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1 hour ago, Gorillahawk said:

Why I think the oline is better this year than last considering all the injuries and he would most likely help improve the team, he’ll probably end up somewhere else because Raiola hasn’t done the greatest job bringing in talent

Considering there is a redshirt freshman starting and 2 true freshman in back-up roles on the depth chart, I think Raiola is doing well to improve the talent at OL. Also, not sure how involved Raiola was bringing in Ben Scott, but that’s a transfer who has served a need at center this year. 

Based on a Tweet released this afternoon Jalon Daniels is going to return to Kansas. He was rumored to be one of NU’s targets for a transfer QB. 

Just now, Archy1221 said:

In the long run and for next year’s growth it is better that those young receivers are getting meaningful snaps and making mistakes to learn from this year when the QB’s are not good.  

Yes, I agree it’s good in the long run. However, the young receivers may have not produced as well as they could have to get another win or two this season. It’s easy to blame the OC, OL coach, or QB, but the whole offense has had issues with health and reliability. 

6 minutes ago, Toe said:

 

And IGC. And Fleeks is another subtraction from the WRs. And for that matter, so was Betts...

Because so many people thought it was better for the young WRs to get snaps in games, even if it was detrimental to NU’s offense this year. 

2 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

Eh, I disagree man- Sims int to end the first half directly took points off of the board and just destroyed momentum we were building.  Not to mention it was such an egregious mistake made by a "team leader" at the most important position on the field.  Grant was known prior to the season to have fumbling issues and I believe was our 3rd string RB entering the game?

 

You can make an argument either way.  I'm just so disgusted by Sims presence in this progrum that I'm probably a bit biased in this lol.  Good riddance to him man, didnt think it was possible for someone to pass the low bar set by sam keller as a total dud entering this program and Sims somehow found a way. 

Yeah, NU’s momentum was so destroyed by Sims’ pick before half, they went on to take the opening kickoff of the 2nd half for a big return and then successfully run a trick play for a go-ahead TD. Then NU went on and dominated both sides of the ball for the next quarter and a half, and lead by 7 with the ball before Grant’s fumble. I would say the team responded well after Sims INT.

I agree that Sims has turned out to be a very bad QB. But, he did enough good things in the Minnesota game for NU to win that game. People just want to take the easy way out and pin the loss on him. 

3 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Fitz was such a good coach that someone could take over that disaster and get more wins than Fitz did the past two years.

I’m surprised the BTN hasn’t complimented Fitz for leaving gracefully and allowing the team to move on and have as successful season as possible this year. 

12 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

The elephant in the room about the Minnesota game is they are not even in that game without Sims running ability.

 

I still think the only way this team wins another game is with Sims at QB.  While not turning the ball over.  Not good odds.

Sims played well enough in that Minnesota game, given what he was asked to do within the game plan.  Yes, he had two first half INT’s, and the one before half was killer.  But, he played well in the 2nd half to have NU up by 7 with the ball, midway thru the 4th quarter. It wasn’t Sims who had the false start inside the 5 yard line, when a TD puts NU ahead by 2 scores. Also, as I mentioned before, it wasn’t Sims who fumbled at midfield, giving Minnesota new life in the 4th. That was a team loss, not a QB loss. 

1 minute ago, Undone said:

 

That's true but this thread is about our terrible QB's.

 

Throwing the pick on their 6 yards line right before halftime instead of at least getting 3 points wasn't good.

Agree that the pick before half wasn’t great. Despite that NU was in great position to win the game before Grant’s fumble.  There were a lot of mistakes by numerous players which led to the NU loss against Minnesota. 

3 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

For sure, and we had another 13-10 loss also (to Minnesota). Sims threw a couple extremely costly picks in that one also.

Grant’s fumble was the costliest turnover for the Minnesota game. 

13 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

This is true and it's impossible to prove. But......it's also hard to imagine a marginally better quarterback not making the difference in a 13-10 loss like last week. 

Yes, I agree with you. If everything else was the same, a better QB likely wins the game last week. However, what we don’t know is how Maryland (and other teams) would approach playing against NU’s defense. Also, Maryland played pretty poorly with a lot of mistakes last week. If they are playing against a more potent offense, maybe they are more focused, don’t make as many mistakes and have so many penalties, and score 24-30 points. 

5 minutes ago, Toe said:

Hey, with regard to the topic of this thread, has anyone verified that we do, in fact, have an actual QB room? And not, like, a QB broom closet or something?

I think it’s the porta-potty used by the construction crew building the new athletic facilities on campus. 

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

 

It’s amazing that Northwestern hasn’t had a true coaching search in over 30 years, while still having multiple coaches. 

2 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

Ya know, I dont disagree with this but ill still give us the L for sake of argument purposes.  Who knows what wouldve happened had we just put up 14-21 early in that game when defense was playing great....

 

tho knowing this team, had we won against colorado we prolly would've come out flat against one of the illinois/nw/purdue games.  This team still no shows games similar to last iterations- not as severely but i dont know how else to explain the michigan state game.  

The assumption that NU automatically wins so many other games with a “mediocre QB” is a big leap of faith.  I guess if those people use the qualifier of “if kept everything else the same….” they may have a point. But, we know that if NU had a better QB, other teams would probably game plan against NU differently, and all of those losses wouldn’t be an automatic win. 

6 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

As I recall, the1999 Husker team that went 12-1 and ended the season ranked #2 led the NCAA in fumbles. 

 

Great team and a weird anomaly. 

Yep!  They had nearly 50 fumbles on the season.  McBride’s last defense definitely helped make up for all of those fumbles and turnovers. Unfortunately, a fumble (from Buckhalter, I think) near the goal line cost that ‘99 team the Texas game and a shot of the national championship.  That team also almost blew a game to Colorado when Dan Alexander dropped a perfect option pitch which could have scored a TD late against CU. NU only won in OT because CU’s kicker shanked a chip-shot FG at the end of regulation. 

22 minutes ago, lo country said:

Rattlers stats are better in year 1 with the new OC.  Coincidence or causation?

I would expect Spencer Rattler’s stats to peak as a senior QB in his 4th year as a starter.  The big improvement for Rattler has been a reductionin INT’s, so it’s reasonable that the new OC was able to see what Rattler did last year and improve on it.  Again, is that being driven by the OC, or Rattler becoming a better decision-maker, overall. I don’t think any of us are close enough to the South Carolina program to know. 

21 minutes ago, GISker said:

Not sure he is worth twice, of this guys salary (football and basketball hires are pretty darned good)!      

$911,250

 

The highest-paying athletics director position in Kansas went to K-State's Gene Taylor who took home $911,250 in 2022, according to govsalaries.com. The national average salary for athletics directors is $56,724 per year, according to indeed.com. Taylor

Trev also manages an athletic department with nearly twice the annual budget as Kansas State. 

5 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

It's weird just because... we're bidding against ourselves. Nobody was on the verge of poaching him away for a new job. The better paying and more prestigious AD positions are filled. 

 

I like Trev as the AD, but Athletic Departments have a weird habit of guaranteeing large amounts of money to coaches and administrators without much reason to do so. 

I agree it’s weird to do this without a compelling reason to do so, but maybe this was done to bring Trev up to par with other AD’s in the country, especially given his salary may have been on the low-end previously.

2 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

It is saying something, but more often than not what it's saying is that the fans don't know what they're talking about.

 

Who's a high profile offensive coordinator that a fanbase thinks is great?

NU had the same offensive coordinator for all 5 National Championships, and I remember a lot of years where fans complained about his play calling.

The OC (not the awesome show from 20 years ago) role might be criticized more than the head coach in a lot of fan bases. 

7 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

Casey Thompson is 10 times the QB that Sims is and Frost left him here. That he left after Rhule was hired is not on Frost.

Yes, Casey Thompson was a QB that Rhule inherited. He wasn’t able to go thru Spring practice due to shoulder surgery. He watched on the sidelines as Sims ran with the first-team in Spring practice. Thompson didn’t want to compete with Sims, so he left. Yeah, I guess you could say Rhule shouldn’t have brought in Sims when they had Thompson, but Thompson may not have fit what Rhule was looking to do. Outside chucking it deep to Palmer, Thompson was far from a great QB, and he was also injury prone. Thompson ended up at a G5 school and only played a few games before tearing his ACL. But, go ahead and say that Rhule “ran him off” so that fits your opinion. 

3 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

 

Thanks for clarifying. I was wrong. If he does stick around he’s still probably the 4th string QB. Either way, he’s a FCS-level QB.  Not sure how that makes you think he was a big loss. 

Didn’t Richard Torres leave prior to the 2022 season?  If so, how is that on Rhule?

Also, Smothers was likely to transfer no matter what, so he could play someplace. He wasn’t exactly happy being 3rd string under Frost and Whipple.

Yes, Sims was a terrible decision. No doubt about that. Thompson was also coming off shoulder surgery and he decided to transfer because he wanted to be assured of the starting job. Thompson has also been injury prone throughout his entire career, and would have been as much of a gamble as other QB’s. 

9 minutes ago, lo country said:

..And why can't our DB's jam receivers on the LOS like Maryland did Coleman?

It’s a lot easier to jam WR’s at the LOS when there is limited space to get burned over the top. If you haven’t noticed by White’s philosophy, it’s to play relatively safe, umbrella coverage with more field to cover, and then get more aggressive with blitzes and tighter coverage as the opponent gets closer to scoring. That may be frustrating for some, but it does that to limit big plays.  That D was successful for the most part against Maryland. Unfortunately Maryland hit 2 big chunk pass plays in a row for one TD. 

17 minutes ago, lo country said:

So much this.  Crawl, walk, run. In some occupations the difference between elite and not is being able to do the basics on command.  NU can not even do the basics...Failing more often than not....So yes.  We need to be simple.  That last INT is a prime example.  3 route runners, 1 ran the correct route, 2 did not.  Purdy makes the wrong read and throw.  That route tree is about as basic as it gets and we couldn't even execute that.  75% of those involved in the play failed.  So yea.  We can't even win simply.  

I get what you are saying, but if NU goes overly simple, NU may not get into scoring position in the first place. But, that gets to situational play-calling, which Satterfield failed once NU got to the 6-yard line.

I think it’s unfair to tell Satterfield to say “you need to run the ball every play” because the likelihood of success is going to be minimal.  While I would like more focus of the using the RB-run game, the overall run game isn’t explosive and successful enough to matriculate the ball down the field. NU is going to need chunk plays, likely through the air.  Yes, that creates risk of turnovers, but it also generates possibility of big plays and scores.

I thought Satterfield was smart after the 2 turnovers which the defense created short fields. His play calling was effective enough to generate 10 points.

36 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

It didn't sound too promising for Haarberg.  Not that I would mind if Purdy got the chance.

I haven’t listened to Rhule’s tone on his PC, but from the way things were phrased, I would put Purdy ahead of Haarberg in likelihood to play.

I think it comes down to figuring out if Purdy can make it through this week of practice and the game on Saturday.  If not, they will have to turn to Sims, which they probably don’t want to do. 

9 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Ahhh... yep.  I do remember that now.

Sam McKewon has been mentioning it a lot recently on his podcast and other media appearances, so it’s fresh in my memory.