2024 Spring Game - April 27

Last year's backs would not have read their blocks, and cut it back inside for a 4 or 5 yard gain. This is what we need out of Dowdell. He's not going to burn teams but he can make good plays.

 
We knew they planned to throw a lot today, so that's not a surprise. But  RPOs and QB decisions also make a big difference in the final tally.

We've heard all spring that the QBs have been given quite a bit of latitude to change things at the line, and Haarberg's press conference today I think was the most illustrative of the 3 QBs. Simple things like throwing it out to a receiver against soft coverage or getting the ball to a TE in the flat against box counts are many times taking the place of runs.

The last thing to consider, and this goes for almost any team that isn't run dominant by design, is how many runs come when you're in control of the game to kill clock and that situation didn't come up today.

 
Archy1221 said:
He still looks really really good for

a kid that could still be in HS 
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He understandably has things to work on and get used to the college game. But, my totally non expert eye believes we saw some throws today that we haven’t seen in a long time from a Husker QB. 

 
I was at the game

DR is really good.

Lots of guys seemed to get dinged up, that sucks.

If you need/want a report on the bar scene, let me know!

 
BigRedBuster said:
He understandably has things to work on and get used to the college game. But, my totally non expert eye believes we saw some throws today that we haven’t seen in a long time from a Husker QB. 
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What I liked as well as the throws was the poise in running the offense.   He looked as comfortable as can be, made some great throws as you said, and acted like a field general out there.  Some of that stuff is hard to teach at such a young age. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
But, my totally non expert eye believes we saw some throws today that we haven’t seen in a long time from a Husker QB. 
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People will very correctly tell me I'm putting the cart before the horse, but in the modern pass happy era of college football Nebraska has not had a comparable QB. He's so professional in his approach that it isn't fair to other freshman QBs to call him a freshman.

One example comes from his interview where he's describing the long TD pass today and how when they ran that in practice on Tuesday he took the checkdown only to notice in film study that he had the deep shot. Made the adjustment today for a nice, easy TD.

 
Obviously a long way to go for the kid but yea best QB talent we've had here at least since the turn of the century. We are talking about top 5 pick potential realistically if everything pans out in the best way possible 

Training with Mahomes doesn't hurt. How many guys does Mahomes do that with? 

 
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Tell you what, O street and downtown lincoln is getting really crappy.

Soooo many homeless people sleeping all over the place.  

I am guessing that the Railyard has really started to impact O street. 

 
I didn't get to watch the game yesterday but caught some of the highlight reels later in the evening - seemed like a fun time!

I never really take much from spring games, for good or for bad, but it was nice to see DR looking pretty comfortable in the backfield. I liked his touch on a several throws. This was my first time really watching him and I couldn't help but notice the Patrick Mahomes influence on his movements that everyone has talked about before - the dude sometimes even walks around the way PM does lol. 

I thought most of the quarterbacks had some nice throws, but you can definitely tell the difference between the touch/vision of DR vs. Haarberg, in my opinion. Saw some of the things out of HH yesterday that drove us mad in games last season.

 
teachercd said:
Tell you what, O street and downtown lincoln is getting really crappy.

Soooo many homeless people sleeping all over the place.  

I am guessing that the Railyard has really started to impact O street. 
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I don’t know where else you’ve been in the US.  I travel for work.  It’s everywhere.

What I don’t like about what Lincoln is doing is allowing people to just crash on O street.  Specifically downtown.  Theres always been a lot around the shelter East of the tracks on O.

 
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