Its on AM

I recognize there are things making the job harder on martinez. But when he does have time, when receivers are open. He is still over throwing and under throwing and just flat out not seeing the field. Open guys that are not seen and he forces it to Spielman. Perhaps that is a product of him feeling rushed due to the pressure- but considering the hype and heisman talk a guy of that caliber should still be able to produce something respectable. 

 
I was looking up Trevor Lawrence's stats vs AM's to see how they compared this year (honestly not far off besides Lawrence having a better completion percentage). However, there was one stat that jumped out to me. AM has been sacked 14 times (23 times last year) and Lawrence has been sacked 3 times (11 last year). Nebraska is on track to allow 34 sacks! Add on top of it the poor snaps and it's no wonder AM has happy feet and is rushing his reads.

 
I really dont get why when teams are bringing pressure and martinez is struggling they dont exploit that with the short passing game. I'm no coach but if teams are bringing linebackers on the blitz a lot like against Illinois that to me would mean that there's a chance for stoll or one of the receivers to make plays over the middle or Washington out of the backfield. 

Martinez is obviously struggling so why not run some quick hitting passes and give our athletes like Washington and Robinson an opportunity to pick up some YAC. Not every pass has to be 30 yards down field. With an offensive line that isn't going to be fixed this season long developing pass plays just dont make a lot of sense to me.

 
PoloWearingBeaver said:
 
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Yeeeeeep.

PoloWearingBeaver said:
And yet I saw the depth chart had no changes. If you're not going to change anything and expect different results.......
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Frost is too smart of a guy to not make changes if there are other kids that can be swapped in to do better. I really believe that. And I haven't seen any kind of stubbornness from him that suggests he isn't making changes just to show that it's their fault and not his. 

 
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Sker fer life said:
I can't figure out why the high snaps are STILL an issue.   Its been a problem since the spring game,  why is it taking so long to fix it ?  
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Why is it taking so long  to fix and why don't we make a personnel change?  I get Cam has upside but just leaving him out there when his bad snaps are killing us is ridiculous. We won't put little Farniok in and we won't do anything to help big Farniok when he is getting eaten alive by an All American DE.These are self-inflicted wounds are staff should be addressing. 

As far as AM goes ya the line does put him in tough spots but there are still way too many times when he just makes a bad read or throw.   Not to mention the fumbliitis. Yes he certainly needs his supporting cast to help more, no getting around that, but Frost acting like the kid is playing well when he isn't is tiresome. 

 
Ah, yes. The ol oversimplification of our issues - one of my favorites. 

OP, go back and rewatch the game. Chase Young lived in the backfield, as did the rest of the Buckeye DL. If you can't protect, especially against 3-4 rushers, while everyone else drops back into coverage, then you're going to have a bad time. 

 
Undone said:
Yeeeeeep.

Frost is too smart of a guy to not make changes if there are other kids that can be swapped in to do better. I really believe that. And I haven't seen any kind of stubbornness from him that suggests he isn't making changes just to show that it's their fault and not his. 
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I agree with you that they'd switch kids if they could. From the outside the only option that seems possible is to start Benhart at RT and move Farniok inside in the hopes he's a better guard than tackle. However, that requires Benhart to be good enough to start as a true frosh and that's a huge ask.

 
WyoHusker56 said:
From the outside the only option that seems possible is to start Benhart at RT and move Farniok inside in the hopes he's a better guard than tackle. However, that requires Benhart to be good enough to start as a true frosh and that's a huge ask.
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And that to me would be a bit of a desperate move. And what does it really give us? Even if it works out as perfectly as it reasonably could, it's probably only the difference between going 9-3 instead of 7-5. Not worth it. Play him the last four games with the redshirt rule if it's necessary, sure...but don't burn the redshirt for the last seven games.

You're spot on, Wyo.

 
Undone said:
And that to me would be a bit of a desperate move. And what does it really give us? Even if it works out as perfectly as it reasonably could, it's probably only the difference between going 9-3 instead of 7-5. Not worth it. Play him the last four games with the redshirt rule if it's necessary, sure...but don't burn the redshirt for the last seven games.

You're spot on, Wyo.
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Yup, totally agree no reason to burn his redshirt. We'll need him the next 4 after this year.

 
BigPeterJ said:
Your missing the point im making.  Of course it isnt ENTIRELY  AMs fault, but it is primarily.

And yes, both Vedral, and Luke would be better than AM has been.  I cant imagine many who would be worse.
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Do we stop to think that maybe this isn't the case at this point in time. What if, and this is just an assumption that our head coach knows what TF he is doing when he watches practices and such that any of the backups aren't performing well enough or he doesn't think they would preform well enough to make a tangible difference.

Say Luke or Vedral starts and this same crap keeps happening the excuses would be, oh he's just a freshman just wait, and Vedral he isn't used to being the starter. Then we would call for the backups again. Let the coach do his damn job and stop making the backup QB a celebrity when it doesn't warrant it.

 
Huskerzoo said:
I have a hard time how anyone could watch the game and blame AM. Thanks for posting some of these tweets. 
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This is a reason why I'm staying far away from the Football forum on weekends.

BigPeterJ said:
Your missing the point im making.  Of course it isnt ENTIRELY  AMs fault, but it is primarily.

And yes, both Vedral, and Luke would be better than AM has been.  I cant imagine many who would be worse.
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^ A good example of why I'm staying far away from the Football forum on weekends. 

 
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