Armstrong at QB

[Enhance]

I really like how TA is running the ball this year. But he needs to stop trying to jump over people. See Brett Hundley.

Exactly. You can tell he looks a bit quicker and faster running the ball this season compared to last year. But he needs to learn to protect himself when running the ball.
No need to leap or lower your shoulder for that extra yard, it isn't worth it for any player let alone our starting QB.

Weren't there people bitching about Taylor not fighting for that extra yard? Can't please everyone I guess.

I don't remember a lot of that, personally. But, it may have happened. I more vividly remember an opponent hitting him, him turning into a log and then awkwardly falling to the turf. Perhaps that's what you're referencing. I'm not sure if he was being coached to do that or if it was just what he did. But, he pretty regularly looked awkward when getting tackled. As a QB, you want to try to minimize injury by sliding, going out of bounds and even going down quickly if someone sacks you. Martinez just went down quickly in a funny way.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.

Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

 

[TheSker]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.

Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Armstrong's numbers are very good (check out the Armstrong thread).....whether compared to other quarterbacks in the conference, or in the NCAAs.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Outside of Nebraska, most college football analysts see a lot of upside in Tommy Armstrong. They see the young QB mistakes, too, but they are generally the mistakes of a competitor convinced he can make big things happen. Not the worst trait. Especially when he makes big things happen.

Apparently Tommy has also been granted a lot of authority to change plays as he sees fit, coming to the line and recognizing a defensive shift. He has the unsurprising tendancy to call his own number -- keeping the ball himself or going for the highlight reel throw -- and given his overall success rate it will be hard to talk him down from this. He's the nation's #9 leader in total offense.

But as defenses now shift to stopping Armstrong first it should open things back up for Ameer Abdullah, who hasn't been ignored as much as he's been semi-neutralized the past two games.

Armstrong gives Nebraska a lot of good options. It's nice to have a lot of good options.

 

[Hunter94]

Outside of Nebraska, most college football analysts see a lot of upside in Tommy Armstrong. They see the young QB mistakes, too, but they are generally the mistakes of a competitor convinced he can make big things happen. Not the worst trait. Especially when he makes big things happen.

Apparently Tommy has also been granted a lot of authority to change plays as he sees fit, coming to the line and recognizing a defensive shift. He has the unsurprising tendancy to call his own number -- keeping the ball himself or going for the highlight reel throw -- and given his overall success rate it will be hard to talk him down from this. He's the nation's #9 leader in total offense.

But as defenses now shift to stopping Armstrong first it should open things back up for Ameer Abdullah, who hasn't been ignored as much as he's been semi-neutralized the past two games.

Armstrong gives Nebraska a lot of good options. It's nice to have a lot of good options.

not really, most defenses are going to play to stop the run and dare Tommie to throw.....they just aren't convinced that he can beat them with his arm and neither am i....

 

[TheSker]

Outside of Nebraska, most college football analysts see a lot of upside in Tommy Armstrong. They see the young QB mistakes, too, but they are generally the mistakes of a competitor convinced he can make big things happen. Not the worst trait. Especially when he makes big things happen.

Apparently Tommy has also been granted a lot of authority to change plays as he sees fit, coming to the line and recognizing a defensive shift. He has the unsurprising tendancy to call his own number -- keeping the ball himself or going for the highlight reel throw -- and given his overall success rate it will be hard to talk him down from this. He's the nation's #9 leader in total offense.

But as defenses now shift to stopping Armstrong first it should open things back up for Ameer Abdullah, who hasn't been ignored as much as he's been semi-neutralized the past two games.

Armstrong gives Nebraska a lot of good options. It's nice to have a lot of good options.

not really, most defenses are going to play to stop the run and dare Tommie to throw.....they just aren't convinced that he can beat them with his arm and neither am i....

So far we've had 100 yard rushers in each game, Abdullah twice and Armstrong once.

 

[cg_8]

Outside of Nebraska, most college football analysts see a lot of upside in Tommy Armstrong. They see the young QB mistakes, too, but they are generally the mistakes of a competitor convinced he can make big things happen. Not the worst trait. Especially when he makes big things happen.

Apparently Tommy has also been granted a lot of authority to change plays as he sees fit, coming to the line and recognizing a defensive shift. He has the unsurprising tendancy to call his own number -- keeping the ball himself or going for the highlight reel throw -- and given his overall success rate it will be hard to talk him down from this. He's the nation's #9 leader in total offense.

But as defenses now shift to stopping Armstrong first it should open things back up for Ameer Abdullah, who hasn't been ignored as much as he's been semi-neutralized the past two games.

Armstrong gives Nebraska a lot of good options. It's nice to have a lot of good options.

not really, most defenses are going to play to stop the run and dare Tommie to throw.....they just aren't convinced that he can beat them with his arm and neither am i....

Yeah, a lot like his and Westerkamp's read of the defense on the 70 TD pass to open up the scoring for us against Fresno St.

Also his two PA's to TE's.

His 7-1 TD-Int ratio.

And let's forget about his 99 yard TD pass to Enunwa when a team completely sold out to stop the run...

You're right, unconvincing...

 

[Danny Bateman]

Outside of Nebraska, most college football analysts see a lot of upside in Tommy Armstrong. They see the young QB mistakes, too, but they are generally the mistakes of a competitor convinced he can make big things happen. Not the worst trait. Especially when he makes big things happen.

Apparently Tommy has also been granted a lot of authority to change plays as he sees fit, coming to the line and recognizing a defensive shift. He has the unsurprising tendancy to call his own number -- keeping the ball himself or going for the highlight reel throw -- and given his overall success rate it will be hard to talk him down from this. He's the nation's #9 leader in total offense.

But as defenses now shift to stopping Armstrong first it should open things back up for Ameer Abdullah, who hasn't been ignored as much as he's been semi-neutralized the past two games.

Armstrong gives Nebraska a lot of good options. It's nice to have a lot of good options.

THIS.

We have weapons. Lots of em. By their nature, WRs are higher risk options than a simple handoff to a RB, because they could flub a catch and pop a ball up or a CB could jump a quick throw for a pick 6, but stil...

If teams eventually do scheme to take a specific person away, if TA continues to grow and be able to distribute the ball to his weapons that are made available, we could be pretty scary.

 

[74Hunter]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.
Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

Maybe. But just imagine what his numbers could be if he would actually hit the 5 or 6 wide open receivers he missed each game, or if he could even just match the completion percentage of his predecessor.

 

[Abdullah the Butcher]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.
Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

Maybe. But just imagine what his numbers could be if he would actually hit the 5 or 6 wide open receivers he missed each game, or if he could even just match the completion percentage of his predecessor.

I wonder if you realize that Tommy has only been sacked once this year because he is smartly throwing more balls away thus lowering his completion %. He still makes some bad throws but he's been a lot better thus far.

 

[Branno]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/article/Neb-s-Armstrong-will-measure-himself-against-Miami-5756891.php

http://btn.com/2014/09/14/toms-take-week-3-big-ten-honors-grades-numbers-much-more/

http://www.expressnews.com/sports/colleges/article/head-tag-with-48-pt-5757428.php?cmpid=enpromo

Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.
Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

All we heard about here in the off season was how TA looked so much better as a passer and that he threw a pretty long ball. But I've stated over and over how I have serious reservations about the fact that he consistently misses wide open receivers in the short game and tries to force passes into coverage when the smarter decision would be to hit the check down.
You know what might open these exciting receivers on long passes? A more effective short passing game, which would almost immediately happen if TA were to use AA more in the passing game as a check down.

Is it really crazy to want a QB to be more effective in the passing game? To have a completion % closer to 60 than 50?

There is a reason teams are stacking the box against us and killing the running game. And it sure isn't because they are scared of our passing game

 

[74Hunter]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.
Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

Maybe. But just imagine what his numbers could be if he would actually hit the 5 or 6 wide open receivers he missed each game, or if he could even just match the completion percentage of his predecessor.

I wonder if you realize that Tommy has only been sacked once this year because he is smartly throwing more balls away thus lowering his completion %. He still makes some bad throws but he's been a lot better thus far.

Fine. He's throwing the ball away more, but he's still missing wide open receivers and not checking down too much. Also, lets not forget that his OL has been pass blocking very well this year, yet TA still was rattled and had happy feet against an FCS school. We'll see how that translates when he has to play a decent defense.

 

[knapplc]

There's smart football criticism and there's criticizing just to criticize. Pretty clear what we're seeing here.

 

[74Hunter]

There's smart football criticism and there's criticizing just to criticize. Pretty clear what we're seeing here.

Are you saying that leaving easy yards and points on the field, as well as being helped by a handful of dropped INTs isn't smart football criticism?

 

[BaytownHusker]

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Tommy Armstrong is the first Nebraska QB to go over 300 yards total offense in the first three games of the year since Joe Ganz. The kid is only going to get better from here. He's only a sophomore. We finally have a true dual threat at Nebraska!

If he could hit the broad side of a barn on short passes and learned how to check down. Until then, he's a guy that can run the option and throws a pretty ball.
Let me know when he can throw an effective ball.

Tommy Armstrong is averaging 9.0 yards per passing attempt. That is, by definition, effective.

Don't know what games you watch, but passes like that quick slant to Hovey are both short and difficult, and Armstrong executes them well. Or go back and see how many short yardage downs we've converted on quick curls.

It's pretty weird how Nebraska can have a quarterback throwing beautiful long touchdowns passes to exciting receivers, and fans complain he's not dumping it off to his third option enough.

Or that he throws a "pretty" ball.

Jesus, people.

Maybe. But just imagine what his numbers could be if he would actually hit the 5 or 6 wide open receivers he missed each game, or if he could even just match the completion percentage of his predecessor.

Just imagine how great you would be if you could hit the open receivers he hisses per game. You would be legendary. Oh wait, you didn't play QB for NeB did you?