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And Tommie could moonwalk faster than Raiola can run. They're totally different QBs who were both amazing high school prospects.

And Satterfield has to help his young QB. After signing day, all I want to read about is getting a QB coach and that staff and those analysts sitting down and breaking down this passing game. Focus on improving timing and spacing and getting that ball out of the QBs hand.

We're not doing that, the game of football does that. No other position in team sports has such an onus on success and failure. Even a baseball team is composed of half pitchers. Quarterbacks always have the weight of the world on their shoulders because the modern game is designed that way. As the saying goes, they get too much blame and too much credit. Nebraska ranked near the very bottom in every passing statistic, dead last in giveaways, second to last in turnover margin. It's a miracle they won 5 games, to be honest. Raiola doesn't have to play like the top recruit in the country, he just has to get Nebraska to be an average offense.

Which also sits in a dead period. Sunday (today) was a quiet period. It's a very strange time to have a signing day.

The SEC got their TV deal after getting out from under that horrible CBS deal. The powers that be don't want any more competition down there.

For Nebraska, certainly. But for a coach who stacks 5 stars on top of 5 stars, maybe a rent a player isn't a bad idea. That said, I have no idea why Lincoln Riley thinks Howard is that guy.

We do have a renewed emphasis now on special teams, but we'd also be remiss if we didn't put things in historical context. Kick return numbers are unsurprisingly heavily impacted by recent rule changes but most of those guys you mention are from an era that's very different in terms of punt returns, too. Punters, on average, have gotten much better at ball placement and coaches are more intelligent on when to punt. In the modern game, possession is generally prioritized over field position. There are teams that just don't see the value in practicing special teams and are content with just gaining possession and getting on with it.

Dude spent all weekend up here chillin' with the homies instead of being at Georgia's practice. Don't need to pay 9.95 to anyone to know that cat's strayin.

Even when they did call them in '22 you often had situations like an overload on the right but the back blocks to the left. Lots of situations that year where Nebraska had enough blockers but they were still getting free rushers. Last year the entire operation was much cleaner. There is still a long ways to go, though. Nebraska gave up a sack on 10% of pass attempts, ranking about 121 out of 133 teams. A lot of that is because we really only passed the ball when we had to, usually in poor down and distance situations and obviously the revolving door of QBs isn't going to help that situation. A competent passer, and much more reliance on the quick game, will drastically improve that metric.

In his other tweet, Lars predicts Santa may have a big weekend coming up.

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You want that bridge QB to be a veteran starter, like several of the better transfer QBs would have been, not a career emergency backup. I think if Rhule had to do last season over again he plays Purdy early and gives him a run of game but he didn't. At some point in time, maybe we just need to realize that while Purdy has a lot of potential he's also entering his 5th season as a career 52% passer.

That portal is thinning out quickly. At this juncture, there probably isn't a QB that we're capable of bringing in that would be an adequate bridge for a player of Raiola's caliber. He lacks the experience, which is what Raiola at this point lacks. I really wish Purdy had gotten a significant run of games as a starter by this point in his career, rather than most of his playing time being emergency duty, because I also believe in his potential. That time would have been last year, not this year. I'd like to keep him solely because of numbers, but if he wants to play he's probably best served transferring to a lower tier school. If you go back the past several decades almost all of the top rated QBs have sat all or most of their first year and the ones that have played significant minutes have not put up that great of numbers. Very few are Trevor Lawrence. With respect to Raiola, he's very, very advanced as a high school player. He has off the charts arm talent and an ability to stay alive in the pocket that is rarely developed until the professional level. Even when you do get a bead on him, he's already so big he can brush it off and still make an accurate throw. You don't want to overhype the guy, but there's significant reason to believe he can buck the trend of true freshman number 1 ranked QBs.

Predictions for Raiola right now are like picking what time Santa comes after he's eating the cookies. Even the Georgia fans aren't talking about it anymore.

He already didn't commit twice and we somehow survived the apocalypse.

Highly likely at this point they bring back Joe Philbin.

Would we be better off having a top talent transfer in for a year so you didn't have to start a frosh? Yeah. It's a tough ask for any frosh to start Game 1 and when they do you have to accept those growing pains. Is is the difference between going bowling or not? Absolutely not. The bar to go bowling isn't very high.

The QB in the modern game is obviously super important, but the threshold of what that QB needs to be is way lower in college football than in the pro game if you have all of the other pieces. In Nebraska's situation where you don't have stacked 5 stars everywhere then nothing will progress your team faster than a bonafide star QB. It's not just going to make the offense so much better, but it will make this defense, which is already pretty good and will return a boatload of talent, that much better because you can play more aggressive. When you know your offense won't score and therefore any big play you give up might be the game and you have to hold them to field goals and manage short fields and those things you have to call a game differently. When you get up a few scores though, which Nebraska hasn't been able to do in quite some time, you can take so many more chances. To me, the recruiting doesn't come as much from signing a guy like this, it comes from the wins a guy like this can help generate. Nebraska has the fanbase, the facilities, the conference....everything they need except for the wins.

I think the idea there is similar to the DBs.....bring in a lot of athletes you like and move them around. Losing Lacy really hurt this class.

Exactly. Everyone will keep acquiring talent and the grass isn't always greener. Dozens of transfers every year learn this lesson the hard way. Presumably, one of those places is somewhere he wants to play at and the other is the place he's running towards. There could obviously be a lot of issues other than just competition that we just don't know about and maybe never will.

This was always expected, and possibly more. MSU isn't just gonna sit back and not acquire quarterbacks.

And Raiola is a 3 year guy (especially if we don't get a transfer qb), and Kaelin is a 5 year guy. If it's just playing time, and it could be more than that, then he really needs to get some good advice and think this through.

What's a 3rd string Center at Georgia making? It's easy to justify in our heads to pay a QB X amount of money because of the value of the position is so high, but it's the collective total of the team that matters and your ability to not only pay that but continue to pay an ever escalating increase. Sports economics don't function quite like regular economics because the values are only significant relative to each other. 10 million dollars is a lot of money but if you think you're better than the guy making 15 million then you're getting screwed. Sports organizations all over the world have had to put in spending regulations to literally keep teams from spending their way into debt. It's so easy to justify player expense in the name of competition but what happens is at the end of the day the payout doesn't always cover the expenditure. The NIL thing right now has no real regulation and with the way the NCAA and its member schools are set up and with the courts constantly getting involved I'm not sure how there can be, legally speaking, any sort of regulation needed to get this thing in check without a significant restructuring and collective organization by the respective parties.

I think we see their problem. Required - Mommy not needing to drive you to work. Desired - It'd be sorta nice if you've ever called plays. Notice even that desired section they don't just list a desire for previous offensive coordinator experience but rather 'Successful football offensive coordinator experience'. What does that even mean? Is that a polite way of saying "Did you only keep your job because Daddy was your boss".

That's the only part that does make sense. Casey never had that high of draft stock to begin with. He might as well come back, collect his NIL check from the AARP and pal around with his buds.