Adrian Martinez

Undone said:
I disagree with the assessment that Adrian "sucks."

If he hits the one to the left side of the end zone that was just 10" too high and if our special teams weren't pathetic we probably win that game.

Pass protection was also bad for a solid portion of the game as well. The play call by Frost to go empty backfield, five wide on the 3rd & 2 in the second quarter also showed just how bad our pass protection can be; they only rushed four against our five down linemen. Should have given Adrian the space to scramble but didn't and then he fumbled as the pocket collapsed and was trying to lunge forward.

Nobody loves the Monday morning armchair offensive coordinator but with where the clock was at combined with where the score was at, I'm just calling a run play with Stepp on that play. Empty backfield just doesn't work for us.
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Go back and watch the game.  If your first sentence is still your AM posture, we can't help you.

Numerous times the pocket held for 3+ seconds; he cannot make quick decisions or consistently accurate throws.

He's very very poor at this level.

 
DefenderAO said:
They don't perform in any facet of the game, Offense, Defense, ST, when it truly matters.  Adrians cream puff stats last year didn't yield any material value.  Ftost keeps mentioning the team needs to see good things happen.  What would you call beating Penn State last year?  Then how did they follow it up?  

The D on Saturday needed a stop out of halftime.  They folded.  A terrible team with a backup QB marched right down the field on them.  They had time to rest, time to adjust, time to motivate.

The team is awful and reflects the staff.  I feel bad for some of the kids as they do have talent, they're just led and motivated by overmatched coaches riding a terrible QB.
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But but but- he completes 72% of his passes and will set records. I say IN JEST. 

Hes a great kid, I really hope he does well AND due to our poor evaluating and poor developing he STILL gives us the best chance to win. But those saying AM is a good QB, just stop- and stop embarrassing yourselves. 

 
Nebraska55fan said:
But those saying AM is a good QB, just stop- and stop embarrassing yourselves. 
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I won't put words in your mouth, so maybe you can do the same?

Is the kid McKenzie Milton? No. Would 2017 McKenzie Milton make our team drastically different this year? Probably would. We'd still have the clusterf*** disaster on special teams and the inopportune penalties that would still most likely make it almost impossible to beat even teams like Northwestern, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Michigan, & Ohio State...but we wouldn't be losing to Illinois & Minnesota.

Adrian has a significantly higher completion percentage than Tommy & Taylor. I heard we're mentioning "objectivity" in this thread so I thought I'd point that stat out.

 
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There is a running joke that Nebraska and Tennessee are essentially attached at the hip when it comes to programs and wouldn't you know it, Tennessee had Jarrett Guarantano (aka Guarantano Bay because watching him was like getting tortured) at QB who started as a RS Fr, showed some flashes of brilliance and then steadily got worse and worse until he lost his job and here we are with 2AM who has done the same thing.  Fun twist!  Martinez was initially committed to Tennessee!  The jokes write themselves at this point!

 
Undone said:
Adrian has a significantly higher completion percentage than Tommy & Taylor. I heard we're mentioning "objectivity" in this thread so I thought I'd point that stat out.
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 I DONT CARE about meaningless completed swing passes. AM cant hit a WIDE OPEN for TD medium pass when he has plenty of time-  to save his life. He CONTINUES to fumble for TDs for the other team. GREAT kid- best we have, but he just isn't any good. To claim he is at this point is really silly or insane. 

ALL I CARE ABOUT IS WINNING- he doesn't have the skills to do that and has only regressed every year. 

 
Undone said:
I won't put words in your mouth, so maybe you can do the same?

Is the kid McKenzie Milton? No. Would 2017 McKenzie Milton make our team drastically different this year? Probably would. We'd still have the clusterf*** disaster on special teams and the inopportune penalties that would still most likely make it almost impossible to beat even teams like Northwestern, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Michigan, & Ohio State...but we wouldn't be losing to Illinois & Minnesota.

Adrian has a significantly higher completion percentage than Tommy & Taylor. I heard we're mentioning "objectivity" in this thread so I thought I'd point that stat out.
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Mr. Martinez, you’ve raised a wonderful son. If this were CharacterBoard.com we’d be raving. I hope to see him encouraging the future of this position from the sidelines. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Maybe a little. But he did fumble.

If Nebraska had won, my perception of the game would be different, too. 
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Again, the setup on that play was empty backfield, five receivers wide. Our five linemen versus their four men rushing. The play seems to be setup to hit Martin as the crossing man over the middle underneath.

Martinez should have just lobbed the ball to the sideline. That was of course a big mistake there. He must have thought that the inside backer that was staying home over the middle was about snap over into Martin's route. Not sure why he didn't try to zip it to Martin on the crossing route, but he didn't, and then the pocket collapses.

I just wish we had that play back and would have called a wide pitch play to Stepp or Ervin and then had the opportunity to punt the ball if we got stuffed.

 
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Archy1221 said:
Chin had his way with Brett almost the entire first half.  Defense was not the problem 
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There are two halves to every game. The team that learns lessons in the first half and corrects them in the second half is the better team. 

So that first quarter success ends up meaningless. And we're not even mentioning Illinois losing it's starting QB. 

Illinois scored just as many touchdowns against the Nebraska defense in the first half as Nebraska did against a notoriously lousy Illinois defense.

Opening the second half with the game in the balance, the Nebraska defense backpedaled its way to an 8 minute drive that essentially sealed the game. 

Offense, Defense and Special Teams were the problem. That's why this keeps going back to the head coach and the culture. 

 
hunter49 said:
special teams play was horrible. give me a new HC who wouldn't teach these kids how to beat themselves.

culture is a joke here. 
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Yep.

If Martinez doesn't fumble on that 3rd & 2 in the 2nd and we just punt it away and all other things are equal we still lose the game because we missed two PATs.

 
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