How short should Sheridan's leash be?
I agree 100% that Sheridan deserves the start tomorrow. He presided over one of out best games and while Threet is on the whole better than Sheridan, Threet is not so good to deserve the unassailable start. Sheridan earned another bite at the apple. The question is - how many mistakes do we allow before sending in the Dual Threet?
I say he gets 2 mistakes - 1 big like a fumble or INT, and maybe 1 smaller mistake like missing a wide open receiver down the field. Then we put in the unstoppable Threet/Feagin duo. ISQDFTW
November 14th, 2008 at 1:40 PM ^
I think RR intends to play both of them, at least thats what he's been saying.
Whose performance was more impressive: Threet against Purdue, or Shridan against Minnesota?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:44 PM ^
but I will give a slight edge to Sheridan since he was playing a better defense. It was a bit of a problem that Sheridan had to settle for a lot of FGs, though.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:55 PM ^
True, but it also helps when your defense holds the other team to 3.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:44 PM ^
for missing a reciever down field. It comes to how well he is moving the offense and the decisions he makes. If the offense is stuttering and / or Sheridan makes some questionable throws into coverage and just loks uncomfortable ... well then you have to go with Threet.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:46 PM ^
in addition to throwing a pick. All I'm saying is that he deserves 2 mistakes before being yanked.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:12 PM ^
2 mistakes? That's a pretty short leash. I think Henne had games where he had more than 2 mistakes, and he was pretty good. I think that's a pretty high bar to hold our walk-on QB to.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:40 PM ^
His leash should be shorter than my.......well, it should be short. Okay.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:06 PM ^
Nice Ocean's reference.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:46 PM ^
Really, I'm not sure you can call anything that short a "leash".
November 14th, 2008 at 2:50 PM ^
if we are losing, shift it up, if we are winning but sheridan looks poor, i would say give him more slack. RR won't pull a QB who is getting the job done ugly, but getting it done, especially since I'm sure he would ideally like to rest threet another week if possible.