Reply To: USC 35 Kneebraska 28

[Butkus51]

We gotta take this close, tuff road W (21-17), Big Shaka! Nebraska is a much improved team. Road games are hard.

Dang, QB Maiava played his worst game; something must have been bothering him in his passing mechanics (Off). 9/23, 39%, 135 yds, 0 TD, 1 IT, 80 QBR, D grade. But, he ran da ball well, 11 times = 62 yds, 1 TD, B+ grade.  Every athlete will experience a bad night, hell Maiava had one yesterday.  But, his Wr’s, TE did not help him.  They ran lazy routes + couple drops (bad sheet), D grade.  At least they blocked pretty good on run plays.

Bright spot was da run game = 214 yds, 2 TD’s, B+ grade.  Da man was RB King Miller, 18-129 yds, 1 TD, A grade.  As usual he ran hard, smart.  Oh, and the OL played well, B+ grade.  Total offense P 135 yds + R 214 yds = 349 yds, way under their # 1 rank of 520 yds per game, C grade.

The D over all played well, B grade.  Key thing the D allowed Nebraska only 17 pts, B+ grade, under their average of 23 pts allowed.  DB’s did a good job holding QB Riaola to 98 yds passing, B+ grade.  The front 7 had an average game, allowing 188 rushing yds, C grade.  The D allowed 286 T/yds, way under their 396 ypg.

Dam, Wr, Jakobi Lane did not play well.  He is way too inconsistent and unreliable.  At times, he makes unbelievable plays/catch.  Dam, Makai was off too.  I’m happy the team pulled out a road W.  Next up is Northwestern, we should win dat game.  But, next game is Iowa, Iowa is a very physical team our boys had better be ready and match their hard hitting FB…  Cheers