Nebraska Snowflakes - The Defense
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
Rules committee: please adopt two levels of targeting.
Level 1 - the borderline stuff that qualifies by the book but isn't that malicious, just a bang-bang play - 15 yards
Level 2 - the clearly malicious, preventable headhunting - 15 plus ejection.
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
Exactly. The punishment of ejection is too severe for a rule that is :
a) this subjective
b) horribly inconsistently enforced
c) the officials are taught “when in doubt, call it.”
September 22nd, 2018 at 10:59 PM ^
Plus, the booth can down to have officials review. That is overkill
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
This. Some deserve an ejection plus suspension. These the last two weeks did not.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
I agree.
The problem is, you're asking for common sense and deductive reasoning to be implemented and in the Zero Tolerance Age that just doesn't happen.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
I'm also not a fan of 2nd half calls causing players to miss the remaining game PLUS the first half of the next game.
I would prefer to see the hit make you miss 30 minutes of game time. Unfair that a penalty in the early 3rd quarter could cause a guy to miss essentially 4 quarters of play.
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:48 PM ^
Can't hit QBs low or high... Time to put flags or dresses on them.
September 22nd, 2018 at 5:19 PM ^
Somewhere in western Pennsylvania Jack Lambert is smiling.
September 22nd, 2018 at 6:40 PM ^
I know, love Jack Lambert.
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
I’m assuming Gary just tweaked his shoulder slightly? He was rampant in the first half until they pulled him.
DTs looked great today IMO. Marshall and Dwumfor both had stand out plays. Mone and Kemp continued to look solid. If Solomon comes back at some point, that position starts looking like a major strength instead of the ? it appeared to be after the ND game. Mattison uber alles.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
IIRC, Gary & Winovich both got pulled with 5:00-ish left in the 2nd and UM up 39-0. Don't think I saw either during the remaining 35:00, for obvious reasons.
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
Martellus had a hell of a game. ~Announcers
September 22nd, 2018 at 3:59 PM ^
Metellus was replaced by his evil twin Martellus who, in a strange twist for evil twins, committed no stupid penalties.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
They shut down a mobile QB. Completely shut his butt down. Haven't seen that in ages. NICE!
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
Penalties still plaguing this team but great overall performance in all three phases.
Hudson needs to be more conscious, especially now that officials won't give him any slack.
Glasgow plays like a Glasgow.
Hutch is going to wreck people for many years.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
Gotta mention Bush just because...that dude runs this defense. Natural born player.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:35 PM ^
Penalties were not really an issue until the second/third string were in game. I thought the first team played pretty clean. Game got sloppy when reserves came in...
September 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
Hudson really isn't a 2nd stringer though...the most damaging penalty of the game considering the consequences.
Not all were defensive penalties, but I think 8 overall is still too many, albeit a lot came late and extended drives in garbage time.
Ambry Thomas' PI was basically face guarding, which we've seen a few times called on the starters even, this season.
We have great athletes at CB. It'd be nice to see them play the ball a little more.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
Regarding targetting, did anyone notice how Ben Mason got hit in the head by the crown of the defender's helmet during one of his early goal line runs? Would have been 100% targetting, and was replayed, but the announcers didn't even think to comment on it because it was an "In-The-Tackles" run. Was it just a case of "Ben Mason doesn't need any protection because he is a bad-ass?"
September 23rd, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
Haha, I think targeting is just called extremely inconsistently
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:18 PM ^
Targeting is ruining college football
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:47 PM ^
Agreed. Calling targeting is really popular now, and is currently leading the way on ruining college football. But don't sleep on low hits on the QB. It's going to be the next big thing.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
Just looked at the box score - wow. Nebraska had 132 yards of offense on 54 plays - and a good portion of that came in garbage time. What a job.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
At least 50 of those yards came on their TD drive when we had 3rd stringers in
Dominating performance in all 3 phases of the game today.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:26 PM ^
It was lights out on defense today. They read everything beautifully, played with sheer aggression, and put a maize and blue boot up that Husker ass.
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
Where is Josh Uche?
September 22nd, 2018 at 6:05 PM ^
Dressed and warmed up; walking around on the sideline during the game. He must be dinged up, just a bit?
September 22nd, 2018 at 7:49 PM ^
He played quite a bit in the 2nd half
September 22nd, 2018 at 11:31 PM ^
Was out last week with a concussion, probably still working back
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:43 PM ^
Think the D mayyyy have out hit Neb...but we should probably wait for Frost or his mom to weigh in on that first.
September 22nd, 2018 at 5:25 PM ^
You never outhit a Scott Frost team. He can go winless this year and I bet he still claims a national championship
September 22nd, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
September 22nd, 2018 at 7:18 PM ^
We just looked so fast today. Must be the opponent, because it's not a switch we can turn on. Manh times Gary, Winovich, Bush, metellus, etc were simply faster than their attempted blockers
September 22nd, 2018 at 7:21 PM ^
Yer three times Martinez bounced off a sack. These guys need to learn to wrap up...instead they go full steam and often misa the tackle. boy do I miss the Bo days of fundamentals.
September 22nd, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
In addition to total domination, I thought we hit harder too.
September 22nd, 2018 at 9:09 PM ^
We were there today. Thrilled with the play of Gary, Bush and especially Winovich but what’s up with Hudson? Another targeting penalty? We need him next week at NW.
September 23rd, 2018 at 1:22 AM ^
I think it's really encouraging to see that we were able to contain a mobile quarterback for once, even with the competition-level caveat. Hopefully Don Brown and Co. can keep this up against the more formidable offenses down the road.
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:49 AM ^
Gary had one play where he surged through 2-3 blockers and sacked the QB on a sprint rollout before he could convert the 3rd down (they had high-lowed our CB on that side and the deeper receiver was open). Bush had both a rabid squirrel sack and that dominant chase-down of the receiver on the flare route. Glasgow had a few nice plays. Hutchinson got blatantly held and still forced a safety. And the DL dominated the line of scrimmage all day.
Well done, gentlemen. Very well done.