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2011 Nebraska CornHusker Spring Game Thread

alexhortdog95

Dumpster Fire behind the rows...
Hey all. Since our Spring game wasn't televised, I decided to go ahead and give my thoughts on what I saw yesterday.

1. QB - Taylor Martinez and Cody Green may be riding the benches soon. Redshirt frosh Brion Carnes lit it up, throwing two touchdown passes and demonstrating good pocket awareness, for the most part. Meanwhile, Taylor Martinez showed that the only thing that has progressed since last season's 2nd half woes is that he can run better now.

He continues his backwards regression into tackling dummy as he was sacked once for a huge loss, and only went 4 of 13 with the lone pick thrown by all QBs for the day.

Cody Green didn't fare much better, going 4 of 10 for the day on the White squad. They tried to switch him to the Red, thinking it would be better - but he threw only one more pass, which was another incompletion.

Carnes, on the other hand, made the most of the playing time. He went 11 of 15 for 173 while throwing two scores. The lone sack he had was a missed assignment on the protections.

I think it's safe to say that if Green and Martinez don't get their crap together, they may be relegated to backup roles the rest of their careers. They have shown they just can't get it done.

Next post will be about the Running Backs
 
2. RB - Rex Burkhead didn't disappoint in his Spring debut, even being hampered by a sore hamstring through the spring. They tried to protect him by limiting the plays he was running, and he managed to run for 91 yards on 11 carries, an 8.3 ypc average.

The other RB talk was about the sudden appearance of something we at Nebraska haven't seen from 2004 - present....a fullback carrying the rock!

Tyler Legate ran for two scores from the FB position, which generated numerous cheers from the crowd.

The RB position will be interesting this year, since it's going to be Burkhead and everybody else. He should get help from incoming freshmen Aaron Green, Ameer Abdullah, and Youngstown's own Braylon Heard.

Receiver will be the next review. I'll only be reviewing specific offensive positions in these reviews, as the Defense will be a typical Bo Pelini Defense in the fall.
 
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3. Finally, the play of the wide receivers. Two stood out yesterday that jumped off the board as willing to play - Brandon Kinnie and much talked about frosh Jamal Turner.

Kinnie was his usual self - willing to drive for extra yards, and only caught a couple of balls for 15 yards. His play on special teams, however, was the attention getter for him, having a long 68 yard kickoff return that could have went longer with one more block. I still believe he's NU's most consistant receiver.

Which leads me to Turner. Wow. We haven't seen someone like this in a loooong time at Nebraska. The first play to this kid, a punt return, almost got housed for 59 yards. Then, he had a kickof return of another 54 yards. It seemed he was all over the field, having a good receiving day as well, catching 4 balls for 93 yards with a 49 yard touchdown being one of those (which would have been wiped off the boards with the new NCAA celebration rules - he dove into the zone, LOL).

This kid was projected to be a QB, but decided during the Army AA Game that he'd play WR as well. May be a wise choice for him, because he and Carnes hooked up a few times yesterday.

Didn't see Kyler Reed - they must have been keeping those plays pretty vanilla.

Well, that just about does it. I've provided a couple of links as well for you guys to look at.

GO BIG RED!

Game Page: http://www.huskerpedia.com/games/2011/spring_game11.html

Video Hightlights from the game:
http://www.huskers.com/mediaPortal/...768537&DB_MENU_ID=&SPSID=&SPID=&DB_OEM_ID=100
 
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Thanks for the breakdown. I was hoping they would broadcast the spring game on the BTN, but perhaps they're waiting until the end of the B12 calendar year before starting that programming.
 
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jwinslow;1907821; said:
Thanks for the breakdown. I was hoping they would broadcast the spring game on the BTN, but perhaps they're waiting until the end of the B12 calendar year before starting that programming.

No probs on the breakdown. People have been buzzing more and more about Turner since they saw he was actually an athlete able to play either QB or receiver. Most were hoping that Carnes or Starling (if he comes here) could play well enough to get Martinez to sit for good - he's a liability on the field, if you ask me.

Not sure about the spring game, though. The only way it will is if someone makes Bo do it, LOL. He's opposed to broadcasting the spring game on TV, cause he figures that the fans give the kids enough distractions.

It'd be nice, but seeing as how I can get in for free by saying the 'Drug Free Pledge', meh...LOL.
 
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I watched the hughlights of this game and Jamal Turner is an absolute stud! One thing the rest of the country cannot say about the B1G this year is that it is a slow conference. With guys like Turner and Martienez and Nebraska, Berry, Philly, and TP at tOSU, and Shoelace and V. Smith at scUM, this conference has a ton of speed! The list goes on with guys that have speed in the Big Ten...Now lets hope we can produce some bowl wins this year.
 
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muffler dragon;1907847; said:
What defense was Carnes playing against?

An extremely vanilla one. They weren't blitzing....much.

BUT

Although Bo limited the Defensive coverages, that tells me that:

If Martinez/Green can't look good against a vanilla D, watch out.
Carnes is SUPPOSED to look good against a vanilla D.

The other thing to note? Nobody had a green jersey on. Full contact....even on the QBs, LOL.

Somebody must have pissed Bo off during the Spring.

The other thing about Carnes - he's from Bradenton, FL - home of former Husker QB Tommie Frazier. All that guy did was win two championships, LOL
 
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alexhortdog95;1908134; said:
An extremely vanilla one. They weren't blitzing....much.

BUT

Although Bo limited the Defensive coverages, that tells me that:

If Martinez/Green can't look good against a vanilla D, watch out.
Carnes is SUPPOSED to look good against a vanilla D.

The other thing to note? Nobody had a green jersey on. Full contact....even on the QBs, LOL.

Somebody must have [censored]ed Bo off during the Spring.

The other thing about Carnes - he's from Bradenton, FL - home of former Husker QB Tommie Frazier. All that guy did was win two championships, LOL

Thanks. I was meaning which team was he playing? First, Second, Third, etc.
 
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