Question about Jeff Sims
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Aside from his lack of ball handling skills and ball protection awareness he guy needs help.
Our WR room is weak, most likely bottom tier across college football.
No threat of speed, no ability to create space, easily jammed up or stopped mid route and not the best at catching the ball. When your WR room has a walk on as a starter that runs crisp routes that should give you a hint how bad it is!
If Sims has better receivers what would the offense look like?
Would production/efficiency increase by 10%. 25%. 75%?
Our WR room is weak, most likely bottom tier across college football.
No threat of speed, no ability to create space, easily jammed up or stopped mid route and not the best at catching the ball. When your WR room has a walk on as a starter that runs crisp routes that should give you a hint how bad it is!
If Sims has better receivers what would the offense look like?
Would production/efficiency increase by 10%. 25%. 75%?
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It's typical Nebraska. Leadership in this program is such a huge question mark and has been for 10+ years. At some point, as the leader of this program, your words need to mean something, they have to have some weight to them.
Grant fumbles and doesn't play, Sims is responsible for what, 6 turnovers in two games and he keeps playing. I get we don't have much behind him but, so what? We aren't winning with him. At least let the players see you mean what you say. Bench the guy and give the ball to your running backs 50 times per game. Shorten the game and give yourself a chance with a QB that doesn't turn it over.
Nebraska used to have an identity. It worked pretty damn well for over 4 decades. I can not believe that people are dumb enough to think it won't work now. We went away from that identity 20 years ago and have been mediocre at best, and down right awful at worst, since then.
Run the ****ing ball, stop throwing it 20+ times per game and play stout defense. It will work. Unfortunately we keep hiring coaches that believe it won't.
When you can't complete a center exchange or get the ball in a runner's hands, that's not on the WRs. But I think you make an excellent point nonetheless. Mediocre line play, even if slightly better than last year, leaves an indecisive QB with little time to do much -- and many times there is no one open downfield.
I saw that Malachi got in the game late, and I think we have several other speedy freshman receivers on the sidelines. What does it hurt to get them in the game at this point? Get them a little game experience in these next two games before the B1G gauntlet starts.
As I stated, I was looking for particular information about Sims and how/why he got here, not a re-hash of how bad he is and what our problems are. So did Casey leave after Sims got here and it was fairly obvious that he was gonna be the starter, or was Casey gonna leave anyway and we had to get somebody so Sims.seemed like the best available option?
I think NC in Posts #4 and #20 and Valiant in Post #12 answer your question.
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Casey Thompson was in Lincoln long enough to hear and read all the Sims is NFL caliber etc etc
I would doubt he would have bolted had he been hearing the slightest bit about himself as well.
Sims is terrible so far as a Husker and his numbers the past few years aren't good either. If there
is one thing I would challenge Rhule on this early in his tenure in Lincoln is Sims. Casey damn
sure would've won last week. Today, IDK but he wouldn't have lost it with a couple of minutes
to go in the first half.
Satterfield? It's early and he has gotten off to a bad start, but who knows yet. He probably sucks.
I would doubt he would have bolted had he been hearing the slightest bit about himself as well.
Sims is terrible so far as a Husker and his numbers the past few years aren't good either. If there
is one thing I would challenge Rhule on this early in his tenure in Lincoln is Sims. Casey damn
sure would've won last week. Today, IDK but he wouldn't have lost it with a couple of minutes
to go in the first half.
Satterfield? It's early and he has gotten off to a bad start, but who knows yet. He probably sucks.
Sims is on par with me as an NFL QB. I'm 54 with 2 replaced knees.
Agreed. The right side of the Oline is stout. The left side needs help but they have played better in 2 games this year than at any point last year. I wish Casey hadn't left. This is the worst I've ever seen since at least Jamal Lord and maybe ever than that os Simms. I know we can't tell.much about Haarberg but when he was in I didn't see near the probs I see with Simms.
Casey Thompson is currently 10-16 for 57 yards with an int at half while leading Ohio at half for those keeping score.
Agreed. The issue today wasn't a coaching problem (outside of letting a bad player continue to play) it was squarely an issue with 1 player and that's the leader of your team. And when the rest of you team sees their leader continue to make mistakes and not be pulled it's demoralizing to the rest of the team. That's when the game snow balls.
And the hole Nouili and Benhart blew for him to run through was as big as I've seen in many years. The the WR takes out 2 defenders and Simms was gone.
As long as you don't drop shotgun snaps and ask the center to snap the ball after the motion man has gone by and can hand off properly and not throw an I'll advised pass I want you to suit up brother. At least we wouldn't have given up 20 points.
Just a guess but if Casey had stayed and was our starter I bet that WR room looks a crap ton better than they do currently.
Crap ton... That has to be one of my favorite units of measurement, maybe even more than boat load.
A coach cannot throw a player under the bus but Coach Rhule explaining away Sims mistakes is beyond infuriating. Paraphrasing but saying things like "we just need to sit down with Jeff and and work out his mistakes so they don't happen again" is beyond naïve. His mistakes aren't "missing a linebacker dropping in coverage" for goodness sake.
If you have to sit down with your starting QB and explain "When you are in the shotgun it is very important that you not fumble the snap...repeatedly" I think it's time to find a different quarterback. His mistakes are not teachable moments. They are moments of complete lack of focus, and they are mistakes he has been making for the last 3 years. Please stop this madness Coach Rhule. Husker Nation put up with this $hit for 4 years with Frost/Martinez, but at least Martinez put up numbers that gave us false hope. The offense under Sims direction is putrid, both statistically and scoring production.
If you have to sit down with your starting QB and explain "When you are in the shotgun it is very important that you not fumble the snap...repeatedly" I think it's time to find a different quarterback. His mistakes are not teachable moments. They are moments of complete lack of focus, and they are mistakes he has been making for the last 3 years. Please stop this madness Coach Rhule. Husker Nation put up with this $hit for 4 years with Frost/Martinez, but at least Martinez put up numbers that gave us false hope. The offense under Sims direction is putrid, both statistically and scoring production.
