which they beat in the first half. Consider a lemon eaten.

Rushing and passing, it looks like we can do whatever we want. On we go.

Is anyone bummed out that we potentially wont play anyone with a pulse until the last 3 games of the season? I kind of wish those were broken up so we can see what this team is made of earlier

Edwards seems to be missing the “pop” he had last year.  Seems like he was overconfident coming in and wasn’t prepared for the adjustments defenses r making against him.  He still has time and we haven’t yet played him all 4Qs.  He could be that 4Q difference maker.

Benjamin Hall and CJ Stokes redshirting? Seems like a good idea. 
 

I think Michigan continued to pass to have semblance of balance.  Keep the receivers engaged.  

Outstanding! Start to finish, on almost all fronts. Performance like that will earn some 3peats.

Only blemish I can recall at all: Henderson was noticeably sieve-like on a couple-few passes, Barnhart too maybe on one or two — I think we saw why LH not already starting LT — but whole line was excellent in the run game, including LH noticeably on more than a few runs, and Hinton was certainly not clearly better in pass pro, against lesser rushing Ds, so stick with this version of starting 5 and keep practicing and playing them together (he says, realizing he’s offering advice to Sherrone MF’n Moore on what to do with M’s O line…)

I can't believe that the stadium was less than half filled at halftime. I thought Neb fans were better than that.

Let’s give Barner credit for improving his route running. In the first 4 games, he ran some useless routes which led to incompletions and IIRC at least one interception was on him.

This game he sat in zones pretty damn well. Our TEs are going to be world beaters by year end 

If they can get Edwards back to being himself, this offense can be a thing of beauty 

Lethal.  There is no defense in college that can shut down what we saw today.  The 2021 Georgia D is not walking through that door, and that's probably what it would take.

J.J.--the sweet smell of success...

Remember that shuffle pass to AJ Barner. We will see a version of that against PSU or Ohio