Husker Pre-game prayer

The words to the Husker pre-game prayer are pretty awesome.

Football Pregame Prayer
Dear Lord,
In the battles we go through life
We ask for a chance that's fair
A chance to equal all our strife
A chance to do or dare
And if we win,
Let it be by the code
With faith and honor held high
And if we lose,
Let us stand by the road
And cheer as the winners go by.
Day by day
We get better and better
A team that can't be beat
Won't be beat.
This prayer fits the Nebraska football team and their head coach.

Nebraska so far has been inconsistent . One play they execute like a championship team and the next play they mess up. By messing up the first thing that comes to mind is penalties. We have for the past several years killed drives on offense, especially, with a personal foul or holding. That has to stop to be of championship caliber.

A good team can run on Nebraska. Idaho ran the ball on their left side over and over and made a few yards. They didn't break any big plays but they could go five yards on a consistent basis. Out linebackers are second teamers. David has been all over the field but we do not have a replacement for Compton yet that is in the right place to make the plays we need yet.

The secondary had interceptions left and right last week. Will they gamble a few too many times this week and get caught with a couple of long pass plays for touchdowns?

On offense we just have to be smarter. Penalties and turnovers have to go way down.

This week, its Nebraska 23 Washington 14. Any win over 21 points and I'd put NU in the Top 3 in the country. If NU wins by 14-20 points, they are Top 10. 7-13 points puts them in the Top 15. A win keeps them in the Top 25. We'll see this week how good Nebraska looks to be at this point of the season this week. The first two weeks were only practice sessions.

Idaho will be a tough one!

Idaho is not a football school. The Vandals played last week before 11,000 fans. They are like 0-zillion against BCS Top 25 schools. But... they have a Nebraska boy from North Platte with a NFL arm that will catch the Huskers off guard a few times Saturday morning afternoon. I'm not entirely sold on the Huskers secondary yet but hopefully I can eat crow this week. Nathan Enderle can throw the ball a long ways. The year we recruited and lost Josh Freeman, Enderle was throwing the longest ball in the QB camps.

Look to Idaho throwing a couple of long touchdowns when our secondary gets caught out of position or takes one too many chances.

Be surprised if you want but this writer says Nebraska 38 Idaho 24.

Please run the fullbacks. That's Nebraska football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't be surprised is Florida State knocks off Oklahoma this week. Should be a close game.

Nebraska wins versus Western Kentucky but doesn't tell us much!

Not much was learned about Nebraska vs. Western Kentucky. Here's what this writer noticed.

1. Taylor Martinez is very fast and will be a running threat. Not since Jamaal Lord has Nebraska had this kind of running quarterback.
2. The offensive line played well against the competition they were playing against.
3. The defense struggled after the first quarter and Western Kentucky had a major time of possession advantage.
4. Rex Burkhead is fun to watch!!
5. Mike McNeil was open for touchdowns at least three times and wasn't thrown to.
6. T-Mart's favorite target is Niles Paul. He needs to look more to the rest of the field.
7. Nebraska misses Philip Dillard
8. The secondary takes some chances that will be corrected, I am sure.
9. Brandon Kinnie looks to have a great season as a receiver.
10. Three true freshmen will have an impact this year; Andrew Rodriquez, Ciante Evans, and Quincy Enunwa.

Taylor Martinez was 9-15 for 136 yards and ran seven times for 127 yards and three touchdowns. That compares to first game starts by Tommy Frazier who ran 14 times for 77 yards and was 9-20 passing for 157 against Missouri. Eric Crouch rushed for two touchdowns and was 11-17 passing in his first start vs. UAB. Martinez did well for a first game.

Right now there are only two Huskers from last year's team on a NFL roster--N. Suh at Detroit and Phillip Dillard for the Giants.

Danny Woodhead made the Jets roster.

Hated to see Kansas get beat this weekend. With Turner Gill, they will get it going. It's just unknown how many wins they will have. Kansas lost the nucleus of its team last year.

The Ohio Bobcats are led by Boo Jackson, who was a highly rated quarterback in college. They beat Wofford 33-10. Wofford did not complete a pass. Phil Bates (Omaha) had 51 yards on six carries and Noah Keller (Kearney) led in tackles with nine.

Larry Asante and Steve Octavian were not on an NFL roster today. Hopefully some Nebraska players will make some practice squads and will be available if injuries occur.

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Taylor Martinez will debut tomorrow!

Taylor Martinez will have his first start. Hopefully he will have many more. It would be nice to get him some experience before we go to the Big 10 next year and that tough first year schedule.

Larry Asante had seven tackles for the Cleveland Browns on Thursday night. Barry Turner had three tackle and a sack for a loss of ten yards for the Bears.

Danny Woodhead had a touchdown for the Jets and hopefully will make the final cut.

Let the 2010 season begin tomorrow. James Dobson is a big part of the success we have this year. He is the strength and conditioning coach for football.

Nebraska has a lot of depth this year. A lot of kids will play and it will be interesting as to who rises to the top by year end.

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Surprise quarterback starter this weekend!

Everybody is talking Lee or Martinez as starters this week, so be to be different this writer goes with Cody Green. Why Cody Green? There has been things said by the coaches like they don't want to create a "circus atmosphere" about naming a starter earlier. They don't know "how some players will react to their first game jitters as a starter." This may be in reference to the quarterback position. This narrows the choice down to Taylor Martinez and Cody Green. I think the coaches like Green and he does have some game experience so Cody Green will start our first game. Of course he may not be the starter at the end of the season which is most important!

The only starters, for sure on defense, look to be Pierre Allen, Jared Crick, Steinkuhler, and Meredith, Prince, Dennard, and Harvey. The rest of the positions are close and we will see a lot of different starters this next year. One linebacker position and the two safeties that start look to be unknown at this time. Look to see 25 different defensive players on the field even in the tough games, which Western Kentucky is not.

Again just having more fun with predictions. We'll see all three quarterbacks on Saturday and I think they will all perform well. I think the quarterback race will go most of the season.

Now on to the conference alignment.

One side will consist of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin while Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern will be in the other division. Each school will play the other five schools within its division and will also play three teams from the other division, including one cross-division matchup guaranteed on an annual basis. The first championship game will be played December 3, 2011, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Here are the schedules for 2011 and 2012 for Nebraska.

2011 NU Big Ten Schedule
Oct. 1 - @Wisconsin
Oct. 8 - Ohio State
Oct. 15 - Bye
Oct. 22 - @Minnesota
Oct. 29 - Michigan State
Nov. 5 - Northwestern
Nov. 12 - @Penn State
Nov. 19 - @Michigan
Nov. 26 - Iowa

2012 NU Big Ten Schedule
9/29 - Wisconsin
10/6 - @Ohio State
10/13 - Bye
10/20 - @Northwestern
10/27 - Michigan
11/3 - @Michigan State
11/10 - Penn State
11/17 - Minnesota
11/24 - @Iowa

2011 will be a very tough schedule for Nebraska. Ohio State, at Wisconsin, at Michigan, Michigan St., Iowa, at Penn State, and Washington. I think Pelini will love this schedule because he likes to take on the best every week but it will be a murderous schedule. I will wonder how the Nebraska fans will like the jump to the Big 10 after 2011. Hopefully we can take one challenge at a time and be successful.

Nebraska will need to play Penn State in a cross-divisional game on an annual basis. This will be a tough annual game and will give some of the other teams in the division an advantage for the best record. This schedule gives parity somewhat to the conference.