Interesting since he still doesn’t have an offer from us yet. Really curious who the mystery qb target is. Assume he’s still got a game to play.
Next #1 QB ?
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I have inside info that he still has one more game to play but was told to keep my mouth shut so I can only offer a hint. His name rhymes with Price Tongue.
Per Callahan today we can’t make an offer to someone unless we’re prepared to accept it and he is not our primary target so we have not offered. If we do offer Thompson the other target went a different direction.
Frost is not who should be developing the players. That is a job for the position coach. I agree that we have seen minimal development in AM. However, it is hard to develop when the line is as bad as NU's. Actually, when AM had time, he did a pretty good job of delivering the ball.
Smothers does not fit the mold for the type of QB this program wants now. His passing skills are poor, and his main asset is his running skills. His best move would be move to safety or receiver where he can hone his talents. NU will be pursuing pass first QBs, who are tall and possess a big arm. I doubt we will see more than a couple of designed QB run plays a game.
If there is a mystery QB, it raise other issues as you can’t talk to player on other teams until they are officially in the portal— just like Kentucky didn’t talk to WR1 until he was in the portal
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Very interesting. I think all this "mystery" QB stuff is nonsense. Some are grasping at straws hoping for good news because we've come up empty so far.
What is so distasteful about Thompson? As I laid out his td-int ratio is on par with anyone we've had post Osborne. That's 20 plus years. But we're fantasizing about Mr. Mystery. Who is that? The Alabama qb? Tom Brady found some old college eligibility? Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Thompson would be a great portal get for us.
I don't if we need another quarterback, and if we do which one to offer. I do think there are some good ones that I would hope the staff would take a look at if they became available.......Ward and Grayson McCall come to mind pretty quickly. I would expect Whipple to have a pretty good grasp on what he likes so I would expect a solid decision if he thinks we need more qb bodies.
Yeah, you're correct -- that would have been the cigar chomping dude. Just seemed like we haven't seen a lot of player development based on the lack of players rotating in and out of the game. That's been one of my biggest frustrations the last 4 years.
Hoping that changes with the new coaching staff.
I was looking up info on Ward and this was the 24/7 observation...
Ward is a high-ceiling, low-floor quarterback in the portal. The former will get him plenty of FBS interest, including from some Power Five programs. Ward is a toolsy player. He is a good athlete, has top-notch arm talent and can deliver throws from different arm angles that few can. At the same time, he has a fumbling issue and is prone to making bad decisions when the play breaks down. Ward produced 23 big-time throws this past season, but also 23 turnover-worthy plays. He is young though and getting acclimated to a pure passing offense after playing in a Wing T system in high school. Ward is just scratching the surface.
...doen't look like the answer for us.
Ward is a high-ceiling, low-floor quarterback in the portal. The former will get him plenty of FBS interest, including from some Power Five programs. Ward is a toolsy player. He is a good athlete, has top-notch arm talent and can deliver throws from different arm angles that few can. At the same time, he has a fumbling issue and is prone to making bad decisions when the play breaks down. Ward produced 23 big-time throws this past season, but also 23 turnover-worthy plays. He is young though and getting acclimated to a pure passing offense after playing in a Wing T system in high school. Ward is just scratching the surface.
...doen't look like the answer for us.
Damn... replace the name Ward with Martinez and welcome to the Huskers 4 year nightmare.
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I'd still like the staff to take a hard look at this young man, and see if the above flaws are fixable or not. Also if they are fixable quickly.......that's the real issue here. This staff doesn't have the luxury of time to fix things. They need to click quickly if this staff wants another year or two to completely right the ship.
He has many suitors. Kiffen wants him at ole Miss pretty badly, and so does Arizona. His head coach (Morris) is going to Washington St I believe, and I'm not sure if they're looking at him or not. That might tell us something.
There is also a world of difference between the fcs and fbs so there's that. Whipple has probably been around long enough to have an idea of answers to these questions, and the fact that Cameron has been in the portal for three weeks and his name isn't mentioned very much by those around NU probably says something about our interest level.
But here's an interesting view from Erc Townsend an Arizona writer......
"Cameron first took college football by storm, playing in six games for the Cardinals as a true freshman as he passed for 2,260 yards and 24 touchdowns to just four interceptions while completing 183 of his 303 passes (60.4 percent).
However, this past season is what turned peoples’ heads, especially as he started in all 13 games, throwing for an astounding 4,648 yards and 47 touchdowns to just 10 interceptions, all while completing 384 of his 590 passes (65.1 percent)."
Thanks Doc for the info that you have and can give us. I'm not surprised by the fact Frost has to win next or he's done. Honestly if he's not 4-2 by October 1st he's probably done.
Anyway I hope we get these coaching announcements done and the QB we want.
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