1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 27th: 10:25am - QB development at Nebraska

Episode Date: January 27, 2022

Would Adrian have been a Top 30 QB in this years draft?Where would you put Casey Thompson in the Big Ten QB rankings?Stroud is number 1, who is number 2?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. I think, RICO and I were talking on the break. And it was, it's fascinating to me when you talk to guys like Barry, who, again, Guy Myers is off the radar. Like he wasn't a four-star, wasn't a five-star.

and was developed into a draft worthy or draft considerable quarterback. So the idea that you can have quarterbacks at Nebraska and not turn them into NFL-type-level quarterbacks is just not true. It requires development. It requires coaching. That requires somebody that knows what they're doing with the quarterbacks and how to get them better, and I don't want to take shots at anybody. Oh, no.

I mean, it just seems like it wasn't. You're not talking about the current program. No, no, but it just seems like as if it wasn't happening because you had guys in your program for many years. And you had guys who it didn't seem like they were developing really. And they weren't getting any better than they were when you first got them. And, you know, despite all the talk of all the work being done and all the off-season, in-season, you know, work that these guys had been doing or they had been going through with some of the people that were supposed to be leading them, it didn't material. materialize on the field. I mean, here's the thing, and I would ask you this.

This is kind of case of point. So here's a kid from the College of Charleston, right? Wasn't on any radar. He'll now make the top 30 NFL draftable quarterbacks. We know a guy. Would Adrian Martinez have been in the top 30 quarterbacks had he decided to get in the draft? This year?

Yeah. I want to say yes, but I don't. But the thing is, and no offense to anybody in the quarterback draft class, this is not the strongest class of quarterbacks. Right. So would he have? I think he would have. He top 10, no, top 15, no, top 20, no.

Top 30, I would say, yeah. is who's more talented Adrian Martinez or Casey Thompson? Depends on your view of talent. Okay. Because if you're taking arm talent, I would take Casey Thompson. If you're taking ability to create something out of nothing

and just be a pure athlete, I'm not saying Casey Thompson isn't an athlete he is, but just being a pure athlete outside of being a quarterback, I would take Adrian Martinez. They both have things that they do extremely well. And depending on the type of offense you want to run and the type of talent you put around them, both of them can be extremely successful

and both of them can wilt like flowers in the corner. Have you seen Casey Thompson won't? You've seen Casey Thompson not be great. But at the same time, it was not really on hit. I'm talking about the second half, Oklahoma. He was still good, but Texas wilted as a team as a team. But we didn't see him meltdown. No.

Right? No. He had not great games, but at the same time. Well, he had 24 touchdowns and 9. He injured his hand, a finger on his throwing hand. Right. Which pretty important. But then again, you could say with Adrian Martinez, he entered his shoulder on his throwing arm.

So he had, he had, so the West Virginia game, he was not stellar. Iowa State, he was not stellar. So there seems to be like he's on fire, he's not, he's on fire, he's not, he's on fire, he's not. Like Texas as a program. Right. Like you, sometimes you are a product, you are a product of your environment. And, but now with another year under his belt, he may be able to now be the thermometer rather than,

like he can actually set the temperature in the room instead of just reading the temperature in the room or being a showcase for it. He can be the thermostat, not the thermometer. Right. So what, where would you put him in the Big Ten quarterback discussion? I don't know. I put Asia Martinez at like three this last season.

Where would you put Casey Thompson? The quarterbacks in the Big Ten products of their environment. CJ Stroud is a clear number one. We don't even know who's number two, right? No, because you would say whoever Michigan's quarterback is, but whoever their starter was this last season, I can't even remember his name. But the guy behind him, they were splitting time.

Right. And now he's got a whole year in the system. He's got a whole offseason to work with. The starter from last season might not be the starter come the first game from Michigan. Right. That's literally the word coming out of Ann Arbor, is that this is going to be competitive.

and in order for them to, you know, repeat as Big Ten champions, that that quarterback position has to be a full-on gladiator type situation. You've got Aidan O'Connell at Purdue who is okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of mad on age. I mean, I know people that love him. Yeah. But I'm not one of those people.

Whoever Penn State's quarterback is is usually pretty good. Right, Sean Clifford. We don't really. Is he still there? I don't, I think he's going to play for nine years. Okay. Sean Clifford, I mean, he's pretty solid. He was good to start the season.

Then he got hurt. And that was against, I don't remember. It might have been against Illinois. And they would have won the game if he was still healthy. But I don't know. I'm probably wrong. I don't think it was against Illinois. I mean, it's the long deal, right?

What other quarterbacks? Michigan State's quarterback. So will Clifford actually be, this is his redshirt senior year, right? I don't know. He's got the early bird special at Penn State. Oh, okay. 21 and 8, you know, 66%. Yeah. QBR threw for 3,000 yards. I don't know. The Big Ten has C.J. Stroud and then a bunch of other people. A bunch of others. So I don't know where to put Casey Thompson because like, like I said, Aiden O'Connell, Purdue had a good season, and he was pretty solid. Sean Clifford went healthy. Penn State was having a good season. He was really good. think about it this way that if

if Casey Thompson plays at the level that he played at at well I mean you think about it what he did at OU 24 and 9 Sean Clifford's a 20 wait and 1 in 8 guy there's both better numbers than Adrian not as good as Stroud I don't know what I mean look at what was Penn State's record well they made a bowl game so I mean that that

that's kind of the the the measure. O'Connell, man, those numbers. Are they bad? No. They're not great?

Well, you try to make, you try to look at them all through the same scope. Like, you know, 28 and 11, but his QBR rating was higher, 85, you threw for 3,700 yards versus 31 100 yards.

Hmm. Right? Like 28 and 11. He threw 11 picks that, you know. Yeah. Cade McNamara, J.J. McCarthy. Those are the two that I was thinking of for Michigan. McNamara had 15 touchdown, six interceptions.

64% completion, 141 rating. But like, J.J. McCarthy didn't have nearly the same amount of attempts. He had five touchdowns, two interceptions. Yeah. I just think that. if you look at these teams the one outside of prude the one thing that they have in common is strong running games yeah so if nebraska can find that guy or those two guys if you go past two it's not i don't i don't i don't believe your running game is that strong if you go past two i heard

but if you're if you have that one guy or those two guys you will up the production of your quarterback significantly if you're Nebraska. It's been, oh, and there's some interesting talk coming out of Jacksonville with Byron leftwards, which, but we'll put a pen there. The Bears got there, coach. That's how things are happening. Things are weird. Yeah, it just, there's that line and trying to figure out where this conference is going

to land and then where this program is going to land and what's going to be required. But I heard a thing yesterday. I was at the coffee house. We had interviews there and we're waiting. and a guy came up and, you know, he recognized me, came up and said, hey, what's up, you know, gave me the sign, gave me the fist bump. And then as he said, he goes, yeah, I'm just really hoping that Super Yant is a thing. And I went, that's the greatest name that I've ever heard. Super Yant.

Super Yant. We need Super Yant. Mighty Yant. We need this. We need this. All right. We'll toward the break. Captain's show will follow one-on-one.

We'll bring in the captain and ask him what this show is going to sound like and look like. And Rico and I will close out one-on-one when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.