September 9th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
Offense is going to limit our ceiling again this year. Sucks
September 9th, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
Isaac had 133 yars, 6.7 ypc. That's a nice stat line. What else do you want from the guy? Let's try being a little more realistic in our criticisms.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 10:44 PM ^
Why will you take away his longest play? Just to fit your narrative?
September 9th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
DPJ is fast. McDoom is fast. Crawford is elusive. Black can create seperation. Our TEs can rumble and bumble
All we need is for Speight to fricking throw them the ball. Underthrow it if you have to. He needs to just give them a chance.
Its horrible how far he has regressed. I dont understand how a QB can develop such a horrible overthrowing habit like this.
Peters isnt ready. O'Korn is too conservative. Speight IS our QB but my God he is pissing me off
September 9th, 2017 at 4:30 PM ^
Where did you see Speight missing those athletes besides the ONE throw to DPJ?
How many open receivers did we have all day against a shit team that was stacking the box? A couple? And speight nailed the deep throw to Crawford.
That's on the scheme. Why not more screens to our freak athlete WRs and twitchy RBs? Why not more deep shots? Speight is hitting them. Why is our red zone offense so terrible? Why not use our giant TEs and explosive WRs for fade routes, ever? Why do we call the PA Rollout with Black as the only option as a one-yard route on 3rd and long?
September 9th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
He had a nearly 60% completion rating. Twelve incompletions. Some of those were throwaways. One was a completion to Perry that was ruled incorrectly. Can you think of a bunch of others where receiers were clearly open? Maybe the wheel route to Hill? But it wasn't a terrible throw. Otherwise, our receivers were blanketed. We need a better passing scheme.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^
I was looking for overthrows of open receivers in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTETBWgR5po They appear in the plays that begin at 8:16, 9:12 (debatable as to whether the receiver was open, but he had _no_ chance at making a catch because the throw was so high), 9:17 overthrew receiver who had some space toward the sideline in the endzone), 19:36 (overthrow that risked an interception), 27:16 (ending up out of bounds).
September 9th, 2017 at 7:05 PM ^
Ok, so in 29 attempts he had 5 bad throws?
And two of those were 3 yard routes where the receiver is blanketed. And the last one was an obvious throw away because he got pressure insantly?
Not sure that makes a very convincing case for as bad as a game as everyone here seems to think.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:56 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:35 PM ^
The O-line was a problem today. Speight was a problem today. Speight was a big problem today. The O-line was a bigger problem than Speight today.
Will be easier to improve Speight than to improve the line. Both will be difficult to improve.
September 9th, 2017 at 4:30 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:30 PM ^
Attention Will Speight: Adderall is your friend.
September 9th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:37 PM ^
Props to Isaac as he was the lone bright spot. He had a great game considering what the OL gave him.
If nothing changes, the offense will cost this team any chance it would otherwise have in the PSU, Wisconsin, and OSU game. Even the Maryland, IU and MSU games all look like toss ups now.
September 9th, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^
I think, in general, it turned out there was a massive overreaction to Cinci's last game to Austin Peay. They were still #73 overall on S&P and had the #39 ranked defense. They could be a decent team.
Still, very disappointing. The fact that Peters isn't close to Speight is very concerning. It looks like he might have been a miss. Hopefully, we hit on McCaffery and Milton. Speight is just playing like the middling 3 star recruit he was. Very, very limited. We've missed on a few OT's too the last 2 recruiting classes and that, along with the Newsome injury, has hurt as well.
WR's/TE's look talented but very young. As expected. You'd just hope the offense would look better in year 3.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^
"This is still a meritocracy and Peters is one of Jim's guys."
You realize the inherent contradiction in this sentence, right? I agree that if Speight comes back, he likely loses the starting job. But it will have nothing to do with who is Jim's guy. And as Jim has himself said, they are all his guys.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
Poor execution on my part.
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September 9th, 2017 at 5:17 PM ^
Ok, got it (read this response second). Makes sense.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:05 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
My point was that you can't say it's a meritocracy an then imply that Jim will give some preference the guys he recruited. That's not a meritocracy.
September 9th, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
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September 9th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
It was extremely conservative. I believe the staff was looking ahead and trying hard not to tip their hand. At least I hope so.
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September 9th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^
Come on man. Unless your brain is running purely on SPSS, Stata, or R, you know that stats are just an abstraction from a broader story. Beneath those timeless, spaceless, and static numbers is the timing, spacing, an processes through which they were produced (e.g., completion % tells us nothing of drops vs. bad throws). Anyone who watched the game saw missed opportunities, bad decisions, bad throws, and, most of all, a pattern of bad throws, missed opportunities, and bad decisions from the previous game and the previous season. So stop pretending like stats tell the story. They dont.
September 9th, 2017 at 10:47 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
I read a comment in an earlier thread which I kind of agree with. At first we were thinking that Harbaugh put Speight in there because he's the best guy for the job. But now it's starting to look like stubbornness. If he were to pull Speight out it would be like admiting failure on his part. I no longer believe that Speight is the best guy on the team. From what we saw of O'Korn last week, which wasn't much I'll admit, I'd like to see more of JOK. It was just the one throw,but it was a beauty. Perfect timing and perfectly placed. I'm not sure we'll see that with Speight.
September 9th, 2017 at 5:32 PM ^
September 9th, 2017 at 6:02 PM ^
If you still think O'Korn is a better option after watching him play, you haven't watched O'Korn play. He looks completely lost every time he's on the field.
September 10th, 2017 at 12:04 AM ^
How can you say that, though? He's taken 9 snaps this season. And he hasn't caused any catastrophic plays the way Speight has.