SpiderRico
Well-Known Member
Have had a few days to digest the debacle of Saturday night and I still can't get my arms around how bad this team is performing and how obtuse KF is being regarding the QB position. Here are a few things to make you go "hmmmm".....
1. Bill O'Brien comes in to a horrible situation and on top of everything, the best running back and best wide receiver transfer out of the program. After taking a couple of games to settle in, his offense his humming along like a machine and he's taken a marginal, at best, QB in McGloin and turned him into an all-conference performer in one season. But somehow GD's offense is so complex that it's turned a 3,000yd/20+td QB and turned him into a pile of goo?
2. OSU loses their starting QB during a critical stretch of the game and their backup comes in and promptly marches them down the field. He looked poised and looked like someone that had taken reps both during practice and during the season and ran the 2 minute offense to perfection.
3. Wisky starts the season horribly and promptly fires their OL coach and demotes their star transfer QB and replaces with a redshirt freshman. They have turned their season around, the offense is humming and averaging about 30ppg, and they may end up in the Rose Bowl.....again.
4. Indiana.....lowly, no talent, Indiana.....manages to put up 49 points against OSU with a backup QB. Yet, we can barely manage to put up 2 tds in most games with our first team, 5th year senior, 22 game starting QB? For real?
5. Every other team in the conference has given their backup QB game reps either in blow out wins or blow out losses in order to prepare what is, supposedly, the future QB of their respective programs....yet our coach stubbornly refuses to even consider it even in the face of continual missed open receivers, interceptions, throws into the ground, sailing throws, poor mechanics, etc., and a game that was obvious after the 1st quarter and half and certainly 27 seconds into the 3rd quarter that we had no chance whatsoever to win.
This has now gone beyond the absurd and into the sublime. KFs hire of Greg Davis has been an unmitigated disaster.....it's turned a once above average QB and the consensus "best returning pocket passer" into an absolute shell of his former self. His refusal to even ATTEMPT to get meaningful game reps to any of the backups that are going to be the future of the program is beyond ********. No program in America operates their program this way. Even mighty Alabama, with a stud for a QB, has managed to get their backup reps because, you know, he'll have to do it at some point. It just makes no sense. Don Shumpert drops passes and he's yanked. Tanner Miller stinks it up at strong safety and is yanked. Mikael McCall fumbles his first game back and never sees the field again. On and on and on. Yet, here we have a QB who's obviously lost his mojo.....mechanics are gone, arm strength is gone, pocket presence is gone, ability to see the field is gone.....but let's keep trotting him out there because, you know, this next series might be the one where he gets it all back. KF coaches almost as if he has no fear for his job....like he must have a lifetime contract.....oh yeah, he does.
1. Bill O'Brien comes in to a horrible situation and on top of everything, the best running back and best wide receiver transfer out of the program. After taking a couple of games to settle in, his offense his humming along like a machine and he's taken a marginal, at best, QB in McGloin and turned him into an all-conference performer in one season. But somehow GD's offense is so complex that it's turned a 3,000yd/20+td QB and turned him into a pile of goo?
2. OSU loses their starting QB during a critical stretch of the game and their backup comes in and promptly marches them down the field. He looked poised and looked like someone that had taken reps both during practice and during the season and ran the 2 minute offense to perfection.
3. Wisky starts the season horribly and promptly fires their OL coach and demotes their star transfer QB and replaces with a redshirt freshman. They have turned their season around, the offense is humming and averaging about 30ppg, and they may end up in the Rose Bowl.....again.
4. Indiana.....lowly, no talent, Indiana.....manages to put up 49 points against OSU with a backup QB. Yet, we can barely manage to put up 2 tds in most games with our first team, 5th year senior, 22 game starting QB? For real?
5. Every other team in the conference has given their backup QB game reps either in blow out wins or blow out losses in order to prepare what is, supposedly, the future QB of their respective programs....yet our coach stubbornly refuses to even consider it even in the face of continual missed open receivers, interceptions, throws into the ground, sailing throws, poor mechanics, etc., and a game that was obvious after the 1st quarter and half and certainly 27 seconds into the 3rd quarter that we had no chance whatsoever to win.
This has now gone beyond the absurd and into the sublime. KFs hire of Greg Davis has been an unmitigated disaster.....it's turned a once above average QB and the consensus "best returning pocket passer" into an absolute shell of his former self. His refusal to even ATTEMPT to get meaningful game reps to any of the backups that are going to be the future of the program is beyond ********. No program in America operates their program this way. Even mighty Alabama, with a stud for a QB, has managed to get their backup reps because, you know, he'll have to do it at some point. It just makes no sense. Don Shumpert drops passes and he's yanked. Tanner Miller stinks it up at strong safety and is yanked. Mikael McCall fumbles his first game back and never sees the field again. On and on and on. Yet, here we have a QB who's obviously lost his mojo.....mechanics are gone, arm strength is gone, pocket presence is gone, ability to see the field is gone.....but let's keep trotting him out there because, you know, this next series might be the one where he gets it all back. KF coaches almost as if he has no fear for his job....like he must have a lifetime contract.....oh yeah, he does.
