National Stats for NU

[valiantsailor]

Passing offense - 109th
Pass efficiency - 117th
Total offense - 83rd
Scoring offense - 106th
Rushing defense - 115th
Total defense - 97th
Scoring defense - 93rd
Net punting - 99th
Kickoff returns - 91st
Turnover margin - 118th
Sacks - 84th
Third-down conversion - 111th
Third-down defense - 121st
Fourth-down defense - 118th
First downs offense - 92nd
Fewest penalties - 98th
Fewest penalty yards - 93rd
Time of possession - 109th

This is not a good trend

 

[MRJFB]

YIKES!!!!!

I remember seeing some pretty bad ones but that is hands down the worst. I really feel for Frost and the team but there is no way we should walk out of this keeping the status quo.

 

[Uenth]

Passing offense - 109th
Pass efficiency - 117th
Total offense - 83rd
Scoring offense - 106th
Rushing defense - 115th
Total defense - 97th
Scoring defense - 93rd
Net punting - 99th
Kickoff returns - 91st
Turnover margin - 118th
Sacks - 84th
Third-down conversion - 111th
Third-down defense - 121st
Fourth-down defense - 118th
First downs offense - 92nd
Fewest penalties - 98th
Fewest penalty yards - 93rd
Time of possession - 109th

This is not a good trend

I'd say that's at least a D-, if not an F all the way around. Baby Poop!

 

[Jarhead Husker]

Here are some more stats. Here is the source link: McKewon: QB play, third downs, coaching, you name it: It went wrong for Huskers in Illini loss | Football | omaha.com

FUMBLES: 2.5 Fumbles per game, so nine total for the season. Four have been recovered by the defense. On brand for the Huskers under Frost. NU averaged 2.25 fumbles per game last season and 2.33 the season before that. Both marks ranked last in the Big Ten.

3RD DOWN CONVERSION:
NU’s opponents are now converting, for the season, 53.97% of their third downs. A Big Ten defense hasn’t been north of 50%, in a full season, since the 2013 Darrell Hazell Purdue team that finished 1-11.

The Husker offense, meanwhile, is converting just 32% of its third downs. The -21.97% gap between offensive and defensive performance is larger than any Big Ten team since, again, Hazell’s 2013 Purdue team.

TD RATE: Nebraska’s touchdown rate in the red zone is 41.17%. It ranks last in the Big Ten and is running worse than the 51.11% pace the Huskers set in 2017, when they also ranked last in the league.

QB Development: Not a stat, but a head scratcher, for sure. NU has three men — a head coach, an offensive coordinator and a position-specific coach — who have all developed, recruited or coordinated quarterbacks in their long, well-traveled careers. Why do our QBs struggle so much?

 

[kmillz]

Frost says he is making progress and he has the players now to win. Look at the numbers, they don't lie.

 

[innmc]

I knew when I clicked on the heading for this post it would look ugly. I guess we can all believe our eyes and what we are seeing on Saturdays. What a hot mess of crap. There is absolutely no excuse for being this bad.
Systemic problems..? Remember that's the term TO used when dismissing Clownahan
Frost, damnit I love the guy but this here is pathetic

 

[kmillz]

The third down defense is telling. We either lack talent, or effort. Neither is good.

 

[GIJoeRed]

Passing offense - 109th
Pass efficiency - 117th
Total offense - 83rd
Scoring offense - 106th
Rushing defense - 115th
Total defense - 97th
Scoring defense - 93rd
Net punting - 99th
Kickoff returns - 91st
Turnover margin - 118th
Sacks - 84th
Third-down conversion - 111th
Third-down defense - 121st
Fourth-down defense - 118th
First downs offense - 92nd
Fewest penalties - 98th
Fewest penalty yards - 93rd
Time of possession - 109th

This is not a good trend

At least we're in the top 10 of something....being near the bottom.

 

[valiantsailor]

The third down defense is telling. We either lack talent, or effort. Neither is good.

Coaching again

 

[Jarhead Husker]

The third down defense is telling. We either lack talent, or effort. Neither is good.

I think a lot of it is scheme. How many times do we have an opposing Offense in 2nd and 10, and then Defend them with a 3 man rush and a 10 yard cushion on the outside receivers? The opposing Offense is then left with a 3rd and 2, which is a fairly high percentage conversion for most Offenses. Opposing Offenses repeatedly pick up 8 to 9 yards with the out route to their WRs on 2nd down. It's maddening to watch....The times we have tightened up the coverage is when we were able to get stops. Opposing Offenses cut through our Defense easily, and I just saw the current stat for our run Defense. We are now ranked 12th in the Big10 in rush defense.....

 

[valiantsailor]

I think a lot of it is scheme. How many times do we have an opposing Offense in 2nd and 10, and then Defend them with a 3 man rush and a 10 yard cushion on the outside receivers? The opposing Offense is then left with a 3rd and 2, which is a fairly high percentage conversion for most Offenses. Opposing Offenses repeatedly pick up 8 to 9 yards with the out route to their WRs on 2nd down. It's maddening to watch....The times we have tightened up the coverage is when we were able to get stops. Opposing Offenses cut through our Defense easily, and I just saw the current stat for our run Defense. We are now ranked 12th in the Big10 in rush defense.....

In the PSU game when the game was on the line they went after the QB. Playing soft guarantees a victory for the other team most of the time. We have not had an aggressive D in years and years the blackshirts are a distant memory because their schemes are wrong at the critical time.

 

[MRJFB]

In the PSU game when the game was on the line they went after the QB. Playing soft guarantees a victory for the other team most of the time. We have not had an aggressive D in years and years the blackshirts are a distant memory because their schemes are wrong at the critical time.

The 3-4 is an awful defense. Why in the heck did we get the notion to go away from the 4-3 with rush ends? It causes all kinds of havoc. Is there something I am ignorant about? Our pash rushing has been so dry for so long I think its an old native American curse.

 

[Removed Spleen of Jordan]

Wisconsin runs the 3-4 and has a top ten defense regularly. A lot of people will say that it makes it more difficult for the QB and OL to know where the rush is coming from. It's players and coaching of the scheme IMO, not the scheme itself. Same for the offense, which needs more fixing than the defense at this point unfortunately.

 

[MRJFB]

Wisconsin runs the 3-4 and has a top ten defense regularly. A lot of people will say that it makes it more difficult for the QB and OL to know where the rush is coming from. It's players and coaching of the scheme IMO, not the scheme itself. Same for the offense, which needs more fixing than the defense at this point unfortunately.

I am no expert, just equating our misery with the switch to this 'hot new defense'. Maybe we just don't run it correctly, maybe its one step above a prevent the way we do it. Maybe our supposed talent over Wisconsin and others is a cock and bull story.
I just fell in love with the 4-3 when Colorado and then Nebraska adopted it in the late 80's/early 90's. You come after the qb on every play until his will is shot.

 

[MadRat]

4-3. 3-4. The freaking difference is a slightly different perspective calling coverage due to the slightly different personnel. It's a seven man front for Pete's sake. Semantics, people.

The problem is we have coaches that settle for mediocrity. Our coaches are not a stellar group. The staff at UCF had senior leadership that even a bum could have won with. I think we can do a hell of a lot better.

 

[innmc]

I don't know about you but I'm missing Tommy Armstrong. He would be great in this offense

 

[valiantsailor]

The 3-4 is an awful defense. Why in the heck did we get the notion to go away from the 4-3 with rush ends? It causes all kinds of havoc. Is there something I am ignorant about? Our pash rushing has been so dry for so long I think its an old native American curse.

Smiling Mike

 

[MadRat]

McBride ran a 3-4 with more than a few looks, often gapped in a traditional 4-3 flex look.

 

[RED ED]

McBride ran a 3-4 with more than a few looks, often gapped in a traditional 4-3 flex look.

If I remember correctly his base was a 4/3 that he flexed out of. The rover changed the D from a 4/3 to a nickel most times. Though sometimes a D end would go back for the 3/4. The best one on this board to ask would be DOC. He did play in it


We ran a 5/2 before the switch which i have been told is similar, but the ends were more D line then LB

 

[MadRat]

You realize what a 4-3 flex front is? One side has A & C gaps shaded and opposite side has B and C. It takes studs. Your 3-4 runs quite a few front alignments that result in the look. McBride was mistakenly attributed by sportswriters as running a 4-3 defense.

When a D end dropped in coverage it was a 'spy', the predecessor to zone blitz schemes.