(09-20-2017 07:09 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-20-2017 07:06 PM)Djud Wrote:  

(09-20-2017 06:58 PM)badmoonrising13 Wrote:  

(09-20-2017 08:25 AM)badmoonrising13 Wrote:  

(09-20-2017 04:11 AM)Djud Wrote:  Badmoon, I think I agree with your premise (scary); although your adamant (obnoxious) support of Santa/Huff makes it difficult. Against Neb, the coaches coached to the situation (14 point lead with your D playing lights out); they went conservative and for good reason. One can argue that a healthy Graham could have done everything Santa did for 3 quarters, and done it perhaps better. Childers running ability, given our conservative game could have been used more. With that being said, Santa adapted to this strategy as well as can be expected, making good decisions even though he was not very sharp with his passsing for much of the game. What I truly believe is that of the QBs we have seen, only Santa makes the plays necessary to win Saturday's game once we lost the lead. He threw 2 dimes in pressure situations. The second pass to Blake was a Sunday throw; and yes, the ability to throw the ball deep significantly benefits the running game. Let's get and keep all of our QBs healthy, and continue to improve. We are in a good place right now; few people believed this would be the case after 3 games. SDSU will be another huge challenge (opportunity).

Sorry for supporting the guys who are the best players on offense and actually lead us to VICTORIES...
Hopefully, they're not benched for absolutely no reason.

If you think Graham could have played better than Santa (idiotic), you surely haven't been watching the same games I have been seeing... (You're out of your frigging gore)

Wow...You may want to go back and reread my post; I didn't say that at all, and I was actually agreeing with you. What I was saying is our conservative mode we adopted after going up by 14, did not play to Santa's strengths, and would have suited Graham better. I think that has been the point you have been making.

I think in part you guys are making a good point, if NIU does not use offensive possessions to try and score, it really does not matter who the QB is. Must value offense going forward. That's kind of what I was getting at with the whole "QB competition". If QB skills are not valued, how do you evaluate a QB, it really doesn't matter who you pick if the skills of a QB are not deemed important.

Luckily, Carey rolled the dice once to help us win the game. Fortunately, Santa put the odds on our favor. Hopefully he'll choose to roll the dice a few more times to give us the best chance to win against SDSU. Roll the dice, coach. Grow some balls.