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Where are Huskers of past?
Nebraska's football defense still strong but offense weak
LINCOLN, Neb. — When eventual Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier was running for big yardage in the early 1980s, Nebraska's athletic department had a poster that read: "The Scoring Explosion!"
The Associated Press
It seemed those days would never end. The Cornhuskers had an offense that rolled up touchdowns, and a defense that regularly got rolled over in bowl games by teams that could pass.
In claiming national championships the past two years, Nebraska appeared to have found the right balance: a powerful offense and a stingy defense with power up front and speed in the secondary.
So, the Huskers came looking for a third straight title this year.
Coach Tom Osborne hopes his No. 5 Cornhuskers 3-1 overall (1-0 Big 12) will keep improving Saturday against Baylor (3-1, 0-1).
But the offense, dormant in a 19-0 loss to Arizona State last month, still is trying to get into high gear.
The defense has been stingy.
But the question remains, what happened to the "scoring explosion" that Big Red fans had come to expect? Where is that awesome offense?
"It's improving every week," Osborne said.
Osborne has praise for quarterback Scott Frost, a junior transfer from Stanford, for holding up under the fan criticism.
"A lot of players couldn't have handled it nearly as well as Scott," Osborne said.
Miscommunication and missed assignments have stalled too many drives, Frost said, and too many third down conversions have failed.
Nebraska, renowned for its powerful offensive line, is showing its strength again.
"We're substituting more to keep people fresh," Osborne said.
"You win or lose as a team," Tomich said. "Last year when the offense was putting up 70-point games, I don't remember them criticizing the defense for not being perfect."
All-American defensive end Jared Tomich predicts that the offense will blossom. The defense, which gave up only one touchdown against Arizona State, has dominated other foes.
"I felt going in that it was a pivotal game, that if we lost it we might have trouble getting our players re-grouped." Osborne said. "Even though their character level is good, a lot of things we're shooting for would be hard to attain. We been in a rarified atmosphere the last two or three years."
The Huskers beat then-No. 16 Kansas State 39-3 last week. Unlike previous opponents Colorado State and Michigan State, the Wildcats had a creditable defense.
But the defense isn't chafing while the offense gets tuned up.
The Jets are as lucky as a plane crash
The Associated Press
They are cursed.
Just as surely as football games last 60 minutes and each team uses 11 players at a time, the New York Jets are operating under some supernatural force that must have decided years ago to teach this franchise a lesson.
How else to explain their misadventures?
COMMENT
They sign the No.1 draft choice for $15 million. He bangs his knee on a teammate's helmet and is out for a month.
They sign a fancy free-agent quarterback for $25 million. He separates his shoulder and is out for six weeks.
The training room is oozing with talent, much of it disabled. There are broken ankles, pulled hamstrings — a grocery list of injured and infirm.
This is more than mere bad luck. This is a full-fledged curse of major proportions. This is somebody out there, sticking pins into a green and white football.
Students of pro football will recall that in 1969, the Jets stunned everybody by beating the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl. The next year, the AFL and NFL merged, and since then every franchise except expansion Jacksonville and Carolina has won a division title. Every one, that is, except the Jets.
Is there a connection? Did Satan take the Colts and give the 17/12 points? Was Beelzebub betting on Baltimore that day?
As bad as the Jets have been through the years, the franchise had never been 0-6 before. The team had always avoided losing the season's first six games.
The Jets' run of hard luck now stretches 27 years. This is a slump of monumental proportions, one that has weaved its way from mediocre to miserable. The current edition of Team Woebegone now has added an exclamation point by losing its first six games.
Until now.
And then his team loses another game.
Now, in what has become a weekly ritual, coach Rich Kotite talks about circling the wagons, inner strength, fighting through these hard times.
Imported by aging owner Leon Hess, who said he wanted immediate results, Kotite was 3-13 in his first year. Add this season's 0-6 and the Kotite Error is 3-19. He also lost his last seven games in Philadelphia, pushing his coaching record over the last 29 games to 3-26.
They redecorate the building, covering up the Giants blue motif on the
This team is like the Legion of the Lost, staggering aimlessly through the NFL with no particular rhyme or reason. The Jets are the only team without their own stadium, training on Long Island and then busing 40 miles over two bodies of water to New Jersey to play their home games in Giants Stadium.
walls with green plastic, which is sort of like buying a suit of clothes in the Nearly New Shop.
And the Jets lose to everybody. Good teams. Bad teams. They are equal-opportunity losers. The latest loss came against Oakland, a team that had won one game in its last 11 before getting well against the Jets. The painfully young Giants were 0-3 before beating the Jets.
They say you have to hit rock bottom before recovery is possible. That would seem to describe the current state of these grounded Jets. Maybe they ought to wear cloves of garlic to ward off the evil spirits.
Is the curse theory too farfetched? There is, remember, precedent at work here. The Boston Red Sox can testify to that after selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and seemingly paying for that misdemeanor in perpetuity. The Red Sox, at least, occasionally win a division or even a pennant. The Jets can't even win a game.
So are they really cursed?
"There is no cloud over this team," Smith said.
In training camp, cornerback Otis Smith announced that he didn't believe in that voodoo stuff.
After Loss No. 6, kicker Nick Lowery, equipped with 16 years of NFL experience, considered the condition of the franchise and reached his own conclusion.
"It's more than a black cloud," Lowey said. "It's an entire ecosystem."
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