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Considering most of your posts are some combination of wildly incorrect, offensive, or detached from reality, I am going to trust our coaches' evaluations of quarterbacks over yours. Have a good one!

So, if Smothers would have been 1 for 3 with a swing pass that went for 90 yards, you would be feeling awesome about him. 30 yards per attempt..WOOOHOOO!!!!

Smothers was 8-13 with no interceptions? Pretty rough judgement for a kid who has only been in one scripted scrimmage at the college level. Haarberg looked like a green kid who didn't know much - to be expected for someone who just joined the team. However, he seemed to be settling in pretty well and tossed the touchdown that won the game in the end. Potential is there, even if the negative individuals in our fan base don't want to acknowledge it.

Not sure why someone thought this comment was funny. Fact is, we have more QB depth right now than we have had in a long time.

NU will start off 3-0 and head to Norman ranked in the top 25, they will lose that game but they won't drop much and they will hang around 20-25 all year.

If we had gotten Joe Burrow, it is a KNOWN FACT that COVID-19 never would have happened. KNOWN FACT, muchachos.

it is part of making a case to trust the coaches, they at least know the players' names.

Not sure it was a mic you dropped...

HEYYY"" Did you guys hear. Our coaches passed on Joe Burrow man. Joe fu&&ing Burrow man.

Oh, so there is more to look at than yards per attempt.

So other QBs get the benefit of the doubt on small sample size but not ours. Seems legit.

I have an employee whose brother was an extreme anti vaxer that thought the government was implanting chips. He died over the weekend from COVID. Not all posts like that are some Biden administration's back room attempt to fool everyone into getting vaccinated.

Small sample size- at the end of the day yards per attempt is the metric I love and he averaged 10 yards per attempt. Our guy averaged 6. Im guessing Fields will have a better career than Smothers- being able to consistently complete the long ball matters.

Nothing against Ahman Green, as he was an awesome Husker and had great years in the NFL, I just struggle with hiring guys just because he was a great, former Husker. Has Ahman done any coaching at any level since retiring in the NFL?

Our coach who sees them play every day did, so I'm going to trust him.

I'm not sure why so many people accept this concept.. We have the #4 dual threat QB in the nation from 2019 on our roster. He wasn't ready last year understandably but after a full year of fairly normal football activities, he should be ready to go. My guess is he is completely capable of being a great QB if he is needed for whatever reason.

Ya know what I can’t wait for? The first playoff poll. I was going to start a way too early dedicated thread informing everyone of that fact but I see we already have a way too early similar posting here so…..

The ENTIRE thought process is NU has consistently made poor decisions on evaluating QBs and developing QBs. Their decision making has been poor at best and shouldn't be trusted now. Empirically where have any of our QBs shown improvement? Luke- no one wanted him. When someone is number 2 on an insanely talented team AND he wants to play for you- you evaluate him correctly. Joe didn't develop all those skills overnight- he had a bunch of them before he transferred.

Now give Adrian 2 first round WRs, a first round RB and LSU'S O-line, and visa versa for Burrow.

time for a thread to end

So, nothing these coaches have done with QBs in the past counts for anything. All evaluation needs to be had in the last 3 years while the rest of the team has gone through a complete roster rebuild. Ok.

I snore bad enough that I probably am going to be told I have to wear two masks while sleeping too.

What if you just take the top 6 from the PAC12 and let the remaining and the leftover Big XII form their own conference?

What a clown. I guess we can assume he will wear a mask forever in public now since he has no right to breathe on anyone

I wish the eye roll emoji was still available.

And all of that wouldn't have ever happened if he came to Nebraska. So much of his success happened because he landed in a place that was full of talented guys. Your reasons to complain are a stretch man.

@BigRedBuster My post was mostly tongue-in-cheek. I am for vaccinations. I'm sorry to hear about the anti-vaxxer. I too lost a friend in Houston because he thought the same way. It really sucks. And most of my friends in the community aren't getting vax no matter what (gov't trust issue). It sucks too. The vote Dem.

So do you account for small sample size or no? Was our guy going against the #1 defense while Fields was going against the 2s or 3s? Also, please continue to whine about results when it hasn't been possible to have any results of any kind for most of the last nine months.

Our guy averaged 6 yards per attempt AND he was locking in early on 1 guy and I wasnt impressed with his arm strength So my eyes didnt see great QB play. I want to see RESULTS not propaganda.

Lauren Boebert can be a dummy in her own right, but it looks like her challenger is right up with her. These statements are so patently false and easily disproven. Is she a plant and trying to get Boebert re-elected?

You're basing your evaluation of Smothers off of seeing one out of 15 total spring practices. Our coaches would have brought in a more experienced quarterback via transfer if they though Smothers or Haarberg weren't capable of being a competent backup.

I would probably argue that QB depth means “multiple guys able to successfully execute the normal offence.” In this case the backups are extremely young and should AM2 go down for whatever reason (which we should all pray he doesn’t) I don’t think we’re anywhere close to that. That is not to say that if the OL executes to its potential that the backups can’t move the ball, just that the playbook needs to be drastically cut-down for both back up options (with Smothers likely requiring a higher run:pass ratio). Bottom line is if the OL was projected to be weak, this would be a bigger concert, but calling our QB Depth “good” requires a very optimistic world view.

8-13 with the 1s. He did have 1 incompletion with the 2s. He didn't look like a world beater but anyone expecting that would be crazy. He got very little work leading up to this spring since he was 3rd on the depth chart during the Covid year. Pretty tough to make a complete judgement of the kid under those circumstances imo. The only other body of work we can compare to is his high school career- which was pretty damn good. Have you watched the kids highlight video? Looks pretty capable imo. I am hoping we don't need him until next year or the year after but I believe he will be solid when his number is called.

did anyone else read the article that said Ahman Green would be up to taking a coaching position at Nebraska? I'ld hire him.

i appreciate him being serious now ....but a republican at 6 years old? i bet he was fun in kindergarten

I think Adrian is going to surprise alot of people this year. With a better OL, a better group of recievers , I'm expecting great things from AM.

Don't hold your breath

Adrian had better performance and a better ceiling and a longer career ahead of him when Burrow was transferring. This isn't true. His productivity was better his junior year than it was his sophomore year.

wait, garbage time stats are now an indicator of greatness? damn, the coaches need to scour the backup qb ranks looking for the next guy who is 29/39 for 287 yds with 2 tds after being in a program for 3 yrs. again, burrows showed nothing during his tOSU days to make anyone think he would do what he did.

Absolutely- they have an excellent track record of evaling QBs here- but they dont so why should they be trusted.? They havent earned ANY confidence in their QB decision making or development. They passed on JOE BURROW who was begging to play here- mic drop.

i asked what he had done up to the point he transferred from tOSU and you said he won a heisman and a national championship. he did those things after he left. the coaches took a 4 yr player over a 2 yr player thinking there was more upside. they probably also werent expecting starting multiple walkon wrs after whiffing on several wrs. that doesnt even take into account the poor OL play the past 3 years. so not taking burrows wasnt a huge miss because burrows isnt getting drafted, winning a nc or the heisman playing at NU. he went to one of the best places to showcase his talents then had an OC his senior year develop a gameplan to showcase them even more.

I dream of a day when there are politicians who don't make crap up. I understand slight exaggerations. But, just simply making crap up like this is unacceptable.

Sure, but for me- its what I look at first after interceptions

It is very rare that at the FBS level, you have multiple QBs on the depth chart with enough playing time to be able to say "Yep, he's awesome and we've seen it". Fact is, you have to go off of potential and I believe we have two guys behind 2AM that have that potential. We haven't had that in a long time.

One sided, inconsistent and politically motivated, unlike Fox News? I mean I agree with the sentiment generally but how do you choose a side when both sides are so clearly biased? Personally I wish they would ban all social media. That whole platform is responsible for so much of what is wrong, not only politically but with sports and social justice issues and so much more. It’s a cancer.

I don’t think they want to go there. The only take they have on COVID is that lots of people may be coming across the border with. I don’t think they want to mention COVID. I think they run on immigration and border security to take back AZ and some blue areas of Texas and couple that with crime/defund the police and inflation if prices for everything are still high.

Who cansay on this best GBR interboard that the BIG 8 needs to be again? I'm rember it and some can to. I cant fix the mess. I liked old time 1 o'clock kick off. Miss big 8. TuffTiger Columbia,MU

If the past year and a half has taught me anything, it’s the staggering number of Right Wingers in this country who have little to no concern for what’s best for society. All you R’s out there, Why is that? Your perceived personal “freedoms” “trump” potentially saving tens of thousands of lives. These are human beings just like you and me. For a party who claims to want to protect unborn babies, many of you seem to care awfully little for them when they do enter this world.

32 may be too many. FOX would pay for more matchups between Mich, OSU, NU, PSU and USC, UCLA, Wash, Oregon...But I doubt it’s enough to support 32 teams. As it stands now the PAC12 would dilute the BIG 10 revenue, unless we just took a couple of the big boys like USC.