Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule met with the media following spring practice on Saturday. The man-in-charge started his press conference by discussing the dominant nature of Nebraska’s offense during that day’s practice.
“This was the most dominant day we’ve had on offense ever. There might have been eight, 10, 12 touchdowns out there today. Explosive plays, big plays. I think we had one fumble late with the threes, but I thought the ball was protected. In all fairness, we aren’t hitting the quarterback and a lot of plays extend so I’m going to go back and say, ‘Well, that would have been a sack.’ I don’t want to sound the alarm. The ability to throw and catch the ball and guys making catches and plays after the catches has been good. We didn’t run the ball, we had one long explosive run, but on offense by far the best day we’ve ever had since I’ve been here.”
On the quarterback’s play
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“I thought all three quarterbacks played really well. I’d like to watch the tape to be able to talk about specifics, but we started with the ball on the minus-one and had a 99-yard drive. We had some long drives. Quarterbacks excelled at taking what was there.
On the headset changes
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The headset is transformational. It’s transformational what you can do. We’ve got guys who are used to doing that, Sat (Marcus Satterfield) and Glenn (Glenn Thomas) and Garret (Garret McGuire) so I thought the quarterbacks all played really well. But again, with young quarterbacks I’ve got to go back and watch the tape. Are we running around in the pocket with one hand on the ball and we get in the game late in the season and all of the sudden those are going to be fumbles. We talk about limiting the low lights. When you can’t hit the quarterback, it’s hard to tell, but a lot of really good…
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