QB in Holiday Bowl

[SealBeachHusker]

Agree with zoog' here, I think we play the QB that is likely to do the least amount of damage. We need to put ourself in the best position to win this game. Holiday Bowl is one of the most popular non-BCS Bowls, it's important to win this one. Besides, we owe Zona a beat down from our last Holiday Bowl visit.

 

Put Green in but rarely have him dropback. He should be doing rollouts and play-action. Beat into his head not to throw picks, if a guy isn't clear tuck and take what you can get. Don't force the passes, be willing to punt, the D will hold. Use the damn TE's.

 

This is exactly correct.

 

I spent the better part of this season saying Lee should be our quarterback and that it was the right choice. However, it's become clear that Lee has not progressed through the season, and the argument could be made that he has regressed. If Lee is not capable of moving the offense, we are better off putting Green in now.

 

There is nothing to play for this season. We have some recruits to impress and it would be nice if we were ranked at the end, but we're not gunning for any kind of title. It costs us nothing at this point to put Green in. If he's the guy we're banking on for the next three years, it's foolish to have burned his redshirt for (by my guesstimate) 86 plays. That's barely more than one game's worth of snaps. We're fools if we burned his shirt for that.

 

Green should start this game. If he doesn't, he should see significant playing time. If not, this season is a blunder on the part of our staff.

 

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knapplc, I respect you a lot and enjoy reading your posts, but I could not disagree more here.

 

If only it were as easy as "beat into his head not to throw picks." Or stare down receivers. A QB does not simply decide to throw a pick, or to stare down receivers. They do it because the game is too fast for them, because the defense is too good, because their throws not good enough, and a host of other reasons.

 

If he's just going to try to tuck and get what he can whenever he doesn't see a clear, easy throw (or what he thinks is one but isn't because he doesn't recognize the D), he may as well just take a knee from the snap. Less yardage lost.

 

I also wonder if rolling out makes the job easier or harder on Green. It buys time, but he's also throwing on the run. Can he do that at the college level? Lee has done a fine job with the short passes off of rollouts actually.

 

And the TEs, well, we would use them if he could. I don't think Watson just forgot that McNeil is one of our best players. After all, he was the one who featured him last year and watched the guy breakout. I think opposing defenses know they can take away the TE because they aren't worried about the sacrifice they make in doing so; our WRs and QB don't scare anyone.

 

Lastly, there is plenty to play for this season. If our coaching staff ever treats a single game as one that doesn't matter, they deserve to be fired. That would be the real blunder.

[Karawithasmile]

BTW - don't remember which game it was, but they did a close up of Lee's parents sitting in the stands a couple times. We did actually score a touchdown in whatever game this was (so this narrows it down), but neither of his parents even cracked a smile. They sat there stoic, like lifeless statues. I bet the Lee family hates Nebraska....

 

Pretty sure you're talking about the Oklahoma game where Lee took a pounding. Coincidentally, they only showed his parents after he took a particularly vicious hit. I wouldn't be smiling if that was my kid, either.

 

Lee's parents have looked like that in every game. But I think the one Kara was talking about was the K-State game. They looked unhappy the entire time - even when everyone around them was cheering.

 

As far as the QB, start Green. If it doesn't work out, then go back to Lee's lousy play. But next year, Lee better be the 4th string QB!!

 

 

I think that it was the K-State game. Anyway, it doesn't really matter. I was just thinking that his parents are probably really disappointed with Husker fans for booing him and with the coaching staff for continuing to play him when it started to be uncomfortable for everyone to watch. I really do feel for the guy. I'm only a couple years older than him and I can't imagine how terrible I would feel.

 

 

Lee's dad is just a severe, scary-looking dude. If I were directing a new Dracula movie, he'd be my first choice.

 

Get him some sparkle paint and he can star in Twilight.

[Danny Bateman]

All this Lee vs. Cody debate is stupid and a moot point anyway. My vote goes to Ron Kellogg Jr. Imagine the endorsements we could rack up with Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam gear...