All I can say is 6 plays, 75-yard touchdown drive capped off with a left handed 5 yard shovel pass to Ameer Abdullah to knock off Michigan in the game's waning minutes a few weeks ago. Tommy Armstrong is our best option to run the option. Touchdown Tommy is Nebraska's best option running the ground game and the option pitch. With time, he'll become more polished as a passer. Ron Kellogg is a pure dropback passer. They are both very special QBs indeed. There are certain teams that Armstrong will help Nebraska crush, and as we saw this past Saturday...there are other teams to which Kellogg is the best option.
A stingy, tough, hard-nosed run defensive juggernaut such as Penn State when it's freezing outside and snowing ... and then the coaching staff devises a plan to keep things simple and allow Kellogg to work his magic. That game stunned Penn State as I feel that they had the right ingredients to shut Nebraska down - and they expected it too. You could just tell from the way that game was going. Gutsy move by the coaches to see Kellogg as the guy who could weather the storm and deliver an overtime victory while Penn State had its mind set on humiliating and crushing a freshman QB.
I still love the idea of these two rotating as they both have a perfect role. I think Ron Kellogg should have come in to relieve Armstrong late in the 2nd quarter versus Michigan State. It was working. It's still working. Hopefully, Armstrong's ankle will be fully healed so he can run his game against Iowa. I am really looking forward to that one. I think it would be poetic justice to start Ron Kellogg and then slip Armstrong in during the 3rd series since it's senior day Friday. I like the way they are doing this. Coach Beck is doing a real good job this season.
