Nebraska vs San Jose State - Meet the Spartans

"Like the Spartans from ‘300’ They’re gonna get killed. The only question is whether or not they’ll be as dramatic in the process. "

Bravo, sir.

Dish Network is on 456 today.

Last week the darned thing cut out…. hope that doesn’t happen today.

Ohio State vs. Ohio right now – first Ohio State offensive position, Ohio blitzes on third down, gets a sack, so Ohio State is forced to punt after a three and out on their first position.

eight minutes away from kick off.

Go Big Red!

audio is really low.

Joe Ganz, Cody Glenn.

is up on Miami – Ohio 10-0 early.

happening now.

to explain to my 12 year old daughter the “Hopping Cop” and “Seven Up Guy”.

She’s giving me that look.

kicking, Niles Paul. broke a couple tackles, up to 35.

by Paul. good moves.

off tackle right, nice hole. seven yard gain.

first down, little screen pass.

left DE beat Mike McNeil blocking. out-quicked him to the outside.

Ganz hobbling.

of 8, first sack allowed this year.

Mike Huff now, false start.

gun, shoot foot.

incomplete, look like it hit Holt in the hands, dropped.

Burkes started over Murtha at right tackle today.

good lord. part of that was Ganz holding the ball.

defensive tackle sack, Spartan knocked down, but got back up and got to Ganz.

at the 22 yard line, no return. believe Murillo tackle.

for the Spartans now.

3rd and 1.

on a draw. about three or four missed tackles, finally tackled by Cody Glenn.

Bary Turner is writhing on the field in pain. His knee – he got rolled into by Asante, looked bent sideways. Hope it’s not serious.

are on our 26.

Turner is being assisted off the field. Poor poor tackling this drive.

the defense is looking like last season.

12 maybe 13 yards on that play, pressure, but completion.

for the Spartans, again more missed tackles.

good lord.

missed the PAT.

At least that’s good news, but right now we look like crap on defense.

hit the right upright, bounced off.

hopefully the first drive was nervousness. is that possible?

block in the back. we start on our own 14.

Turner is being carted off, I’ll be surprised if he’s not torn something.

Quentin Castille, up the middle, hit nearly the moment he gets the ball.

dangerous pass by Ganz.
nearly picked, would have been TD for Spartans.

he came to play. he’s screaming at his teammates.

picked up the first. Imagine that, Swift for a first down.

a bug in this commenting system, that keeps cutting off some of my comments. Swift was cut off in that last bit.

ran option…. out of bounds, one of the guys on the Spartan bench punched him pretty good out of bounds.

completion to Peterson, misdirection play.

in the game, probably a false start again on this one.

We are NOT crisp at all in the start of this game.

offsides on the Spartans!

First down! that’s good.

to Helu. slips a tackle, nice gain, nice burst.

had the field spread pretty well, but didn’t go deep. another first down. 27 yard gain.

again up the middle !!!!

beuetiful blcokign, trap blocking.

again, tripped up, no gain.

2nd and goal now.

on that pass play.

to Swift, incomplete, but flagged. personal foul on the Spartans.

i didn’t see anything that warrented a personal foul.

up the middle, touchdown Nebraska!!!!

of that was Castille.

I don’t know what Mike Huff was doing, looked like a trap block, but he sure as hell wasn’t hitting anyone.

Castille drove it into the end zone, nice play by him.

starters…. TV showing Brent Moravec – freshman as starting DT. what?

they have Tyler Wortman listed twice, so you get the idea they don’t know what they’re doing.

Pelini wanted intentiional grounding, but Suh hit him high in the shoulder pads.

because in today’s game, we play tiddly wninks.

came out with some fire on this series.

all the rules favor the defense, don’t they? first down completion, bad tackling again.

on that tackle.

 maybe two yards on that Sparty run.

Interception and touchdown runback by SUH!!!!!!

Cody Glenn blitzed on right side, blitz picked up, Reed threw into the area where Glenn came from.

Potter knocked it down, Suh, good hands, quick ball, caught up, BOOM!

I feel better. :)

the ball wasn’t knocked up into the air, it was knocked down, bounced off the o-lineman, quick reflexes by Suh to grab that ball, that’s some hellacious athleticism.

Then he runs it back from mid field. Nice run.

touchback again.

that’s two in a row for Kunalic.

is in for Barry Turner.

Reed completion downfield. Reed was moving, looked like both the linebacker and safety bit on coming up instead of coverag.e

first down for Sparty.

tackle up the middle. missed by Ty.

133 yards already for SJSU.

should have had an interception….

ball was thrown right to him down the middle, but didn’t turn around in time.

no td, though.

run up the middle, but Suh is there, about 3 yards.

defensive guys are ripping at the ball, not wrapping up.

Reed blitzed heavily, sacked. Anthony West on that blitz, Glenn made the tackle.

We brought everyone, man!

defense looks shaky. like i said, lots of ripping at the ball, lots of misses on tackling.

they’re having some trouble with Reed because he is mobile, but that’s nothing new, mobile quarterbacks cause every defense problems.

offensive line looks…. satisfactory, not dominant.

is back!!!

so it’s not just the football players coming back to the sideline.

 missed by Sparty.

that’s four points they’ve missed on kicking, plus turnover on drive they were moving.

up the middle.

seven up the middle by Lucky. Yes, I said that right, up the middle by Lucky.

If you’re lurking… feel free to comment. :)

to Swift, nice gain.

fooled the camera guy, pulled the defense up. Swift was open, ball right on target.

gave up 66 yards in rushing the first quarter.

again, mobile quarterback.

last two runs.

strung out on last one, no gain. this one up the middle, maybe a yard. between the two, one yard.

false start on Niles Paul.

on Nebraska.

holy crap. false start, Mike McNeil.

three in a ROW.
 
false start, mike broke up, didn’t hear #. another WR.

3rd and 24.

almost picked off. not a good choice not a good throw. he had plenty of time.

looked like CB tangled up Henry’s feet, got position on him.

punt. 25 yard line for Sparty.

right up the middle, quarterback draw, big hole in the middle.

that was play call, not by line or lb’s.

Asante on tackle.

pass play. they’re spreading the field, hence the hole in the middle of the field.

they are running very well.

defensive line got blocked well, linebacker didn’t take on his blocker, danced in front of him. #52.

pressure by defensive line, rushed five, including #52… who the heck is that?

Pass to Jurovich. middle of the field. missed tackle, big gain, they’re at the 18.

draw, there is no place to go. loss of five.

1. is Dillard. Dillard moved to fill the middle, giving Reed no where to go on that draw.

missed touchdown pass. Jurovich covered, Reed got hit pretty hard.

3rd and 15.

hard pressure, Reed forced to throw on the run.

Hagg blitzed hard, Reed got pasted pretty good. high-lowed by Hagg, Pierre Allen.

for Sparty.

hits a 41 yarder.

14-9.

at this point, SJSU has 183 yards of offense, 94 of it rushing. 13 attempts, 101 total yards for 7 yards/carry, net 94.

that f’ing sucks.

the Pelini’s discussing their defensive problems. animated, but not realy arguing.

Dennard on the return. made a lot of guys missed, but lost yardage as he went backwards. nice job of having no help on that play by his teammate.

Helu in the backfield.

loss of a yard. corner blitz. McNeill missed it completely.

he’s got to learn how to block.

this one was a weird play.

Ganz scrambled, it looked like he was tackled at the eight, but he rolled over the….

oh, his knee hit the ground.

 in a bit. soccer games today…. one of them i’m supposed to shoot i found out a bit ago.

One comment – I don’t care what Barney Cotton says about the other team putting too many guys to block, he’d damn well better figure it out because this is going to happen to use all season. Our offensive line is STILL NOT PHYSICAL enough. He can defend his guy as he’s supposed to, but that doesn’t mean a damned thing if the result is losses.

no blackshirts for these guys.

pressure right up te middle!

flag, intentional grounding. but there’s two flags.

on the defense.
offsetting.

good grief. he barely touched the guy.

held them.

mid-field, 4th and 1.

what the coaches should do here.

the obvious response is “chew their ass” but that only works so much.

part of that is will. part of it is that we don’t have great athletes in some position, and part of it is we’re learning a new system on defense.

Joe Ganz gets the ball with 1:25 left.

91 yards to go.

so far this half.

that’s not good.

at the 30 yard line.

this is NOT what we needed.

i’ll be back before third quarter, maybe maybe not.

struggling with Miami-Ohio 10-6

hits the upright again.

they have now given up what, a PAT and two field goals, otherwise Sparty would be leading.

14-12 Big Red, 12:17 left in the fourth.

You guys may need to get in gear if you’re going to hit that 56 points you guys were talking about. You might be a little short.

scored, 21-12, and a 1st and goal on the 4. You’ll put away San Jose St. just yet!

9:05 left in the 4th.

3:03 left.