QB Race

[epocSoN]

yeah, i know for a fact now its tmagic, which surprised me.

I call How can a guy with a whole year of starting experience, who had to play with a whole debilitating, can't even tie my shoes or brush my teeth elbow injury, and still......still accumulated stats, yes STATS (that is short for statistics), real verifiable numbers, that proved unequivocally that he was as good as the other qb's in the league, not be given the job? This is a big mistake! There's no possible way we have a quarterback better than Zac Lee on our roster. Not even possible! No way!

I don't know what to tell you... The starting line up begins with Martinez I dunno what to tell you.

[EZ-E]

Am I alone in thinking that T-Magic is one of the lamest nicknames ever?

 

He gave it to himself

[cscott2win]

I can officially state, and this is from someone inside the program, that we will have a starting qb.

[redout22]

This thread and QB battle is more confusing than inception

[broganreynik]

I can officially state, and this is from someone inside the program, that we will have a starting qb.

 

I call

[Pedro Guerrero]

Am I alone in thinking that T-Magic is one of the lamest nicknames ever?

 

He gave it to himself

 

That is really lame.

[Malth]

I can officially state, and this is from someone inside the program, that we will have a starting qb.

 

10 QB and a center

[schuhbdoo]

Am I alone in thinking that T-Magic is one of the lamest nicknames ever?

 

He gave it to himself

 

That is really lame.

I have been using T Mart a lot but I really just excited that a cali kid is going to start as a freshman. It is really amazing if he can pull this off. Good times ahead for NU, with the new direction the O is taking. Is it Saturday afternoon yet????

[In the Deed the Glory]

Am I alone in thinking that T-Magic is one of the lamest nicknames ever?

 

He gave it to himself

 

That is really lame.

 

It might be the dumbest nickname I've ever seen. I mean, can't we give people (or ourselves apparently) good nicknames anymore? Does everything have to be first initial and then some shortening of the last name?

[Apathy]

T-Mart will play against WKU while Green and Lee will see some action

 

Green will start for the Idaho game while Lee and T-Mart will see some action

 

Lee will start at Washington and Green and T-Mart will ride the bench

 

[In the Deed the Glory]

T-Mart will play against WKU while Green and Lee will see some action

 

Green will start for the Idaho game while Lee and T-Mart will see some action

 

Lee will start at Washington and Green and T-Mart will ride the bench

 

 

Scary thing...I believe this one.

[Nexus]

The needle on the buzz-o-meter has pushed into the red area, and Taylor Martinez hasn't yet taken a snap.

 

A young quarterback with blazing speed. A team in need of an offensive spark. A fan base with memories and dreams of option keepers and oxygen mask-seeking defenders.

 

Throw in a nickname like "T-Magic," and Betty Crocker couldn't concoct a better recipe for hype.

 

What happens, then, when Martinez actually plays Saturday night against Western Kentucky?

 

And what if he starts?

 

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini declined Thursday to name his starting quarterback, saying the answer will come Saturday.

 

Zac Lee? Cody Green? Martinez?

 

Know this: No quarterback in Nebraska history has started the season's first game as a redshirted freshman.

 

Not Gill. Not Frazier. Not Crouch.

 

Maybe T-Magic?

 

"I don't know where he got the name from, and I don't know how it came about," wide receiver Niles Paul said, "but we call him T-Magic."

 

Safety P.J. Smith doesn't know the nickname's origin, either. Not a clue. He said he doesn't think Martinez gave himself the nickname, noting Martinez is quiet, reserved and humble.

 

But check out what Martinez writes to Husker fans on what appears to be his authentic Facebook page for fans:

 

T-Magic "The Uncanny Ability To Make Things Happen!"

 

3 Is A Magic Number

 

Martinez Magic

 

Not surprisingly, fans have responded with praise:

 

"Hey taylor i watched you in the spring game you were outstanding you were the best qb out there i believe you should be the starter this year you remind of tommy frazier"

 

"TMagic, how would (you) personally rank your Fall Camp? Strengths & Weaknesses."

 

"Hope you are kicking some butt in fall camp!"

 

"If Nebraska ... starts you you will win the Heisman Every Year you play you are the Definition of a man Good Luck this year."

 

"Starting QB this year man. Good luck."

 

A little much for someone who's never played? Perhaps. But Smith isn't scoffing at the accolades. Or the nickname. Not after seeing what Martinez did one day in practice.

 

Smith described how Martinez dropped back to pass and barely eluded a pass rush. He broke free. Somebody hit him, and Martinez spun away. Then came a stiff arm. Then another hit, and another spin move.

 

"Actually, he spun twice, and the same time he was spinning, he was falling, and somehow, he kept his balance," Smith said. "We had a guy like two feet from him. ..."

 

Thirty yards later. ...

 

"That kid's amazing. Amazing. He flies around, he's fast. We'll be in coverage, and nobody's open, and next you know -- pshwoo! -- he'll just take off. And you're like, 'Aw, s--.' I mean, he's just gone."

 

Headache for a defensive coordinator, perhaps?

 

"He's hell," Smith said. "You'll have to put a spy on him, but I don't even think a spy can hold him."

 

While Martinez turns heads with his speed, his improved passing throughout fall camp is what's kept him in the thick of the starting race.

 

The first week, Paul said, Martinez was rushing.

 

"Then you saw him get comfortable back there with us and finally catch a rhythm back there with all the receivers," Paul said, "and he started putting the ball in places it was supposed to be."

 

Said Smith: "His passing got really better. He's throwing good balls. He'll squeeze a couple of balls here and there, and you're like, 'How the hell did he get in that in there?' "

 

Both Paul and Smith emphasized that Nebraska has three good quarterbacks, that any three are qualified to start.

 

For now, only one is causing a fervor among Big Red.

 

We'll hear from Martinez in a couple of days, after he's played. Until then, he's off-limits to the media.

 

If you're wondering what he's thinking, there's this Facebook message from Martinez, posted Aug. 14 -- two days after his absence from practice (excused, Pelini said) created a stir:

 

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -- Michael Jordan

 

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[Malth]

This is officially out of control

[zoogs]

Gentlemen, under all the circumstances, it is either fairly exhilarating or fairly alarming that T-Mag's gonna start.

 

I am more than a little alarmed, personally.

 

Hang on for the ride, in either case. Bottoms up!

[mmmtodd]

more than alarmed? id be more than alarmed if one of our recruits under this regime couldnt beat out a starting junior college fill the gap transfer qb such as zac lee (who with injury that im frankly tired of hearing about, and Bo seems to be as well considering his missing the spring comment) that proved nothing more than the inability to put points on the board against big time competition.