QB for 2021

Preferred QB for 2021


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Just interested in seeing what everyone's desire is for the QB position this year. Feel free to explain your reasoning, if you vote other it would be interesting if you had someone in particular in mind (ie: Smothers) of if you simply want anyone but Adrian or Luke.
 
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He has the experience, and he may get healthy
Plus, I do believe this year we have as many, if not more weapons for him to use this year than any since hes been here.
And a healthy run game, which we were very inconsistent at is imperative, and again, it looks as good as since year one,possibly deeper.
 
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Martinez is a three year starter. Martinez set the all time completion percentage record at NU. Martinez went 18-20 against Iowa. Martinez went 24-28 against Rutgers. Martinez understands Frost's offense better than any of the other QBs. Anyone who thinks he will not be the starter next season is not dealing with reality.
 
Martinez is a three year starter. Martinez set the all time completion percentage record at NU. Martinez went 18-20 against Iowa. Martinez went 24-28 against Rutgers. Martinez understands Frost's offense better than any of the other QBs. Anyone who thinks he will not be the starter next season is not dealing with reality.
Two unlikely things could happen, either Luke or Smothers explodes, other than that,yep
 
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its 2 am's job till he is beat. I am pulling for HH. but its probably never good for a true frosh to have that pressure.
I do honestly believe we will be better in the passing game, ok thats not saying a much. I think we will be much better in the air, its based on potential ( and maybe some red colored glasses) at the wr spot and how the TE started to get the ball tossed to em a lil
 
its 2 am's job till he is beat. I am pulling for HH. but its probably never good for a true frosh to have that pressure.
I do honestly believe we will be better in the passing game, ok thats not saying a much. I think we will be much better in the air, its based on potential ( and maybe some red colored glasses) at the wr spot and how the TE started to get the ball tossed to em a lil
Good point Ed, you can't have hit a deep threat when they never get open or run poor routes. We need some WRs with the ability to create space and a line that can hold blocks long enough for that to happen.
 
Preferred QB? McCaffery. Who will start? Martinez. It seemed to me that the coaches never ran the offense to Luke's strengths. They had him run the offense set up for Martinez. Luke is better suited to RPO and forget the horizontal passes. If he's throwing the ball 20 yards, I want it downfield, not LOS near the sideline. There are plenty of successful college QBs who don't have NFL arms. Martinez's stronger arm got us nowhere last year. His stats are inflated with glorified handoffs that are officially forward passes. I've seen 3 years of AM2. He is what he is.
Just my opinion, I know it'll be unpopular, heheh
 
Martinez is a three year starter. Martinez set the all time completion percentage record at NU. Martinez went 18-20 against Iowa. Martinez went 24-28 against Rutgers. Martinez understands Frost's offense better than any of the other QBs. Anyone who thinks he will not be the starter next season is not dealing with reality.
I agree. Add to that, Frost has a special bond with the Martinez family and Adrian is a high-character kid.

BUT ... that said, we cannot afford to have another season where the offense was as god-awful as this past year's was. If Adrian could have found and hit ANYTHING deep, we'd have had a much better season. But he couldn't and we didn't. I worry that with the loss of Wan'dale and Dedrick Mills, we'll put more eggs in the basket of a running QB.

Frost can't afford two more years of Martinez at QB if his passing doesn't dramatically improve. If AM2 stays at QB and his passing doesn't get better, Adrian and Scott will be leaving Lincoln together
 
I agree. Add to that, Frost has a special bond with the Martinez family and Adrian is a high-character kid.

BUT ... that said, we cannot afford to have another season where the offense was as god-awful as this past year's was. If Adrian could have found and hit ANYTHING deep, we'd have had a much better season. But he couldn't and we didn't. I worry that with the loss of Wan'dale and Dedrick Mills, we'll put more eggs in the basket of a running QB.

Frost can't afford two more years of Martinez at QB if his passing doesn't dramatically improve. If AM2 stays at QB and his passing doesn't get better, Adrian and Scott will be leaving Lincoln together
I agree, a vertical passing game is a must. We saw Martinez could do that with Spielman and Morgan. Who was that deep threat this season? Fleming looked to be that man but something ended him in the dog house. No one else stepped up. People who blame him for the lack of a vertical game need to tell me who his targets were. You can't throw to someone who is not open especially with the amount of time his line was giving him. He set the single season passing average throwing the passes his coaches called. What more can you ask for from a QB? If you don't like the type of passes he threw, blame the coach, not the player who is doing what he is asked to do.
 
OK, tell me, in the last two years,what non slot, but wide out have we had thats good?
I mean Stan good, not just complimentary.
The only reason we stole Toure is because we had all the leverage. No competition, knew his coaches.
Toures the real deal, so is Allen, Vokolek and Fidone and Betts.

As for rb, sure, Mills was good at times, but who else? I think the rb position is going to surprise a bit as well.
 
The issues and lackadaisical attitude unfortunately drifting across the program was never better displayed than when our massive qb issue is completely brushed off this recruiting season. We have two guys inept at throwing a pass five yards downfield and a true frosh who they won't even let on the field. This is remedied by not bringing in one national level qb, just some outstate kid.
One wonders if Frost isn't projecting his own background into this. That's quaint.
 
The issues and lackadaisical attitude unfortunately drifting across the program was never better displayed than when our massive qb issue is completely brushed off this recruiting season. We have two guys inept at throwing a pass five yards downfield and a true frosh who they won't even let on the field. This is remedied by not bringing in one national level qb, just some outstate kid.
One wonders if Frost isn't projecting his own background into this. That's quaint.
Please, I want all the spring practices Smothers had, no?

Okay, how bout fall practices? With the ones and twos. No? Open competition between LM and AM prevented playing against the ones and twos? And no spring?

Why would we choose to ruin Smothers?
 
I can't remember when we've had this deep talent (potential) at quarterback
seems like it wasn't that long ago when we had Zac Lee and Ron Kellog
That's funny. All highly rated 4 star athletes. Yet our boo birds find the cupboard bare. I also remember when TO asked who wanted to be QB and ended up with a guy who signed as a CB.
 
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The issues and lackadaisical attitude unfortunately drifting across the program was never better displayed than when our massive qb issue is completely brushed off this recruiting season. We have two guys inept at throwing a pass five yards downfield and a true frosh who they won't even let on the field. This is remedied by not bringing in one national level qb, just some outstate kid.
One wonders if Frost isn't projecting his own background into this. That's quaint.
I am assuming you are saying we needed a transfer, cause we got a QB in the recruiting class.one i think will be better then ok
 
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I am assuming you are saying we needed a transfer, cause we got a QB in the recruiting class.one i think will be better then ok
You can project whatever you want. Its always a possibility he may develop into a better then average qb. However, his high school statistics are not suggestive of that. His completion percentage of 55 percent and td to int ratio are underwhelming. This is still high school in, class C-1 we're talking about here. He's a pure project. That's not someone you want to risk the future on.
I am not trying to bag on him, he is probably worthy of a scholarship offer due to being a Nebraska kid I just think its foolish to hedge all be bets like that. We can't be in the higher end market anymore?
 
You can project whatever you want. Its always a possibility he may develop into a better then average qb. However, his high school statistics are not suggestive of that. His completion percentage of 55 percent and td to int ratio are underwhelming. This is still high school in, class C-1 we're talking about here. He's a pure project. That's not someone you want to risk the future on.
I am not trying to bag on him, he is probably worthy of a scholarship offer due to being a Nebraska kid I just think its foolish to hedge all be bets like that. We can't be in the higher end market anymore?
Every kid coming out of HS is a project. He doesn't really look the part of a Frost type QB but he is a heck of an athlete. To me he looks like a good candidate for a switch to TE if the QB thing don't work out.
 
You can project whatever you want. Its always a possibility he may develop into a better then average qb. However, his high school statistics are not suggestive of that. His completion percentage of 55 percent and td to int ratio are underwhelming. This is still high school in, class C-1 we're talking about here. He's a pure project. That's not someone you want to risk the future on.
I am not trying to bag on him, he is probably worthy of a scholarship offer due to being a Nebraska kid I just think its foolish to hedge all be bets like that. We can't be in the higher end market anymore?
Good lord man, that is where th genius of Verduzco and Frost comes in.
 
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