Will...

[Bdawg]

Outside of the turnovers and penalties that were mainly not his fault, Will was the main problem offensively. He does not have the arm strength to throw the ball down field against superior athletes and that will be evident when we don?t play La Tech type defenses and he holds the ball way too long. He can?t help his arm strength issues but he better figure out how to get the ball out like he did in the 4th quarter going forward. The OL wasn?t blocking any better he just got rid of the ball on time. My rankings of offensive issues yesterday goes


1) Will
2) Turnovers
3) Penalties
4) OL

I just don't know how you say Will was the #1 problem yesterday. If you take away the penalties and turnovers we were mostly driving it right down the field. We shot ourselves in the foot.

[Jarius]

I just know how you say Will was the #1 problem yesterday. If you take away the penalties and turnovers we were mostly driving it right down the field. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Ok. Will sucked for 3 quarters. He was not the only one that sucked but when you play the most important position on the field and others around you also are not playing great you are the one who affects the outcome the most when you also play poor. The idea that the OL was throwing lookout blocks the entire game is false. They had a ton of penalties which is ridiculous and a couple of people had stupid turnovers. The one specific thing that hurt the most was Will holding on to the ball too long because he’s scared to throw the ball downfield because he has very little arm strength. He padded stats well yesterday but if you watched that and came away with a positive view of our quarterback you are not watching the same game as most.

[Bdawg]

Ok. Will sucked for 3 quarters. He was not the only one that sucked but when you play the most important position on the field and others around you also are not playing great you are the one who affects the outcome the most when you also play poor. The idea that the OL was throwing lookout blocks the entire game is false. They had a ton of penalties which is ridiculous and a couple of people had stupid turnovers. The one specific thing that hurt the most was Will holding on to the ball too long because he’s scared to throw the ball downfield because he has very little arm strength. He padded stats well yesterday but if you watched that and came away with a positive view of our quarterback you are not watching the same game as most.

I know you are going to die on your hill, but exactly how many shots downfield would appease you? How many deep shots do you think are there to be made? I would say in average game against a normal defense, you would hope to complete, what, 2 maybe 3 in a game? So how many are we supposed to complete when the defense is playing back trying to take away the deep ball? Again, nobody is saying Will had a great game. But to say he is the number 1 problem when we had turnovers and penalties galore to kill drives just doesn't add up to me.

Edit: I do agree his arm strength does look lacking. Those long out routes looked like they took forever to get there. But I don't know if he's just trying to accurate and not try to gun it every throw. But to be a qb on a sec scholarship, I bet he can throw a decent deep ball if given a shot. But that's just a guess by me.*

[Jarius]

I know you are going to die on your hill, but exactly how many shots downfield would appease you? How many deep shots do you think are there to be made? I would say in average game against a normal defense, you would hope to complete, what, 2 maybe 3 in a game? So how many are we supposed to complete when the defense is playing back trying to take away the deep ball? Again, nobody is saying Will had a great game. But to say he is the number 1 problem when we had turnovers and penalties galore to kill drives just doesn't add up to me.

There were at least 7 or 8 times when Will didn’t throw intermediate routes that were wide ass open. I’m not talking about throwing vertical routes. I’m talking about the intermediate routes that were wide open all day and he either scrambled or checked it down or took a sack. He had a great completion % but if he is throwing them to the wrong targets that means little when we have 14 points on Louisiana tech through 3 quarters. He gets credit for hitting those routes in the 4th quarter but there is only so much credit to give when La Tech is the opponent. Just because I think he played really bad for a large portion of the game does not mean I think everyone else played well on offense. The penalties and fumbles by a guy who keeps getting free passes for fumbling in huge moments have to stop. It’s unacceptable.

[Bdawg]

There were at least 7 or 8 times when Will didn’t throw intermediate routes that were wide ass open. I’m not talking about throwing vertical routes. I’m talking about the intermediate routes that were wide open all day and he either scrambled or checked it down or took a sack. He had a great completion % but if he is throwing them to the wrong targets that means little when we have 14 points on Louisiana tech through 3 quarters. He gets credit for hitting those routes in the 4th quarter but there is only so much credit to give when La Tech is the opponent. Just because I think he played really bad for a large portion of the game does not mean I think everyone else played well on offense. The penalties and fumbles by a guy who keeps getting free passes for fumbling in huge moments have to stop. It’s unacceptable.

This is your most rational post of the day. Yeah I'm sure he missed some routes. It's is the first game, and there are a few new receivers to get used to. I believe the if the OL gets better, he could find those routes easier too. Like you said, he had to scramble some. Build off the fourth quarter and learn from the second and third quarter. If he doesn't get better and someone can bet him out, then by all means let the best man play.