2020 Quarterback Competition

Minnesota_husker said:
I doubt that. I think Martinez is your starter but hopefully they will get smart enough to use Luke in some packages and find him ways on the field.

I assume Martinez wasnt fully healthy but I think Frost has hitched his wagon to him. Vedral is a solid backup but I am just hoping this was just a bad year for Martinez because it seemed like his struggles were far more than just an injury... but he is still young, so I am fine with working through them.
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Eh, I don't think there's much reason to not believe him.  I'm sure he still believe in Martinez and thinks he'll be the guy.  But things can go south in a hurry if you're not playing someone who's clearly better.  Especially if you're losing games.

I think it's more likely that there was a bunch of stuff going on this year that all played into Martinez not playing as well as we thought.  Which was still much better than a lot of people want to believe.  And Frost has a much better handle on all that than any of us do.

 
BigPeterJ said:
Unless Adrian just wasn't there mentaly and he gets their by next season, i really believe Luke needs to be our guy.
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Frost knows about the calls for McCaffrey.  In the presser he said something to the effect of the entire state of Nebraska loving Luke.

Frost was very complimentary of Smothers too......

 
Smothers is in the same mold of Mariotta IMO,  strong arm, great speed and has the size that we like.  

I think AM will be named the starter but hopefully he has a short leash, especially after this year's performance. 

 
TheSker said:
Frost knows about the calls for McCaffrey.  In the presser he said something to the effect of the entire state of Nebraska loving Luke.

Frost was very complimentary of Smothers too......
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Stumpy1 said:
Smothers is in the same mold of Mariotta IMO,  strong arm, great speed and has the size that we like.  

I think AM will be named the starter but hopefully he has a short leash, especially after this year's performance. 
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I agree Adrian will be named the starter next fall.  I think he stays healthy and plays well in 20 with actual WR and a good line.  I expect Smothers to pass McCaffrey on the depth chart.  I expect McCaffrey will change positions or leave if it becomes clear he won't play QB.

I also expect that to make a lot of people salty.

:thumbs

 
runningblind said:
I agree Adrian will be named the starter next fall.  I think he stays healthy and plays well in 20 with actual WR and a good line.  I expect Smothers to pass McCaffrey on the depth chart.  I expect McCaffrey will change positions or leave if it becomes clear he won't play QB.

I also expect that to make a lot of people salty.

:thumbs
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I really believe Luke will be a game changer by the time he is a senior if not earlier.  So i hope he changes positions in that scenario.  I just think the passion he plays with and the energy is contagious.  If Adrian is the starter, he better be a completely different QB than this year.

 
BigPeterJ said:
I really believe Luke will be a game changer by the time he is a senior if not earlier.  So i hope he changes positions in that scenario.  I just think the passion he plays with and the energy is contagious.  If Adrian is the starter, he better be a completely different QB than this year.
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I think Luke deserves to be on the field, don't get me wrong, he is an A+ athlete.  I do think Adrian plays much better next year.

 
funhusker said:
I can't say for certain.  But maybe Adrian's injury wasn't going to get worse, and the staff still thought Martinez gave the team the best chance to win. 

I mean, the Huskers still lost both games that Martinez didn't take snaps.  
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I get that. But we probably would have lost regardless who played QB because we looked just as bad if not worse when he played all year. I am not sold a non throwing arm injury made him miss his reads, look slow and throw inaccurate? 

 
Adrian has steadily worsened over his two seasons and it's not like he just suddenly started playing poorly in season 2.  When he begins next season the same way, the fear is we repeat the same stubbornness to move on.

 
This has been a problem since Taylor Martinez.    The incumbent doesn’t lose his job to poor performance.     Granted the QB rooms have been horrible until recently but it’s an observation of the last decade.

 
OH HSKR FAN said:
This has been a problem since Taylor Martinez.    The incumbent doesn’t lose his job to poor performance.     Granted the QB rooms have been horrible until recently but it’s an observation of the last decade.
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Not sure the QB rooms have been all that bad.  How bad were we under Cody Green?  He fit our system, but he wasn't a bright guy to pack up and go to the system at Tulsa.  Tulsa was 8-5 and  11-3 with him there.  Obviously someone beat him out for a reason.  But he was actually pretty good at minimizing turnovers when he did play.  He's coaching now at UNLV now, so he couldn't have been too terrible.

 
madrat said:
Adrian has steadily worsened over his two seasons and it's not like he just suddenly started playing poorly in season 2.  When he begins next season the same way, the fear is we repeat the same stubbornness to move on.
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Wait are you claiming Adrian was getting worse as the season went on last year? 

OH HSKR FAN said:
This has been a problem since Taylor Martinez.    The incumbent doesn’t lose his job to poor performance.     Granted the QB rooms have been horrible until recently but it’s an observation of the last decade.
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When did Taylor play bad enough over a 2+ game stretch that he should have lost his job, and who should he have lost it to? 

 
BigPeterJ said:
I really believe Luke will be a game changer by the time he is a senior if not earlier.  So i hope he changes positions in that scenario.  I just think the passion he plays with and the energy is contagious.  If Adrian is the starter, he better be a completely different QB than this year.
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Make it an open QB competition, but practice reps in a green jersey are not always a very good indication of performance on Saturday's.  We have a deep QB room and need to make use of it if needed.  Keep the QBs on a short leash until we figure out who is the fastest blinker on Saturday's.

 
You do realize that 'fast blinkers' theory is more or less about small organisms and has little to do with fast performance?  We just plain need a smarter breed of football at Nebraska.  The reason Devaney was so good was he put it on the staff to think and left it on the players to react.  He held people accountable by replacing underperformers.  But when it gets down to the nitty gritty, he minimized thinking out of most of the players.  The coaches and a few select leaders do all the thinking in a system like he ran.  You don't need to be a fast blinker, you need to be a fast do-er.

 
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