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  1. You've quoted his post three times now and made your point. We get it.
  2. I'm guessing Sims was already planning to transfer. He's lost his job and I'm fairly confident next year's starting QB is either going to be Haarberg or someone not yet on the roster. I do feel bad for him, though. Was really hoping he'd play well the next time he was given an opportunity, for his own sake. That was a dud.
  3. I learned that Sims has not in fact changed from the player we saw the first two games, and that's too bad. I had hoped (for his sake) he might come out and play well the next time he was given an opportunity. I also learned that this program is truly beginning to build confidence, and that the confidence is translating to the field. Gotta keep it going, but it's really encouraging.
  4. Excellent route and pass. Credit where it's due!
  5. That what we've all been talking about in the pass game - they struggle so much at getting all the parts of it to click. If it's not a bad throw it's a drop, if it's not a drop it's a bad route, etc.
  6. I agree with your premise. More or less, my point was that I don't think Nebraska is in a strong position to have a high caliber passing attack to consistently compete with some of the places that recruit at a higher level. I'd much, much prefer they have a QB whose true strengths are in the passing game. Like you said, to be able to illustrate a competency. And if he's mobile/talented enough to run 3-5x per game then that's fine and probably helpful in a college offense. Of course, that requires some better pieces around them, as well. I think people sometimes take for granted all that goes into having an effective passing attack (particularly when it comes to route running and pass blocking). The program has spent too many years where all those things don't line up enough consistently on any given play.
  7. Well stated. Plus, particularly with the bolded part, I imagine it's a tough position for the coaches. We can safely assume much of the first drive of a game is scripted and they want to keep a defense on their toes. So, first play of the game, they're probably putting in something they have high confidence will work. And then it failed spectacularly. Probably a little bit of 'hands thrown up in the air' on something like that. But yeah, that's where I fall back on what you said - probably err on the side of caution and go with something that's a little lower risk. We know this offense can't do much and is going to have to win ugly. IMO better to keep it ugly than to risk giving the opponent incredible field position 15 seconds into the game.
  8. PREACH on this. Maybe they've run a few of these this season and I just haven't been paying attention, but I've been wishing they'd do more of them. I feel like it's a better way to get HH in a rhythm vs. relying on him to drop back, go through his progressions and fire an accurate pass.
  9. I do tend to believe Nebraska' position in the CFB landscape, as well as the climate and weather patterns, lend itself more towards having a high powered rushing attack. Columbus, OH, isn't a hugely different from Lincoln, NE, in regards to weather (probably a bit windier in Lincoln), but tOSU also does tend to have better athletes who I think are in a better position to make a passing attack more consistently successful. It reminds me of Green Bay of all places and their ability to have Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Green Bay's weather sucks in the fall/winter, but it's also the NFL where you get the best of the best talent, so they're able to make some of those things work consistently. I've never been particularly convinced that Nebraska can compete at a high level in a passing attack because of all of those factors, which was something that made me nervous about Frost's hiring and if he decided he wanted to be heavily pass oriented. That's not to say Nebraska could NEVER do it, I just don't think they're in a strong position for it.
  10. I mean, Fidone had a good look. His route was also probably the first read on the play by design. Haarberg just threw a crap pass. It didn't looked forced to me. That play was almost assuredly scripted and practiced the entire week and I wager they probably felt it was going to work. Given the fact HH isn't a great passer, I wouldn't be surprised if the coaches aren't giving him very simple progressions and just banking on him throwing a good ball. And if the pass isn't there, tuck it and run. It's probably naïve on our part to expect anything more. I think the more interesting conversation is about the play calling. That's now the 2nd or 3rd time this season where the first offensive play call of the game was an intermediate pass. Obviously, HH is going to need to make some of those, and he should've connected on this particular one. But geesh... can't help but feel like there's just better ways to get the offense in a rhythm. Maybe a play action rollout with an underneath crossing route to a TE. Or hell, maybe test the interior of one of the worst rushing defense in the B1G. It seems like there's a pretty strong desire to get HH in a rhythm early with these 10-15+ yard pass plays despite the fact they don't execute them particularly well.
  11. Although I don't know what the defensive play was, Hartzog was playing almost 10 yards off the WR. The linebackers and safeties are all bunched on the short side of the field. So, I'm fairly confident he's in single coverage, which to me would suggest he's intended to play that situation safe precisely because of what happened - if he gets beat on a double move, he risks a huge play. The only possible excuse I could think of that wouldn't be his fault is if the safety was supposed to provide help over the top, but from the pre-snap, the safety is not really in a place to help. Also, this is more of a question than an assertion, but what do we constitute as a "blitz" in this defense? Because it's 3-3-5, is anything more than three considered a blitz? Because I only see four pass rushers. I guess it could be a "blitz" but something about four pass rushers just feels normal to me, even in a 3-3-5. IDK how they classify/analyze that. Either way, I don't put much of this on the pass rush. They had a field day against Northwestern. They can't get home every play, and as a corner, you can't just hope the pass rush bails you out.
  12. Do we know NIL was part of the equation or are we just assuming?
  13. Some of you have never played an honest game of Madden and it shows. Archy's explanations are pretty accurate though. Plays are usually designed to go to specific players, attack specific weak areas, or attack specific players in a defense, so safeties can sometimes be part of the first read. Four verts aka four vertical routes is perhaps the most obvious example because the safeties often immediately determine where you're going to go with the ball. And if you're not reading a specific player, sometimes you read an area. Like if you know your primary read on the play is about to run his route into a soft spot between two defenders, you'll read that area as opposed to just one specific defender.
  14. Every year, fan bases debate the value of a specific qb coach, and it almost always boils down to anecdotal examples of where one apparently worked and one apparently didn't. Realistically, we might just all have to agree that perhaps there's more nuance to it all.
  15. I agree, though perhaps for slightly different reasons. It's pretty clear to me that the entire team has shown an aptitude for winning with Haarberg at the helm. It isn't pretty, and the execution is too often nauseating, but it's resulting in wins. It just feels like a pretty considerable risk to mess with the formula by re-injecting Sims, based on what we've seen and what we know. I don't think Sims should be condemned to some eternal dog house but the team he was a part of in week one and two isn't the team out there now. I haven't seen a convincing argument yet to this point that would make me think otherwise. Not to mention the fact that the current offense is made up of so many hodge-podge parts that it's making Buffalo Bill's skin suit look like Bloomingdale's storefront display.
  16. IMO, I think it's due in large part to the nature of being an offensive player. I did a quick Google search and found that there have actually been some studies on the topic. In general, running backs and wide receivers tend to suffer the most injuries. Quarterbacks and o-linemen are among the least. It's unfortunate for the team that so many of said injuries have been season-ending ones, too. We're all used to seeing guys get dinged up and missing a few weeks but to see guys have their seasons end at this rate is pretty unfortunate. Some of it just bad luck, too.
  17. Ahh there it is. Yeah, definitely disagree with it "can't be fixed" or "ain't changing" angle. I do tend to think though it gets tougher and tougher to make changes the older they get. As weird as it is to say, Haarberg isn't a spring chicken. Year three of his collegiate career and all. But, T Martinez improved his overall mechanics and accuracy after he went through his off season QB coaching program. I wonder if anybody who knows his high school film saw this with regularity. A lot of the highlights show better footwork and throwing motions than some of the stuff he's been doing recently, but, they're also highlights so, by definition, the best of his best.
  18. Yeah, I agree. I'm searching the thread and not finding many claims of people saying you explicitly "can't change" a quarterback's mechanics/throwing motion. Maybe I'm missing it. I know this discussion has happened across a few different threads recently. My recollection of the general narrative is precisely as you put it: it's difficult/challenging, but not impossible.
  19. I think he's had six total, three in each game he started, but might be mistaken.
  20. Have the fans hit the point yet where the injuries on offense are making them question the team's toughness and S&C, or do we still like this coaching staff enough to not do that yet?
  21. Couldn't agree more. This is why I'm not too caught up in the style this year. Developing a winning culture and focusing on the process is way more important than worrying about how it looks, particularly for a program that has forgotten what it's like to win. The style points will come once all of the foundation is set and built upon. All the good looking teams around the country only look good because they do the important things right, not because they want to just look good. Also, this offense is made up of parts that make Frankenstein's monster look like a prom queen. Some people want to bemoan the loss of Casey Thompson and all sorts of other things but right now this offense is what it is.
  22. You have to be really careful working with an older quarterback's mechanics. I know it sounds weird to refer to Haarberg like that, but a 20-year-old in their third year of division one football isn't exactly a blank canvas. Often times what you'll see in a situation with someone like Haarberg is more of a fine-tuning of existing mechanics, i.e. avoid making wholesale changes, but find what you can do to tweak the existing framework and improve overall performance. I don't know what his mechanical ceiling is but I do think there are some things they could work on that wouldn't compromise him too much, particularly his footwork, which makes me gag often.
  23. Exactly this. Apparently TO told Rhule sometime before the game 'if you're going to run the belly g option, you have to put in a belly g pass.' So, it was a great play call, good protection, a great pass, a great route, and a great catch. Five things went their way. But, it doesn't necessarily mean Malachi is the new deep threat or that they'll have success finding him on deep plays moving forward. He's still a young guy and Haarberg is still an inconsistent passer. That's not to take anything away from Malachi, because he executed excellently, but this offense hasn't really shown it can consistently get those five things right on the same play.
  24. the battles we go through life
  25. Well, they're not going to turn off the beer taps just because Nebraska has a losing season. If (or, more likely, when) they decide to allow alcohol sales, it's not going to be dependent upon how good or bad the team is. Plus, there are some steps they could take to limit negative consequences. Some universities who launched gameday alcohol sales began doing so only at the club level, and then expanded to the rest of the stadium over time. You could also limit sales to 1-2 per transaction, cut off sales at the end of the 3rd quarter (similar to how baseball cuts off in the 7th inning), and require they only be purchasable on the concourses. I tend to think alcohol related incidents will increase (it happened at Ohio State) but this is all about business. Alcohol sales are generally viewed as a fan benefit and it brings in a lot of revenue.
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