admo Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Just putting it out there. Most of us havent seen him play before. Or more than one game. His stats were impressive in '05. So was his backup's. Okay that's all. Ledger: Cmp/Att YDS Yatt TD INT 2004 vs Purdue won 27-23 (Sun Bowl - First start) 25/45 370 8.2 3 0 2005 vs Temple Won 63-16 14/24 208 8.7 4 2 vs LSU Loss 35-31 35/56 461 8.2 4 0 vs Northwestern Won 52-21 20/31 409 13.2 4 0 at Oregon St Won 42-24 19/36 365 10.1 4 0 vs USC loss 38-28 26/45 347 7.7 2 5 vs Oregon loss 31-17 31/56 277 4.9 2 2 at Stanford loss 45-35 10/16 98 6.1 0 0 Cleared to start despite injured thumb, shoulder, ankle. Was benched in 3rd QTR, replaced by Carpenter. Carpenter 19/25 304 12.2 3 1 ************************** The rest of the season: ************************** vs Washington won 44-20 Carpenter 27/34 401 11.8 3 0 at Washington St won 27-24 Carpenter 28/43 381 8.9 2 1 at UCLA loss 45-35 Carpenter 27/37 334 9.0 3 0 vs Arizona won 23-20 Carpenter 18/37 246 6.6 0 0 vs Rutgers won 45-40 (Insight Bowl) Carpenter 23/35 467 13.3 4 0 2005 total CMP ATT YDS % YDS/A TD INT RAT Carpenter 156 228 2273 68.4 9.97 17 2 175.0 Keller 155 264 2165 58.7 8.20 20 9 145.8 Quote Link to comment
gamecocks Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The thing that sticks out to me on his stat sheet is his yards per attempt. His season average was 8.2 which would suggest that he is throwing down the field some and is doing it quite successfully. That should help out our offense as it will stretch the defense and the safeties will have to stay back, in fear of getting beat deep, which will in turn open up some room underneath for crossing routes and open up the running game. Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 vs LSU Loss 35-31 35/56 461 8.2 4 0 Wow Quote Link to comment
Atrain15 Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 ....i cant wait for next season Quote Link to comment
benjibean1 Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I would ask that you pull out the rushing numbers for this team.....i will tell you first hand that they had no running game to speak of. By the way there is nothing like wearing your NEB jersey to an ASU game and having them scream 19-0 at you. Like we will only remember that game.....morons. Quote Link to comment
Hunter94 Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 i just returned from a Carribean cruise and ran into a kid who played for CU last year, he played with Keller in high school and said when he was at Arizona, he was a party animal out of control...but since he went to NU, he has completely changed and is totally all about business now.......the guy says he has never seen a qb throw the long ball better than Sam......that sounds promising to me, if our guys learn how to catch it! he also said Keller was cocky, but confident.....maybe just what we need Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 i just returned from a Carribean cruise and ran into a kid who played for CU last year, he played with Keller in high school and said when he was at Arizona, he was a party animal out of control...but since he went to NU, he has completely changed and is totally all about business now.......the guy says he has never seen a qb throw the long ball better than Sam......that sounds promising to me, if our guys learn how to catch it! he also said Keller was cocky, but confident.....maybe just what we need Great news!!!! I think he will definately make some noise next year and next year could be the best year that we have had under Callahan....... Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I would ask that you pull out the rushing numbers for this team.....i will tell you first hand that they had no running game to speak of. Our running game will help out a lot, and he could be even better than he was at ASU. Quote Link to comment
BRS Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 i just returned from a Carribean cruise and ran into a kid who played for CU last year, he played with Keller in high school and said when he was at Arizona, he was a party animal out of control...but since he went to NU, he has completely changed and is totally all about business now.......the guy says he has never seen a qb throw the long ball better than Sam......that sounds promising to me, if our guys learn how to catch it! he also said Keller was cocky, but confident.....maybe just what we need Yeah, apparently Sammy boy took a pretty good liking to the nose candy. Hopefully, he stays away from the stuff while he is here. Quote Link to comment
oviedol55 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 By the way there is nothing like wearing your NEB jersey to an ASU game and having them scream 19-0 at you. Like we will only remember that game.....morons. Hard to believe that game, better than 10 years ago, was the last time we've been shut out. And didn't we beat Arizona State 77-28 the year prior? Quote Link to comment
cmb23 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Just as a comparison if we are 'number crunching'. As someone said before, if ASU had no running game they put it up a lot more. Also, what kind of protection did the line give, receivers catching/dropping balls.... Anyway, ZT's #'s throught the first 7 games of this season (Keller's were posted through 7 though the 7th he was taken out). La-Tech W - 49-10 22/33 for 289 66.7% @ 8.8 3/1 Nich St. W 56-7 19/23 for 202 82.6% @ 8.8 4/0 USC L 10-28 8/16 for 115 (Gameplan?) 50% @ 7.2 0/0 Troy W 56-0 15/18 for 269 83.3% @ 14.9 2/1 KU W (OT) 39-32 15/33 for 395 45.5% @ 12.0 4/0 ISU W 28-14 17/21 for 131 81% @ 6.2 1/0 KSU W 21-3 12/21 for 150 57.1% @ 7.1 1/0 Through 7 games of '06 108/165 (100 fewer attempts) 1,551 Yards 65.5% Completion 9.3 Yards Per Attempt (who's going downfield?) 15 TD vs. 2 INT Quote Link to comment
Hunter94 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 bottom line, Sam should still be more effective than Zac, IF he can find time to throw to his receivers......big if, although you would hope the O line would be improved? but the schedule will be tougher as well..... Quote Link to comment
Atrain15 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I thought our line gave Taylor good protection this last year, and we're very young, except carl nicks who was a JUCO. it's manly if our receivers can get open, not if the line gives us time, imo. Quote Link to comment
Hunter94 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 we will need both.......you can't throw the long ball unless you get pass protection.......we didn't throw the long ball for that reason and more... Zac got hurried more than he should have again this year... Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 we will need both.......you can't throw the long ball unless you get pass protection.......we didn't throw the long ball for that reason and more... Zac got hurried more than he should have again this year... Agreed. The line was much improved over last year, but it still has a way to go - too often this year defenses started stacking the line and forcing the pass, and when that happened, the line would seem to break down and allow a rusher through to hurry Taylor. Not necessarily a flood of rushers, but one or two when we really needed the protection. The good news is that they are young, and they made major improvements from last year to this year. There's no reason to think they can't or won't take another major step next season. Quote Link to comment
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