I thought the no huddle looked good. It appeared to me they knew what they wanted to do with it, and were ready to go, whereas in the past, it was organized chaos, at best.
Great read. Thanks to HGF. I really liked how fast sokol and beathard can do their drops from center and setup for the pass.
Ruddock looked a little slower at this but not sure by how much. If Iowa was still a total I formation or single back with qb under center offense I would give a little edge to sokol.
I really wanted to see this mccameron kid but I will have to wait.
The one thing that I noticed from the scrimmage was that rudock seems to throw more on a downward arm plane and stays taller than sokol with a shorter stride. This will allow him to see the field better and keep the ball away from defenders. Though rudock is mechanical his drops have a much better timing than the other two. Sokol definitely has the advantage off schedule and on the move. I think that who becomes the starter will say a lot about what type of qb davis wants as they are different qbs. I give the advantage to rudock because I think sokol's motion and stride will cause him to float the ball and lead to interceptions. But has a mobility factor. I have to think beathard is well behind the other two as he seemed very raw.
Great to read the analysis and notice that words like touch and timing might be coming back into fashion. On a related note, were decent yac generated? (I realize it's too much to ask for such a stat, a general gut-feel would do.)
Davis was asked during his press conference what he is looking for in his QB, and his top two priorities were making good decisions and having the ability to make plays when things don't go as planned.
Based on that comment, and what we saw in the spring game it will be an interesting battle to follow during fall camp. Beathard is the likely #3, but he has plenty of time to develop and surprise some people. I certainly wouldn't rule him out yet because you never know what could happen. However, if you assume he's the one that will be on the outside looking in then things will get pretty dicey between Sokol and Rudock. I think it was obvious Sokol has a better knack for making plays when things break down, but Rudock probably has the advantage in the decision making category right now. That may be simply because he has more experience. We all know Ferentz would probably prefer to start the better decision maker, but maybe Davis would prefer the player who gives them the best shot at creating big plays...
I just hope one of them earns the spot outright. I'm not sure how I feel about watching a revolving door at the QB position.