I’m thinking that Is what that love fest with fleck was about after the game. Fleck telling him he is almost there and needs to come back for one more year.
Time for a QB change
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I’m thinking that Is what that love fest with fleck was about after the game. Fleck telling him he is almost there and needs to come back for one more year.
Matt Corral is likely a first round pick in ‘22
AM is likely a used car salesman in ‘22
Except that he's thrown the best ball of the year, and how many wide open receivers does AM nees to miss to make you think he isn't good in this deparrment? AM is a really good athlete who doesnt have good coaching and / or can't figure it out. So what's the harm in sticking another really good athlete back there who might just be able to do things a little better.
Running back into the end zone on that play, and taking the safety there (in a situation you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT take a sack), is not even the worst play he made this season. It is, however, the worst play he made since fighting for that additional yard and getting stripped against Michigan.
Thankfully, it will be more than a week until we get another banana peel whoopsie that cannot be imagined currently. But make no mistake it's coming.
I am a believer in that you have to see what you have. Practice is great in evaluating but it isn't as effective as it used to be since very few reps are live reps like you see in games...Back in the 80s, practice probably had harder hits than games.
Playing one QB and not giving younger guys opportunities doesn't make sense to me unless you are knocking on the door of a championship...since we aren't, if a new QB comes in and fails, does it really cost you anything and you at least see him in live action to make evaluations for the future.
Playing one QB and not giving younger guys opportunities doesn't make sense to me unless you are knocking on the door of a championship...since we aren't, if a new QB comes in and fails, does it really cost you anything and you at least see him in live action to make evaluations for the future.
Idk where I stand on this issue. It just sucks because at times he looks ELITE. at other times, and more often then not, he costs us the entire game.
This is the problem the coaching staff has:
Starting an inexperienced QB is typically where you take your lumps now for a return down the road.
Those lumps were supposed to come in 2018 --and they did -- and the fans understood it. Then 2019 came around. More lumps. Then 2020. Took so many lumps the entire offense, including the 3 year starter captain at QB, voted to end the season.
So, here we are in 2021. All that investment has been made and it's time for the payoff.
And anyone who has watched the games sees the same ********.
Open receiver after open receiver not seen. Ball delivered late consistently. Deep balls 30 feet off target even on Toure's miracle grab TD against NW. Screen passes to slow down aggressive pass rush nonexistent as a play call because no touch ever put on the ball. Fighting for extra yardage after getting the first down resulting in getting stripped on the go-ahead drive against Michigan. Shitting the bed the entire game against Minnesota, missing a huge number of wide open WR's all game long then taking a safety on a play that no player past Pop Warner ball has any business taking a safety on.
How does the coaching staff now put in another inexperienced QB to start taking lumps again?
They don't have the capital with the fanbase to reset it. It would be pointed out that this reset should have taken place (either via the portal or via recruiting) after the ****-the-bed-every-week performances our QB had in 2019.
In which case we would potentially be sitting here with a competent starter halfway through his second season.
Yep.
I know that the backup QB is always the most popular guy on the team, but.... just ... enough already with the slow blinker
Uncle.
We're 3-5. Just like always. Turn the damn page. Oklahoma had to in order to get where they want to be.
They put a 5 star QB who is undefeated this season on the bench in place of another TRUE FRESHMAN QB and look what happened.
He may not end up being great but the little I've seen of him, he's much better than LM.
