Nebraska Football: The Adrian Martinez experiment needs to end

Nebraska football fell to 3-5 after losing yet another winnable game. Here are three takeaways from a terrible loss for the Huskers. 

Scott Frost has a major problem.

As a head coach, every once in a while, you need to win a game you shouldn’t. Even more importantly, you need to win the games you should and on Saturday against Minnesota, Nebraska football failed to do that once again (Illinois was another egregious example).

The Golden Gophers were without their top two running backs, and quarterback Tanner Morgan gifted the Huskers two third-quarter interceptions.

But still, it wasn’t enough for Nebraska football to get out of its own way and win a game against someone with a pulse — something the Huskers still haven’t done this season with what was supposed to be Frost’s best team.

Instead of bouncing back this week, Adrian Martinez was terrible. He missed open receivers, couldn’t fight his way into the end zone from a yard out, and simply wasn’t good enough, again, when the game was on the line.

It’s the same old story. The special teams were atrocious and another reason for a loss in a game that should have been a double-digit win. Connor Culp missed an extra point and a short field goal. Nebraska also got nothing on a goal-to-go situation, but under Frost, it’s become par for the course.

It’s hard to believe in this program anymore either the head coach or the quarterback or anything and here are three takeaways from a back-breaking loss.