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Yes, the strength of the Huskers will, once again, be our defense. The Blackshirts feature legit first-team All-Americans at all three levels: DT Jared Crick, LB Lavonte David & CB Alfonzo Dennard. Our D Line in particular is not only talented, but (not joking) legit three deep.
We are relatively untried at LB, with our other two LBs having missed significant time last year; Compton missed about half the season with a foot injury and Fisher missed all of 2010 with a broken leg. Neither is expected to be a weak link, though, and we should have at the worst a serviceable LB corps.
The secondary will reload after losing five starters last year. Dennard is a legit lockdown corner, and Ciante Evans is the heir apparent to Prince Amukamara on the other side. I'm hearing all kinds of names to fill in at Safety, but we've been bringing in talented guys the past three years. There will be good, if not great, players out there. After watching Bo's defenses post Pass Efficiency rankings in the top three each of the last two years while playing in the pass-happy Big XII, I have zero worries about our secondary in the more run-friendly Big Ten.
On offense it's anyone's guess. We've fired our old Offensive Coordinator and promoted our RB Coach to OC. We also canned our WR coach and brought in a guy with a very odd resume, Rich Fisher. Allegedly we're going to run a hurry-up offense with similarities to Oregon's the past few years, but who knows if that's true.
We are for certain going to return to a run-focused offense. We have speed to burn all over the field. Of course, since we're in the Big Ten we can't possibly have "SEC speed," but we'll be fast. Martinez is a blur, all three of our incoming Freshman RBs are quite quick, we have fast WRs in Kinnie, Bell, Jean-Baptiste and Enunwa, and we even have a TE, Kyler Reed, that you had better put a DB on because he will run past any LB you've got, and that is not an exaggeration.
However, all that sunshine-pumping won't mean a thing if our O Line isn't solid, and this has been without question the worst unit on the field in the Pelini Era. We've been recruiting hosses for the line in the past couple of years, so we'll see if they pan out. If they do, we should have a competitive offense (fingers crossed). If they devolve into the same mess we've had the past three years, our DEF had better return some INTs for scores or we're going to be mired in single-digit scoring yet again.
We are relatively untried at LB, with our other two LBs having missed significant time last year; Compton missed about half the season with a foot injury and Fisher missed all of 2010 with a broken leg. Neither is expected to be a weak link, though, and we should have at the worst a serviceable LB corps.
The secondary will reload after losing five starters last year. Dennard is a legit lockdown corner, and Ciante Evans is the heir apparent to Prince Amukamara on the other side. I'm hearing all kinds of names to fill in at Safety, but we've been bringing in talented guys the past three years. There will be good, if not great, players out there. After watching Bo's defenses post Pass Efficiency rankings in the top three each of the last two years while playing in the pass-happy Big XII, I have zero worries about our secondary in the more run-friendly Big Ten.
On offense it's anyone's guess. We've fired our old Offensive Coordinator and promoted our RB Coach to OC. We also canned our WR coach and brought in a guy with a very odd resume, Rich Fisher. Allegedly we're going to run a hurry-up offense with similarities to Oregon's the past few years, but who knows if that's true.
We are for certain going to return to a run-focused offense. We have speed to burn all over the field. Of course, since we're in the Big Ten we can't possibly have "SEC speed," but we'll be fast. Martinez is a blur, all three of our incoming Freshman RBs are quite quick, we have fast WRs in Kinnie, Bell, Jean-Baptiste and Enunwa, and we even have a TE, Kyler Reed, that you had better put a DB on because he will run past any LB you've got, and that is not an exaggeration.
However, all that sunshine-pumping won't mean a thing if our O Line isn't solid, and this has been without question the worst unit on the field in the Pelini Era. We've been recruiting hosses for the line in the past couple of years, so we'll see if they pan out. If they do, we should have a competitive offense (fingers crossed). If they devolve into the same mess we've had the past three years, our DEF had better return some INTs for scores or we're going to be mired in single-digit scoring yet again.
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