Nebraska Cornhuskers Taken to the Woodshed by the Missouri Tigers 41 to 6

Saturday night October 6, 2007 the Tigers of the Show-me State of Missouri took the Nebraska Cornhuskers to their woodshed and proceeded to administer a large can of wup-ass on the Big Red by the tone of 41 to 6. It wasn't losing so bad that I did not like, it was the lack of emotion on both sides of the ball and on the sidelines. I have been fairly outspoken about Bill Callahan, and whether he was the person to take the program back to where we as long-time fans expect it to be, but certain things have to be explained from Saturday. Missouri has not once this season been accused of being a defensive team, but yet the Huskers failed to put the ball in the end zone even one time. The lack of a running game was painfully obvious to all who watched. Marlon Lucky gained all of 67 yards against a defense that came in ranked 93rd in the county and we made them look like the college version of the Baltimore Ravens. The main game-plan was supposed to be ball control and yet we failed to have a drive longer than 54 yard, and that took 14 plays to accomplish. Missouri had 6 possessions that gained more than 60 yards. We were unable to maintain possession of the ball and keep Daniel and company off the field. So Chase Daniels passes for more than 400 yard and even rushes for more than 70 with the Swiss-cheese Husker defense I doubt very seriously that I will refer to the 2007 Husker defense as the Blackshirts again, as this defense allowed Daniels look like Vince Young. You know your defense is in trouble when your senior cornerback Zackary Bowman led the Nebraska defense with a career-high eight tackles to go along three pass breakups on the night. Senior linebacker Bo Ruud added 10 stops on the night to surpass the 200-tackle mark for his career. He also moved past his father, Tom, on the Huskers career tackle chart. Senior linebacker Lance Brandenburgh also added a career-high 10 tackles. When the other team is able to run off 85 plays everyone on the defensive side of the ball is going to be able to pad their stats. This Saturday the 13th will be homecoming for the Big Red with the Oklahoma State Cowboys coming to Lincoln. The Huskers have to get themselves straighten out quickly or this season could become a repeat of the 2004 season when the Huskers went 5-6 and saw all of their streaks come to an end. The 2005 Huskers faced the same sort of adversity as they were 5-4 after being spanked by the University of Kansas 40-15 ending a 40 plus winning streak against the Jayhawks, but then turned around and won their final 3 games including a 32 to 28 victory over Michigan in the Alamo Bowl. Only time will tell if they can do it again. This Husker has not given totally up however as I see the "crying-cowboys" of Gundy losing to the Home-coming proud Huskers 31-24. GBR folks.