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Nebraska VS Wake Forest Post Game Overreaction

  • Saying that Sam Keller is not playing well is like saying Karl Rove has an ethics problem. How many receivers did he flat out miss badly? There were nearly constant overthrows.

Two jump balls early in the game were far off the mark, giving the receiver no chance. Later, on a single drive, he missed receivers that clearly had their men beaten. As if that wasn't bad enough, when he was on target, his receivers did him the favor of dropping the ball.

  • Wake Forest did what I expected. They got their running game going, then used misdirection to completely discombobulated our defense. Good game plan, good execution. Just enough defense by Nebraska to get out with a win.

I don't know who in his right mind would put this game on Bill Callahan. The calls were there, receivers were open, Keller just didn't hit them. I don't have to recount the plays, if you watched the game, you saw them.

  • Player of the game? Ndamukong Suh. When it counted, he stuffed touchdowns.
  • Controversy at the end of the game? It looked to me like Wake Forest deserved the pass interference call, but they ran a crossing route that looked exactly like a pick play, so maybe the refs looked at that and thought "screw 'em, they're trying for interference."

Or they completely missed it. Either way, Lee Corso picked this one exactly right. Close game, Nebraska win.

  • If Sam Keller continues to play like this, we don't have much of a shot against 'SC. We'll become one-dimensional. Could be that our game plan will closely resemble last season and everyone will engage in a bitch-fest about how Bill Callahan doesn't play to win.
  • For us to have a chance against USC, one of two things has to happen:
  • Sam Keller has one week to get his crap together.
  • Bill Callahan better have a willingness to swap quarterbacks and all that stuff about the competition between Keller and backup Joe Ganz had better been more than bullshit.

Husker fans have been brought back down to earth now. That's okay. It's officially USC week.

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Please define a pick play
Really enjoy the blog.  Can you explain your reasoning as to why PI wasn't called?  The ball appeared to me to be uncatchable.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

by pheidole on Sep 8, 2007 2:57 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

a pick play

they ran a crossing route on that play - where the two receivers cross right in front of each other in the middle of the field right in front of the linebackers.

A pick play is a play designed to have defensive players run into each other, so effectively you're "picking" them off.

It's illegal, but rarely called because it's a judgement call. The refs were Big 12 refs, so I wonder if they're used to that kind of stuff. At the least, they're used to a rougher game than the ACC.

The ball was uncatchable, but at the end of the game, it wasn't incredibly uncatchable - I mean it wasn't off into the distance uncatchable. I just wonder if they missed the call or if they were watching for a play that was being run with a route designed to draw a penalty and were determined not to call one if it happened.

I'm guessing, reading minds, but who isn't? :)

BTW, thanks for the compliment  on the blog. I try hard.

Go Big Red!

by corn blight on Sep 8, 2007 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Pick play

I think you are wrong on it. The penalty comes when one reciever picks the defensive guy covering the other receiver. That is the penalty. It has nothing to do with if two defensive guys run together.

by taflorom on Sep 8, 2007 5:52 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh yeah

you're right, of course.

that's why this was called an over reaction post. no time to think, dammit.

but.... in the scheme of things, there's a fine line between the two.

Go Big Red!

by corn blight on Sep 8, 2007 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

between the two

having the defenders run into each other or the recievers do it, i mean.

Go Big Red!

by corn blight on Sep 8, 2007 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Uncatchable

I was at the game and from my view from the top row it looked like pass interference. But, after the game I talked to a Wake fan who was three rows up in front of the play. He said the ball was way over the receivers head. Some WF fans around him were calling for PI, but a lot acknowledged that it was uncatchable.

Anyway, that's the view from the ground in Winston-Salem. Happy to be going home with the W, no matter how ugly it was.

bigrednetwork.com

by siffring on Sep 8, 2007 7:52 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Keller

Can't believe that's the same Sam Keller who, at ASU, threw for 560 yards on my LSU defense in 2005.

Anyway, good for you to just get outta there with a win, and I'll be rooting hard for you guys to get it together and put up a cleaner show next week!

by GeauxTigers on Sep 8, 2007 4:52 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Ok I am...

officially against the replay now. If you are watching the end of the aTm vs. Fresno St. game you can see that it is a fumble into the endzone and aTm recovers. it is given to Fresno St. 1st and goal and they should win. The announcers are saying that maybe they didn't have conclusive evidence to overrule but that is bull. OK now they have come back after a second review and reversed it. But there was a flag against aTm and it is still first down.

by taflorom on Sep 8, 2007 6:24 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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