Adam Carriker's Gut Reaction to Iowa's Manhandling of Nebraska: Time for Major Changes

The 24-point loss to the Hawkeyes shows where the Huskers are lacking.

The Heroes Trophy once again goes to the team east of the Missouri River. | Carriker Chronicles

Adam Carriker gives his raw, emotional Gut Reaction to Iowa's manhandling of Nebraska. Matt Rhule, TJ Lateef and Husker football were not able to compete with the Hawkeyes. Emmett Johnson had a monster day for Nebraska, but the Huskers fell way short. Nebraska needs to make some major changes do what's best for the Husker football program.

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Adam Carriker believes it is inexcusable that Nebraska has lost 10 out of 11 games to Iowa, especially since Iowa has out-recruited Nebraska zero out of the past 11 seasons. Iowa beats Nebraska because they develop their players and they focus on developing the trenches. Whereas Nebraska has focused on building their team through skill positions first. When it comes to offensive skill positions and defensive skill positions, Nebraska has the advantage, and in overall athleticism the Huskers have the advantage as well. When it comes to blocking, tackling and physicality, the Iowa Hawkeyes are clearly the vastly superior team.

A lot of that starts with the mentality, the physicality, and also the big boys up front in the trenches, where games are won and lost in the Big Ten. Also, this is where games are won and lost as a whole in college football in general! This is the largest margin of defeat in the Nebraska-Iowa rivalry since 2017. Emmett Johnson had a career-high 217 rushing yards today, a career-long 70-yard rush and accounted for 80% of Nebraska’s offense! How in the world Emmett Johnson was not a Doak Walker Award finalist is absolutely absurd, what do you think? That being said, a running back should not count for 80% of any offense's total output in the game. There are too many other talented players on this team that Adam Carriker says need to step up and start making some plays.

John Butler mentioned the Huskers are going to focus on stopping the run and getting run stoppers this off-season. Butler talked about how big people stop the run, they need big people and they can’t have outliers on their roster. Adam Carriker agrees, but why in the world is this just now becoming a focus?! John Butler comes from the NFL, where you stop the run first and then defend the pass.

Adam talks about how he’s played on NFL teams where he’s had guys like Steve Spagnola, who’s won a ton of Super Bowls as a defensive coordinator with the New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs, literally tell Adam to play the run on the way to the pass. In other words, stopping the pass is the emphasis in the NFL, not the run. It’s as if John Butler is just now figuring out that in college football, you have to stop the run first.

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