The positives

[Jay Bilzerian]

One other huge positive. That stadium stayed full til damn near the end of the game.

 

[Carm]

The question for me is has Sims demonstrated the ability to do anything that HH can’t do? I would say the answer is probably not.

NIU is not a terrible team defensively. They’re not insane, but they’re well coached and they’ve got 8 starters coming back. I’d say that team is no worse than the second best team defensively we’ve played. So the competition level each has faced isn’t as skewed as you think.

It makes it a lot easier to execute our offensive wear ‘em down game plan when the opposing offense is incapable of scoring our getting multiple first downs. You can’t look at the defense in isolation.

 

[Tsakoi]

Say whatever you want about HH but he looked just as good as Sims did and HH was in his first ever start while Sims is in his 4th year with multiple starting seasons under his belt. It won't take much improvement on HH's part to be better.

 

[Lionsfan93]

Put sims at wide out and let’s go from there

You want the guy who can't catch snaps at WR????

 

[JerryBones5]

You want the guy who can't catch snaps at WR????

With gloves??

 

[HerbRedman]

You want the guy who can't catch snaps at WR????

Sims honestly is the perfect backup QB. Doesn't read the game as well, doesn't react as quickly, but has some skills. That's a backup.

In the NFL the difference between #1 QBs and their backups is NOT PHYSICAL. Tom Brady was never physically better than his backups. Hell his backups were all probably better athletes than he was. But Brady was #1 bc he was a mental monster and makes great decisions and doesn't fuck up (relatively - yes he throws picks and fumbles sometimes).

CFB has this thing where the HCs always feel that the best athlete should be the #1 QB. Who gives a fuck? BTW HH is not a bad athlete himself.

Being a smarter, quicker thinker can get you major minutes as a QB. HH showed that ability last night. He gets in there and competes and reads the game as best he can. I actually don't think we would have scored 35 last night even w a 100% healthy Jeff Sims. He didn't do that at GT.

 

[Carm]

I actually don't think we would have scored 35 last night even w a 100% healthy Jeff Sims. He didn't do that at GT.

Bit of an exaggeration. Yes, he didn't last year because they had a OL of freshmen and sophomores. But they scored between 30 and 56 6 times in 2020 and 2021 with him at QB.

To keep your comment about 35points against NIU in perspective:

Nebraska ppg in 2022

against G5, FCS & NW 36/game
against rest of P5 18.1 per game

(Tangential comment - Trey Palmer averaged 4.5 ppg himself last year - we don't have that kind of guy this year)

Nebraska ppg in 2021

against G5 and FCS & NW 45.3/game
against rest of P5 22.1/game

Hard to assign much value to the G5 performances

 

[Eloot224]

We need @vailhusker to find the clip of Grant murdering the dude on his run. That one made me sit straight up in my chair and emit a loud "Fuck yea!", which may or may not have been appreciated by my fellow campers here in Westcliffe.

Not @vailhusker but,

 

[LoudHogRider]

Not @vailhusker but,

I'd forgotten about last year's Rutger death-by-Grant play. Great to see that one again. The lad has a history of delivering blows, not taking them. I like it.

 

[Huskerzz9457]

Who the hell came up with 'H's'

 

[Juro]

Who the hell came up with 'H's'

Technically his parents when they named him.

 

[Adolph Coors]

Put sims at wide out and let’s go from there

guess you havent noticed his drops

 

[Adolph Coors]

Who the hell came up with 'H's'

i call him H2 much easier

 

[Ext. 55]

I dont think that you could find too many people who think last nights game was anything other than a nice step in the right direction. Michigan's defense is going to slaughter our OL, make our WR's invisible, and probably kill our QB. Thank god for the running clock or we might have six turnovers in that game.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

The way I look at it...

Sims is 6-21 as a starter and leads P5 players in turnovers per game during his career.

He is a loser. It is in his DNA. He expects bad shit to happen at this point iyam.

I don't know if Haarberg is a winner. It was Northern Illinois, but I would want to find out what he has further and see if he can stack good performances.

I would roll with Haarberg.

 

[iruletheskool]

Who the hell came up with 'H's'

Me

Wanna fight?

 

[Huskerzz9457]

Me

Wanna fight?

 

[iruletheskool]

 

[Huskerzz9457]

 

[iruletheskool]