Fran Brown Says - Part II

[gocuse44]

Is angeli leading all p4 teams in passing yards has to be top 5

 

[sufan59]

Is angeli leading all p4 teams in passing yards has to be top 5

#6, but includes 2 in the top 5 that have played 3 games.

 

[Scooch]

Angeli has already been smoked by blitzers with a free run more times than McCord was all last season.

Some of that may be because he held onto the ball too long or failed to identify the blitzer pre-snap. Things McCord was very good at doing.

I'm not sold on Angeli yet but it's early and he has time to improve.

 

[Cusefan78]

Stats only tell one side of the story. There were too many snaps where Steve looked confused and scared to throw. He is partly responsible for some of those missed protection calls. We won’t win games of significance if he only plays 1 good quarter.

He’s on start number 2 I think the kid bought himself some time after that comeback. Also we always are saying the best player on the team is the backup. Something I have learned is that we are always wrong and the coaches that see these players daily are always right. Fran is going to ride with the player that won the competition, put up a bunch of points on Tennessee and lead a comeback vs UConn.

 

[OttosShoes]

This worked out in the end, but if we are going to beat some of those playoff teams we will soon face, Fran might need to keep his loyalty to his personal and not professional life.

I hear you, but I think the important part is what you started with. It did work out.

Personally I'd wanted Collins to come in too. But that 2 minute drill at the end of the game, watching Steve march down the field I knew we were going to get the TD and felt bad doubting him and HCFB. No guarantee that would've happened with a swap.

 

[RF2044]

Guy got rocked 4 times and that was just the clean hits. The first one seemed to shake him up and he seemed more off after that one. Let’s not discount that he might have been shaken up after the first big hit and took awhile to settle back down.

And I’m not implying he was concussed and the staff threw him in to play anyway. Anyone that’s played football or any other sport where you get absolutely leveled, know how that can mess up your body for awhile where it’s just “off”.

Agreed. He seemed off after that initial big hit. To his credit, he shook it off, but I don't ing discount that it impacted his performance.

 

[upperdeck]

Stats only tell one side of the story. There were too many snaps where Steve looked confused and scared to throw. He is partly responsible for some of those missed protection calls. We won’t win games of significance if he only plays 1 good quarter.

do we even know he is making the calls.. Some teams have centers some have QBs, Some have RBs

 

[FrancoPizza]

do we even know he is making the calls.. Some teams have centers some have QBs, Some have RBs

He said he missed some of the calls.

 

[llandz]

I hear you, but I think the important part is what you started with. It did work out.

Personally I'd wanted Collins to come in too. But that 2 minute drill at the end of the game, watching Steve march down the field I knew we were going to get the TD and felt bad doubting him and HCFB. No guarantee that would've happened with a swap.

I was not necessarily meaning what happened on Saturday, but the general comment that he made in response to a question about making a change, and I think he meant at any time, he puts loyalty first. So I was thinking that is not always the best decision, and if he needs to make another one at some time, he does not let just loyalty get in the way.

 

[dollarbill44]

This is a tough crowd.

 

[hungrychuck]

It’s entirely possible that Collins is not even close to Angeli at this point in his development.

I know we were told it was close in camp.

But Coach Truth is not necessarily in the same area code with Truth.

 

[ECE '76]

Personally I'd wanted Collins to come in too. But that 2 minute drill at the end of the game, watching Steve march down the field I knew we were going to get the TD and felt bad doubting him and HCFB. No guarantee that would've happened with a swap.

I didn't want Collins to come into the UConn game, but I do want him to play the 4th quarter (or more) Friday vs Colgate, assuming we have a 4 TD lead by then.

He needs to get game experience. He will be needed at some point, and it probably will be a high pressure situation. It's not fair to have your first experience be a 3rd down and 6 at Clemson with 1:24 left in the game trailing by one score, or something like that.

 

[SU91]

It’s entirely possible that Collins is not even close to Angeli at this point in his development.

I know we were told it was close in camp.

But Coach Truth is not necessarily in the same area code with Truth.

I believe this to be the case.