The positives

[Tsakoi]

1: Haarberg showed that he belongs. He is at least as good if not better throwing the ball compared to Jeff Sims. His running might be one notch slower than Sims but Heinrich is more powerful. That was one hell of a first start and something he can build from. I believe he will be able to snowball this performance into an even better one next week now that he got his feet wet. Ball secured BTW.

2: We did exactly what we trained for in the offense to grind them down in the 4th quarter. Ervin isn't a world beater but he is doing what they need from him in his first real stretch of games in his career. Minnesota should have been exactly the same formula and result but the Grant fumble kept it from materializing. Nice bounce back game for Grant BTW.

3: The defense keeps playing well and are doing so with a bunch of different guys contributing. It's great that we can rotate so many guys and maintain a pretty high level of efficiency. This bodes well for later in the season. Tackling has been great all season. Loving that. Added bonus: Recruits are going to want to play for this defense.

4: Was this Piper's best game? Certainly his best game this year.

5: I had written Javin Wright off since spring and summer, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Dude is a baller.

 

[iruletheskool]

H's was fun to watch

 

[Carm]

1: Haarberg showed that he belongs. He is at least as good if not better throwing the ball compared to Jeff Sims. His running might be one notch slower than Sims but Heinrich is more powerful. That was one hell of a first start and something he can build from. I believe he will be able to snowball this performance into an even better one next week now that he got his feet wet. Ball secured BTW.

HH did what we needed him to do in this game. That said, I didn't see a guy that I thought would be capable of scoring many points with this offense in the B1G.

Everyone needs to keep in the facts in perspective: 1) this was by far the worst team we've played. 2) we played them at home with two tough games under our belt 3) Vastly less pressure - no national spotlight, the opponent couldn't move the ball, the fans were friendly.

 

[iruletheskool]

HH did what we needed him to do in this game. That said, I didn't see a guy that I thought would be capable of scoring many points with this offense in the B1G.

Everyone needs to keep in the facts in perspective: 1) this was by far the worst team we've played. 2) we played them at home with two tough games under our belt 3) Vastly less pressure - no national spotlight, the opponent couldn't move the ball, the fans were friendly.

We're 2-1 at worst if Hs starts the year

 

[Sous Chef]

HH did what we needed him to do in this game. That said, I didn't see a guy that I thought would be capable of scoring many points with this offense in the B1G.

Everyone needs to keep in the facts in perspective: 1) this was by far the worst team we've played. 2) we played them at home with two tough games under our belt 3) Vastly less pressure - no national spotlight, the opponent couldn't move the ball, the fans were friendly.

I dont think that you could find too many people who think last nights game was anything other than a nice step in the right direction. Michigan's defense is going to slaughter our OL, make our WR's invisible, and probably kill our QB. Thank god for the running clock or we might have six turnovers in that game.

 

[vailhusker]

 

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[Baron Winnebago]

I have made it abundant clear I'm a dipshit, but it felt to me like Haarberg went through some progressions and Sims doesn't really. Maybe it's a having time to do it issue, but felt like the passing game opened up a bit more.

Thought he had some nice throws where he had to change his arm angle to get it out, Kemp TD notably, which made me feel good about him.

It could mean fuck all when we play better teams but I was encouraged

 

[ChocaEgg]

Lmao he murdered that dude

 

[LoudHogRider]

Lmao he murdered that dude

We need @vailhusker to find the clip of Grant murdering the dude on his run. That one made me sit straight up in my chair and emit a loud "Fuck yea!", which may or may not have been appreciated by my fellow campers here in Westcliffe.

 

[God is a Husker]

This is the way

 

[JerryBones5]

Put sims at wide out and let’s go from there

 

[...TrueColors...]

The question for me is has Sims demonstrated the ability to do anything that HH can’t do? I would say the answer is probably not.

NIU is not a terrible team defensively. They’re not insane, but they’re well coached and they’ve got 8 starters coming back. I’d say that team is no worse than the second best team defensively we’ve played. So the competition level each has faced isn’t as skewed as you think.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

The question for me is has Sims demonstrated the ability to do anything that HH can’t do? I would say the answer is probably not.

NIU is not a terrible team defensively. They’re not insane, but they’re well coached and they’ve got 8 starters coming back. I’d say that team is no worse than the second best team defensively we’ve played. So the competition level each has faced isn’t as skewed as you think.

You're right. At least I think you are.

Maybe we'd see something different with HH against a B1G team, but I don't believe that we really would. Hopefully we have the opportunity to see that experiment going forward. Even my son who isn't nearly into N football as me said HH seems to be much more decisive than Sims. It's telling when someone who isn't a football expert can see these things. Well, I can see it too and I wouldn't consider myself a football expert. 😎

 

[jickey moseph]

Grant is RB1. That’s all I have.

I do like Ervin, but damn, Grant makes some runs look so effortless.

 

[ChocaEgg]

Grant is RB1. That’s all I have.

I do like Ervin, but damn, Grant makes some runs look so effortless.

Ervin should be no higher than third on the depth chart imo

 

[...TrueColors...]

Grant is RB1. That’s all I have.

I do like Ervin, but damn, Grant makes some runs look so effortless.

Ervin should be no higher than third on the depth chart imo

Ervin really doesn’t appear to understand what we want out of him in running behind a zone scheme. He leaves a ton of yardage on the field and he makes his OL look bad on plays that are blocked well for him.

 

[HerbRedman]

Ervin really doesn’t appear to understand what we want out of him in running behind a zone scheme. He leaves a ton of yardage on the field and he makes his OL look bad on plays that are blocked well for him.

There's a reason Rhule made a show of saying "Gabe Ervin is our #1 RB". He didn't do that with any other position.

HCs only make that speech when they are proclaiming a worse player (talent wise) as the starter. And Ervin is worse than Grant. At least at pure running. And I have zero doubt that that's bot very clear in practice. In fact it's been reported by someone that a large % of the locker room was pro Grant and felt like Rhule was giving Grant a raw deal.

So Rhule HAS to get Grant involved for a number of reasons. Ervin is reliable at least, so he can help you in a B1G season - but man he sucks as a runner. Probably the least fun NU RB to watch in a long time. He can't do anything exciting and has zero explosion. Which is amazing, for all those weight lifting goals he hits, he has zero twitch in those quadriceps muscles lol.