Triaging the QB room

Undone said:
Good stuff!

Sometimes total season interceptions & total season fumbles lost isn't as meaningful as it at first seems as far as how it directly impacts the W/L columns. Example: You're Nebraska and you're playing a Top 10 team where the realistic odds of winning are probably less than 10% and we have a ton of turnovers in that one game. Doesn't really matter that much; you weren't winning that one anyway, and then the turnovers from that one game skew the numbers greatly.

The completion percentage comparisons between this year's QB efforts and Thompson last year when taking Palmer's targets out are the most interesting stat.

But that said, fumbles and just total number of dumb mistakes this year has been insane and has definitely contributed to the W/L column in huge, huge ways.

Last year we would have made a bowl game if probably just about anybody not named Erik Chinander was coaching the defense starting in March of 2022 up through the Georgia Southern game.
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This year we'd probably be sitting at 8-2 right now with a mediocre QB.  Worst qb room in CFB P5 History

 
Hilltop said:
9-1...  With Ok offensive play, we beat Colorado imo.  
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Ya know, I dont disagree with this but ill still give us the L for sake of argument purposes.  Who knows what wouldve happened had we just put up 14-21 early in that game when defense was playing great....

tho knowing this team, had we won against colorado we prolly would've come out flat against one of the illinois/nw/purdue games.  This team still no shows games similar to last iterations- not as severely but i dont know how else to explain the michigan state game.  

 
gossamorharpy said:
Ya know, I dont disagree with this but ill still give us the L for sake of argument purposes.  Who knows what wouldve happened had we just put up 14-21 early in that game when defense was playing great....

tho knowing this team, had we won against colorado we prolly would've come out flat against one of the illinois/nw/purdue games.  This team still no shows games similar to last iterations- not as severely but i dont know how else to explain the michigan state game.  
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The assumption that NU automatically wins so many other games with a “mediocre QB” is a big leap of faith.  I guess if those people use the qualifier of “if kept everything else the same….” they may have a point. But, we know that if NU had a better QB, other teams would probably game plan against NU differently, and all of those losses wouldn’t be an automatic win. 

 
ColoradoHusk said:
The assumption that NU automatically wins so many other games with a “mediocre QB” is a big leap of faith.  
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Is it though?  We have a top 20 defense and are ranked 122/133 in points per game scored.  Only 2 opponents have scored over 20 points this season against us and in one of those we handed the opponent a gob of points on turnovers.  Just by removing the really bad interceptions, we would be sitting at 7-8 wins without adding a completion.    

 
TGHusker said:
 Who was the last QB that Nebraska had whereby a forward pass wasn't a regular 'hold your breath & wait and see what happens' event?  The same holds true with fumbles. 
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Adrian Martinez freshman year. 

I think some people get nervous about every forward pass, but recent Husker QBs have been middle of the pack turnover machines: not great, but no reason to shut them down, either. I actually have great memories of Trey Palmer, J.D. Spielman, Stanley Morgan, Quincy Enunwa, Jordan Westercamp, Kenny Bell, Demornay Pierson-El, Cethan Carter and other receivers who made exciting plays and helped us win via the passing game. 

 
ColoradoHusk said:
The assumption that NU automatically wins so many other games with a “mediocre QB” is a big leap of faith.  I guess if those people use the qualifier of “if kept everything else the same….” they may have a point. But, we know that if NU had a better QB, other teams would probably game plan against NU differently, and all of those losses wouldn’t be an automatic win. 
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This is true and it's impossible to prove. But......it's also hard to imagine a marginally better quarterback not making the difference in a 13-10 loss like last week. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
This is true and it's impossible to prove. But......it's also hard to imagine a marginally better quarterback not making the difference in a 13-10 loss like last week. 
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Yes, I agree with you. If everything else was the same, a better QB likely wins the game last week. However, what we don’t know is how Maryland (and other teams) would approach playing against NU’s defense. Also, Maryland played pretty poorly with a lot of mistakes last week. If they are playing against a more potent offense, maybe they are more focused, don’t make as many mistakes and have so many penalties, and score 24-30 points. 

 
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Guy Chamberlin said:
This is true and it's impossible to prove. But......it's also hard to imagine a marginally better quarterback not making the difference in a 13-10 loss like last week. 
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For sure, and we had another 13-10 loss also (to Minnesota). Sims threw a couple extremely costly picks in that one also.

 
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