teambeer said

The last two are solid!  

Husker, what's the QB situation up there?

Posted On: Aug 25th 2014, 7:30 AM #333474

Tommy Armstrong is the QB

2013 (Redshirt Freshman)
Armstrong began the season as the co-No. 2 quarterback behind Taylor Martinez, but became the Huskers’ starter during the second half of the season. Armstrong saw limited action against Southern Miss in his only playing time in the first three games.

With Martinez sidelined, Armstrong made his first career start against South Dakota State and completed 12-of-15 passes for 169 yards and a touchdown, and rushed five times for 38 yards. He guided Nebraska to touchdowns on each of the first three drives he led. Armstrong completed 8-of-13 passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns against Illinois, and also rushed for 18 yards.

Armstrong split time with Kellogg in a win at Purdue and scored his first career rushing touchdown a three-yard first-quarter run. He also passed for 43 yards. Armstrong did not play at Minnesota, then made his fourth start vs. Northwestern. He rushed 17 times for a career-high 69 yards, including a five-yard TD on the game’s opening drive. He also completed 15-of-29 passes for a career-high 173 yards and a touchdown.

Armstrong showed his poise in leading the Huskers to a 17-13 win at Michigan, snapping the Wolverines’ 19-game home winning streak. Armstrong threw for 139 yards, including a game-winning touchdown to Ameer Abdullah with 2:03 left. Armstrong was 5-for-7 for 59 yards passing and added seven yards rushing on the game-winning drive.

He suffered his only loss as a starter against Michigan State, when he threw for 143 yards and two touchdown passes, a 32-yard strike to Sam Burtch and a 38-yard pass to Kenny Bell. Armstrong started at Penn State, but played only three series before leaving with an ankle injury. The injury kept him out of the Iowa contest.

Armstrong earned the start in the Gator Bowl against Georgia and led NU to a 24-19 win. He threw for 163 yards, including a pair of scoring strikes to Quincy Enunwa. Armstrong threw a school-record 99-yard touchdown in the third quarter to give NU a 24-12 lead. Armstrong also rushed for 26 yards, including a season-long 24-yard run.

A walk on named Ryker Fife is winning the backup QB battle against 4 Star QB Johnny Stanton.

Armstrong; good runner but suspect passer.
Fife: good passer but suspect runner
Stanton; Most potential, good passer and runner but slow to learn the system.

FAU will need to stop the Run. Running backs are rated first or second  in the Big10. The first 3 running backs can all go for big yards. Armstrong can run from the QB position too. Look for Nebraska to pass only after the running game is established, and the pass will most likely be play action. If FAU can stop the run in the first quarter it should be a game. If not,
lookout! Anything is possible, and Nebraska does not always play up to it's potential in the opener.

IndyHusker said

FAU will need to stop the Run.

Posted On: Aug 25th 2014, 1:46 PM #333482

That's basically the key to the whole game…stopping the run, which will be predicated by how well our linebackers play.

We can't have guys in the secondary being leading tacklers…

Pass defense is our strength... run defense, not so much

Notables from Coach Patridges first C-USA teleconference…


Leading off with a follow up on the tweet from last night about the naming of the four captains

Andrae Kirk, D’Joun Smith, Alex DeLeon and Tony Moore quite honestly are the four that I expected to be named and it was 100% their (team) vote. The way we did the vote was each young man in the 105 was able to vote for two on their side of the ball and one on the other. It was weighted by the side of the ball and every player voted for three players.  Those four guys won. There were a number of other guys who received a good amount of votes, but those four are our clear captains as voted by their teammates.
 
We continue our Nebraska prep as we head into this week. We started on Thursday. We are a healthy football team right now, which is a good thing. It was one of our goals. As crazy as that sounds our goal was to do our best to make sure our decisions gave us the best chance to come out of camp healthy. Marcus Cunningham is one young man that is day-to-day and questionable for the Nebraska game as he responds to treatment on his ankle. All others that we expected in late July to be available are available for this game.  We are continuing to refine details and Saturday was a fine example of that.  We went through just about every situation. Some situations you might not see once every four or five years. ..
 
In terms of what we see from Nebraska

I have been involved in Nebraska game plans. It is certainly a team that needs no introduction. I respect their history. I respect what they have been. I have been a part of games in that stadium as a young coach when they were fighting for national title games.  They have talent right now that they could be in the hunt for the Big Ten Title. I have no question about that.
 
We are excited about this. This is an offensive team. They have weapons.

Via the Daily Nebraskan…

Florida Atlantic Owls to watch out for

The #Huskers household name-to-be, reasoning for the FAU line & more in the first Monday Mailbag of the season. http://t.co/Bmjamx0dS8

— Husker Corner (@theHuskerCorner) August 25, 2014

Coach Partridge's remarks on Nebraska during his weekly Game Presser:



Courstey OwlTV

is practice open to the media?  I see this guy @IanHest reporting quite a bit on twitter about today's practice hashtagging Huskers and taking pics