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Keys to the Game: Kansas State

Ron Prince is on everybody’s mind, the last road game of the season is upon us and people are talking about Josh Freeman.  Yup, it’s K-State week.  I felt that Nebraska would go 3-0  and so far so good.  The Wildcats don’t put the fear of God into me nor should they.  Given, Cody Glenn is suspended, but the front four have been playing like their hair is on fire what with intercepting passes and catching touchdowns.  If Josh Freeman stays in the pocket, he’ll get eaten for lunch which when playing against Ndamukong Suh or Mark Mangino isn’t exactly outside the realm of possibility.  Enough with the schoolyard taunts.

1.)  Stop Josh Freeman – I could stop here but that wouldn’t make for much of an article, would it?  Freeman is the heart and soul of this team (what’s left of it anyway) and if he’s stopped dead in his tracks, Nebraska will cruise.  Right now Ron Prince is comfortably nestled between a rock and a hard place.  He has no way to escape dismissal. He knows it, the players know it and when a downtrodden coach starts to rub off onto his players when hosting a coach with a mad as hell defense that just got awarded Blackshirts for the first time in his tenure come to visit, bad things are bound to happen.

Freeman’s always been a talent but he still has not been brought along properly.  He’s got natural ability, but I still don’t see refined mechanics just instinct and a good call every now and again.  I’m sure he’ll burn the safeties deep and get the short routes between a linebacker or two, but if he starts running for his life, KSU will be done from that point on.

2.) Infuriate Ron Prince – Last year’s mud-stomping of Kansas State in Lincoln is going to be used as fodder for Kansas State’s pre-game psych up.  The problem is if Nebraska can continue that sort of rout one year later or at least appear to start revving that engine, Prince is going to get livid in a hurry and make stupid calls.  You know, what am I talking about?  It’s Ron Prince.  The guy’s made of stupid calls.  He makes Frank Solich look like Knute Rockne.

3.) Blitz – I don’t have a lot of faith in Freeman’s line and he shouldn’t either.  This is a game in which I would blitz the ever loving hell out of Larry Asante because we all know he wants to put a hurting on someone and I can’t think of anyone better than Text Boy.  Suh, Potter, Allen and the big dogs up from should be able to part the KSU O-line like the Red…er…Purple Sea and even Tyler Wortman and Blake Lawrence could look All-Big XII if the defense plays like they did against Kansas.

In Summary: Nebraska has the potential to make these next two games look similar to 2007.  A year ago Kansas State was shell-shocked.  It wasn’t Nebraska vs. Kansas State, it was Nebraska vs. Jordy Nelson.  Jordy is gone and soon Ron Prince will be, too.  The Cornhuskers want style points going into the bowl and the second chapter of 3-0 involves turning Manhattan, Kansas into ground zero of a megaton blast.

 

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What is the most important "key" to the game?
Stop Josh Freeman
57 votes
Infuriate Ron Prince
12 votes
Blitz
21 votes

90 votes | Poll has closed

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the hell is everything on this blog purple and blue. Get it back to Red CB. (sorry not really related to the article but man it was red last night.

by taflorom on Nov 14, 2008 7:01 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Funny

I had kind of thought there was a lot of comparison between Bill Callahan and Ron Prince. So I guess that would mean that BC also made Frank look like Rockne.

by taflorom on Nov 14, 2008 7:38 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Callahan

was better than Frank. Callahan could recruit just not develop talent. Frank couldn’t do either (See Since he’s been there, Ohio)

by Blankman on Nov 14, 2008 8:44 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Let's not get into Frank vs. Bill arguments...

…because right now, there isn’t any evidence that Bill Callahan could recruit worth a darn either…

by Husker Mike on Nov 14, 2008 10:46 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah thats

why guys like Fabian, Barrett, Daniel Bullocks, Josh Bullocks, amongst others are playing on Sundays. Because they sucked and our coaches didn’t know how to develop them the 4 years they were here. My bad.

by taflorom on Nov 15, 2008 11:54 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

The problem

I see blitzing Larry Asante (or any DB for that matter) against Freeman is getting them to wrap up or hold on long enough until a linebacker or D-Lineman gets there. Freeman is a big boy. We saw Eric Hagg bounce off Todd Reesing last week because he didn’t wrap him up.

The only other option is to do the Deon Sanders and hope he trips over them or runs out of bounds.

"Where do you put the bayonet?" (upon seeing a flamethrower fo the first time)

by 96operator on Nov 14, 2008 10:01 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Asante

would have no problem bringing down Freeman. If he cant solo tackle him he has no business being in a Husker uniform. Same with the rest of the dbs.

by taflorom on Nov 15, 2008 8:39 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

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