Not many QBs in the nation had a 71.5% completion rating like Adrian did in 2020. That's pretty dang good, especially when you look at the inexperience and poor receivers he to throw to. He also had a stretch of 100 pass attempts with zero interceptions. It wasn't always pretty but Adrian 2020 was better than Adrian 2019. People forget the experience he had to throw to in 2018 that made him look a lot better than he actually was.
Look at not only yards per attempt but also yards after catch and you will quickly see how he had a 71% completion rating. And you will also see how those stats grades NU’s passing game to be towards the bottom end of the country.
lol, what? This was the end of frostys 3rd year.... All teams were playing under the same circumstances. If for whatever reason COVID only existed in the state of nebraska than I would agree with you, but I tire of using covid as an excuse when literally all other schools had the same circumstances... and some schools had even harsher conditions due to state law (ie all of the california schools who literally could not assemble until October due to rules against groups of 150+ more in one place)
Fair, but I'd love to see Adrian's compeltion % for passes thrown over 10 yards and see how that stacks up (and the quantity as well). High passing % is good, but what does a high passing % do you if 95% of those are within 5 yards and our YAC is dismal? QBs need to be able to stretch the field and based off what I've seen having watched every single game the past 3 years, I'd argue there has been a regression in this compared to year 1
Do you have any examples of these since he took the job back, other than post-injury Minnesota? The only one that comes to mind is the second pick against Rutgers, he's been pretty solid overall. I don't understand the lack or read progression criticism (you're not the only one saying that) - it seems pretty clear to me he's going through his progressions, and when you complete 85% of your passes in a game it's hard to argue you should have gone through more progressions. The first pick he should have probably gone further into the progression, but even the second one was the right decision and just a bad throw.
There are a lot of teams completing less than that with lower YPA. Completion percentage isn't a perfect measure for sure, but it's hard to complete 70+% no matter what kind of passes you're calling.
In 2018 he had 2 legitimate downfield threats that weren't also being forced to play running back because that room was decimated.
How many of those were 1 read passing plays? Most of the passing plays are designed for our QB’s to not need to read a defense because they have trouble with it.
So playing kids that don't know the playbook, kids that run wrong routes, and kids that can't get lined up correctly would have been better? Seriously man...smh. Some of you act like Scott held players off the field that were ready to play for some crazy directive. We played a crap load of freshman this year and everyone got on the field who accomplished what was necessary to do so.
