Lets take this guys claims one at a time.
1. Inexperience of the CU staff. The offensive coordinator has been an o coordinator before, so has the WR coach, so has the o line coach. The head coach has been a head coach in the NFL before....enough of the CU has inexperienced staff crap. Just not true.
2. Nebraska was on an upward trajectory last year - Can't deny this. They clearly improved late in the year from how they looked in the middle of the year.
3. Smart money on the 'Skers' - No, actually smart money will bring the line down down down as the game gets closer. Vegas set the line fully intending to take advantage of Mr. Dopey skewers fans. Every Vegas bookie knows that skewered fan is vulnerable to pre-season hype and they will take advantage of this. The smart money will cause the line to drop. Expect the biggest drop the Monday after week 1.
4. Adrian balls out - Don't get me wrong Mr. glass legs is a talented QB. However, CU stopped him when they had no film on him showing his abilities. You can bet that CU will do even better now that they have film to watch. Glass legs will still get his because he is talented, but he won't do as well as last year.
5. CU has a sub-par o-line - Without question, the last two years, CU had a horrible offensive line. However, thanks to attitude, experience and an OkieState grad transfer this offensive line will be better. To be honest, CU's o line lost the battle to the Nebraska d line last year and CU still won. This year the best Nebraska can hope for is a draw in this battle. Which spells doom for the skewered secondary.
6. Nebraska o line lost seniors but will be better - The part about losing experienced seniors is factual. It was these same seniors that played so much better at the end of last year that allowed the skewers to get better as a football team. Young or mostly new o-lines always spell trouble in college football, particularly the first handful of games of the year. CU's d-line starters will win this battle handily. If CU played the skewers late in the year, things would be different. The skewer crew would have gained experience and CU's depth issues would show up...but second game of the year means there will be corn for the Buffs to feed on.
7. Nebraska d backs grew up a lot - I am sure they did...but just like they've grown, so have the Buffs. This will be compounded by the fact that CU's QB will have time to throw the ball. Skewered dbacks get burned to a crisp and by far more players this year than last. Lucky for the skewers that they won't see a WR group this good the remainder of the season.
8. CU has a worse secondary than last year - Anyone who watched CU last year knows this is almost impossible. CU's secondary was as bad as it could get last year. Yet the vaunted skewered WR group didn't take advantage of it. This year CU has MANY changes. Because of those changes we can expect the skewers to get some yards on the CU secondary, but not because CU's secondary is worse. Also, plan on Abrams shutting down the skewered 'all conference' WR. Its the other skewered guys that will make some hay. However, thanks to the CU d line and outside backers bringing the pressure on glass legs, the skewer WR group won't get the yards that they could.
9. Nebraska o-line takes Callier's head off- Callier isn't a starter for the Buffs but he will get time....time when the young skewered o line is getting tired...and because of this, you can expect to see him make a couple perfect twisting form tackle sacks of glass legs again.
Bottom line is that you can expect a lot of points this year in Boulder. Don't be too shocked when the Buffs hang another 63 points on the skewered crew.
The game tape excuse is obviously overrated as you guys were a bad team last year that beat us when we (and you) had no idea what we were doing. Martinez’s elite improv ability kept us in it. Our O-line was bad for our entire first half of the season. We just so happened to have a pathetic back half of the season and a coach get fired the year before, just like you. We made big gains in the weight room that off-season too, just like you guys this year. There are some glaring similarities.
You guys will probably get better than you’ll do this season. Your ceiling is definitely a big question mark. But your expectations should be greatly humbled with an extremely inexperienced staff (more than ours was) and different schemes. I don’t expect you guys to watch Nebraska games, but it was a pretty obvious upward trajectory not only to husker fans but to most everyone else as well. We looked like a different team toward the end of the season. Considering the circumstances in this year’s game, the odds are literally not in your favor. Smart money goes with the Skers, with a chance that it could get ugly. Adrian balls out. Shenault will get his I’m sure, but our secondary grew up a bit from last year and we have an all-conference receiver of our own going against a worse secondary. Our D-line grew up A LOT and will dominate a sub-par O-line. O line lost some not so talented seniors and has some big time dudes stepping in. I expect them to do well enough providing they’re not too preoccupied with taking Jacob Callier’s head off. HuskersRollllll!!!
