No brainer here and I’m not even sure why this would be questioned. Adrain Martinez. There’s a reason why Coach Frost and Coach V. is playing Martinez over everyone else. McCaffrey down the road MIGHT be a better QB but as of now, it’s clearly Martinez.
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Yep, the back up for the Beavers would give us our best shot that’s going for 50ish % completions. Lmfao.
I believe Martinez gives us the best overall odds to win each game. However his consistent mistakes are game momentum killers. Up until the 2nd half of Illinois he didn't look like the same qb we saw last year. This offense rely heavily on timing, rhythm and tempo. For whatever reason he was off on all of those. When it isn't clicking it puts a heavy strain on our D.
I understand sticking with your guy, but there must come a point where another QB is given at least a series or 2 to see if he can find a rhythm and get the offense clicking. Lets hope the Martinez we saw in the 2nd half is here to stay and we no longer have to even mention another QB for 2 more years.
Give it until saturday night. If martinez looks lost at times against the defenses he has played so far what is OSU going to make him look like? People will be changing their votes.
The poll is
"who gives us a better chance to win now"
Not
"who was not the Nebraska QB when Ohio State throttled us"
For example, if Pat Mahomes found some eligibility and was on our roster the rest of the season, I would select "Pat Mahomes" in this poll.
If Saturday came around, and Ohio State beat us 98-12, I would still think Pat Mahomes would give us the best chance to beat Northwestern the following week. Even though he was the QB on the day we got our asses kicked and even though we have other QB's on the roster that we could use.
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I think our biggest problem on offense is our reliance on our youth. Take a look at our offensive depth chart and you’ll see like 11 of the 29 listed are upperclassmen. I believe 4 of those upperclassmen are juco or transfers so I wouldn’t exactly call that our leadership to look towards (Williams, Woodyard, Mills, Noa). We have JD and some linemen who are the true veterans on this offense, thats it. Unfortunately a good ammount of the guys we rely on the most are young and inexperienced without much existing experience to help guide them.
It doesn’t matter who you throw in at QB, we’ll still be young and dumb as a whole.
Yep. The coaches need to figure out how to get the second half Illinois Martinez to show up every game instead of the guy that had been showing up before that. Far more decisive, converted big third downs with his legs when needed, made correct reads.
I'm not sure that's a good thing. I'd wish he was a troll from another team with the unbelievable idiocy he's posted here.
And please tell me the 7 people voting for Andrew Bunch are trolling.
I'm not sure some of you Kool aid drinkers being husker fans is a good thing either.
Right....yeah it’s better for the program to have negative guys like you constantly second guessing the Head Coach, calling for our starting QBs Head and just running the program into the ground. Yes sir, that’s the way to go let me tell you. That’s will surely get the recruits here. Wow...
I'd agree if Martinez was throwing multiple interceptions and completely lost. He wasn't even close to that level. Losing the fumble(I won't blame him for that official-created travesty they called a fumble) he lost that they turned into points was bad, but he more than made up for it with his play in the 2nd half.
Rather be real and honest in what I see than delusional. Trust me if we only win 4 to 6 games and Adrian starts every game that will affect recruiting
Yep, you keeping it “REAL” as you claim is exactly what this team needs. Not backing Martinez or Frost but “KEEPING IT REAL”. It will only bring us those top recruits. They will love seeing fans like you...lmfao. I love that excuse.
If you say so. Just because I disagree with you I’m a waste of oxygen...lol. As long as it helps you sleep brotha...have at it.
Here’s what I don’t get... the coaching staff has decided that AM is the best man for the job, but you know better... and if we only win 4-6 games it’s all on Martinez, and no one else... and you truly believe that the coaches will keep AM as the starter to the detriment of the team just because he’s “their guy”...
You really believe this?
I stopped trusting Frost to a point when he said he got someone better than Burrow and didn't go after him. Haven't given up so to speak. But I can see him riding Martinez due to stubbornness and a need to grow. Plus he has sent out mixed signals when he said what he said about recruiting then going after Washington. I am happy he is on our team but why say it? So far Chinander has impressed me more than him. If you disagree that's fine
No, I don’t have a problem with this... Frost has said some things that have come back on him. I can see that.
I guess my rope for him is just longer. I’ve overlooked some of what he has said if it will make us better. My hope is that he learns from some of the things he’s said and he doesn’t lay down hollow ultimatums. The Burrow thing doesn’t bother me as much, if he truly believed AM is better. History will prove him wrong if AM doesn’t improve, but he made a judgment call on QBs that may prove to be a bad call.
I'm not out of rope on him at all. He has all the time he needs. Who else are we gonna get? But he has made mistakes. Biggest one was saying who needs Burrow. Gives me pause to think maybe he can't admit he was wrong on the talent of who he wanted when it isn't a talent issue. It's a mental issue. But that decision to not see if he could land him may have set his progress back 2 years.
I edited my post to address the Burrow issue, but I will say here as well that I would have loved to have him.
Last year I don’t think Burrow was lighting it up like he is this year, and I was more impressed with AM over Burrow at that time. Right now, Burrow is as impressive as anybody this year.
As I said in my edit, it was a judgment call that Frost made, and history may tell us it was the wrong call. I don’t have too much of an issue with it, but he needs to make sure he gets the right guys most of the time...
actually adrian doesnt have to much game experience,he didnt play his senior year so last year he was you could say,a senior and this year would be his freshman year,i say hes learning with every snap and hes got the moves.if he would lose 10 to 15 lbs. watch out !!
The QB who is playing the actuall game, gives us the best chance to win!! And Adrian Martinez is who Scott Frost believes in. I think he knows who the best QB is.
143 for A Mart 8 votes for Noah. Bunch has more. Not looking so good Bruce.RollingLaughSick
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Now this is just wrong. Who needs Burrow? Thats crazy.
We needed to get Hurts, no brainer.
Ok, this was sarcasm, but really? Burrow is not what we want,period!
Hurts? Better suited! But if you hate our two coaches evaluations so much,Verdu and SF, then dont be asking milton, mariota et al, since they obviously will completely condemn your thoughts.
Other that that, go on with your ideas
some posters: AM put up big stats and we beat up on lowly S Bama, NIU, Illinois. Need to show me something
also those same posters: Vedral looked good against NIU's scout team for 1 drive, we're lucky to have him and he should play more
makes sense
also those same posters: Vedral looked good against NIU's scout team for 1 drive, we're lucky to have him and he should play more
makes sense
Whoever voted not Martinez, you dumb. Also really, 7.4% voted for Bunch, our 3rd string QB. Hope this is trolling. If not, why aren't you out evaluating QB talent or a QB coach for a major program?
The goal should be for Vedral to play more. I hope we get to the point where we're putting the bad teams away early and can get our backups in for most of the second half.
If course this is the goal... no one would say otherwise... however, there are posters who are saying Vedral is the answer over AM.
I don’t think you are advocating for this...
the goal is to win a conference then national championship.
if backups play along the way, so be it. if not, that's why they're backups.