I agree. I’m not sold on TD but if he wins the job and excels great. I just want a qb that can move the ball, score and most important win games.
They get shots every day in practice. It starts off with tearing it up on the look team. Then you have to gain the coaches trust by being mentally and physically capable. That's how Taj got on the field early. That's how guys like Berg, Benson, Thompson, Jones, Cisco, Trill, Carter, Wax, Howard got on the field early.
Agree, need to win first two games and playing teams like Albany gives you a chance to give younger game reps. We have to also keep in mind that Albany's first team guys aren't better than what they see every day in practice.
That's a really good way to put it.
100%...if the offense can't string drives and scores together it just snowballs for the defense.
Jordan maybe, but that’s about it as far as I remember for RB, LB and WR.
This gets at something important that rears it's head on the basketball side too. It's this idea that game time is this precious commodity to evaluate players. (Forgive me) "Kadary wasn't allowed to shoot but made a bunch of open 3's in that one game" and "Taj showed he's a slot guy since he caught a few balls once in that game I saw"
I think it goes both ways with the middle of the field issues. Yes we were not very good at running up the middle. But I think that was partly because we were very ineffective using the middle of the field in the passing game. Teams didn't respect our ability to pass over the middle. Teams would often rush us up the middle and could easily stuff the run if it was a run or just rush the passer up the gut. When passing we didn't have the ability to hold them off long enough to throw over the middle of the field or have the QB escape the pocket and then make the pass or a scramble for that matter. So they jammed rushing lanes and blitzed up the middle and covered the receivers on the outside. We have to find a way to punish teams and make plays over the middle. Our offense was way to easy to game plan for and stop.
You are spot on. As fans we evaluate what we see on game day and that's it. Anyone can show flashes. When we see it in a game we assume that player is showing that all the time. Its not as obvious to see if he miss reads and assignments, failing his classes, falling asleep in meetings, bad teammate etc.. As coaches you have to make evaluations based on what you consistently see and know about the players strengths and weaknesses. There's so many moving parts in football, All it takes is one player not doing his job. A kid can make a acrobatic catch for a TD but also missed 10 assignments on other plays that could have been significant gains. Average fan will say he should be playing more. Well they are right but he won't play more until he stops hurting the team in other areas lol.
You might be referring to Fagan and Trotter...both were under sized weight-wise. I think Fagan was listed under 200lbs.
There is a case to be made for this point in some past season but if the younger players were actually better i'm not sure. This certainly isn't the case with the current situation at LB or RB after what transpired last year. Lots of young guys saw the field with a majority share of the snaps.
