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Frost close losses

I thought I had seen it all. Then I hopped on here and saw someone use Bo's record against Bielema as some sort of defense of Frost.

The mental gymnastics required for such a defense shouldn't even be possible with our current understanding of physics.

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There’s some real strong efforts being made to defend their hero Frost
 
This game was lost in the first half. After each team had one drive, Michigan ran 41 plays and held the ball for 15:56, Nebraska ran 19 and kept it for 7:35.
This is the number one reason why you’re losing close games IMO.

Fundamentally the offense is designed to score fast, or punt fast. You will always lose time of possession battle.

You play in a ball control league.

Ball control teams will have strong second halves, erase whatever deficit that was created and win late against a tired defense.

The offense also asks the ball to be put in danger repeatedly, which is why AM leads the FBS in fumbles. But, that would be the number two issue IMO.
 
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This is the number one reason why you’re losing close games IMO.

Fundamentally the offense is designed to score fast, or punt fast. You will always lose time of possession battle.

You play in a ball control league.

Ball control teams will have strong second halves, erase whatever deficit that was created and win late against a tired defense.

The offense also asks the ball to be put in danger repeatedly, which is why AM leads the FBS in fumbles. But, that would be the number two issue IMO.
We've actually had really strong 2nd halves this year. Also, Scott's offense in Lincoln hasn't been nearly as high-tempo as his past stops. We definitely have the immediate punt moments from time to time though.

We haven't played anyone in the Top 25 in TOP yet. Michigan is best at 29. Oklahoma is 39 and then we're 44. MSU is 116, and we directly crushed them in TOP thanks to our defense (37.5-22.5). Illinois won the TOP battle in the 3rd quarter, not 1st half.

Michigan is somewhat representative of your point (explains the defense sliding), but that's about it.

2nd Half Scoring:
13-14 (NU-Illinois)
13-16 (NU-OU)
10-7* (NU-MSU) *needless to say, this had zero to do with TOP/defense being gassed
29-19 (NU-UM)

Your point isn't wrong, it's just not well borne out in our specific situation and certainly not much of an argument for TOP/1st half TOP as the reason we're losing close games.

The offensive ineptitude via passive play-calling and constant dick-stepping most certainly is though...just don't see the impact on the D borne out in the results that count (scoreboard).
 
This is the number one reason why you’re losing close games IMO.

Fundamentally the offense is designed to score fast, or punt fast. You will always lose time of possession battle.

You play in a ball control league.

Ball control teams will have strong second halves, erase whatever deficit that was created and win late against a tired defense.

The offense also asks the ball to be put in danger repeatedly, which is why AM leads the FBS in fumbles. But, that would be the number two issue IMO.
That was true in 2018. They moved on from that mentality over the last couple years. Nebraska is 13th In time of possession at 32 min. Cockeye is 10th at 33. They rarely play fast anymore.

Not sure about the danger comment either. He's a qb that runs which inevitably means he will fumble more than a qb that hands it off just because of number of hits he takes in a game compared to a qb that doesn't run. He has fumbled a lot because he has poor ball security. play last week he gets wrapped up by 3 guys and still doesn't cover the ball with his other hand.
 
Lol why the fuck are we talking about Pelini.

As far as close losses go, the weight you place on them is going to be pretty fucking correlated with whether you believe Frost can ultimately figure them out and get over the hump. I can see the school of thought that it's indicative of being "close" and I can see the school of thought that says "we've got a sample size of like 21 games and if he's winning .250 of that, he ain't figuring it out".

Whether Bo would get pink socked with this year's schedule seems pretty unrelated

If you feel the need to build a argument for Scottie talking about Pelini helps a little I suppose....

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That was true in 2018. They moved on from that mentality over the last couple years. Nebraska is 13th In time of possession at 32 min. Cockeyes is 10th at 33. They rarely play fast anymore.

Not sure about the danger comment either. He's a qb that runs which inevitably means he will fumble more than a qb that hands it off just because of number of hits he takes in a game compared to a qb that doesn't run. He has fumbled a lot because he has poor ball security. play last week he gets wrapped up by 3 guys and still doesn't cover the ball with his other hand.
The danger comment comes from the lateral passes, pitches, screening etc. It's sexy, but insecure.
 
Scott Fraud is 2-15 against winning FBS teams and has not beat a winning FBS team in 3 years. #progress

He also has not beat a team that finished the year with 8+ wins. Mike Riley had 5. Bo had 10. That has to really hurt the Scott Fraud fan club.

What a great coach and hero for some on this board!!!
When you put it that way, I think SF sucks
 
Every single Pelini team save 09 and 10 gets beat by this Frost team. It’s odd that we can’t all watch this team this year and agree on that point. We were consistently out-muscled at the POA in every big game that Pelini and Riley played. I remember wincing every time Wisconsin hit us in 2011 in Camp Randall because you could almost feel it in the stadium. I also remember when Pelini went to this scheme were we played 3 yards off the ball on defense….

I’d love to grab at matchups. That front you just listed off MIGHT be as good as the one we just gashed for about 500 yards. Maybe. I’d also take the Bonito kid over Gregory as a pass rusher as well.
I think you’re wrong on the Frost teams beating the Pelini teams. A Frost team will always shit itself when it matters.
 
Why does my opinion that this team beats any 2011-14 Pelini team mean that I’m some sort of hypocrite?

Where have I sucked anyone off today?

This team is certainly the most talented Nebraska team in a long time. I really didn’t know that you could watch this team and not come to this conclusion. I happen to believe they’d beat any Nebraska team of the last ten years. Maybe I’ve been off the board so long that I’ve forgotten how out of touch with reality everyone is around here and how terrible opinions here are.

Them being more talented certainly doesn’t mean they’ll win games down the stretch here and beating a slew of Pelini’s shitty teams also doesn’t make them good. I’ve not said it does. At least I don’t think I have without looking back.

This team will be winning more than 5 games. Sorry to tell you.

Still feeling pretty good about that last sentence?
 
Gotta wait until the next win for him to show back up … or the next close “encouraging” loss
Yea it’s kind of chicken shit to go into hiding. I just think it’s funny because he always has to be right. I asked him on RSS if he was still behind Martinez and Frost and got no response.
 
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