Raiola's Done For The Year

Fryowa

Fryowa

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That helps big time on Black Friday.

Anyone who watched nebraska play last night saw their backup freshman...sucks BIG time. I'm super surprised that even nebraska doesn't have more depth at QB. If that's their best option someone failed. That kid is terrible.
 


Emmett Johnson is a dude, but they can’t balance it out with Raiola done for the year. I am expecting Iowa to go into Lincoln and get the W.
 




They play at UCLA, at Penn State then home against us to finish the season on Black Friday. I could see them losing out without Raiola being out for the year. And yes, the backup QB was pretty bad. They are going to be a lot like us after losing Cade the last couple of years. Virtually no threat of a pass game at all. Focus on stopping the run (including the QB) and they will be bottled up. Defense is decent but I don't see it holding up with no support from their O. This injury just made them a lot easier to beat.
 




Fryowa said:
That helps big time on Black Friday.

Anyone who watched nebraska play last night saw their backup freshman...sucks BIG time. I'm super surprised that even nebraska doesn't have more depth at QB. If that's their best option someone failed. That kid is terrible.
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trj said:
Emmett Johnson is a dude, but they can’t balance it out with Raiola done for the year. I am expecting Iowa to go into Lincoln and get the W.
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Still will be tough game on road. They have a very fine RB and good defense. The kid QB struggled and probably won’t have a lot of success throwing the ball but he looked pretty athletic in the running game. You have to like our chances but I would expect close game
 


longtimer said:
Still will be tough game on road. They have a very fine RB and good defense. The kid QB struggled and probably won’t have a lot of success throwing the ball but he looked pretty athletic in the running game. You have to like our chances but I would expect close game
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I heard their run D is porous, at least against Minny.
 




longtimer said:
Still will be tough game on road. They have a very fine RB and good defense. The kid QB struggled and probably won’t have a lot of success throwing the ball but he looked pretty athletic in the running game. You have to like our chances but I would expect close game
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Fair

Depends on if Kirk wants to slowly choke them out or not.
 


longtimer said:
Still will be tough game on road. They have a very fine RB and good defense. The kid QB struggled and probably won’t have a lot of success throwing the ball but he looked pretty athletic in the running game. You have to like our chances but I would expect close game
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Your're probably right. Ask college QBs how much difference it makes between getting 10% of the snaps with the first team on any given week or 90% of the practice snaps. He'll be a different QB in 4 weeks and after getting 2 more games under his belt. Last night they didn't trust him throwing down the middle in a close game, but the one long pass he threw was a 30 yd sideline route on a rope and on target. And how is playing a team with a great RB and a QB that struggles to throw the ball any different than Iowa, a team that ranks what, 130th in passing? They also have a current TE who played quite a bit as a backup QB the previous 2 years, so they'll probably bring him back into the mix.

The other thing is NE has dramatically upgraded their special teams, and their pass defense is possibly the best in the nation -- they completely shut down USC's QB and held them 200 yds under their season total yards average. The Huskers don't have to score 35 pts to win a game anymore.
 


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