We cannot win with LM at QB
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A lot of us on here on the Board wanted Luke. Let's put that notion to bed. Luke is a very good athlete. He is not a Big Ten quarterback. Use him in special situations at Qb (Taysom Hill before Drew got hurt), run him in the Jet sweep, put him at flanker (Rich Bahe?) and WR. I really think SF should take a look at Smothers, too. If he isn't a quarterback then he will know if he needs to go after one. Adrian his too deliberate, bur he is better than Luke. The whole team is playing about as poorly as one team can.
Spot on? My what short memories some have.
AM is putrid, a bottom 5 quarterback in FBS now for more than 14 consecutive games. He cannot pass. We scored 3 TDs this year with him running the O and Luke playing elsewhere. One of those was on a 1-yard drive after an INT return.
This offense is vomit-inducing behind AM.
Agreed. But there’s a .00001% chance it can improve.
With AM, it’s 0%. What we’ve seen is what we’ll get.
So now we’re anointing Smothers as the great hope? Verdu openly talks about his crappy throwing motion.
We should ride Adrian through rest of the year and see what happens
We should ride Adrian through rest of the year and see what happens
Yeah it's ironic that suddenly the answer to all of our QB woes is the guy who played Santa Claus in a loss to the same Illinois team last week.
I'm not saying your not correct sir but "faster" and "quicker" than the healthy TMart on the field is something I'd just have to see with my own eyes. Not even Frazier, Crouch or Gill had TMart's Warp-7 acceleration. But I do really, really hope you're right!!
And we have an even lower ceiling under LM. If we are going to win with Luke, we need an entirely different approach, one which rarely involves the QB throwing the ball. Except maybe on a play action pass, where the WR is all alone.
BTW, AM had 300+ passing and 100+ rushing against a much better Illinois defense last year.
Exactly. Martinez is not a top tier Big Ten quarterback by any means, but he's more of a quarterback than McCaffrey.
Perhaps AM would’ve improved after the NW game, in hindsight he was playing the 2 best teams in the B10. And our fan base insisted frost start Luke. Because we’re stupid and here we are
You couldn't possibly be more correct sir. That should be priority #1 by a country mile.
Didn't think I'd miss Vedral this much. Crazy that he probably transfered to a better team. Ugh. Good grief this program is a mess!
I completely disagree, and think this 'devil you know' attitude is pathetic
even our fans have forgotten how to win
I didn't say that, I said that he had almost the same insane top gear as Taylor did, not quite but very damn close.
You think LM is how we win? AM has never been that bad and against a terrible defense. LM as QB is NOT the answer.
LM: 1-1
AM: 0-2
Martinez's best season of his life resulted in 4 wins. newsflash: he's even less of an answer
completely agree there.Jeez Louise boys we have more issues than just who starts at QB.
I wanted to see Luke get a chance. He obviously blew it and is not capable of being a starting qb.
I’m going to say frost is within a eyelash of losing the team, if Iowa drills us which is very possible the team will quit
The guy we needed to keep here was Gebbia. The guy can sling the ball and he's quick enough to have run Frost's offense.
You have no way of knowing that. People on here have claimed this after every single loss and it hasn’t happend yet.
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He may not be in the same league as gill, Frazier, crouch but TM was Nebs last 1st team all conference QB
yes. Smart kid with a much more accurate arm. He's not the run threat that Frost wants though.
To be fair, I don't know if Verdu knows what the hell he's talking about. He's already messed up two quarterbacks messing with their throwing motion.
No question, I even think Frost knew Luke’s capabilities and he has to call plays accordingly..
Or to prove to everyone that Luke isn’t the answer and would go back to 2AM