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Brett Smith stats on Opening Games?

RexBeastHead

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I was curious to know if you guys could compile some stats for Brett Smith on his opening games...I know he has great stats overall and is a very good QB that will be drafted...but I wanted to see if he does well on his openers.

For the Huskers, Taylor Martinez always has a great opening game. Here's his stats:

This will be his 4th year starting a season opener at Nebraska...which is a record. In those three previous season-opening starts Martinez completed 65 percent of his passes while throwing for 606 yards, five touchdowns and zero interceptions. He also accounted for six rushing touchdowns and 272 rushing yards in those previous three season openers.

I look forward to the game Saturday and hope its a good one!
 
Brett Smith will be starting in his 3rd opener. In the previous 2 seasons he has completed 62 percent of his passes, and throwing for 570 yards, 5 touchdowns and three interceptions. Has accounted for 62 rushing yards and 1 touchdown rushing in said previous 2 season openers.
 
aranderson said:
Brett Smith will be starting in his 3rd opener. In the previous 2 seasons he has completed 62 percent of his passes, and throwing for 570 yards, 5 touchdowns and three interceptions. Has accounted for 62 rushing yards and 1 touchdown rushing in said previous 2 season openers.


Thanks!

Not too bad at all. Should be a great game :) Good luck to both teams!
 
One thing to remember when comparing the two is that TM has played relatively weak (us included :) defenses in his openers and BS has played pretty tough opening games (Texas, Nebraska). Those are decent stats for BS, but I know he can do better. TM will be handful for us tomorrow night. I am already sweating and nervous about it. I am excited for the challenge, but our Pokes have a huge task before them. I hope we can make it a game and keep it close to the end. If that can happen, then who knows...maybe we can pull off the miracle.
 
Landlordos7 said:
Dutchnation said:
TM will be handful for us tomorrow night.


Your defense must really be atrocious if a really bad runningback playing quarterback is going to be a handful for you :P

I feel like "atrocious" would be an upgrade on what most of us called them a season ago.
 
Asmodeanreborn said:
Landlordos7 said:
Dutchnation said:
TM will be handful for us tomorrow night.


Your defense must really be atrocious if a really bad runningback playing quarterback is going to be a handful for you :P

I feel like "atrocious" would be an upgrade on what most of us called them a season ago.
We had Purcell, Ghaali Muhammed, and to a lesser extent, Burns and Jones for a defense. Purcell was actually pretty good, but you can only do so much with one d-linemen actually doing something. Ghaali and Jones did what they could, but too often the O-line would get up to them and block them off from the ball carrier. Burns showed signs of being great, and signs of ineptitude. So, some plays he would be exactly where he needed to be, others, well, lets just say I'm still trying to block those memories form my mind.
 
Brett Smith in his 2 season openers has played Weber State and Texas, not Nebraska and Texas.
27/41 (65.9%), 294 yards 3 TD 1 INT, 13 carries, 44 yards, 1 rush TD -vs. Weber State (win) (True freshman)
16/28 (57.1%), 276 yards 2 TD, 2 INT, 8 carries 18 yards -@ Texas (loss)(sophomore)

43/69 (62.3%), 570 yards 5 TD, 3 INT, 21 carries 62 yards, 1 rush TD. (1-1 record)

Breaking down his first two season openers, his first college pass EVER was a ball that slipped out of his hands and was picked off. This was the first pass play since ACS left, and after that pass everyone in War Memorial was like "Wow this is the kid we have playing? Going to be a loooong year". At the end of the game, he ended up showing that first pass was first game jitters, and as he ended up throwing the ball effectively all game, even though it was an FCS team Wyo was playing. On the final drive of the game, he threw a game winning TD pass to Herron with like 20 seconds left.
The Texas game, he came out and shredded the Texas defense in the first quarter, then made a couple bad decisions trying to force some passes he shouldn't have, and threw some picks. Definitely trying to do too much.

After he came back from his concussion last season, Smith ended up playing really smart football and was destroying defenses (yes they were crappy MWC teams he destroyed, but he was really good).
He hasn't thrown an interception in like 174 pass attempts going back to the Fresno St. game. His last 5 game were interception free.

Last 5 games of last season he threw for:
104/167 (62.3%), 1497 yards 13 TD, 0 INT. 60 carries, 79 yards, 5 TDs.

As you Nebraska fans probably know, some rushing stats can be a little weird, considering sacks count as a carry for negative yards.
 
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