Watching the game from The Railyard, Joey Pynes (left) reacts to a play during the Huskers’ loss to Michigan State on Sept. 25.
Welcome to the Hot Topic, a weekly look at the state of Nebraska football. Each week on the Life in the Red Podcast, Parker Gabriel, Steven M. Sipple and Chris Basnett will discuss an important topic heading into that week’s game, and that discussion will appear in the Journal Star’s Huskers section on the day before gameday.
How quickly do you become concerned if Nebraska starts slowly against Purdue?
Parker: I would imagine that if you’re talking about the Memorial Stadium crowd, it will be pretty much right away. If Nebraska starts with the ball and goes three-and-out, there’s going to be some restlessness.
But I actually think the answer to this question is, not for a long time. Because we’ve seen it. We saw it two weeks ago against Minnesota. Nebraska really couldn’t have played a lot worse early in that game: They gave up the two long touchdown drives, they went three-and-out in 45 or 52 seconds on their first possession.
And even still, they had every opportunity to take control of that game in the second half.
Frost has made this reference a couple times this year: He said, ‘If we weren’t ready to play against Minnesota, we wouldn’t have come back and gotten back in the game the way we did.’
And for the most part, Nebraska’s problem hasn’t been staying in the fight. It’s just been that they haven’t done their work early enough in the fight.
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