The Forgotten Man

eoltmer said:
LW is an athlete...shame SW doesn't know what to do with athletes this year.
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i agree, he didn't make any impressions or move up the charts as he had the whole season to learn the offense. i just don't see him suddenly rising to the top this spring, although by now he should have a grasp off the offense.

changing the O to a qb run type set will not be the answer. stacking the line is a time honored way to stop the run, you have to have a qb that can throw the ball and remain mobile as well. Green looked horrible trying to run against OU and their defense is nothing special. i don't know what direction SW is going to take the team, but without a qb who can throw and display some reliability, it really won't matter.

 
NUpolo8 said:
The point of course being that, like ol Frankie, LT is not as good as the people in front of him. Scary.
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:yeah scary doesnt even begin to describe it. LaTravis obviously has something to offer...hes an athlete, sure. hes earned a division 1 scholarship. can you name me the other 84 guys on scholarship? but those that think he is being underutilized because of the amazing athlete he is, well, youre wrong. plain and simple. Carl would have never let him go to the Offense. And Bo would have made sure he played if he was so good to have left his lil bros D to go rescue the O. Hell, he wouldnt have been on the defensive side to start with.

i guess the thing that really bugs me is that some have it in their head that he should have been used more because he came over from the D...when in reality, if you really step back and look at this, is that the fact a school like Nebraska had to take one of their linebackers and plug him in the offense says way more about the situation on the offense to begin with, not about LaTravis being screwed out of playing time.

 
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blessed2bahusker said:
I have no inside info, but I would not be shocked to see Latravis emerge this spring and really push for the starting QB spot. Obviously Lee has been in the system for a long time, however he did not progress as we would have hoped. I know that Cody got the nod over him the entire year, but that is in this system.

I know that the coaches aren't really tipping their hat too much to what the offense will be next year, but you can tell by the type of QB's we are going after that there will be a much larger emphasis on the QB running the ball. We know that Latravis can do that. He did it in highschool and he was recruited by some of the top schools to do just that.

Obviously the challenge for Latravis, being only his second year at QB, will be to get the system down. If our system stays as complex as it is right now, forget it. It won't happen. However, if we simplify things quite a bit and let the QB's show what they can do with their God given ability I don't know that there is a more athletic young man on our team.

Last of all, I just have that feeling. Nothing ever seems to go the way we Husker fans expect it to. Speculate all you want, but it seems like there is always a wrench thrown in there somewhere. Very recently we had another QB who was heading into his 5th year, who once he got a chance to show what he could do did not dissappoint. Up until then no one gave him a chance. I know that Ganz had 5 years at QB, but he needed every one of those years for how complex that system was. If we simplify things to the point where an athelete can just "do what he do", then I think one year in the system may be enough. I was at that spring game and Latravis looked amazing for a guy who had only been at the position for a few weeks.

Latravis is actually a lot like Ganz in many ways. Both have always done things the right way. Both are guys that teammates love and respect. Neither gave up even when it looked like their eligibility might pass without ever playing a meaningful snap. Good things happen to good people, especially good people who can run like a deer and have an absolute cannon of an arm.

Oh yeah, GO BIG RED!
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I am willing to try anybody at QB, as long as his name is NOT zac Lee

 
can't be that hard just handing the ball off to the RB over and over again...might as well put your most athletic QB out there in case the play breaks down...

 
In the spring game, I thought that LaTravis Washington looked like the best QB on the team. My 71 year old father agreed. His throwing style reminded me of Frazier and he also just looks more like an option QB or mobile run/pass threat.

 
Spooky Tooth said:
Kody Spano
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Kody's name is sure to come up this off season, just because of how lackluster the QB play has been this year. But I was one one of Kody's biggest supporters last spring, and really thought he had a shot at playing time. Until I saw him throwing the ball to the sideline in spring drills like a noodle armed little girl, and then my opinions changed a bit. It's possible he was just going through the motions in that particular practice, but it was concerning none the less. Of course that same clip shows C. Green lifting one of his legs like a show pony on some of his throws, and if anything that was equally troubling to me. Just my $.02.

rickjames said:
can't be that hard just handing the ball off to the RB over and over again...might as well put your most athletic QB out there in case the play breaks down...
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On the PlayStation this is a great strategy, but if NU tried this in the real world we would get rolled! NU can't survive rushing more than 60% of the time. And it will take more than one off season to return NU to the point where it can. So until then NU must develop there passing game. No matter which QB it takes, or how ugly our offense looks in the process.

 
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wilber24 said:
blessed2bahusker said:
I have no inside info, but I would not be shocked to see Latravis emerge this spring and really push for the starting QB spot. Obviously Lee has been in the system for a long time, however he did not progress as we would have hoped. I know that Cody got the nod over him the entire year, but that is in this system.

I know that the coaches aren't really tipping their hat too much to what the offense will be next year, but you can tell by the type of QB's we are going after that there will be a much larger emphasis on the QB running the ball. We know that Latravis can do that. He did it in highschool and he was recruited by some of the top schools to do just that.

Obviously the challenge for Latravis, being only his second year at QB, will be to get the system down. If our system stays as complex as it is right now, forget it. It won't happen. However, if we simplify things quite a bit and let the QB's show what they can do with their God given ability I don't know that there is a more athletic young man on our team.

Last of all, I just have that feeling. Nothing ever seems to go the way we Husker fans expect it to. Speculate all you want, but it seems like there is always a wrench thrown in there somewhere. Very recently we had another QB who was heading into his 5th year, who once he got a chance to show what he could do did not dissappoint. Up until then no one gave him a chance. I know that Ganz had 5 years at QB, but he needed every one of those years for how complex that system was. If we simplify things to the point where an athelete can just "do what he do", then I think one year in the system may be enough. I was at that spring game and Latravis looked amazing for a guy who had only been at the position for a few weeks.

Latravis is actually a lot like Ganz in many ways. Both have always done things the right way. Both are guys that teammates love and respect. Neither gave up even when it looked like their eligibility might pass without ever playing a meaningful snap. Good things happen to good people, especially good people who can run like a deer and have an absolute cannon of an arm.

Oh yeah, GO BIG RED!
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I am willing to try anybody at QB, as long as his name is NOT zac Lee
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:yeah

 
i feel extremely bad for this guy. why? because they never gave him a chance after CG f*cked up. they always gave it back to zac lee to f*ck it up a little more, i feel like he never got his chance in a few of the games he should have.. to me its BS, very unfair

 
huzkerbob said:
Spooky Tooth said:
Kody Spano
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Kody's name is sure to come up this off season, just because of how lackluster the QB play has been this year. But I was one one of Kody's biggest supporters last spring, and really thought he had a shot at playing time. Until I saw him throwing the ball to the sideline in spring drills like a noodle armed little girl, and then my opinions changed a bit. It's possible he was just going through the motions in that particular practice, but it was concerning none the less. Of course that same clip shows C. Green lifting one of his legs like a show pony on some of his throws, and if anything that was equally troubling to me. Just my $.02.

rickjames said:
can't be that hard just handing the ball off to the RB over and over again...might as well put your most athletic QB out there in case the play breaks down...
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On the PlayStation this is a great strategy, but if NU tried this in the real world we would get rolled! NU can't survive rushing more than 60% of the time. And it will take more than one off season to return NU to the point where it can. So until then NU must develop there passing game. No matter which QB it takes, or how ugly our offense looks in the process.
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I think he is saying that that is what we are doing, which is accurate. we have been running the ball well over 60% of the time lately

 
Has anyone given the thought of possibly Rex Burkehead playing the QB position? I know this is stretching the topic pretty far now, but he did play QB in High School and I see him much like an Eric Crouch.

 
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