The real problem begins when Lateef gets hurt. There is zero chance he gets through the next four games without missing snaps.
There won't be any QB controversy. Dylan owns Matt.
He didn’t get reps all week like he we have. He got thrown to the lions against a top 25 team .this isn’t HS you can’t just start running plays and drawing up plays on the sideline that you never practiced all week. He was still runninga game plan designed for Dylan. They are different types of QB . We will see different wrinkles in the game plan the rest of the year to better suit TJs strengths.
He hadn’t played in over a month, guessing kinda rusty, and nervous. 1st team reps in practice can’t be anywhere close to what he walked in on last night. How about wait until we see him after a week of full reps at #1.
OK, Nostradumasz.
We were never a playoff team. Anyone could see that in the first half of the cincy game…this season was about proof of concept. Get better, improve the record and use that to open doors to even better caliber players. Doesn’t look like we are going to accomplish that. Disappointing
good point. Quick question.. before yesterday, did TJ play at all this year? I'm curious if he plays out, if he keeps his redshirt
Garbage time in the 2nd and 3rd games I think.
Rhule was asked weeks ago about redshirting Lateef and seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t be redshirting. No doubt he has to be careful about how he frames it so he doesn’t turn off QB recruits.
In case anyone needs a reminder on #12. He’s played a lot of snaps post high school, TJ not so much. I’d assume he also has a much better sense for ball security than TJ.
If you do that, it goes right past the so-called #2 QB and tells him, "Well we seen what you can do and we have no confidence in you."
That would be a risk I'd be willing to take if I had a chance to see Gran taking live rounds at the FCS level because (1) he's been there and done that at a high level at the FBS level and (2) while maybe not as athletically gifted at TJ Grad is a lot less likely to have the yips. HOWEVER, your point is valid and TJ would probably not take it well.
In 1 3/4 years, there's never been one second given by the head man to replace DR during a game, regardless of how much Dylan was stinking up the place.
Stinking up the place is kinda silly. Two years ago DR was playing HS football, last year he was a true freshman playing in the best CFB conference with a cheesecloth line and he STILL managed to nearly break records at NU.
There were times he did stink up the place.
Let’em roll TJ out there for UCLA with a 1/2 page of plays he’s confident with and roll the dice. Then tell both TJ and Granstad you have the bye week to show us what you got, winner is the starter at Penn State.
It's so dumb Urban Meyer that year where he won the natty with his 3rd string QB. He said he gave snaps to his backup every week in practice.
Isn't it just better to give your starter almost all the snaps all season and then try to fit in the backup in a tight game so he can suddenly just fly by the seat of his pants?
FBS level? He didn’t even compete at the FSC level. He played at North western Iowa . Thats NAIA .GPAC that’s the same conference as Midland in Fremont.
Oddly, I think TJ's game is more conducive to Holgerson as a play caller. He isn't a running QB per se but is more mobile than DR and looks confident rolling out. There is some improv to his game.
While this is true...you are talking about like 10 snaps.
The offense will look a lot different this week, Dana has a QB that can run/pass and that will change things up a lot.
Are you serious? Dude has some wheels. Not 4.3 wheels but he would beat Dylan by 10 yards in a 40 yard dash….well maybe 5-6 but still way more mobile. The concern would be him taking hits cuz he’s pretty skinny.
So now we’re lobbying for the backup to the backup?
