This is just a small observation about the importance of the quarterback to winning football games. Most coaches will tell you there is no more important player on the field. The statistics will also show the following statement is true. Teams that play multiple quarterbacks are typically not very good teams.
In fact, most coaches will tell you when you can’t pick a starting quarterback it’s because none of them are any good. All that said, we’re just a few days away from the opening of the college football season and Bo Pelini still hasn’t named his starting QB at Nebraska. This is a team ranked in the top ten and picked to win the Big 12 North easily. I don’t get it.
I just read through the first game preview notes provided by the Nebraska sports information department. As you might expect, it’s quite lengthy. Fourteen pages to be exact. But one thing you won’t find in there is any mention of the quarterback. They go on and on about the Blackshirt defense for several pages, but I can find only two references to the quarterback position. One is a statement that all three quarterbacks who took snaps last year are back and a note that Taylor Martinez is in the battle for the job.
That’s it. The most important position on the field and that’s all you get on the Nebraska quarterbacks. That tells me two things. One, none of them are really any good and two, Nebraska is overrated. I refuse to believe the defense can match the sensational season they had a year ago and until they prove they have an offense run by a legitimate quarterback, they’re nowhere near the elite team they and their fans think they are.
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