Let the QB battle begin....
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if its in slow mo you should be able to notice that his foot was stepped on by the left gaurd.
I am not sure this type of information is allowed on any Husker website, but especially this free board.
The psyche of some of us Husker fans on this site are in desperate need of insider information that we will grab ahold of any tidbit of hope.
In the first comment I quoted, you put yourself in OrSU with the staff and basically claim to have insider info while praising our two offensive coaches that have been called QB whisperers around here, which gives us faith in you.
Later in that comment, you state that we should have full faith in DL to a point where we set our hopes up high.
In the next comment you place POB on a huge pedestal in our high hopes realm you've just created in our minds.
If for any reason what you said does not come true, you will have taken us up in the optimism airplane that might engulf in flames and leave us thinking we have a parachute only to realize that we walked aboard the suicide plane and Tanner Lee is our only parachute of hope, and if he fails we will jump to our psychological death.
I want to believe you, so I just might have purchased a ticket for that plane before going to sleep last night. Don't let it take off if it is the optimism suicide plane. I would rather you just tear up the ticket now instead, with or without a refund.
I am a Cubs fan as well and have been through too many 'maybe next year's in my life. The Cubs won, so now I fully believe winning again can happen anywhere, even in Huskerville, so the mighty POB and Lee cannot strike out.
I'm all for being optimistic, but POB being a Heisman contender as a RS freshman? C'mon man, I think it's time to cut back on your B-Complex vitamins.
Vitamins. Wacky weed. Booze. Other assorted drugs... Whatever he is taking I might want some myself...
I hear that POB is actually just going to enter the draft without ever playing a down at NU.
I have noticed that too. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the purpose behind changing your user name on here and starting again? Is it to erase a past posting record you are kind of ashamed of and want to make a fresh start? Is it to try and fool people into thinking your's is a new and fresh voice or something? I just don't get it. Seems foolish.
I have been posting under this name since 2009 when I joined. Not bragging at all. But man oh man oh man, have I said some dumb things on here sometimes. And man I have had some epic meltdowns and tantrums and arguments with people I am not proud of at all. But I have also posted, I think, some good stuff. And I see the same in a lot of posters here. It is all just good fun. Right?
I think the board is better when people stick to their original user names. You get to know posters, the good and the bad, and it makes it more fun.
For example, I often disagreed with Red Rover, but I miss him.
I clicked on your name and went back and read your first post on this board.
That put a little more faith in your prediction for me, so I hope you are right.
I just want the best QB to play and one that puts fear in the hearts of our conference's defensive coordinators due to our QBs throwing abilities. Whether it be TLee or POB, I don't care, as long as both can kick ass and take Nebraska's QB play to the top level.
The QB for USC is a redshirt freshman. No reason POB can't be the starter if he is physically ready.
In the case of Red Rover, there are plenty of reasons why he would change his handle and start again. Yikes
If any of our future quarterbacks have as good of a pocket presence as Sam Darnold does we will be very happy. That does not show up on the stat sheet. And his ability to throw on the run was very impressive.
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Well, the deeper question is why in the hell Utter was our starting center in the first place? Was Decker than bad? Were any of the redshirted guys really so undeveloped they could not have played better than Utter?
Don't tell me there were not chemistry issues with some seniors on this team. The ONLY explanation as to why Utter was starting is that benching him would have created more issues with some of the seniors on the team. It was a political move by Riley for the greater good of team chemistry. Not sure it worked....
Fifth year senior with a full year of starting experience vs. a RS frosh. Unless Decker was clearly the better performer (doubtful), benching Utter for the youth movement option probably would not have played well. It's also possible he wasn't quite ready.
Did you watch Utter play this year??? I like your post and you make some good points. That is what I thought too for most of the year. But with every game more evidence kept piling up that Utter is a really awful offensive lineman. Very little leverage, strength or footwork. Constantly getting beat. Whiffing on block after block. You can't tell me that his experience trumped his total lack of a skill set for the position. Somebody had to be better.
Is being a Jedi and using the force a penalty? Because thats the only thing i can come up with to explain how that Lber force pushed Utter back like that.
I always approach these things with the notion that coaches want to win more than fans. Cav is more familiar with Utter's play than we are, as he has to examine film and grade performances (or at least receive that info from someone). If he thought at some point that moving Decker into that spot would have been an upgrade, I think he would have. But it probably would have been a wash (trading talent for lots of game reps+knowledge). I do not closely follow line play, but concede Utter's play was below par. But it wasn't a big enough fail job to get benched in favor of a RS frosh. Who knows, someone other than Decker may be starting at that psn next fall.
IMHO, I believe in my heart that part of the reason they stuck with TA and kept POB's redshirt was that they knew our line would never be able to set a good pocket. So, they had to go with a QB that was a threat to run to keep opposing teams from teeing off on every down, like TN did against Fyfe. Had there been any chance of the line being able to consistently pass pro effectively, I think we might have seen POB at some point in the year. It truly was a year to get as much as we could out of what we had and move on. To me, next season starts the true test of an MR and DL offense. Or, maybe that's just what I tell myself to keep from abandoning all hope. Time will tell . . .
Riley got Lee as a bridge QB to the incoming QBs he has signed, or at the very least, insurance in the event the young ones aren't ready. Better line play doesn't change the fact that POB wasn't equal to TA as of last August. It's possible Lee was and there you'd have a point about TA's escapeability being a feature for a crappy Oline. But he was unable to play. Burning POB's shirt would have put him only a year in eligibility from Lee. I doubt POB wanted that and the coaching staff did everything to prevent it. So no, I don't think we were seeing POB this year, even if our line had been full of NFL talent.
True but part of the equation is having a QB that can get you in the right plays and then quickly make the right decision of where to go with the ball. Your O line is only part of the problem. A good QB can slow down a rush by being able to consistently complete screens. A good QB can recognize a blitz and get it to hot receiver. I'm really looking forward to see what this offense can do with a guy that can HOPEFULLY make the right reads.
You can't reason with emotional people. The defenses stacked the box because they knew TA was worthless throwing from the pocket. Stop the run and you stopped TA. With a QB who is worth more than 10 cents and the offense opens up. Hit a few slants and curl and goes and the defense softens.... You can't have one without the other. (Wiscy knows this and why they had 2 QB's this year, one throwing and one learning on the field).
I think the offense looks incredibly better next year with a QB who is a QB and can "DISTRIBUTE" the ball to the open player.TA was a great athlete but sub par QB. RF was a D2 QB at best. This team has been one dimensional for almost a decade now... ALL QB and nothing to little everything else. Started with Martinez and filtered down to this. I'm looking forward to a balanced offense with a QB who can distribute the ball...
You remember how the way to beat Brady and Manning is to blitz and leave their receivers one on one. Don't you?
If you watch what USC did to Penn St in the first quarter, that is what teams did to Nebraska with Armstrong at QB. The difference was that the PSU QB had the ability to keep the play alive and hit receivers down field, not just take off running, which in turn opened up the run game. With Armstrong as the QB at Penn St last night, the score would have been very one-sided in USCs favor.
It was all sarcasm
relating to some of the posts above the comment about our running game being bad because we didn't have the threat of the QB running.I am all for having a QB that is a threat running the ball (that added threat is amazing as TMart and TA showed us), but not at the complete expense of his passing abilities. A QB that cannot pass accurately will draw 8 men in the box on defense.
Many defenses will always stack the box if there is little chance of the QB passing well. They can stack the box in order to attempt to stop the run from either the RB or the QB.
The running game will open up if our QB is deadly through the air without being deadly on the ground.
It would be hard to convince me that if our QB next year completed 65% or more of his passes that it wouldn't somehow keep defenses from stacking the box. The less they stack the box, the better opportunity our running game has to succeed.
I hope we are all enlightened by a better running game next year and if the QB passing game has a huge improvement, I think the running game will be much better.
Our RBs have shown glimpses of what they can be, so I hope Davis can get it out of them next year.
Didn't see this post before I just wrote my last post a minute ago.
VERY WELL STATED HuskerOH!!!
Not to burst anyone's bubble but I have it on very good authority that POB is not the brightest crayon in the box, if you catch my drift.
