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More effort, especially on defense; you could see flashes of the Northern Illinois offense (especially against Husker reserves); I'd still like to see Shortell and Gray together in the wildcat more often. But I didn't think the Gophers looked as listless and flat as in some previous games. Take away the forward lateral fumble on fourth down and the game might have been a score or so closer. Definite improvement but we are still woeful in the Big Ten.
 

Great Plains Gopher said:
More effort, especially on defense; you could see flashes of the Northern Illinois offense (especially against Husker reserves); I'd still like to see Shortell and Gray together in the wildcat more often. But I didn't think the Gophers looked as listless and flat as in some previous games. Take away the forward lateral fumble on fourth down and the game might have been a score or so closer. Definite improvement but we are still woeful in the Big Ten.
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I agree
 

It's not much, but I think the 2nd half was our best half of the season...was glad the guys didn't quit
 

Zeppelin Gopher said:
It's not much, but I think the 2nd half was our best half of the season...was glad the guys didn't quit
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Agreed there were some good things to build on in the 2nd half. I was surprised to see Micheal Carter on the field but he made the play. Hageman had a TFL, little things here and there with plays being made show some positives, it's baby steps but at least in the right direction.
 

2nd half is meaningless to the other team when you're up 34-0 and 41-7 and many of your starters are out of the game.

I put no stock in what I saw in the 2nd half, especially in the 4th quarter. They were plaing the Nebraska zombies out there.

Show me something when the other team is trying and into the game. Right now the tally is 103-3 in BT play in the 1st half
 


Pewterschmidt said:
2nd half is meaningless to the other team when you're up 34-0 and 41-7 and many of your starters are out of the game.

I put no stock in what I saw in the 2nd half, especially in the 4th quarter. They were plaing the Nebraska zombies out there.

Show me something when the other team is trying and into the game. Right now the tally is 103-3 in BT play in the 1st half
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Nebraska wasn't playing zombies, they were playing their young inexperienced players, against our young inexperienced players. In 1983 when they hung 83 on us they were still whipping us with their third string.
 

Starters vs Reserves in a 34-0 and 41-7 game. Any outcome from that matchup deserves a giagantic *
 

Pewterschmidt said:
2nd half is meaningless to the other team when you're up 34-0 and 41-7...
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But it is far from meaningless for a team that is trying to figure out what their players can and can't do, and how they fit into the scheme.

I'm sure that you read the OP's statement "...could see flashes of the Northern Illinois offense (especially against Husker reserves)", but that statement doesn't fit into your bashing, so let's just pretend he didn't couch the post at all, right?
 

Pewterschmidt said:
Starters vs Reserves in a 34-0 and 41-7 game. Any outcome from that matchup deserves a giagantic *
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I don't take much away from the 2nd half but I don't think you watched the game. Nebraska was playing all of their starters at least deep into the third quarter. Matinez, Burkhead, all of their WRs, and they use a rotation of OL (in all games) and that rotation stayed in.

You can use an argument that they weren't playing hard because of the game being close but if you are implying they didn't come out with their starters for at least most of the 3rd quarter, you're wrong.
 



I actually didn't see much from our offense that impressed me.

I think the thing that impressed me the most was that they played hard until the end of the game. The bench was really into the game all the way through and some players really did give it their all (despite being physicall overmatched). I was impressed with Kyle Henderson today and I thought our DL actually fought really hard today and played their best game of the year.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
I actually didn't see much from our offense that impressed me.

I think the thing that impressed me the most was that they played hard until the end of the game. The bench was really into the game all the way through and some players really did give it their all (despite being physicall overmatched). I was impressed with Kyle Henderson today and I thought our DL actually fought really hard today and played their best game of the year.
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Henderson could have given up on the play where he made the tackle at the one, and saved 4 points.
 

There were things to build on from today.....
 

Agreed...the #13 team beat the #112 team, but there were good signs, especially in the 2nd half. Would like to see more than 9 passing yards at half.
 



The young O line play wasn't too bad from what I remember, but I was still sporting a pretty good buzz into the third.
 

Nebraska second string = Minnesota starters. Just the way it is.
 

Nebraska's starters were in part way into the 4th quarter. They might have been trying different things, but it was not their 2nd string.

Today's loss was on the offense again. I liked the way our defense played in the first half despite giving up 27 pts (Gray's fumble doesn't count on them). If our offense could do anything...I mean anything, the defense gets a rest and a boost.
 

Basically, I think they improved over the last game.
 

Pewterschmidt said:
2nd half is meaningless to the other team when you're up 34-0 and 41-7 and many of your starters are out of the game.

I put no stock in what I saw in the 2nd half, especially in the 4th quarter. They were plaing the Nebraska zombies out there.

Show me something when the other team is trying and into the game. Right now the tally is 103-3 in BT play in the 1st half
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Not really considering the Gophers are playing Freshmen and Sophomores out of necessity who would probably be second stringers if they had enough Jr. & Sr. starters that were able to start.
 

nsmike said:
Agreed there were some good things to build on in the 2nd half. I was surprised to see Micheal Carter on the field but he made the play. Hageman had a TFL, little things here and there with plays being made show some positives, it's baby steps but at least in the right direction.
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lol are you serious???
 

Definitely better than the first two big ten games, but it's hard for me to give a lot of credit to anyone when we are still playing much worse than week 1.
 

We're Comin' said:
Nebraska's starters were in part way into the 4th quarter. They might have been trying different things, but it was not their 2nd string.

Today's loss was on the offense again. I liked the way our defense played in the first half despite giving up 27 pts (Gray's fumble doesn't count on them). If our offense could do anything...I mean anything, the defense gets a rest and a boost.
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I agree about the offense being the greatest concern. Defense showed some toughness at times especially in the red zone. However, with the 3 and outs you could just tell that the snowball was going to get rolling. Turnovers, penalties (at the worst times), inconsistent punts ...etc It is the mental stuff.

Nebraska had their personal foul after Gray fumbled and then they walked into the end zone from 11 yards out. They kickoff from the 15, then we have holding on the return. It pretty much netted out to nothing.
 


I don't know about the rest of you, but I was really impressed with Hagemans play on a few plays yesterday (exculding jumping offsides of course). At least three or four times I was watching the D-Line and he seemingly just threw the huskers right guard to the turf right off the snap. Don't know if the NEB guard was a back-up or something, but still, I was pretty impressed. Not sure if anyone else noticed.

Also, I liked seeing Michael Carter in the game and thought he played quite well as well.
 

e.bigelow said:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I was really impressed with Hagemans play on a few plays yesterday (exculding jumping offsides of course). At least three or four times I was watching the D-Line and he seemingly just threw the huskers right guard to the turf right off the snap. Don't know if the NEB guard was a back-up or something, but still, I was pretty impressed. Not sure if anyone else noticed.

Also, I liked seeing Michael Carter in the game and thought he played quite well as well.
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Exactly what I saw Hageman threw the guard aside and nailed the running back in the backfield. I noticed Carter when they threw to his side and he batted the ball down.
 

zambam said:
Nebraska second string = Minnesota starters. Just the way it is.
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Following your logic, Nebraska's second string will generally be starters in the next year or two, as will the current Gopher starters.

So you can say our future starters equal Nebraska's future starters. I can live with that. Especially if we can bring in some more speed.
 

I can't imagine Nebraska seeing themselves as anything but an upper tier team, and you know they wanted to show they could piss with the big boys and throw a lower quality team the thrashing to prove it. I'll bet they're very disappointed they didn't score 60+. I don't buy that they checked out in the second half.

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I'm going to go ahead and say that I believe there may be a couple wins to be had yet this year. Hope so.

Go Gophers!
 

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