Lost in the anti-Martinez buzz is that he nonetheless played incredibly well in close games v. a laundry list of elite programs: Michigan, Ohio St., Sparty, Wisconsin, Iowa Purdue and Oklahoma...Garbers struggles to keep us in ALL of those games.
From an experience level alone, Adrian Martinez would be a major upgrade over Chase Garbers.
Lost in the anti-Martinez buzz is that he nonetheless played incredibly well in close games v. a laundry list of elite programs: Michigan, Ohio St., Sparty, Wisconsin, Iowa Purdue and Oklahoma...Garbers struggles to keep us in ALL of those games.
From an experience level alone, Adrian Martinez would be a major upgrade over Chase Garbers.
Sorry alpha, I hear what you're saying and respect it....I just disagree with it.
Wins and losses are so rarely ever on just 1 player, so saddling those L's on the shoulders of the QB that kept you in those games seems an iffy proposition. I'll give you that risk-averse Chase Garbers is probably the safer player, but Martinez will always be a guy that makes more plays (and mistakes) than Chase, by virtue of the fact that he tries to make plays.
Given a choice between Adrian Martinez, Chase Garbers and Kai Millner, I'll take the battle-tested B1G QB any day.
Can you any skill players at Nebraska that played with Martinez? I donтАЩt think they had any OL or skill players drafted during his tenure at Nebraska.
Put Garbers in for Martinez and Nebraska probably gets blown out in the majority of their games.
At the end of the day, Martinez would be a sizable upgrade at QB, IMHO, which along with $5 will get you a grande iced coffee at the Rancho Pe├▒asquitos Starbucks...
Eric Crouch? I remember him basically ushering in the end of Nebraska's option identity when they got blown out by Miami. I don't even remember if he went to the NFL.
Lost in the anti-Martinez buzz is that he nonetheless played incredibly well in close games v. a laundry list of elite programs: Michigan, Ohio St., Sparty, Wisconsin, Iowa Purdue and Oklahoma...Garbers struggles to keep us in ALL of those games.
From an experience level alone, Adrian Martinez would be a major upgrade over Chase Garbers.
Sorry alpha, I hear what you're saying and respect it....I just disagree with it.
Wins and losses are so rarely ever on just 1 player, so saddling those L's on the shoulders of the QB that kept you in those games seems an iffy proposition. I'll give you that risk-averse Chase Garbers is probably the safer player, but Martinez will always be a guy that makes more plays (and mistakes) than Chase, by virtue of the fact that he tries to make plays.
Given a choice between Adrian Martinez, Chase Garbers and Kai Millner, I'll take the battle-tested B1G QB any day.
Can you any skill players at Nebraska that played with Martinez? I donтАЩt think they had any OL or skill players drafted during his tenure at Nebraska.
Put Garbers in for Martinez and Nebraska probably gets blown out in the majority of their games.
Cal hasn't had a single offensive player drafted since Dykes either so I don't know what your point is.
Patrick Mekari is the only offensive player in the NFL that Wilcox coached that I can recall, and he was an UDFA for BAL.
Jake Curhan
Nice. Also an UDFA...imagine if we had a competent OL coach!
Curhan played for the Seahawks in the Niner-Seattle game.
Kanawai Noa
Who was at Cal. I forgot he transferred to Nebraska.
At the end of the day, Martinez would be a sizable upgrade at QB, IMHO, which along with $5 will get you a grande iced coffee at the Rancho Pe├▒asquitos Starbucks...
I agree. Martinez would be an upgrade over Garbers.
Eric Crouch? I remember him basically ushering in the end of Nebraska's option identity when they got blown out by Miami. I don't even remember if he went to the NFL.