Lateef time
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We would have been better off after half time
Nope. But DR should have a short leash next week.
guess what, perhaps Lateef would have been on better position where he wouldnt have to throw an off handed pass or a shovel pass while being horizontal
fat boy with legs of lead cannot avoid a sac---send in Lateef. DR does not have "elite" arm talent and is unable or unwilling to prepare himself to make up for not being elite arm talent
There was zero excuse for not playing TJ on that last drive with no chance to win. And we gave up yet another sack. At what point can we just accept that DR might have been overrated? I get that the OL is hot garbage again, but he offers no threat running the ball and is just to easy for defenses to sack on blitzes.
It’s definitely time. It will change the offense
DR ain't it. I wouldn't blink an eye if all the Raiolas left town
Only a f@cking idiot would worry about trying to redshirt anyone let alone a QB in this day and age.
Or they are stupidly stuck on Raiola no matter what
DR is a unique case. He has obvious positive and negative traits. If his class was reranked as of today, he would be downgraded and not a 5 star. His lack of athleticism and inability to consistently connect on a 20+ yard completion doesn’t support a 5 star grade. Maybe that fact would be masked if he was at OSU or Georgia or an NFL team. Maybe not. Because he is not athletic and doesn’t connect on long balls. But he is a master at check downs and completion percentage. He is like Shedeur Sanders without the game changing upside.
DR is better than any QB here in 8-10 years (though Casey Thompson might have been as good ) but time to get Lateef going see what he can do. It’s not like it’s only guys like Haarberg or Sims or Purdue as backups anymore.
One deep pass on target tonight and it was dropped.
But Lateef is mobile and can take off. With DR, Minny didn't have to worry about the QB running. Is DR afraid of contact or what?
I guarantee Cignetti wouldn't wait. He has balls... Rhule sucks.
Dylan is an average college QB playing behind a horrible OL with a horrible coach. Rhule hitched his wagon to this group and shows why he's an average coach. None of the above will get Nebraska back to relevance.
Cignetti learned from Saban. Saban didn’t hesitate to pull his starting QB if he wasn’t playing great (see Hurts replaced by Tua T). I seem to remember TO switching between Tommie F and Brook B, depending on how the other was playing.
But these are elite coaches and Rhule isn’t.
Yes the OL was poor today, but Raiola was also a liability. The game has changed with faster DL and lead foot QBs are too easy to beat with a strong pass rush. Mahomes, Burrow, Josh Allen, etc all can run for a first down when the pocket collapses. Raiola is just dead to rights
A healthy Lateef might have been a better option than a one legged pocket passer with a banged up right hand.
My beef is that Raiola is clearly not healthy. He hasn’t been throwing good balls consistently since the throwing hand or arm injury at the start of the season. I had heard hand. Then you add in the leg injury from last week. How bad could Lateef be?
Well it's the ol--- wake up the next morning and realize the excitement of the season is completely gone, like a popped balloon.
Unless we start working in TJ when he's needed.
Like last night when DR was playing like total garbage and offensive line was swiss cheese.
Unless we start working in TJ when he's needed.
Like last night when DR was playing like total garbage and offensive line was swiss cheese.
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Big 10 football is not the same as mop up time against Houston Christian. I'm glad Lateef has looked impressive when he's been out there but having all day to throw and hitting wide open receivers isn't something Dylan has struggled with either.
This is one thing that Lateef can offer that Dylan cannot. He would be behind in other areas, but doing some zone read with a QB keep would be a nice change of pace. Rhule and Dana H. seem very reluctant to take Dylan off the field even for a few plays here and there.
One thing they did with Lateef that they do not do with Dylan is put Lateef in pistol with Nelson on one side of him and Mozee on the other. They did some cool stuff out of that. I would love to see that sprinkled in the middle of a drive or in the red zone with an unsuspecting defense.
His mobility slows down the pass rush. A rush end isn’t as liable to pin his ears back if he’s worried about somebody as quick as Lateef breaking out of the pocket. The point is that Dylan is clearly not healthy. He’s not Pat Mahommes. He’s a liability IF he has a throwing arm injury even not considering the obvious leg injury.
Tua was 10 years old when Cignetti coached on Saban's staff. I don't know what coaches influenced Cignetti the most but my guess is the biggest one was his Dad who won a **** ton of games at the same Division II school in Pennsylvania.