Bowling Green Snowflakes: The Offense

Yeah the one to CJ was not that bad, certainly not among JJ's top 3 worst throws. Still a bad decision because Wilson was open for a touchdown but CJ had inside leverage that he completely surrendered. Should have been an incomplete pass at worst.

I think JJ really did make the wrong read though. CJ probably knew he was not the primary option on that play. 

And anyway he made up for it on the flea flicker. 

> Jason Avant thought the one to CJ was at least as much on CJ

Thanks for pointing this out. I don't claim to be an expert by any means, but that was my immediate impression as well. Nice to get some confirmation on that.

That was a terrible decision and throw by JJ.  Sure, CJ may have been able to break up the pick, but we have to acknowledge that JJ’s picks were all his own mistakes.  Bowling Green had him consistently confused, he didn’t play well and we have to hope that was a severe anomaly.

I was listening on the radio and Jansen said immediately that the first pick was due to Hibner, who had just come into the game, running the wrong route and bringing an extra defender to the area that JJ wasn't expecting to be there.

But whatever, JJ had a bad night, which can happen. How he missed Wilson wide open was bad, but the overthrow to Morris was egregious. All he had to do was loft it up there and let him run under it and it was easy 6. This was a regression to last year where he was trying to hit guys in stride with a laser when the better throw has some air under it and lets the receiver go get it.

I thought the receivers looked fine. Morris got open a ton. Wilson too. JJ was making the wrong read or throwing inaccurate passes constantly. I don't know why Harbaughs qbs always seem to regress and this is just one game but meh. We need to deviate away from the NFL passing stuff to a college style passing game that makes everything easier.

You could do this with every QB that's ever played tackle football.

Acting as if JJ is the only QB to ever throw almost ints is ridiculous.

JJ had a bad game it happens. I'm more interested at how JJ responds to adversity.

Agreed.  This is definitely a pattern anyone saying otherwise is either not watching the games closely or not willing to take their maize tinted glasses off. I had hoped through the first two weeks we’d seen JJ mature and grow out of these sorts of things and I was willing to ignore one pick, maybe even 2 on something like 30 passes. But 3 picks on 13 throws is awfully scary.  Here’s to hoping this is an anomaly and not a sign of things to come. 

You alright man?

I’m not casting aspersions on his character; just his level of play. Which was bad.

I don’t think people remember just how terrible our QBs played in 2017. Or how bad our offense as a whole was. Or how our team wasted a BRILLIANT game plan from Harbaugh against Ohio State due to the inability to complete passes to wide open receivers.

Wrong. Show me a game that JJ dominated. 12/24 against OSU with horribly busted coverage? TCU with 2 pick sixes? 

I really want JJ to be a heisman level qb. His non-con numbers were WAY better last year than they are this year so far. Everyone is just hoping he’s going to be the guy they think he is. 

Cade was 5-13 with 2 picks against Western in the first half. He did pick it up in the second half end ended up 9-19

It's dangerous but they won by 25. The hope is they are focused next week because Rutgers is gonna smack them in the mouth.

Complacency with the whole team coming back isn't surprising.

Penix was really solid.