I hope Smothers is starting game 1.
Smothers
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There's a been a gradual upgrade in offensive talent across the board. It's been slower than we would like, but now is the time for it to make a big jump forward and for this offense to click.
It all starts up front. Get the Center snapping on target, the OL controlling the LOS, then have your skill guys making plays, stretching the defense or pounding the rock dictating what the defense does. Do that and you can have a Matt Turman game managing type QB winning games for you.
Looking forward to the spring game to see what we have across the board.
Looking forward to the spring game to see what we have across the board.
Running game and the Oline are the gas and engine of this offense. Think of the WRs as the higher gears. If the tank is low and the engine is misfiring, it doesn’t matter what the racing speed is.
Any Brook reference is getting a like from me. Of course, it made me look up YouTube videos of him.
Id take accuracy over arm strength. You can engineer receivers open to minimize arm strength issues if you have accuracy. A big arm with poor accuracy is a recipe for picks and 3. & outs.
I have recently been pretty negative and sarcastic about Husker football but Smothers is going to be the man. The dude is the total package. He can run like a deer and owns a really good arm. Smothers will be the Qb that saves Frost his job and leads Husker nation out of the wilderness. Plus he is a good looking guy and probably crushes the co-eds, similar to Skunk back in the day.
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All offer lists are self reported. Rivals can dig if they want but it's an NCAA violation for the school to disclose that they've offered a kid. I'm sure high school coaches will spill the beans as well but not all kids report all offers they get.
My wife roomed with Brook Berringer's older sister in college at KSU. She remembers when Brook visited, all the girls thought he was a cutie.
Well we better hope he is the real deal because the odds are that Maritinez will get dinged up at some point in the season. And no matter how good his raw talent is, he is still very inexperienced. A season ending injury to Martinez would be a real blow to this team. I still hope Frost pursues the transfer portal for one more seasoned back up. I think Smothers is going to be a good QB for us but I doubt he is ready to be a starter who can win us games in the B1G.
This is where coaching comes in to play, Saban and Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, have no problem preparing a talented freshman to play early and at a high level. My fear is Harry Potter and the bank teller screwing him up.
From his video it appears to me that Smothers could pass in high school a lot better than his O line could block. Damn he always had somebody in his face right after the ball was snapped.
I can remember one freshman QB playing for Saban and that was Tua late in the year after a full spring, summer and fall camp. He got to play late in multiple blowouts during the season gaining experience before he burst on to the scene late his freshman year. I don't think we've had many blowouts to get a true freshman game reps. On the flip side, Frost has played multiple true freshman at other positions and they've largely played well.
Jalen Hurts, Tua's predecessor, also started as a true freshman. they were #1 all year, SEC champs and lost to Desean Watson in an epic title game basically at the buzzer 35-31.
Tua, of course, played the entire second half of the title game the next year as a true frosh, making one of the all-time improbable throws in CFB history to beat UGA. this year's Heisman winner, Devonte Smith, also as a true freshman, was on the receiving end of that throw.
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Seems like the solution is to get a bunch of 5-star players. Darn it why doesn’t Scott just do that
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