We found out who the most valuable player on the team is.

[LIV4GOD]

Cooper Dejean.

The men who replaced him were directly or indirectly responsible for almost all of Nebraska's points.

That poor freshman who first went in to replace him was scorched, I mean scorched, for two TDs.

The poor freshman's replacement, #16, gave up another TD.

And punt returner Bruce replaced him, and through muffing a punt, helped Nebby score some more.

Wow, wow, wow . . . you don't realize how incredibly valuable someone is until they're gone.

 

[Kurt Warner]

Yeah that was a big big loss, he's a great player

 

[Chewback]

Yeah, it was tough losing LaPorta but Lachey is a very serviceable backup. Apparently we have no backup for DeJean at all.

 

[LIV4GOD]

Yeah, it was tough losing LaPorta but Lachey is a very serviceable backup. Apparently we have no backup for DeJean at all.

I believe we have two other DBs that are down. We were on the 4th and 5th stringers.

 

[BurgHawk87]

I believe we have two other DBs that are down. We were on the 4th and 5th stringers.

I could see that as a valid excuse if they were injured today. But both have been out most if not all of the season. The lack of preparation was apparent in all aspects today.

 

[uihawk82]

Cooper Dejean.

The men who replaced him were directly or indirectly responsible for almost all of Nebraska's points.

That poor freshman who first went in to replace him was scorched, I mean scorched, for two TDs.

The poor freshman's replacement, #16, gave up another TD.

And punt returner Bruce replaced him, and through muffing a punt, helped Nebby score some more.

Wow, wow, wow . . . you don't realize how incredibly valuable someone is until they're gone.

You do realize that Dejean wouldnt even be playing cornerback except that our #1 and #2 corners have been injured all year more or less.

Those guys who got torched are, after Dejean, #4 and #5 on the depth chart.

Yes it hurt that Dejean got hurt, the whole game was a mis-mash of errors, the key injury to DeJean, a few really weird penalty calls, and not pounding the rock at Nebby. I aint blaming those two young Dbacks.

 

[texas twister]

Yeah, it was tough losing LaPorta but Lachey is a very serviceable backup. Apparently we have no backup for DeJean at all.

Yeah we do. His nickname is "Toast".

 

[yrunvs]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

 

[LIV4GOD]

You do realize that Dejean wouldnt even be playing cornerback except that our #1 and #2 corners have been injured all year more or less.

Those guys who got torched are, after Dejean, #4 and #5 on the depth chart.

I fully realize that and posted almost those exact words in another thread.

It has no bearing on who was most valuable for this game.

 

[uihawk82]

I fully realize that and posted almost those exact words in another thread.

It has no bearing on who was most valuable for this game.

True, now did you think Dejean was the victim of a launching targeting hit from the side? It looked like it to me on replay

 

[kcgolfer]

A verticle passing game would be nice.

 

[OILCHECKER]

A couple of things about the Dejean injury. First, it shows how thin our margin of error is that losing one player can be so impactful. We won 7 games this year and easily could have won 10. At the same time, we could have easily lost 7-8 games this year

Second, as soon as Dejean went down, nebbie exploited it. Seems like anytime we find a weakness in our opponent, Brian rarely if ever takes adv. We just keeping sticking with what we always do vs attacking a weakness or good fortune.

 

[LIV4GOD]

True, now did you think Dejean was the victim of a launching targeting hit from the side? It looked like it to me on replay

Absolutely. I was incensed it was not called.

 

[uihawk82]

Absolutely. I was incensed it was not called.

Yeah, on that play I thought the hawks had the angle and edge on the receiver for about a 4-5 yard gain then wham Dejean just disappeared and then we found out why.

 

[DrVenkman]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

Apologist at its finest. The starting qB hadn’t completed a pass and had a turnover.

Nebraska is a 3-8 team. Your masters of football excellence should have dismantled them. Iowa was owned today.

 

[OutbackBowl2017]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

You don’t try to return a punt when eight of your players were trying to block the punt. That cost Iowa the game. Call fair catch or don’t try to return it like the other five times you let it bounce for ten to twenty additional yards. Iowa special teams were a big part of why Iowa lost the game, just like ‘14.

 

[yrunvs]

Injuries, penalties and turnovers cost Iowa the game.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Cooper Dejean.

The men who replaced him were directly or indirectly responsible for almost all of Nebraska's points.

That poor freshman who first went in to replace him was scorched, I mean scorched, for two TDs.

The poor freshman's replacement, #16, gave up another TD.

And punt returner Bruce replaced him, and through muffing a punt, helped Nebby score some more.

Wow, wow, wow . . . you don't realize how incredibly valuable someone is until they're gone.

I am certain he could have played qb too and done better than what we had all year😬

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

Totally wiffing on a block by a 5th year senior RT who looked like Ray Charles was coached?

 

[MAXIMUSHAWKEYE]

You don’t try to return a punt when eight of your players were trying to block the punt. That cost Iowa the game. Call fair catch or don’t try to return it like the other five times you let it bounce for ten to twenty additional yards. Iowa special teams were a big part of why Iowa lost the game, just like ‘14.



He has been a major disappointment this year. Hasn't done squat and made a lot of poor decisions in the return game.

 

[WWDMHawkeye]

You don’t try to return a punt when eight of your players were trying to block the punt. That cost Iowa the game. Call fair catch or don’t try to return it like the other five times you let it bounce for ten to twenty additional yards. Iowa special teams were a big part of why Iowa lost the game, just like ‘14.

Yep — I know Bruce was doing his best and feel badly for him, but dang — the muffed punt was brutal and his failure to catch several punts cost us about 60 yards in field position — a killer for an offense that ranks virtually dead last nationwide.

 

[MitchLL]

Bruce checked out long before this game. He has regressed quite a bit.

Just terrible decision making by some veteran players.

DeJong, Plumb, and Richman would have to raise their level of play, considerably, to be even called average talents.

 

[im4hawks50595]

Maybe should moved Merriweatherto cb and brought in Xavier N to safety, tried somthing beacause 16 was really struggling after Hall was benched.

 

[BonzoFury]

Yeah, on that play I thought the hawks had the angle and edge on the receiver for about a 4-5 yard gain then wham Dejean just disappeared and then we found out why.

I don't think it was incidental.

 

[43Beels]

I don't think it was incidental.

Then the guy taunted him afterwards.. I was sitting right there

 

[LIV4GOD]

Maybe should moved Merriweatherto cb and brought in Xavier N to safety, tried somthing beacause 16 was really struggling after Hall was benched.

"Really struggling" was at better than #9's "completely failing."

 

[iahawks10]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

Nebraska ended one today. Illinois ended one in October. Iowa State ended one in September……. See a theme here?

That’s Football

 

[shanksit44]

Totally wiffing on multiple blocks every game by a 5th year senior RT who looked like Ray Charles was coached?

FIFY

 

[grayhair81]

Some people can't see past their beer can long enough to accept that you cannot lose one of your best defensive players, one of your best offensive players and your starting QB and lose a football game. Turnovers are not coached, penalties are not coached and injuries are not coached. Winning streaks all come to an end and Nebraska ended one today. Dissapointing but that's football.

"Turnovers are not coached"? The apologists would disagree. They have been telling us for two seasons it is normal and to be expected for the defense to score 10 pts per game and hold the opponent under 10. The offense's only role is to not turn the ball over and allow Taylor to pin the opponent inside the 5 where the defense will then get a safety or turnover. I mean, it worked against Ped St with their b/u QB in the game so why wouldn't it work against Michigan or OSU? KF is a cunning fox and every other coach in the history of football is a stooge.

 

[Dr.PhilSuess]

Yeah, on that play I thought the hawks had the angle and edge on the receiver for about a 4-5 yard gain then wham Dejean just disappeared and then we found out why.

Coop just got smoked damn. Move him to wr where he belongs. Btw, this D without Jack Campbell is hot garbage. Him, and another weak schedule vs bad qbs keep that motley group from getting boat raced Ohio St style all year.

 

[DodgerHawki]

I could see that as a valid excuse if they were injured today. But both have been out most if not all of the season. The lack of preparation was apparent in all aspects today.

Iowa has been balancing on the razor's edge pretty much all season since Harris was out for the year and Roberts went down again. If it ever got to the point that Heinz had to actually play corner in a game, we were toast. Hall has the skills/athletic ability to be a good corner at some point, but not this year obviously. Only potential option one can envision is getting Xavier Nwankpa ready to play corner, but not sure how viable that is as he's next in if one of the safeties went down.

Realistically if any teams are down to their 5th and 6th corners they are toast against receivers the caliber of Palmer and Washington. Perhaps OSU or Michigan have good players at 5th and 6th corners, but kind of doubt it. And Hall and Heinz were not up to the task. No one will feel sorry for Iowa, it's big boy football. And smart of Nebraska to ruthlessly exploit it once Dejean went out on the first series.

 

[MIHawk64]

Yeah, it was tough losing LaPorta but Lachey is a very serviceable backup. Apparently we have no backup for DeJean at all.

Terry Roberts was replaced by CDJ. So when CDJ went out we were playing 3rd and 4th back ups.

 

[notlongago]

I could see that as a valid excuse if they were injured today. But both have been out most if not all of the season. The lack of preparation was apparent in all aspects today.

If they're not good enough yet, they're not good enough yet. You're not going to in-season prep several seasons worth of experience no matter how much you practice or watch tape.

 

[trippnschmidt]

"Turnovers are not coached"? The apologists would disagree. They have been telling us for two seasons it is normal and to be expected for the defense to score 10 pts per game and hold the opponent under 10. The offense's only role is to not turn the ball over and allow Taylor to pin the opponent inside the 5 where the defense will then get a safety or turnover. I mean, it worked against Ped St with their b/u QB in the game so why wouldn't it work against Michigan or OSU? KF is a cunning fox and every other coach in the history of football is a stooge.

Nobody ever said that. You're delusional.

 

[BirdistheWord]

It kind of reminded me of playing vs David Bell, we just never gave him quite enough attention and just got torched. Now, having to plug in 4th and 5th string CB's was a significant factor, but wow they made it look easy.

 

[yrunvs]

Nebraska ended one today. Illinois ended one in October. Iowa State ended one in September……. See a theme here?

That’s Football

True but.....we ended one with Wisconsin and we ended one with Purdue. That's Football

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

We over recruit on the defensive side of the ball and even the announcer yesterday said "the Hawkeyes are so good fundamentally because they only play 3-4 variations of defense". Yet we take every WR and make them a DB and have no depth.


Any team that had the patience to dink and dunk cover 2 or qtrs, qtrs, half, filets us.

 

[DodgerHawki]

We over recruit on the defensive side of the ball and even the announcer yesterday said "the Hawkeyes are so good fundamentally because they only play 3-4 variations of defense". Yet we take every WR and make them a DB and have no depth.


Any team that had the patience to dink and dunk cover 2 or qtrs, qtrs, half, filets us.

Criticizing how Iowa handles defense is interesting take to say the least. There is no team this side of OSU or Bama that has a good 5th or 6th corner. We have no depth? Iowa was down starter Jermari Harris all year, then down next man in Terry Roberts for over half the year. Dejean was Iowa's 4th option at corner. He was tremendous and is also Iowa's best Cash and would be one of Iowa's best 2 safeties. Dejean playing corner also weakened Iowa at Cash. Castro played okay, but nowhere near the impact of Dejean at that spot. But they adapted and put Dejean at corner until they finally ran out of corners who could play against Big 10 competition.

And yes, who are these teams that filet the Iowa defense before yesterday? OSU? Really? Purdue? LOL.

 

[pacnorthhawkeye]

I could see that as a valid excuse if they were injured today. But both have been out most if not all of the season. The lack of preparation was apparent in all aspects today.

Lol.

 

[iahawks10]

True but.....we ended one with Wisconsin and we ended one with Purdue. That's Football

Oh yes, ended a one game losing streak to Wisconsin and a two game losing streak to Purdue…. Football!

By that logic, OSU ended another losing streak vs Iowa. 🙄