Zac Taylor Learns the Playbook

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Courtesy of the OWH:

The Nebraska quarterback has taken his grasp of the system into summer workouts. Reports out of the Husker camp are that he's looked polished and confident.

"Last year, we had the actual playbook out there," NU receiver Mark LeFlore said. "We're flipping through plays and trying to get everybody lined up. It was still a little confusing.

"With Zac, now he's doing the checkdowns and audibles and knows where everybody's going or where they're supposed to be. Everybody just seems a lot more comfortable."

Seven-on-seven passing league is hardly preseason camp. But it's been Taylor's chance to build on momentum he carried out of spring practice.

The playbook usually comes with him to Cook Pavilion every Tuesday and Friday morning - and to throwing sessions with receivers on Mondays and Thursdays - but Taylor rarely needs it.

"Zac's done an unbelievable job of coming in here and learning the offense," receiver Grant Mulkey said. "He knows the offense better than anybody on the team. It's obvious that after spring ball he didn't put the playbook down."

My Comment: Folks, this is exciting news. I dunno about you, but this Husker fan can't wait until fall camp starts giving ZT another chance to improve before the season starts.

 
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A question I have always had: if the PLAYERS are conducting these drills without coaches supervison, how is anybody to know if they are being performed correctly???

Just something to ponder.

 
A question I have always had: if the PLAYERS are conducting these drills without coaches supervison, how is anybody to know if they are being performed correctly???
Just something to ponder.
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They don't. But does that mean they should sit around all summer? No. The players know what they need to work on personally, they have the playbook they know how to read it.

I would consider it homework that get's submitted in the fall. ;) :)

 
Im pretty sure that just about any five year old can handle passing drills. Its pretty simple. Now you run in a line that looks like this and you run that way and I will throw you the ball. Defense, you guys cover us. Ready, Break!

 
Personally, I'm really excited to see this guy play. And even if these are unsupervised passing drills, I'm excited to hear he's picking it up. That's something I never thought that Dailey did.

 
Im pretty sure that just about any five year old can handle passing drills. Its pretty simple. Now you run in a line that looks like this and you run that way and I will throw you the ball. Defense, you guys cover us. Ready, Break!
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DaveH: Edited because it's flame bait.

 
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Its not flame bait at all, im just saying that i think that anyone who plays football, especially college athletes, are intelligent enough to look at a diagram of a play, and follow the lines and work on timing.

 
This is really good news. I seems to me that in all great passing attacks the QB and the receivers must read each other's minds. The more time they spend together the closer their "reads" will be. The coaching supervision can help with this process, but its time spent passing and catching that really pays off.

Its almost like raising children: quality time is fine and good, but quantity time is essential.

 
A question I have always had: if the PLAYERS are conducting these drills without coaches supervison, how is anybody to know if they are being performed correctly???
Just something to ponder.
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So if in life you always had to be supervised to know if your doing something right would you ever get anything accomplished?

You can take everything you want out of the coaches, but once you start going at the players for trying to do their best, and become the best they can be, then you've gone to far. I'm surprised you call yourself a Husker.

And plus, you say these coaches don't know anything, so how would they know if they are doing things right?

Just something to ponder.
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Hey, smart guy, I never said THESE players or coaches were doing something wrong, I was talking about players in general running drills on their own, be it these guys, or players from the Osborne days, or USCs players.

So what you are telling me is that players NEVER make mistakes, right?? There is no possible way that they could be doing something wrong, right?? This offense is so complex, the route running so precise, that any wrong move can be the difference between a TD and an INT. And players learn by repetition, so if they repeatedly run the wrong route or they repeatedly do something wrong, by the time fall practices start, they could have done more harm than good. Im not saything that this will happen for sure, but it is a possibility to consider.

Huh, and I thought that you were a FB player, and that you came from a line of FB players. My bad!

 
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Well practice has made perfect for you FF. You normally get everything wrong and you practice it all the time.

Congrats.

 
  You normally get everything wrong and you practice it all the time.
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Really??? Care to supply any evidence to back up such a bold statement??
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Just out of curiousity since ive been here less then a week and see that your attitude on here is poor, why do you even hang around husker boards? It's obvious you are not a Husker fan.

 
Yea, FF, I am a football player.
Here look for yourself. Watch #46 comming out of the backfield. Just watch #7 on the blue team.

In plus, these coaches are so bad, how would they know that the guys are doing something wrong? (you didnt answer that...)
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Wow, congrats, you play high school football, just like 50 million other guys in this country have.

BTW, I never said anything about these players or coaches in particular, I made a general reference to players running unsupervised drills. Got it :thumbs

 
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  You normally get everything wrong and you practice it all the time.
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Really??? Care to supply any evidence to back up such a bold statement??
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Just out of curiousity since ive been here less then a week and see that your attitude on here is poor, why do you even hang around husker boards? It's obvious you are not a Husker fan.
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My attitude is poor, why, because I think that these coaches have no idea what they are doing (as they have shown), that the AD is a liar and a con-man, and that this is NOT the staff that will lead this once-great program to the promised land?? I have a poor attitude and I am not a fan because I DONT agree with you?? I that what you are saying???

I was a HUGE fan, until pud decided to hire a really bad coach, who embarrassed the University (remember the "F*****g Hillbillies" blast), then that really bad coach led the team to its worst record in my lifetime, and just shrugged it off as no big deal. That bowl streak was HUGE, one of the greatest, not in the history of college football, but in the history of ALL sports. And for billy c. to just say "Its just one game, one season" showed me just how little he really cares about NU, its program, and its tradition. IMO, any REAL HUSKER FAN should have been calling for his head after he caused that streak to end, and he really didnt give a crap. But no, people who consider themselves "Husker Fans" were apathetic to the situtation, and frankly didnt care, yet they consider themselves "True fans."

I HATE seeing the program that I loved for so long being ridiculed and destroyed by a handful of self-serving ego maniacs, but I guess a REAL HUSKER FAN would just sit back and take it. Right?????????????

 
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