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Guy Chamberlin

Guy Chamberlin

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Weirdly enough, Fyfe impressed me in the Purdue game. Looked like he could make a lot throws and scramble just enough to be useful. He completed 60% of his passes for 400 friggin' yards.

Oh yeah. The four interceptions. And the sacks.

Well some of those came in the flurry of total team meltdown, where players were dropping like flies and the ones left on the field seemed to have lost their will to live.

It's not hard to envision Fyfe looking pretty damn sharp on a team not playing its worst game in history.

 
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Guy Chamberlin said:
Weirdly enough, Fyfe impressed me in the Purdue game. Looked like he could make a lot throws and scramble just enough to be useful. He completed 60% of his passes for 400 friggin' yards.

Oh yeah. The four interceptions. And the sacks.

Well some of those came in the flurry of total team meltdown, where players were dropping like flies and the ones left on the field seemed to have lost their will to live.

It's not hard to envision Fyfe looking pretty damn sharp on a team not playing its worst game in history.
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I think the whole team came into the game with that feeling.

The way it turned out obviously woke them up though.

 
Player School Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate

Tommy Armstrong Jr Nebraska 6 18 33.3 43 2.4 -5.1 0 3 20.1 (Purdue 2013)

Tommy Armstrong Jr Nebraska 8 21 38.1 118 5.6 2.3 1 2 82.0 (Purdue 2014)

Ryker Fyfe Nebraska 29 48 60.4 407 8.5 6.4 4 4 142.5 (Purdue 2015)

These are both qb's numbers in their Purdue games. Pretty similar if you ask me.
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Army_Allen said:
Player School Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate

Tommy Armstrong Jr Nebraska 6 18 33.3 43 2.4 -5.1 0 3 20.1 (Purdue 2013)

Tommy Armstrong Jr Nebraska 8 21 38.1 118 5.6 2.3 1 2 82.0 (Purdue 2014)

Ryker Fyfe Nebraska 29 48 60.4 407 8.5 6.4 4 4 142.5 (Purdue 2015)

These are both qb's numbers in their Purdue games. Pretty similar if you ask me.
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Wow....those are some stats to be proud of.
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Kind of puts into perspective that whole base a guy off one game mentality people have had here though. Fyfe didn't play that bad given that he was in his first start on a windy a$$ day, and made to throw 48 times. Also two of his interceptions were on drop tips from his receivers.

 
Overall Fyfe didn't have a terrible game considering it was his first start and all the injuries and defensive melt down.

But it was freaking Purdue and not even like almost decent Purdue.

 
Looking at those comparative stats of the Purdue QBing, you have to say that Fyfe had the far better performance statistically. In my view. 4 interceptions is tough and the loss doesn't help but if all you had to compare them were the numbers given, I believe 90% of observers would, if forced to pick the starter, would choose Ryker. LOL I dare say very few on this board would seriously contend that Ryker is a better QB than Tommy. But time has passed and another year of practice, maturity, film study, etc. may have changed things. Time will tell who the next starter will be. We all could be surprised and find it is Bush. Tommy could go down injured and Ryker could quit the team for personal reasons, or have other issues. O Brien may need to redshirt.

I think the coaches are giving all their players a fair and honest opportunity to win the starting jobs all over the field. They want to win and arguably the best players playing is a darn good strategy for winning in football. Let's all give each and every member of the team a fair and just opportunity. We can reasonably criticize poor play but complement good play and enourage and reward improvement. Every player can get better. Give them all a chance.

 
Makes one wonder how NU outscored Purdue 79-21 in those two Armstrong wins versus the 55-44 loss this past season. Perhaps it has something to do with 39 attempts over two games versus 48 attempts during one.

That said, I don't think Fyfe was terrible, as much as I think he was put in a terrible position.

 
cm husker said:
Makes one wonder how NU outscored Purdue 79-21 in those two Armstrong wins versus the 55-44 loss this past season. Perhaps it has something to do with 39 attempts over two games versus 48 attempts during one.

That said, I don't think Fyfe was terrible, as much as I think he was put in a terrible position.
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teams usually do pass more when the defense cant stop the other team. 55 points given up is the key stat of that game.

 
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cm husker said:
Makes one wonder how NU outscored Purdue 79-21 in those two Armstrong wins versus the 55-44 loss this past season. Perhaps it has something to do with 39 attempts over two games versus 48 attempts during one.

That said, I don't think Fyfe was terrible, as much as I think he was put in a terrible position.
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teams usually do pass more when the defense cant stop the other team. 55 points given up is the key stat of that game.
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That's the convenient narrative, but 5 of 8 of Purdues tds came off a short field that were the result of turnovers in the passing game. 4 of those 5 were 25 yards or less.

NU could have had some patience and worked Purdue when they were down 21-9 at half, but instead, Langs blew it and Riley didn't reign him in.

 
Anyone remember what happened on the first drive to start the 2nd quarter? Oh yeah Fyfe wen't 4 for 6, threw for 60 yards then Cross ran one in for 9 yards.

Its a shame that Langsdorf didn't reign in Fyfe's passing attempts to start the half. If he did, the defense wouldn't have let up 21 points (80 yard drive, 84 yard drive, and 19 yard drive) and we wouldn't have started the 4th quarter down 26 points.

 
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Purdue wasn't a great game call by any stretch, but it never occurred to me that we would have stopped the bleeding with a steadier second half diet of Cross and Newby.

 
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