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Nebraska head football coach Matt Rhule met with the media on Saturday morning. The Husker coach discussed the morning scrimmage and the play of specific position groups.
“A lot of the mistakes out there today were with young players. We’re playing a lot of true freshmen. I say that in terms of the creativity part because if they know the base offense and they don’t have the ability yet to absorb that information. Like in the redzone on Wednesday we’re going to put this play in for you. Billy Kemp you could put it in on Saturday, he’s played a lot of football. Some of these guys’ eyes are a little different. The weapons are there, they’re just in the maturing process mentally as much as physically. We have enough good players to win.”
The Husker head coach confirmed that the team ran 128 plays total on Saturday. Nebraska’s coaches will meet with the media next on Tuesday, August 13.
Scroll down to find comments from Matt Rhule regarding the offense’s creativity, the development of the quarterback position, and the depth of the running back room.
On the development of the quarterbacks
“There was a couple turnovers in areas I would not like to see them. Other than that, the ball was moved, the passes were thrown and caught. I was happy with it. It’s not the level it’s gonna be. The biggest thing I’m looking for from the quarterbacks is what things look like when things are going wrong. If you’re a true freshman quarterback, if you’re Danny (Kaelin) or Dylan (Raiola), you haven’t had a lot of things go wrong yet.
On shutting down camp
Matt Rhule completely shut down the team’s 10th practice of fall camp today.
No family members, alumni or high school coaches were allowed at the scrimmage.
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— Matt Sottile (@MSottileTV) August 10, 2024
On how the QB’s respond to adversity
Trying to expose them to strenuous situations to see how they respond, and they’re doing a good job at responding to it, but it’s going to be a fire out there when you’re the quarterback. Heinrich (Haarberg) is used to the fire. Can you handle the fire? That’s the whole key to young people becoming men. When you go out in the real world, you start to go through fire, you start to go through adversity, so our ability to handle adversity is the biggest thing right now.”
On team depth
On the development of the running backs
“I like the whole group (running backs). I think Dante (Dowdell) was lagging a little bit in the spring. He’s starting to catch his wind. He’s doing better now. It’s great to have Rahmir (Johsnon) and Gabe (Ervin Jr.) out there really attacking. Emmett (Johnson) is having a really good camp. Obviously when you play running back, we need guys who protect the football. We need guys to protect. We’d like them to be able to catch. They have to have rush skills.
The GOAT
One the difference between last season and this year
The difference between where we were last year and where we want to be this year is that four yard run where maybe we make a nice cut and get eight on. We need to get eighty. We need guys who can make somebody miss who have juice and are electric and take off. That challenge versus our defense who’s swarming, you’re protecting the ball a lot. But, also finding the guys who can make guys miss and I see them all working at it. That’s a tight race and it’ll all play itself out.”
This article originally appeared on Cornhuskers Wire: Rhule discusses team scrimmage