QB race

[EZ-E]

It's Lee's job to lose.

But he won't.

JMO. He's the best of the current crop.

:yeah

When healthy, Lee is the best QB we have on the roster.

 

[Danimal]

Lee wasn't bad before his injury. He wasn't great against VT but he did enough, he hit his guy in the endzone three times, not his fault none ended-up being a td. It's his job to lose.

What I'll find interesting is if Green can secure the #2 slot. He wasn't as exciting in the Spring-game but he graded-out well. TayMart needs to be used, kid is a playmaker. At least get him out there in the wildcat.

 

[mmmtodd]

Is it bad that i wish zac lee would just, i dunno, disappear? I think most of our offensive problems stemmed from our lack of line play/injuries last year. However, games like missouri, injured or not, the faces he made and what i saw as a false bravado/unnatural leadership from someone completely lacking confidence in himself makes me wish someone else would just get a chance to be the qb. Sometimes QB races can be exciting...this one simply makes me miserable. A clean slate would be nice. I cant struggle thru a year of blindly hoping that Zac Lee suddenly becomes anything more than a marginal, non-game changing QB especially coming back from major surgery. I dont hate him, despise him, wish him ill will, anything like that. I just hope that if we have someone more talented, experienced or not, that Watson doesnt take the 'safe' road and still run with Lee. Does that make any sense at all?

 

[zoogs]

However, games like missouri, injured or not, the faces he made and what i saw as a false bravado/unnatural leadership from someone completely lacking confidence in himself makes me wish someone else would just get a chance to be the qb.

Dude, Lee was totally geeked up for that game. How is that not the face of a pure competitor, having the time of his life, relishing a brilliant fourth quarter in which we stormed back from lifelessness to 27 points and a road win in the rain? If you can read that out of this face, then you just don't want to like him.

I mean, I can at least kind of get the knocks on Lee for struggling for a lot of the year. But for celebrating like a wild man during the Missouri game? I don't understand it...

 

[mmmtodd]

I know what you mean...but its just a vibe I got through out the year. He seems fake to me in a way. Maybe it was the injury...but I just personally have a bad vibe. Thats all. But, thankfully, Im not the coach...sooooooooooooo...Ill yell and cheer and look even more stupid than what I thought Lee looked like at times last season for whoever is behind center. :nanalama

 

[GMoose]

Junior, any number of Nebraska QBs we've had before the Callahan era were not good passers. We ran a different offense in those days. Our offense asks for the QB to be able to pass. That offense didn't ask less of the QB, but it did ask different things. If the QB can't pass now, we scale down and have our hands tied running Nebraska Lite. If a guy like Jamaal Lord or Eric Crouch comes in now, they most likely play running back or receiver. "Just having to get the ball close" to a receiver isn't really a luxury that I think any team has nowadays.

Apparently, you have a firmer grasp of what we're trying to do with our offense than I do. I still remember lining up against OU in the Clownahan era when OU had the #1 rushing D and somewhat questionable secondary. While we'd been passing all season, we decide to run it down their throats the entire game for about a half yard a play. Last year, it appeared we went through many transformations offensively. The last game we can remember is the Holiday bowl where we ran the ball 48 times while heaving it just 25. We had 223 yards running the ball while netting 173 throwing it. A QB ran the ball 23 times which is almost as many times as we attempted a pass. To be quite frank, I'm not even sure our coaching staff knows exactly what kind of offense we're running. They claim the Holiday Bowl was about the only game when everyone was mostly healthy, so I conclude we must be moving more towards a running team when you see that we ran the ball 2/3 of the time.

Jamaal Lord should have been playing another position at Nebraska anyway. I really don't see a lot of differences in Martinez and Crouch. Are you insinuating that the coaching staff is "waisting" his talent by allowing him to stay at the QB position? Tyrod Taylor seems to only get the ball close, and I'd say he's been pretty successful leading VT to a 23-5 record while he's played.

You don't need a firm grasp on the offense to know that we DO NOT run the option! We do not run the option, Watson will not change to run the option, and even if he wanted to I wouldn't want him to try because he's run a different offense in the entirety of his D1 college coaching career. People are seriously overstating the necessity of elusiveness and high end speed by our QB. Think about it, Ganz only ran for 258 yards in 2008 when we had statistically as good of an offense as Nebraska recruiting will allow.