Are we ruling out Speight for 2018?
October 10th, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
October 10th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
anyone for any season.
That said, I would love to think that with Peters's and McCaffrey's purported upsides, and the amount of time that they have had under tutelage, that even a returned Speight would be a trusty backup.
I don't mind the idea of him being Garoppolo next year. I just want one of those boys to be Brady.
That said, I continue to have confidence that Harbaugh having about a thousand times my football knowledge and literally infinitely more opportunity to observe them progressing in practice, he's got the whole "ruling out" a QB thing covered.
October 10th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
October 11th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^
So you want next years starting qb to be as good as the greatest qb of all time. That sound reasonable. Who says our fanbase is delusional.
October 11th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^
So you want next years starting qb to be as good as the greatest qb of all time. That sound reasonable. Who says our fanbase is delusional.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
baed on what?
October 10th, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
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October 10th, 2017 at 2:56 PM ^
I'm still not ready to count Peters out. He looked perfectly capable in the spring game and the talent is obvious. I'd be amazed if he is ultimately held back by a lack of "command" as Harbaugh has called it. He came here for a reason and the opportunity will be right in front of him.
October 10th, 2017 at 5:29 PM ^
I think because of Harbaugh's "everyone is evaluated every week, every day, every rep", the whole "McCaffrey has passed Peters", is a little melodramatic. I'm sure, if Harbaugh really does his "every rep is a competition" like he did at Stanford, then they are swapping places nearly every week. QB is all about riding the ups and downs, weathering the storms, and finding consistency.
Also you can see how you can lose your QB in a flash. I'm sure either one of them sees how they can be thrust into a rivalry game, night game, when you're ranked, what AP #7, with just an extra week to prepare.
Seems like a case of taking the 3rd-backup-versus-4th-backup-rumor-that-says-the-future-of-our-program-and-determines-whether-harbaugh-can-coach-or-not-from-the-submarine-of-gamesmanship-secrecy-which-harbaugh-employs-and-fans-extraploate-it-to-be-the-holy-grail-of-program-indicators.
As history shows, Speight spelled Rudock when he got a concussion against Minnesota, O'Korn played when Speight seperated his shoulder at Iowa, then Indiana, then pre-planned versus Florida, and now the starter.
So, it's likely we WILL see BOTH Peters and McCaffrey as starters in the eventual.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 6:07 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 7:27 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
How about the fact that Peters doesn't appear to be getting any consideration at a spot of clear weakness?
October 10th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^
All comments point to Peters not "loud" enough or intense enough to lead the way Harbaugh likes. May be thats just his personality.
October 10th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
How about Peters is second on the depth chart as of today? If he ends up getting any significant playing time between now and the end of this season, it will be his job to lose heading into 2018, regardless of Speight's condition (assuming he's out for this season, at least).
October 10th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
I saw the initial post back in the summer, and that seemed to be just for a brief period of time (maybe a practice or two?), and rumors of McCaffrey passing Peters were mostly exaggerated.
Has there been anything recent or more substantial? It seems to be something that gets repeated around here enough that people take it to be true.
(totally possible I missed if UMBig11 had something more recent though, like on Magnus's site for example)
October 10th, 2017 at 4:29 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
Brian and Ace also kind of referred to it in the most recent podcast. They didn't say they had any inside information but mentioned something along the lines of them hoping the rumors of him being "aloof" were unfounded.
October 11th, 2017 at 6:13 AM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:15 PM ^
You must have a secret source that nobody else has...
October 10th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
All speculation on my part, but Peters seems like an introvert more than aloof. Check out the spring game interview..even the reporter at the end asked if he was uncomfotable doing the interview. (He seemed to fidget the entire time) Also, they said Speight says Peters calms him down because he's "such a chill guy." Nothing wrong with that, but also maybe not the best attriubute for a Harbaugh QB. Time will tell, but I suspect the rumors of lack of command of presence in the huddle is true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GsWgdKTvNs
October 10th, 2017 at 8:01 PM ^
Joe Montana was pretty chill and it worked out just fine. Joe Cool
October 11th, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^
Yes we do have something against Peters. He is already 5 games into his Redshirt Freshman year and has not started yet. Obviously this means he is a bust. McCafrey on the other hand is 5 games into his Freshman year and has not played a single down. This means he is likely better than Peters obviously.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
You're right. If I don't worry about the remainder of the 2017 season, the team won't be focused for the games. I should definitely stop worrying about 2018.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:07 PM ^
No offense to speight but i hope your wrong. I am hoping one of the young guns will be ready to take the helm.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
This, times a lot of large numbers. I like Speight. But in Year Four for Harbaugh, I would expect him to have his own quarterback installed and ready to go, instead of a guy who almost transferred 18 months ago...
October 10th, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
yeah i dont see Speight playing next year. due to level of play, spinal injury or its just time to move on.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
"No offense to Speight"... "No offense with Speight"... "No offense without Speight"... Theme?
October 10th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
I think Speight will be the early favorite for the job, but beatable if either Peters or McCaffrey puts things together. His ceiling downbounce this year has been bizarre; if it's just a blip and he improves for next year, he should be an efficient and smart QB that can move the team downfield.
If.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
I'm ruling out sobriety.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
It would be good to have Speight on the roster, if only for depth and veteran presence in a very inexperienced QB backfied. But in terms of looking to the future, I don't want him to be leading this team.
Obviously all of this is a moot point if the O-line is still in flux. While that is not something that can be changed too much this season, we can make sure that next season's starting 5 are ready to go. I'm rooting for Filiaga/Honingford-Bredeson-Ruiz-Onwenu-Steuber. If Newsome is healthy and able to then replace Filiaga/Honingford for Newsome. Steuber has already played some this year. I'd be interested to see if anyone can give an account of how he did in limited snaps and if it would be a good idea to give him a shot at RT right now.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
I think, at this point, an optomistic outlook for Speight is to get healthy enough so he doesn't have perpetual pain going forward. Anything more than that would be icing on the cake.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
and you expect him to come back after breaking 3 vertebrae and be a better quarterback?
October 10th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
unless he shows an ability to shake off whatever the hell has been bothering him since IA game of last year. I'm not in the anti-Speight camp, wanting Peters to start since the Spring game for some reason I could never fathom. After all, both were going against teammates and Brandon, I believe, was running with a lot of the more experienced receivers.
However, Wilton has lost something - definitely confidence related - since last season. It is not all bad to not throw the ball into tight windows. Harbaugh preaches ball security and we all saw the reason Saturday night. However, Wilton is not throwing the ball away when his receivers are covered and he eithr has no internal clock or its seriously malfunctioning. He did throw it away early with those fade patterns everyone was bitching about as "overthrows' but most times they netted us three points and a couple of those would have been huge Saturday.
I am just guessing, unless Harbaugh misevaluated both Dylan and Brandon, we'll see the first Harbaugh recruit under center next season. Unlike so many on the site though, I would have no problem with Wilton beating these players out if he would return to form of '16 with a reasonable growth predicated on his success of that season.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
October 10th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
because Speight's in pocket mobility is one of his strength. He knows how to evade rushers and reset his feet to make throws.
October 20th, 2017 at 5:02 AM ^
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October 10th, 2017 at 8:06 PM ^
Sounds about as easy as everyone made MSU out to be last week. Pretty sure Notre Dame won't just roll over for Michigan.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^