Snowflake Thread: Offense Vs. Air Force
September 16th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 3:19 PM ^
He can't even manage the game properly. He once ran out of bounds for a three yard loss, and then tried to throw the ball while he was at (5,0) on an XY coordinate.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
Uhh, how is "everybody is covered" a knock on his decision making? "Not real accurate into tight windows" is fair criticism, but if he were just eating sacks and/or throwing everything away he'd be getting ripped on for that too. Takes 2 people to complete a pass.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
defending Speight's performance so far this year, but...
Drevno offensive playcalling is atrocious, and is putting him in very bad down and distance situations. And then Drevno often asks him to make harder throws than necessary when he obviously is not yet in-synch withn anyone but Grant Perry.
Speight has not been great. But Drevno and the youth of the receiver corps is making it a lot worse.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
He didn't even tell Kekoa Crawford to catch that ball that he dropped. I mean, WTF??
September 16th, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:22 PM ^
That was especially frustrating - one of Speight's best plays of the day, and Crawford flat biffs it.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
that fact that the offense has jsut 1 red zone TD in 3 games is not just some sort of coincidence. It is a symptom of real underlying problems--from the OL, to Speight, to the youth of the receivers, to the play calling, to the mysterious near disappearance of the TE passing game
September 16th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
Hill is a short yardage specialist. Unfortunately the O keeps putting itself in 2nd/3rd and long in the red zone, so not many good opportunities for the Panda.
September 16th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
Hill is great in short yardage situations, but he has been used effectively catching longer passes before too. He's not going to win a race to the endzone in space but he's got great hands and will bury the 1st Db that tries to tackle him.
Moar panda use please!
September 16th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
Crawford worries me being small with stone hands.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:36 PM ^
That's true, but it's impossible to deny that Speight was awful today. He fumbled once, very nearly threw a pick at the goaline, overthew Crawford and Black by at least 5 yards in the endzone, and continued to miss wide open receivers throughout the game. It wasn't all on him by any means, but he was bad.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:38 PM ^
agreed. He needs help but he is the leader at QB with a full season of experience and he should be expected to perform better and to overcome mistakes made by others. His play is literally the same as O'Korns was during the IU game...but he managed to score a TD when the game was in doubt
September 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
I'm not sure if either of those throws out of the back of the endzone were overthrows. From what I remember neither receiver was that open, so they may have just been thrown out of the back of the endzone on purpose.
In general, gettting open seems to be a problem for this WR corps.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
They looked like overthrows to me, but you might be right.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^
14 of 23 for 169 yeard is not awful. It is not great, but it is most certainly not awful. I don't get where people get the idea that every other QB hits every open target. The expectation for QB play is unrealistic around here. Speight was fine. He was under stress a lot and delivered some tough balls. You will not have a great a RZ rate until you can run the ball inside 20 yards.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
Against a military academy with one returning starter, that is awful.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
Yep. Much of it is on staff for shitty RPS and vanilla calls, but Speight didn't help himself out at all, and all of the overthrows were poison.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
We recruit top ten classes every year. We have arugably the best QB coach in the world. Our QB is an upper classmen with a full season of starting experience. He crushed inferior teams last season. But depsite all that we should be happy with average this year? For whatever reason he has regressed but that does not mean we should lower the expectations of the most important position on the field. No one is expecting perfection but everyone needs to expect better than "not awful" and "fine."
September 16th, 2017 at 6:40 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 6:55 PM ^
So far the OL is close to as good/bad as last year. The receivers have had some drops. But Speight has 3 self-inflicted fumbles and a plethora of passes that just aren't even respectfully close to their target, many of them with solid protection. All the 'Speight always makes the correct read' chatter is bologna. Are you implying Speight needs a great O line and great receivers to perform well? If thats the case he is a game manager that will never win us games and hopefully won't lose any.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:12 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 5:41 PM ^
14/23 with a few drops.
if you give him those (generous, perhaps) you get maybe 16/23.
what are people really expecting, at least percentagewise?
September 16th, 2017 at 7:15 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:05 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 5:09 PM ^
Then, you are clearly not paying attention.
The bomb to DPJ in the first quarter hit was slightly underthrown, which is the correct play as the CB was not looking back at all. All DPJ had to do was to stop and high point and he would have made an easy catch or get PI. He didn't and the ball still hit both of his hands and dropped.
Tarik Black had a ball in the right fly pattern. The CB again was not paying any attention and over-ran the play, the ball hit both of his hands and dropped.
There were others.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 8:11 PM ^
Instead, let's just see if Don Brown can coach offense, too.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
If there really is a meritocracy, changes will be made. If no changes, then don't buy it.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
It's possible that the alternative is worse, but it's hard to imagine. We're seeing freshman all over the country play better than Speight. If Peters isn't one of them, then Harbaugh is not the QB whisperer we thought.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
Have you considered that having a redshirt freshman QB in charge of an offense filled with freshman and sophomores is perhaps a bad idea? That's what Harbaugh's whole "command of the offense" quote regarding Peters was about. QB has to know exactly what everyone is supposed to be doing out there, and Peters clearly doesn't. Otherwise, you'd be seeing him.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:39 PM ^
How many red zone TDs does Peters get in ten tries? If he can manage just two...I'm sold. Why not give the higher talent a chance if you are already seeing freshmen mistakes from a RS Junior QB?