Tuesday notebook: O-line relishing win

In retrospect, Saturday's win over Washington was pretty much an offensive lineman's dream.
Highlighted by an eight-play scoring drive in the second quarter that consisted entirely of nfl jerseys
runs, Nebraska bullied its way up and down the field seemingly all day against the Huskies' defense.
The way that the Huskers' offensive line was able to basically dominate the line of scrimmage was about as close to perfect as the unit has played in years. That fact certainly hasn't been lost on NU's linemen, either.
"We didn't take our foot off the gas pedal for a second," redshirt freshman Jeremiah Sirles said. "We ran just up the middle, up the middle, and that's so much fun for an offensive line to know you are imposing your will on another person. You are imposing your will as a unit on another person's unit to the point where they can't stop it. That's just so gratifying as a line.
"The running backs were running hard and we were blocking hard, and I think it was just a full team effort to know that we just came out there and just physically dominated that team."
Sirles said the o-line still needed to correct some of Bears jersey
the mental mistakes it made before it can declare any sort of a perfect performance, holding himself as guilty as anyone. The offense was called for three penalties during the win, and two of which were false starts by Sirles.
He credited the crowd noise of Husky Stadium as a contributing factor for NU's mistakes early on, but once Nebraska started pounding the football right at Washington's defense, the crowd quieted down and the offense started hitting on all cylinders.
"I think all of us kind of settled in," Sirles said. "It helped that we all played our butts off and took the crowd out of it. I mean, coming into the fourth quarter, we were going on talking snap counts. We were no longer going on silent snap counts."
Going back to that key second quarter drive, junior center Mike Caputo said he could sense Washington's defense was feeling a little overmatched physically by the time the Huskers barreled their way into the end zone.
Knowing that they had pushed the Huskies 48 yards over the course of Bills jersey
3:38 and there was really nothing UW could do about it was a feeling Caputo, Sirles and the rest of Nebraska's o-line will never forget.
"That was tiring, but it was fun," Caputo said. "It was really cool to pretty much tell the defense what we were doing. I think after the third play they knew we were just going to run it right up the middle, and we just kept running it… At the end of that drive I kind of felt them tiring out. I was tired too, but I could tell they were kind of done."