‘Settling’ is very confusing here. We were fortunate to get someone like him in the first place, and he was the best QB on the roster. And all of which to get us in a better place for next season and going forward.
Am I the only one not sold on DR?
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You sound like the battered wife saying how lucky she is to have a family and "He only beats me sometimes." A 7-6 season with a true freshman QB is definitely settling.
Oldjar could fall into a barrel of titties and come out sucking his thumb.
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“But some of them were fakers and too firm, so was the barrel really that great?”
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He needs to use a little less loft on the ball and faster check downs. True FR though so I will wait and see. Overall has a good feel for the game.
He has receipts to where he predicted that some of the titties would be too firm or fake.
Imagine some dork complaining about a Husker QB with a 74% completion percentage on a slick field with shitty conditions.
DR was certainly the best QB on the roster, and it isn't close. He was also a true freshman, the sky is the limit. Some of these guys just need to be right and are blinded by that, he could push for All-American status next season, the pieces are falling into place.
It’s crazy. This rabid fan base has to turn on someone all the time. And DR was it astonishingly the one after the first bowl game in 8 years.
I’ll never understand the many, many outspoken posters calling for him to be benched multiple weeks during the season.
What DR did this year he did with no help from the coaching staff, which is even more impressive if you ask me.
He never blamed anyone. Coaches or teammates. He just kept his head down and kept grinding. Guys in the NFL dont do that. Some "fans" forget he's fvcking 19 years old.
As for @oldjar07 ’s continued insistence on Rhule having his cake and eating it, too, in the QB room:
There was never a “both” option for McCord and DR. His premise is rooted in fantasy.
It was always one or the other, as neither were going to commit without a guaranteed starting job. Worked out for all involved.
If this was Year 4 or 5 for Rhule and he had to win now or be fired, he’d have taken McCord.
Imagine where we would be offensively with DH on staff in the spring.
Probably, but it brings out all of the naysayers. Like flipping a light switch on in a filthy, infested kitchen
DR has a lot of room for improvement. Which is why every team in the country wanted him. His ceiling is the 1st overall pick. The guy oldjar salivates over is petitioning for an extra year because he must have got a bad draft grade. Most people have him mid to late round pick. Full disclosure, I would absolutely use a pick on Mccord in the middle rounds. Take him and let him develop as a backup.
Nothing wrong with McCord. Would’ve probably won an extra game or 2 with him, but the future is significantly brighter by fighting through the challenges of a true freshman at the helm. Hell, McCord might’ve done well enough to keep Satt around and we would not be better for it going into next season.
Athletes always have things to work on and DR is no different. Kid seems to have pretty good drive and I think he will clean up his game and continue to try and get better. I guess we will see what happens next year and how our transfers pan out, but I love what we have on paper right now for skill positions outside of the RB room. I think our WR's are going to be really good, I think out TE room is really good, and I like EJ. I'm optimistic on Parker, but still think we need another RB as that room just isn't good.
I'd still take the senior QB with an ungodly starting record 10 times out of 10 in that situation. Especially if the true freshman is demanding to start. And even if we don't get Raiola his freshman year, he sits on the bench at Georgia or Ohio State, likely gets passed up by their other 5* quarterbacks, and he gets antsy and is looking for a new home come that point, where we would have an opening for him anyway. And even if Raiola doesn't work out at all in that situation, there was another promising young QB available, Sam Leavitt, that we would have been able to pursue at the same time as McCord. People like to think in their own mind that I don't know what I'm talking about, but in reality, I'm 10 steps ahead. I'd take McCord and Sam Leavitt all day over an entitled true freshman QB.
NFL draft status means less than shit to outcomes in college football. I'd take the guy coming off an 11-1 record and who produced a top 10 Heisman result this year.
that's fine.
there is just no world in which we get both McCord and DR in the same class.
DR would have had an opportunity to compete with a chance to win the qb battle at Georgia and OSU this year
That guy is scared to compete. Ran from competing with Will Howard. LOL. Ran from competing with a true freshman at Nebraska. Now appears to be running from competing to be a top draft pick. Rumors that he is appealing for an extra year at Syracuse rather then go in the draft.
ohio st did mccord pretty dirty
they got will howard long after he had left
I also don't think he "ran from competing" with DR. he had his list of Ts & Cs and went where they were agreed to.
if we agree and take him, DR goes elsewhere. is that "running from competing" with McCord? I don't think so.
They told him they were bringing in a portal addition to compete with him and he bailed. Right or wrong. That is what big time programs do.
Ha. Ok. When an offense scores very few points (last 2 games Neb scored 10 and 20) then the Defense has to hold the opposing offense to even less points. The D was the strength of this year’s team - not the offense. Dylan plays offense. The offense was one of the lowest scoring offenses
Dylan IS a great player though and will start in the NFL one day.
Raiola fumbled 7 times. 1 that ruined a masterful performance by Neb’s D and led to a winning kick by Iowa. Only the 2nd school since 2000 that won a game with only 5 first downs. More interceptions for DR too. Raiola will be a first round draft pick in the NFl. AM was not. My argument here has always been that AM had the better Frosh season - nothing else. DR was nails in the first 4 games or so…then he fell off a bit. Our O didn’t score a lot of points. DR plays on O. If not for Neb’s D (especially the line - Nash and Robinson) Nebraska doesn’t go bowling.
this is revisionist history.
ohiost were hell bent on running mccord out of town in October of last year.
even the QB competition prior to the season was bizarre when it was clear he'd won the job.
I believe 2 things happened. Mccord wanted to be promised the starting job and Raiola wanted a chance to win the job.
Your first paragraph is kind of where I am. McCord was the guy I wanted and there’s no doubt the team would have won a couple more games with him in the roster.
But this would have masked the issues on the team as a whole. It wasn’t just QB play that was the problem this year. It was coaching. From Rhule on down.
It was after the NIU game that I began to have serious concerns about the team. The defense was showing some major cracks in the armor. And when I pointed that out on the forum by saying the team was going to have play a lot better to beat Illinois and Indiana, it was met with scorn by the usual posters with brainrot.
Then Illinois and Indiana proved it. Some of you are just so confidently wrong about shit that I often find myself envious of your ignorance.
The team was very much - and still is - a work in progress. And they seemed to be a couple years away from being really good. That may still be the case, but we’ll see what these new portal players and recruits do next year.
Having McCord would have hidden a lot of those problems. They would have likely gone 9-4 and everyone would be extremely optimistic about the future, and then next year sans McCord the team would crash and burn. (Or with that record, they may have gotten even better players in the portal so who knows.)
At any rate, having DR may have been a blessing in disguise as it allows the coaching staff to address the weaknesses in a real way.
I can't argue with what you believe.
I just know Rhule has been our coach for 2 years and has promised the starting QB job prior to each.
and I don't fault him for it or necessarily think it's a bad thing, although it looks really bad when you pick the wrong guy (Sims).
DR doesn't come here if McCord is in the room. that's just a fact and you don't seem to dispute it.
That’s crazy talk. We have experts in this thread who know better. Aren’t you paying attention?
he definitely would've had the opportunity to compete for the job at ohiost
not sure there was much of a QB competition at UGA, though
I’m just basing the UGA on my eyes. Beck really underwhelmed this year.
And Martinez lost 6 fumbles. You are trying really hard to win an unwinnable argument. This is like arguing best teams ever and comparing army from the 1940s and Miami in the late 80s early 90s.
I don't think he would have won either one. Both their backups are just as accurate to this point with more mobility than DR.
Absolutely this and his deep ball placement as someone else already mentioned.
He doesn't need to totally transform his body or anything extreme. Literally just need more confidence in running defensively (protecting himself) and lose a few lbs to be more nimble.
That 4th and 1 needs to be a 1st down every time in that scenario - even if barely.
Fair enough. And maybe it worked out for the better in some way in getting Satterfield out as OC.
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