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Nebraska 42, Illinois 38 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="TDCumm16" data-source="post: 1482868" data-attributes="member: 17958"><p>This stings. So much energy built up to this game I worry our fans and team won’t recover this year. </p><p></p><p>Literally almost everything went our way. We significantly won the turnover battle, Nebraska had the big penalties, Neb’s outstanding RB left the game, we lead early & often. Couldn’t have asked for a better setup (I don’t put too much stock in the few bad calls since so much else went our way)</p><p></p><p>Our D was brutal beyond the turnovers. Only bright spots I saw were Hansen (most of the time). Early in game I thought C2 could be salvageable due to the safeties really hitting and making Neb pay, but that still didn’t dissuade them from dicing the cover 2. We can’t stop anyone. This is Lovie’s ultimate downfall with going all in on his D as DC and Miles hire. I wish he would pull a PJ Fleck and “fire” the DC mid season with this bye week for a spark... problem is I don’t think there is anyone on our staff ready to elevate that can bring change.</p><p></p><p>Our offense was just about as bad. Only saved by short fields of turnovers. We could not make a big play (see third down conversions and no possessions longer than 3 mins).</p><p></p><p>Some of this is on Rod (those IW packages were cringeworthy keeping Peters on field too). I really feel Peters needs to go though. He’s not the guy. I think we win this game with Bush. Peters feels so much like our version of Jay Cutler - no leadership, poor body language, consistently not making the big play, but flashes just enough to stay around. We just lacked dynamism today - lets give 1 a shot - besides his TD run I felt Peters lack of running on the read plays allows too much focus on Corbin likely preventing that extra yard or two window to break one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TDCumm16, post: 1482868, member: 17958"] This stings. So much energy built up to this game I worry our fans and team won’t recover this year. Literally almost everything went our way. We significantly won the turnover battle, Nebraska had the big penalties, Neb’s outstanding RB left the game, we lead early & often. Couldn’t have asked for a better setup (I don’t put too much stock in the few bad calls since so much else went our way) Our D was brutal beyond the turnovers. Only bright spots I saw were Hansen (most of the time). Early in game I thought C2 could be salvageable due to the safeties really hitting and making Neb pay, but that still didn’t dissuade them from dicing the cover 2. We can’t stop anyone. This is Lovie’s ultimate downfall with going all in on his D as DC and Miles hire. I wish he would pull a PJ Fleck and “fire” the DC mid season with this bye week for a spark... problem is I don’t think there is anyone on our staff ready to elevate that can bring change. Our offense was just about as bad. Only saved by short fields of turnovers. We could not make a big play (see third down conversions and no possessions longer than 3 mins). Some of this is on Rod (those IW packages were cringeworthy keeping Peters on field too). I really feel Peters needs to go though. He’s not the guy. I think we win this game with Bush. Peters feels so much like our version of Jay Cutler - no leadership, poor body language, consistently not making the big play, but flashes just enough to stay around. We just lacked dynamism today - lets give 1 a shot - besides his TD run I felt Peters lack of running on the read plays allows too much focus on Corbin likely preventing that extra yard or two window to break one. [/QUOTE]
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