ADVERTISEMENT

You all are out of control. Lujan made one awful play call on 3rd and short. He is 29YO and called a nice game

Windy night. Mediocre lighting. Shadows. Tough to see. Tough to throw.
But we threw 36 times... And it didn't look to me like Wright saw downfield at all.
You have to tolerate a few 1 yard running plays on a night like that.
Duke had a safety (I think) spying on Wright and he did a great job shutting the QB down.
The lighting seemed fine to me. I didn't have any trouble seeing anything at all.
  • Like
Reactions: CoralSpringsCat

You all are out of control. Lujan made one awful play call on 3rd and short. He is 29YO and called a nice game

Windy night. Mediocre lighting. Shadows. Tough to see. Tough to throw.
But we threw 36 times... And it didn't look to me like Wright saw downfield at all.
You have to tolerate a few 1 yard running plays on a night like that.
Duke had a safety (I think) spying on Wright and he did a great job shutting the QB down.

You all are out of control. Lujan made one awful play call on 3rd and short. He is 29YO and called a nice game

The fact that Porter got very few touches in regulation is on Lujan. I don’t see at this point what Komolafe brings to be splitting the carries like that. Obviously it’s waaaay to early to write him off but the honeymoon is over and he needs to really work some magic to get this offense working, or we’re looking at 3-9.

Observations

I have no idea why, but NU was getting out of the huddle slowly and approaching the line of scrimmage with not much time. Plays have to come in faster.

All game, our center was low snapping the ball. This needs work.

Down and distance worked half the time on the south scoreboard. When it did, it was awfully small.

Our special teams are much better, but is there a reason why NU cannot or will not teach directional punting. Duke’s punter was very good and was a weapon pinning us back. We just seem to kick down the middle. Both sides missed chippees fg tries kicking toward the north end zone. Obviously our block was awesome. Henning does a nice job fielding punts.

I did not understand the rb rotation. Porter can catch out of the backfield. No idea if the other two can, but they did not offer much.

I won’t comment on other matters folks have touched upon, like play calling, but our right side needs to learn how to run block.

Finally, I never saw a blitz or a pressure last night. I thought we could play press coverage and hurry their qb.

It got cold there last night!
During the last part of regulation, they had seen something as their QB was getting rid of the ball very quickly so there was no way to really get pressure on him

Observations

I have no idea why, but NU was getting out of the huddle slowly and approaching the line of scrimmage with not much time. Plays have to come in faster.

All game, our center was low snapping the ball. This needs work.

Down and distance worked half the time on the south scoreboard. When it did, it was awfully small.

Our special teams are much better, but is there a reason why NU cannot or will not teach directional punting. Duke’s punter was very good and was a weapon pinning us back. We just seem to kick down the middle. Both sides missed chippees fg tries kicking toward the north end zone. Obviously our block was awesome. Henning does a nice job fielding punts.

I did not understand the rb rotation. Porter can catch out of the backfield. No idea if the other two can, but they did not offer much.

I won’t comment on other matters folks have touched upon, like play calling, but our right side needs to learn how to run block.

Finally, I never saw a blitz or a pressure last night. I thought we could play press coverage and hurry their qb.

It got cold there last night!

You all are out of control. Lujan made one awful play call on 3rd and short. He is 29YO and called a nice game

We have spent so much time bashing offensive coordinators over the last half decade or so.....I go with it is not the X and Os it is the Jimmy and the Joes.....I love the guys we have had and I think we have fortunately had some years where we over achieved but over all we have suffered from average at best talent and OCs have done their best to match talent with play calls.....which when executed pretty much work...All teams are dealing from the same deck...not a whole lot different...knowing where you have mismatches is important but how many do we have? Kirtz runs exceptional routes but is not physically a mismatch and Henning is ok speed wise but not a burner but fast for NU....We may find out about that 3rd down play but probably there was a missed assignment and if the play had been executed correctly would have been fine...(I would have preferred something straight ahead just saying) He made a nice adjustment to get the ground game going again by bringing the Tight End in to the backfield to block...Lets see how he adapts as we move forward and if he can get his guys in

75% Chance David Braun is not the HC when the new Ryan Field Opens

That's cold, JT.

Some us were hoping Coach Lujan would bring coaching skills that would make the NU a lot stronger instantly and last week it seemed like NU only needed a little time to iron things out. Yesterday showed NU still has a punchless O. Of most concern, the NU QB looked weak passing, unlike last week. Looks like it will take a while to build the NU O.

OTOH, the D AND Special Teams look real competitive.
ADVERTISEMENT

Filter

ADVERTISEMENT