[Husker] Keller

[Mike Jaixen]

That ASU/LSU game really should have a bunch of
asterisks behind it.  It was LSU's first game of the
season, moved at the last minute from Baton Rouge to
Tempe as the LSU campus was a refugee center for
Hurricane Katrina refugees.  The LSU campus was
temporary housing for many people, and the players
split their time between practice and volunteering
with relief efforts.

Now, I think Keller's USC performance is exactly at
the other end of the spectrum...it's better than it
looked.  Keller knew he had to take chances to make
plays if the Devils were going to have a chance.  So
he forced throws...and got a few picked off.

In the middle?  Well, he went 14 for 24, 208 yds, 4
TDs, 2 INT's against Temple (#108 in passing
efficiency); 20 for 31, 409 yds, 4 TDs, 0 INTs against
Northwestern (#70 pass efficency); 19 for 36, 365 yds,
4 TDs, 0 INTs against Oregon State (#107 in pass
efficency); 31 for 56, 277 yds, 2 TDs, 2 INTs against
Oregon (#26 in pass efficency)

Decent numbers, yes.  But I'm not sure I'd say that
Nebraska has "never" had a player who could put up
these numbers.  I think we all wonder what Brook
Berringer would have done in an offense like this.

--- jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> Not officially.... and since someone complained
> about analysis, I'd like 
> y'all to think about something with regards to
> Keller. If you look at his 
> stats, he put up over 450 yards against LSU in 2005.
> LSU has former Husker 
> defensive coordinator Bo Pelini as their D coord
> now, and they've been 
> darned good on defense. People like to point out his
> two TD, five int game 
> against USC in 2005, but my response is - he'd
> played on a team that 
> really didn't care all that much about football. Now
> he's on a team at a 
> place where we're ALL about football. What do you
> think is going to happen 
> now? You think that ASU when he played there had
> better receivers than we 
> have at Nebraska? You think ASU's offensive line was
> better than ours is 
> now? 
> 
> Nebraska has never had a kid that could put up these
> kind of numbers. You 
> want to point out Vince Ferragamo, go ahead, but he
> didn't come close to 
> these kind of stats. 
> 
> There's a reason he's on the Manning watch list.
> What the hell is the 
> Manning watch list, anyway? You win, you
> automatically get to make 
> craploads of TV commercials? 


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


       
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