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12 hours ago, chamrocck said:

I’d argue SF has all sorts of weapons that make a game manager like B. Purdy successful.

They have good skill guys, but the key to that offense is they have offensive lineman that can really move. They ask a lot of their lineman with their reach blocks. That makes the defenders overplay to beat them to those spots and then the 49ers utilize a lot of motion and misdirection to punish them when they do that.

All of their big guys can really move whether that's OL, TE, or FB and that immensely helps them with a wide variety of screen passes. They also love quads and with all of that motion that creates a lot of opportunities. Purdy gets a lot of easy throws at times because they can either create a numbers advantage in this way or set it up so that they can isolate a backside receiver if the defense overplays the strong side. They simply do a fabulous job stretching you laterally with their motion and mobility, and off of that lateral stretch they can create verticality by attacking those seams. It's this mobility by everyone, but in particular the offensive line, that forces the defense to overplay and that allows the running and passing game to sync off of one another.

As it relates to Nebraska, this falls in line with our overall recruiting and S&C philosophy. Both offensively and defensively, we want big guys that can move and guys on both sides of the ball made big strides towards that end this past season.

Like is typical with Rhule classes this is an underrated class. Lots of guys will grow into big, fast, physical frames. Lots of guys will change positions. Finally, lots of guys will come in early and while that last aspect doesn't go into the ratings, maybe it should because those guys won't be the same come fall.

I can’t believe the college football world lost it’s collective mind over this bum this week.

3 minutes ago, Gorillahawk said:

As we seen this year, bad QB play is almost impossible to overcome. Iowa somehow is the exception to the rule 

Bad QB play AND turnovers.

Iowa had arguably an even worse passing game than we did. While their turnover numbers weren't good, they were still over a whole giveaway less per game than ours.

20 minutes ago, ChubbaWubba said:

49.5 percent pass completion career must have been a great overall QB

The NFL passer completion formula was supposed to show a top QB at 100, not 158.3. In 1971, when the formula was created it was derived using then current statistics and those statistics made 100 a great score.

The big difference between then and now is because completion percentage is double figured into the formula because the equation includes both a completion percentage and yards per attempt component. As teams styles changed to include more short passes, the completion percentage went up, and since it's more or less counted twice, it had a great impact on the scores.

Back in Nebraska's heyday, running backs from the school were often discounted as pass catchers, because essentially, they were never thrown to in that offense. It's not without its irony that Roger Craig and Ahman Green are arguably two of the very best West Coast Offense running backs, playing a system that commonly threw to its backs.

49.5% is not the same in that offense, in that era, as it is in the modern game. Frazier ranks #2 in Big Eight history for passing TD's and #1 in TDs Responsible for.

29 minutes ago, DefenderAO said:

I don't trust Satterfield to bring water from a cooler to Rhule.

He's not that bad. I wouldn't have hired him, certainly not at that cost, but he's average level OC.

So while the analytical world struggles with interdependence relationships, not only amongst the group of lineman themselves but also as they relate to the ballcarrier, you can actually identify which coaches were responsible?

22 minutes ago, ChubbaWubba said:

This kid is far better than Frazier… Watch his film and tell me Frazier could make his throws 

And Tommie could moonwalk faster than Raiola can run.

They're totally different QBs who were both amazing high school prospects.

20 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

And this is where DR comes into play next season. 

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.

7 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

My goal is simply for anybody - a poster here, a lurker who doesnt post, or anybody with unreasonable expectations to not put the weight of a dying football program on the shoulders of a single player. 

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.

4 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

Not saying this is you... but do people not know there's a signing period from W-F?

Which also sits in a dead period. Sunday (today) was a quiet period.

It's a very strange time to have a signing day.

1 hour ago, admo said:

Otherwise, if you don't accept them, they will just go to the SEC

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.

1 hour ago, admo said:

I'd rather have 2-3 years with Nelson than one year with a transfer kid for one season.   

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.

On 12/8/2023 at 7:55 PM, deedsker said:

Our kick/punt return game is also an overlooked piece of Nebraska’s overall decline. Wiggins, Walker, Groce, Newcome, Paul, Ameer, and DPE. During the Frost years, we got down to “Just catch the ball!” 

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.

2 hours ago, whateveritis1224 said:

Also it appears that the team called plays to protect the OTs more than Whipple did in '22 (chip blocking, keeping more people in to protect).

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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42 minutes ago, HANC said:

Like I said, Rhule may be looking for Purdy to be that early season or year 1 bridge

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.

47 minutes ago, twofittyonred said:

I'd hope Rhule and co are still looking for that 1yr bridge QB and let DR & DK compete for yr 2...

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.

36 minutes ago, HANC said:

I also believe that Rhule may think that when healthy (which he was NEVER) and with a full time QB coach, that maybe Purdy can be that bridge guy.

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.

35 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

 You don't bring the number one qb in the nation to sit you bring him in to play.

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.

9 hours ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

There will be panic in the streets if Raiola doesn’t come.

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

Highly likely at this point they bring back Joe Philbin.

7 minutes ago, Packerhuskerfan said:

I think having a freshman QB as a starter means another year of no bowling.

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.

10 minutes ago, Undone said:

I think the big difference with Raiola as a star QB and those guys though is how he might help land other skill players on offense.

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.