Nebraska Football: Good Bad Hideous Against Fresno State

The Hideous: The Blocked Punt

During a game that was supposed to be all about honoring punter Sam Foltz, the special teams had some problems, especially in the punting game. Jordan Westerkamp seemed to have some problems with the punt return.

Part of that was likely because Fresno State’s punter wasn’t very good. Most of his punts weren’t very long and usually ended up right in front of a pack of players.

That was bad, what was hideously ugly was the second official punt of the game for the Nebraska football team. After taking a delay of game penalty before Caleb Lightbourn kicked his first official punt as a Husker, he never really got his second one off.

During that punt, Fresno State blocked the kick and put themselves in very good position to score. That made the game closer than Nebraska was remotely comfortable with. This was by far the worst play of the game. The positive is that the play didn’t really hurt the team.

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It’s still something that is going to need to get ironed out before too long. Better teams, especially those in the Big Ten are going to study what went wrong on that play.