Locker Who?

In a game where the stage was focused around NFL prospect Jake Locker, and how he would fair against the touted Blackshirt Defense, viewers expecting a heavyweight battle might have been disappointed in the David vs Goliath showing.

It started out rough for Locker, throwing an interception on his first drive. It really didn't get much better for him throughout the night as he went 4 for 20, with around 75 yards total passing, and two interceptions.

Now if that didn't look bad enough, lets see if i can make it look just a little worse for him. While he completed four passes to his own receivers, he completed two passes to the Nebraska defense. Simple math shows he completed 50% as many passes to Nebraska, as he did to his own players.

Of his four passes to his own players, one of them went for a touchdown. That's 25% of his completions resulting in touchdowns. Not too shabby....

Now look at his "completions" to Nebraska. Of the two of those, one of them went for a touchdown. That's a whopping 50%! Even better.

Overall, that's 6 total passes thrown by Locker that were caught, resulting in two touchdowns. 33%. He should really use this fuzzy math next spring when trying to convince the NFL teams that he is still an elite quarterback. At the very worst, he could probably come visit Omaha and play for the Nighthawks.

Enough about Locker. Lets talk about Martinez. The best quote I hear this weekend I believe came from a Sports Illustrated writer who wrote, (not a direct quote) "While Locker was busy falling out of the Heisman race, Martinez was busy inserting him self into it." That's pretty big praise on a national forum for a redshirt freshman. While I'm all for praising Martinez, as he has been every bit T-Magic, and making 80-yard touchdown runs an almost expectation now. However, lets not jump the gun quite yet. Let's remember that Taylor has exactly one passing touchdown. (Granted Kinnie was one yard from making that two passing TD's for T-Magic). It also Took Taylor 3 games to get that 1 passing TD. Now if Nebraska finds them self down at some point this year at halftime (AND THEY WILL), they will need a spark to elevate them to overcome a deficit. Great teams are not one dimensional, and need to have a backup plan. And while I'm not saying Taylor can't throw, and maybe its the case of "Why throw, when we can run it for 10 yards a play?", from what I have seen, I'm not betting my last dollar on Taylor's arm quite yet. Not saying that cant change. I'm just not gonna feed into the hype quite yet. Only because Nebraska has a history of being disappointed year after year. But here's to keeping our fingers crossed, and probably getting out of non conference games undefeated!

A couple other notes from this weekend:

Arizona beats Iowa: Good. I'm already tired of those beakers who think they are cool because they copied the Steelers uniforms. Your still from Iowa, a state with no cities, and no rivers.

Michigan state beats Notre Dame in overtime, with a fake field goal that goes for a touch down on fourth down. That's some big balls sparty, big balls. Way to show Jesus who's boss.

Oklahoma, you almost lost to Airforce a week after beating Florida State like the redheaded stepchild they are. Please make up your mind on whether or not you are going to be a good team this year.

Texas: A win against you is looking more likely each week. And Garrett Gilbert is a pussy. Tell him to get a man haircut and ditch the Justin Bieber look. Stupid longwhorens.

Iowa State versus Kansas State in Arrowhead Stadium. This was an awesome game. I'm sure all 3,500 people in attendance had a blast. Seriously, did you see the television coverage with the stadium nearly empty? More Nebraskans traveled 1,300 miles to Washington than the combined ISU/KSU fans that travel 2-4 hours to Arrowhead. No wonder your teams were left sucking the left tit of Bevo when it looked like the Big XII was going to implode. Have fun suckers.

Mizzou: Nice win over San Diego State. It only took you 59 minutes to lead this game. While great teams find ways to win, I don't think this saying applies when you are playing San Diego State. When will Chicken Little start screaming the sky is falling for the tiggers? I'm guessing probably on 10/30/10 when the Nebraska Defense shows exactly why Nebraska is not upset that the Gabbert Bros are in MIZWHO black and gold, instead of Scarlet and Cream. Maybe T-Magic will give them high fives as he runs by for a touchdown. We all know he has time to waste.

Well, until next time, remember that the worst day as a Husker is still better than,...well,....almost anyone.