“Yeah, I mean, I think he’s had a great first year. Playing quarterback as a freshman in the Big Ten is not easy. One of the things I told Dylan was, hey, you can go some places where the team at the present moment is significantly better than all the teams around them, and then you’re going to have to maybe once a year or twice a year make a throw to win a game, and then you’re going to get drafted by probably the worst team in the NFL, and they’re going to say, hey, put every game on your back.”
“So you look at the great players in the NFL, the Mahomes, every game that Mahomes was at Texas Tech he had to go win the game for them to even have a chance.”
“So Dylan has had those opportunities this year. Dylan, for us to have a chance, you’re going to have to play well. Everyone else has to do the same thing, but that last drive, for us to win the game, he had to go play well.”
“For him to pull the ball — the one he pulled the ball, we never suspected he was going to pull it there, has that run, gets hit, pulls the ball on the second one, now he slid, but still he did the things that are hard to do to win a game.”
“And that’s what I’m looking for in a quarterback. Everyone is talking right now about who should be the first pick when I’m watching TV and all that stuff. Like tell me the guys, tell me the guys who do hard things to win, and that’s who I want to be my quarterback.”
“I was really happy for Dylan that he did that. He’s gotten so much better as the year has gone on in terms of his feet, his movement, those things. And he’ll have a great off-season, and he’ll make another huge jump. Really the sky’s the limit for him.”
The Nebraska football will now have to wait a few months, until spring practice, to see Raiola start to take the next steps.