You're an idiot sometimes. You **** all over Simon with no basis in fact.Now that we’ve played every qb on the roster, people are going to other schools for the backup qb debate
Nobody's dying on any hill. And those numbers are fine for a 1st year QB in a first year offense. Our fans can be such naysayers about anything.
What ability did Simon demonstrate? He can’t read and keeps force the ball into double coverage.
See my other posts. You are never going to develop a QB in our current yo-yo offensive with a revolving cast of characters between plays, stopping the QB to look to the sidelines, giving him 3 seconds to read the defense, etc, etc.
This times a million. It's a solid question. Looking all over college football you see them at all different levels but not at Rutgers. Is it offensive philosophy, coach, dislike for NJ? Geez
Simon is awful and gave the game away. He has no pocket presence, is slow, locks onto receivers and is not accurate. Oh yeah he’s also INT happy.
Hope Simon transfers out and proves you wrong. 90% of what is wrong with the offense and the QB play is on coaching and play calling. Simon is far from perfect. I posted Teel's stats as a freshman -lower completion %, 2TDs and 10 INTs. He developed. Simon will not develop in this circus sideshow offense.
See Tommy DeVito at Illinois. But Tommy was not worth RU's time. Bret Bielema was almost our head coach.
I'm sure you're joking -- do you really consider Art Sitkowski as having been successful for another team? Last I saw, he had 29 passing yards, with the longest being 11 yards. https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4361530/artur-sitkowski
If that was your point, you did not make it as well as you usually make your points. It sounded like you were saying that we'd be better off if Snyder had stayed here and that he would be superior to Simon. At least that's how I (and the poster you're calling an idiot) took it.
I have pointed out several times that maybe if we truely developed a #2, maybe we would have an effective #2 this year…..this not naming a #2 and playing musical chairs has really hurt our program in my opinion! I see what Snyder is doing at UB and feel we lost an asset because of poor QB management….we spent 3-years developing him and now UB is starting to thrive offensively under his leadership….I also wonder if Simon’s season would be playing out differently if we managed him better as well?
Maybe NJ high schools have not produced a lot of quality QBs to choose from. Obviously the state has developed a reputation as being fertile recruiting grounds, but perhaps a little thin at QB. I don’t know the subject well enough but who have been some of the better QBs over that time who have done well at P5 schoolsand more importantly did RU recruit any of them or did any show any interest in RU. Of those currently playing, I guess Leary at NCState is the best of the bunch. I know there have a few highly touted NJ QBs who left the state but did not have solid collegiate careers or were asked to change positions.
I hope he stays and success here. Why would you want him to succeed elsewhere? Our fans don’t get it. They hated Nova and Teel and they were our best QB’s since we have played a real schedule except for Mike McMahon. Oh yeah, he was blasted on the old board as well.
They do seem to be as hard to find for RU AS GOOD RIGHT TACKLES ARE.
Teel was pretty rough as a freshman and that was after a RS year. We tend to forget that as fans because Ryan Hart was still here to bail out the season.
Correct, we don't have a Ryan Hart. We have an injured Noah Vedral who could not play until Friday, and even then, he could not really play more than a few downs or to full ability.
Correct, we don't have a Ryan Hart. We have an injured Noah Vedral who could not play until Friday, and even then, he could not really play more than a few downs or to full ability.
As far as my "hope" for Simon, I actually hope he stays,and my point was that one of our bigger problems is pass protection and play calling that are not setting up our QBs to succeed. I rewatched Simon's INTs, and one of them seemed to be a miscommunication between Simon and Jones. The other was when he was getting yanked in and out of an offensive series.
But, he made the throws, and he owns them. On the down side, he does tend to stare down his target too much. On the one where he and Jones were not on the same page, he did look off to the other side of the field, but he threw to Jones' incorrect side, who was breaking to the sideline, while Simon threw towards the middle. Maybe he was trying to send a signal to the coaches that there's nothing wrong with passing toward the middle of the field?
Nope.
Like I said, glad Cole is doing well at Buffalo.
You are still missing the point. Rutgers sorely needs another scholarship QB. They let Snyder leave and never got another. Snyder (or a transfer portal QB) could have filled that role.
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