The hidden yards, aka field position. MSU built a 10 point 2nd half lead because they were starting every drive near midfield (or better) and we were starting every drive inside our own 10 yard line.
QB situation is on Rhule
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I don't blame Rhule. Though I do blame him for telling us that Sims was an NFL caliber QB. He can't even field a snap half the time.
Don't blame him either. Did you watch his highlights ? Cause I did and didn't see it at all.
Frost deserves some blame. Not one qb was developed under him his entire time. AM regressed and he needed CT to transfer. HH might be serviceable but I don't think frost ever developed him.
Develop him ? He was a Frosh and the Coordinator had no love for him to get reps.
For you information the kid can also run. Right now, he's a better QB than Kaelin is! And to answer your question we need a dual QB because of our OL.
True. Watching Kaelin, who is now a mid- three star across the board, that kid is not the answer. They both suck from what i have seen. Go big or go home. My guess is that they go home.
Rhule is not a very good recruiter. Never has been. Hopefully he figures it out quick. Everone had a hard-on because the Omaha kid had a good Elite 11 performance or whatever. From watching him play, I have seen 3-4 Neb high-school QB's that are better than him. Go south and quit pissing around to please the home-grown fans.
Out of all the returning players in Power 5, Sims led the nation in turnovers. No one, including Matt, saw this coming.
I say it's more about the QB turning it over. Does Iowa have a better QB ? No. They have no offense . They win with defense, special teams, and not turning it over. Nobody talks about the punt return retardation . Fielding the ball over and over instead of letting it go in the endzone. It's a team sport. The QB play is bad but it was a team loss.
So a phase of the game improved. But that's not improvement. Interesting
Huh? You lost me with this. He’s a pretty good recruiter. Hell his first class a boatload of the kids are already impacting the games. When Ohio St and the SEC also come calling for
Your guys you are doing alright.
Correct, there's been no overall improvement. I'm sure we can point to an individual player or unit, but we could do that with Frost and Riley too.
Why wouldn't it be? What job do you work at where you aren't responsible for the things you're paid to do?
Not necessarily so. He and Sat are trying to adjust the offense to what they have. A guy who can run and throw the long ball to wide open guys well enough to have a chance. But when HH has an off day, the coaches decide not to run him after he gets lit up at Purdue, the other team hits a trick play, and the refs take the night off…
Especially when he threw Nations in there for the last punt. If he was good enough to be back there for what I assume would have been the punt return that had the most pressure attached to it, then he should've been good to field them all.
Also, wtf is with Barthel's rb rotation? Can he just let Johnson work up a sweat before he pulls him.
The state of the qb room is pretty much on Rhule. He picked Sims and that turned out to be a set back.
Nice thing is he gets a do-over this off-season.
CT wasn't even able to throw until the summer. He got hurt quickly and was a turnover machine at Florida Atlantic after that.
Aside from that, your post is a captain obvious from the "we need a better QB department" and has been discussed ad nauseam for the entire season. Thanks for the update!
Well, he may not be able to get who he really wants, which would also tell us a lot.
Agree on Thompson; it was going to be difficult for him to convince a new staff he was the guy from the training room.
I truly wonder what Rhule, Satt et al think of Sims inside the building. My guess is that its more a psychological KO than the fact he can't play. They were too high on him through camp for them to think he absolutely cannot play after only 2 games. That said, the a psych KO could easily be the part they couldn't see on film during evaluation.
Yep. I mean, according to the folks here players would rather go to Oregon State, Indiana, NC State, Cal, or Louisville, maybe we can find someone at Hastings or Midland. Doesn't Jamrog work there? Maybe he'll let us poach his 2nd string since this place acts like we aren't worthy of expecting real players.
"He’s a triple threat. He can throw it. He can run it. And he can beat you with his mind as well. He can get to the right play. He’s an NFL player. I think he’s under the radar. Not being talked about a lot. Which is probably good, there’s not a ton of expectation on him. I know our entire team is going to go out and fight for him cause because they believe in him. He’s such a great leader. He’s such a great teammate."
https://cornhuskerswire.usatoday.co...tt-rhule-jeff-sims-thriple-threat-nfl-player/
He hasn’t had a home start yet. I don’t know now if it hurts us to try.
Clearly hasn’t shown the mind talent yet. Part of me wants to see what he would do in a preplanned series without having to come in cold. He has the physical talent you want. It’s not like Heinrich is lighting the world on fire. Rhule is focused on getting us at least to a bowl game. Experimenting with QBs now might be counter productive. It’s a conundrum
I was waiting on the HH pull & hit the middle off that Fleeks motion sweep all 2nd half yesterday and it never came.
I do kind of agree with @Baxter48 in that it seems the playbook each week is fairly short, which has to do with inexperience and lack of talent at all 11 positions plus some position coach unfamiliarity
would also sure be nice to pop a long run from the RB position
I do kind of agree with @Baxter48 in that it seems the playbook each week is fairly short, which has to do with inexperience and lack of talent at all 11 positions plus some position coach unfamiliarity
would also sure be nice to pop a long run from the RB position
