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Spencer Long started 6 games for Nebraska.
Ciante was an average All-Big Ten Player then.
Bold Part:We tend to make opposing QBs heisman contenders after they play us.
different team, the seniors where mostly from out of Florida. This years team will have major experience from florida knocking heads. our speed will show up this year. They were young last year.
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That ***** gonna be a sellout. I was almost there. Thank God I won't be now
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Another Nebraska fan here.
While Flowers is without a doubt impressive, you're severely underestimating Randy Gregory. 10.5 sacks as a juco transfer who got here a week into fall camp. His relative inexperience showed at times, but he got stronger & more of a terror as the year went on. He had an impressive 5 game stretch to close out the season.
In reference to another post about anyone in a Big Ten secondary keeping up with your fleet-footed receiving corps, I'd say it's going to be touch and go in terms of who wins the 1 on 1 battles. The development & overall play of the secondary under Pelini has always been a strong point. Bottom line, Nebraska doesn't really get beat on deep passes. We struggle with the short swing passes a la Jonathan Franklin from UCLA in 2012. We got carved up to the tune of 300+ through the air, with many of those passes thrown <7 yards from the line of scrimmage. That problem has been solved, as Pelini (who I am not a pro-Bo guy at all) upgraded speed and athleticism in the back 7. Is Nebraska a perfect, finished product? No where near, although there is some optimism with the collection of athletes we have this season. I suspect that this game for us (Nebraska) will come down to us eliminating or minimizing turnovers, getting Abdullah and Cross going in the running game, and hitting some timely play-action. Defensively, the NU pass rush will need to rattle a greenhorn QB, limit your receivers from having a field day and most importantly, get off blocks and bring Duke Johnson to the ground without allowing him to make yards in the second effort. The crowd should be pretty juiced, although you never know-there is **** good reason they call Memorial Stadium "the nursing home of college football." If Nebraska starts slow, which we have the propensity to do quite often, especially in big games, then you guys should all be smiling a big ol' **** eating grin. Pelini makes horrid in-game adjustments. GBR.
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Play-action destroys Dorito defenses.
I bet Pelini's in game adjustments make ours look like Pop Warner stuff.
Flowers will man man-handle most anyone in front of him. Should be a good matchup on the edge.
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I'm impressed.
We have a Defensive Coordinator who hasn't made a single fcuking in-game adjustment in three years.
He's so embarrassed, he isn't even on the sideline anymore - it's hard to hit him with a bottle up in the box.
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No disrespect to Randy Gregory, who I'm sure is a lovely human being and also a tremendous football player as you so succinctly summarized, but he's going to go up against, arguably, the best offensive lineman in college in Flowers. Other than Dominique Easley, he truly dominated every player he faced last year with relative ease. FSU, Pitt, and Florida all had very impressive defensive lines and I don't think he gave up so much as a tackle for loss as well as performing well as the primary run blocker on a lot of stretch plays, which he shoued technically be poor at.
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Good point. With his impressive acumen already noted, what does the rest of the Cane's OL look like? I'm especially curious as to the interior OL and their abilities. Vincent Valentine and Maleik Collins are two DT's who showed reason for great optimism in their redshirt freshman season's last year and have been the talk of spring ball. This defensive line has the chance to be amongst the better ones we have had in Lincoln, based off last years showing and what they've done this spring.
Oh and if you possess what somewhat resembles a competent special teams unit, give the edge in that department to the Canes. Ours is a dumpster fire.
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The OL is very talented, but execution isn't always there. There strength is pass blocking, not run blocking. Also, all the players are versatile enough to play more than just one OL position.
Feliciano at LG is high quality player. Very rarely beat by speed, quick enough off the ball, and strong enough to maintain his position against power. His strength is his balance when pulling and pass blocking due to his basketball background. I won't say he's elite at any of the major facets of guard play, but he has no glaring weaknesses and he's 4th draft pick good at most everything. A little undersized for a guard in terms of weight and strength.
Center Shane McDermott disappointed last year when everybody had high hopes. He's light and athletic, the way Miami always likes their centers, but he gets absolutely embarrassed by strength guys. Dominique Easley impregnated him for 80% of the Florida game. He's very smart and can handle light DT's. He also had a nice showing against Aaron Donald when they played Pitt, although that was more a group effort from the line. He also performed well enough against FSU's Jenringan and company, but when they beat him, they made him look like a 5 year old. The VT guys also outplayed him as did Nikita Whitlock from Wake. The UNC game was probably his finest hour.
Right guard will likely be Danny Isidora. He was expected to be a major contributor, but broke his foot before the season started and never really got going when he returned late into the season. Expect him to be in the mold of a Mike Iupati from the San Francisco 49ers. Great base and balance, solid strength, but his athleticism is lacking. He'll be a downgrade from Linder, but I don't think it'll be massive. He's young with very little experience, but his potential is high. A little seasoning and he'll be very good.
Right tackle is up in the air. Taylor Gadbois is the expectant starter, as he should be at this point. 6' 8" and 316 lbs., he's an exceptional athlete for the position. He impressed during the spring game. That being said, there's also no game evidence to go on at this point and since RT was rotating position last year, you'd think he'd gotten on the field during major minutes at some point. He plays with a chip on his shoulder that borders on doucheness. Great first punch. Can sit too far back when pass protecting and get knocked off by bull rushers or even light guys like Al-Quadin Muhammad. There's video evidence of that.
Ereck Flowers is just Ereck Flowers. You feel bad for guys that go up against him because you know at least twice he'll put their face in the ground in front of their friends and family. It's almost unfair.
Expect contributions from Alex Gall and Trevor Darling, both who have showed promise, especially Darling and that's saying something considering that he's an early enrollee.
Overall, expect the offensive line to be a strength of the team. Low on penalties and very rarely gets beat in total. Looking at the schedule, it should be better than any DL unit we play this year except probably FSU.
As far as special teams go, it's a decent unit, but poorly coached on the return. There were penalties all over the place when we returned the ball. Also, Phillip Dorsett should never be allowed to return so much as a library book let alone a punt/kick. You never felt confident in him and it always looked like disaster was about to happen. That being said, when we got a clean return off, something magical usually happened. We returned a blocked FG for a TD against UNC. We don't sell out to block punts like Florida does. It's not the most aggressive unit we have. Defensively, we get downfield very quickly and allow very few returns and never give up big ones. However, we lost the best punter in the country to the draft in O'Donnell and we don't know what the drop off will be on our return defense. The guys replacing him are unproven and there's very little analysis out on them. We'll see how they look come September 1st going forward. O'Donnell also doubled as the kickoff guy and he was superior at that as well with few returns and no big ones to speak of. He will be missed. Our FG game is atrocious. Matt Goudis is a 50-50 shot from 40 yards out. I wouldn't trust him to make a FG to win a sandwich let alone a college football game. So the FG is bad, defense on the return is stellar, and offensive return balances out penalties with the occasional TD return.
All this being said, both units should be more than serviceable and in the top 4 of the ACC.
For reference on those that have not seen Nebraska play in 2013. I think UM hammers Nebraska, they have not seen the type of speed UM will put on the field except possibly UCLA an UCLA hammered Neb at home.
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why the F*ck is there nebraska fans coming here
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Who knows, but it's a nice change up from seeing "dorito" and "fat al golden" on every ******* thread. Maybe we can actually talk football for once.
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I want to see Gall do what Wheeler did last year and push McDermott till the coach has no choice but to put him in there
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Can't see anything wrong with them comin thru to talk some foosball and do a little scoutin' respectfully.
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Well thought out Ted. O'Donnell was unbelievable last year. Hope the Baconator or the Cypress Bay kid can be half what he was. Dorsett definitely has no business ever returning kicks again with the other candidates now on the roster. I can think of a half dozen guys I'd put out there ahead of him (Coley, Carter, A. Crawford, Elder, Burns, **** even try lil Ray III). I leave Duke out cause he's too valuable to lose to injury.
The Flowers/Gregory matchup is going to be a game within the game. Gregory is projected VERY high in the draft and very well could be too quick for Flowers on the outside rush. As good as Flowers can be, I still think he hasn't dominated the way folks on this board seem to think. If he was that good we wouldn't be so awful in short distance yardage situations. When you run behind the great ones and need a yard and you get it. Our team gets zero push in short yardage situations.
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Do you know how I know the following two things?
1: You don't actually watch the games.
2: You may have been molested by a close male relative as a child.
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