My thoughts after three weeks?
Regardless of opposition, we’ve played better football than I’ve seen from a Nebraska squad in a long, long time. One of the FS1 guys said after the game that it was hard to do what Nebraska has done the last two weeks….in practice, much less in a live game. I firmly believe these last two games have been the most fundamentally sound football we’ve seen in years. That’s great. Enthusiasm does have to be tempered because it was against Akron and Houston Christian, but clean football is clean football.
Raiola’s been very good. WR’s and RB’s, a mixed bag. Pass pro from the OL has been pretty good. Concerned about our O line in the run game. How we were unable to exert our will against Houston Christian is beyond me. I’ll dial down further and say I’m really sure what the hell they’re trying to do half the time. We don’t see much in the way of a push. Now the second group in, did a better job. I don’t think that was against HCU’s backups, which kind of confuses me even more. We’re going to struggle running the ball between the tackles against Michigan and they’ll have the speed to keep us from running outside. That’s going to be a problem.
Still not 100% sure we have as big a problem on run defense as seems to be the opinion of most. We’ve been very vanilla up front, and RVP really hasn’t played a ton. I expect Michigan to try to shove it down our throats and I’m sure Butler assumes so as well. That said, we’re really thin. Need for some of these kids to step up and be ready, as I know we’re not making it through a B1G schedule without a guy or two getting dinged up.
I’m not ready to make any crazy declarations one way or another, and won’t really have a great idea where this team is until after the game next Saturday, but there has been a lot to like getting us to 3-0. I can find things to wring my hands about if I want, but for now I’m just going to enjoy being 3-0 headed into Michigan week.
