We looked good against some inferior teams early on in the year (I’ll make an argument for UCF and UCLA, but MSU and ISU are definitely not that good of teams). UCF had a fast defense and the ability to stop the run against us and that showed the overall weakness of our teams offense. We need to throw the ball more or people are going to continue to stack seven or eight guys in the box on us and stop Thomas from running. We were fortunate that UCLA had almost as pitiful of a run defense as we did or we may lose that game as well. We all know we still snuck away with one form UCF, there’s a lot of things in that game that made it very losable for us we just made a few plays here and there to get away with it. When it comes down to it Nebraska was the real first true test overall (again I’m willing to make an argument on UCF here) and the definitely showed who the better team was and pointed out MANY of our teams flaws. All we can hope for now is that the coaching staff will make some changes in the play calling (and hopefully personal) that will help us to rebound from this game and get a win against a team that I know none of us ever wanna lose to (even if it was just jacks or something we were playing) and see how the season goes from there. I do feel that if we don’t get a win this week we could be in a scramble to get those last two wins to get into (in my opinion) a desperately needed bowl game. Our program needs it, the fans need it, and it would be a good building block for next year. Overall, I don’t see that happening with Coffman as the QB or with us trying to hand the ball off up the middle 10 times in a row. We’ve got to mix in the pass or we’re going to go down in a sinking ship and take what was a great start to the season and maybe barely limp to the finish line.

and we see Lamur or Klein run out with the offense on the first series. Kind of like what happened last year against Iowa State when Gregory made his debut.
Its clear that Snyder just trusts Coffman more to take care of the football and not screw things up. I’m also figuring he doesn’t want to begin a game of musical-chairs at QB, though perhaps KU is the final test and if Coffman can’t get the offense untracked early he gets a quick hook. We at least need to see a package of plays – or an entire series – with one of the other two behind center.
All that said, after one blowout loss – to a much more talented team – I’m not sure Snyder is quite ready to panic (a loss to KU might be another story). The defense more than the offense was the problem against Nebraska, and what offensive woes we experienced could also be attributed to a very good (particularly at linebacker and cornerback) Cornhusker defense as much as Coffman’s limitations. And I still can’t figure out why they don’t give William Powell more carries to give the running game a change of pace and take some of the load off of DT. Even some screen passes to Powell would help loosen up defenses.