[Husker] Game/List Observations

[Steve Stone]

Skylar wrote:

>Steve, I liked everything you said except this:
>7) I also agree with Davison that Aggie QB Chase Holbrook will be
>playing on Sundays next year. Holbrook seems typical of the
>"anonymous" college quarterbacks that turn up so often on NFL teams.
>Not that I give a rat's rectum about the NFL or any of its teams.


>I really disagreed with Matt on that one because that guy just 
>didn't have the arm strength to throw a great deep ball.  You won't 
>get a second look at
>the next level if you don't.
>That being said, loved your writeup!



Skylar,

You may be right in this matter, but for the moment I'll stick with 
Matt because it seems to me that Holbrook doe have the arm strength 
to throw deep. He threw only two or three deep ones against NU with 
just one competion.

Living not far from Aggieland as I do, I've seen four or five 
telecasts of 2006 and 2007 Aggie games against teams of similar 
caliber in which he threw deep  eight or ten times  per game with 
accuracy. Against NU's D-line, he didn't often get the time for his 
receivers to get far downfield before being sacked or hurried. 
Perhaps with a pro O-line and pro receivers, his chances (deliberate 
pun!) will be better.

Still, nothing about football is carved in concrete because literally 
thousands of variables come into play.

I believe my secondary point about college-anonymous quarterbacks 
making the grade in professional ball does hold true.

Steve