I don't know about anyone else, but watching the end of the Nebraska VTech game brought back flashbacks of our janky defensive scheme. The busted coverage and then the 3rd down, where Taylor had 9.5 seconds to throw, made me very thankful for our D when watching the game last night...:geaux:
geaux watch a replay of our last game vs. VaTech and let me know what Taylor accomplished. Pelini was a good co-ordinator here. we were consistently ranked among the best in the nation under his watch. He's rebuilding a Nebraska program that went to complete liquid dog sh!t before he arrived. Give hima lil time before before writing him off. I hope like hell that Chavis is as successful as Pelini was here.
By Pelini's last year, I had a problem with many of his schemes. I can see the point of the thread author. Take the Arkansas game in '07, for instance. In the first OT, all we had to do was hold the Hogs on 4th and 10, but we game Casey freakin Dick all day to throw, and he burned us. Watching Pelini's defense let Tyrod Taylor throw a bomb on them to basically win the game did, in fact, look familiar.
Dick was running for his life on that play, and had to rush the throw near the sideline before getting decapitated. and, I'm not gonna call out any names *cough*McCray*cough*, but a certain DB froze like a bull-eyed rabbit instead of actually following a RB that drifted into his zone. right defense was called, players didn't execute.
Probably not. I was referring more to how Taylor seemingly had too much time to make the throw. Starting with the Tulane game in '07, I never felt that Pelini pressured QBs enough. It was frustrating, especially since he'd started that season going after QBs with a vengeance.
no kidding! i watched the replay last night. on that game winning TD, while Taylor is running around in the back field, about 3 or 4 Dlineman are just standing there with no one between them and Taylor. All of them just just standing there waiting to see if he was gonna throw or run. I was just as involved in that play as they were. It was pathetic
I am not dogging Pelini, I am a fan and pulling for him. We won a NC with him! Chavis has a more conventional scheme and is more fundamentally sound IMO. btw, Tyrod was a freshman when we played them, and when he was in they moved the ball the most they had all night. It's apparent that in his scheme players have to "think" more, and mist of our players seem to take this years scheme better.
