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I get what you’re saying and I definitely don’t want our team to be what Iowa is over the last 25 years. The fact remains we are not even at Iowa’s level.

We flat out suck on game day. It isn’t because we aren’t talented or have the resources…we do! Each year we have everything to at least be a 7-5 team or better except this program is lazy, is never prepared, has no urgency to win, the culture sucks! It has sucked really since the end of the Pelini era. Nebraska Football will suck until new blood changes the culture. I think it has to start with replacing players that are underperforming/constantly screwing up and getting rid of some assistants.
We’ve had new blood multiple times since Pelini was canned. Somehow sh!t keeps getting worse here. Blows my mind that it turns out that Mike Riley is a better coach than the 2 clowns that came after him.

“Baby Mahomes?”

For me, this THIS is the biggest difference.

He looks hesitant to throw sitting in the pocket.

He looks hesitant to run even when it's open, almost like he's been told not to.

No question on his arm talent, it's absolutely there. But I don't know if it's paralysis by analysis, not trusting his abilities, plays not playing to his strengths, etc., but he isn't playing like a QB who believes in himself and/or his teammates.

I also don't think his issues with scrambling/extending plays are an athleticism thing. He's not the athlete Haarberg is, but he's plenty athletic to scramble for a few yards and maybe break a big one in the right circumstance. To me, the reason he looks slow is he's not decisive about it. It looks like he's desperately looking to throw the ball until the millisecond he crosses the LOS.

I was impressed he put his body on the line on the play he got hurt, but the reason he got hurt was because he was hesitant in committing to it, and then didn't have a good feel for how to take the contact. Probably because he barely practices those situations would be my guess.

It really just LOOKS like he's been told not to run with the way he acts/reacts.
Every qb starts to look like they are "thinking too much" once they play too long for Satt. Some qbs completely fall apart some just become more hesistant but every qb over the last years has regressed the longer they took reps with the first team and saw game time. This can't all be teams adjusting because Satt isn't that good of a play-caller. It might be a result of Rhule and Tony being the dominant coaches on the team and wanting to protect the defense, although they never do it...who knows.

Rhule must make changes TONIGHT

idk what changed with Satt but it isn’t just facing easier teams in the beginning. The play calling hasn’t looked remotely similar. There were not these multi-drive stretches of games with zero run calls during the wins and even against Illinois it wasn’t that bad.

Where has the Barney sweep gone?? Lloyd? Rahmir was also playing more during the wins, he was clearly the best runner last night, why is he mostly on the bench? Dowdell has no vision or wiggle. Why does it look like we’re trying to lose on purpose?

“Baby Mahomes?”

Dylan has gotten progressively worse like every qb under Satt the longer they play. He was a Mahomes type of guy, making big plays out of nothing, keeping plays alive, making risky throws. Then everything changed after his first INT against Rutgers. He became much more hesitant, probably because of Satt and because he isn't decisive he doesn't use his talent like he should. Satt has tried to make him a system qb in an awful system and it shows.
For me, this THIS is the biggest difference.

He looks hesitant to throw sitting in the pocket.

He looks hesitant to run even when it's open, almost like he's been told not to.

No question on his arm talent, it's absolutely there. But I don't know if it's paralysis by analysis, not trusting his abilities, plays not playing to his strengths, etc., but he isn't playing like a QB who believes in himself and/or his teammates.

I also don't think his issues with scrambling/extending plays are an athleticism thing. He's not the athlete Haarberg is, but he's plenty athletic to scramble for a few yards and maybe break a big one in the right circumstance. To me, the reason he looks slow is he's not decisive about it. It looks like he's desperately looking to throw the ball until the millisecond he crosses the LOS.

I was impressed he put his body on the line on the play he got hurt, but the reason he got hurt was because he was hesitant in committing to it, and then didn't have a good feel for how to take the contact. Probably because he barely practices those situations would be my guess.

It really just LOOKS like he's been told not to run with the way he acts/reacts.
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Haarberg

My view on this has shifted a bit, simply because Satterfield is such a blockhead. If Raiola doesn’t play yesterday, NU’s chances of winning might actually improve simply because Satterfield would probably suck it up and run the ball instead of putting everything on the QB’s back.

That’s an effed up reason to choose a starting quarterback, but here we are.
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Cignetti

I think his success warrants some serious examination. This isn't one player playing well. It's the whole fricking team destroying everyone they play against. Their OL, DL, RBs, backup QB, special teams. Some coaches just have something that others don't and can turn a program into a juggernaut. I think they legitimately could beat OSU and win the conference and go undefeated. It's ludicrous to even think possible at this time last year.
Another thing...some guys like Cignetti just never lose at any level. They win at the lower levels then win in the mid-majors then win in the P5 conferences. Look at Urban Meyer's coaching history and it's similar.
IF we don't make it to a bowl this year, I say we go ahead and throw a pile of money at Cignetti. Do it before he goes somewhere else and creates a monster.
Scott Frost was that guy. His best team at UCF though was full of NFL talent that didn't follow him to Nebraska or went to the NFL or graduated. Maybe that has to be another variable in the next hire...how many guys are you bringing with you?

I am ready for option B at QB

He’s an excellent passer but B1G DCs are taking advantage of his inexperience and Satterfield’s play calling. Hasrberg’s legs would give DC’s something else to worry about. The flip side is that DR made 3 throws for chunk yardage that Haarberg probably can’t execute. Bottom line for me is that Haarberg is healthy and Raiola is not. Raiola looks shell shocked and Haarberg looked confident.
Raiola has an excellent arm. That's far different from being an excellent passer at the D-I level. As being an excellent passer involves decision-making and reading defenses which Raiola has proven far from being excellent at through this point of his career.

I really wish we'd stop with these premature accolades, which is in fact one of the biggest cultural problems we see with this football program. How many times have we heard Nebraska has the best defense in the country or Nash is the best DL in the country or Dowdell or Neyor are the best? And a lot of that praise is coming from the head man himself, Matt Rhule. Well it's easy to look like the best during week 1 when you're playing Patsy U, but get into the meat of our schedule in Oct and Nov and we inevitably crumble.
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