Fran's Game 8 Press Conference | Ga Tech

[orangefog]

For having a strong arm, he comes up short with his passes a lot.

It takes him FOREVER to process things and he is ALWAYS late on passes. It's maddening.

 

[007]

For having a strong arm, he comes up short with his passes a lot.

That's a throwing mechanics and accuracy issue.

Apart from the INTs, what concerns me even more than coming up short is his tendency to throw late over the middle, and his ball placement on moving targets. Both of those issues unnecessarily put receivers in harm's way of getting smoked by DBs on late throws or being defenseless because they have to contort to adjust to off target throws.

 

[FrancoPizza]

It's simple. They thought Rickie was much better than he is. They are now pushing Luke. I expect to see him start at NC if Rickie implodes at GT

How many friggin implosions do we need to see?

 

[sufandu]

Arm strength is a tangible, not intangible.

 

[Archbold44]

Arm strength is a tangible, not intangible.

Intelligence might be intangible, but I think it is essential for the QB position. Arm talent is nice, but if the brain does not make the talented arm throw it to the guy in the right jersey, the open guy, the guy running the #1 route... and does not analyze where the defenders are/going and calculate where the receiver is/ going to be... and is not processing the game/play clock... and so on... it gets ugly. And you end up scoring 45 points as a team over 3 1/3 games.

I suspect Fran was trying to compliment both guys, but it comes off terribly in many ways. Inasmuch as the fan base already knows Collins has a good arm and questionable decision-making, this is fuel to the fire that Carney should be starting. Angeli's "arm" is not as good as Collins, but it was the good decision-making that was making the team work better than what we have seen with Collins. Collins always got by on arm talent... but when you move up a level, arm strength alone does not cut it. If Carney can make better decisions, perhaps we can move the ball better with a much worse arm.

At this point, we just need a guy who will not turn the ball over on our first drive nearly every week. At least give our very talented punter a chance to flip the field.

 

[Chip]

It takes him FOREVER to process things and he is ALWAYS late on passes. It's maddening.

That INT where the DB could have made a fair catch is a perfect example.

He had all the time in the world to throw, had Cook breaking on the post. Waited way too long and then threw a pass Cook wouldn't have caught anyway.

Plays like that have to be the most alarming for the staff.

 

[dollarbill44]

What happens in the next few weeks?

Rickie gets more intelligence, or Luke gets more arm strength?

Hopefully,both

 

[baggerbob]

Intelligence might be intangible, but I think it is essential for the QB position. Arm talent is nice, but if the brain does not make the talented arm throw it to the guy in the right jersey, the open guy, the guy running the #1 route... and does not analyze where the defenders are/going and calculate where the receiver is/ going to be... and is not processing the game/play clock... and so on... it gets ugly. And you end up scoring 45 points as a team over 3 1/3 games.

I suspect Fran was trying to compliment both guys, but it comes off terribly in many ways. Inasmuch as the fan base already knows Collins has a good arm and questionable decision-making, this is fuel to the fire that Carney should be starting. Angeli's "arm" is not as good as Collins, but it was the good decision-making that was making the team work better than what we have seen with Collins. Collins always got by on arm talent... but when you move up a level, arm strength alone does not cut it. If Carney can make better decisions, perhaps we can move the ball better with a much worse arm.

At this point, we just need a guy who will not turn the ball over on our first drive nearly every week. At least give our very talented punter a chance to flip the field.

You hit the nail on the head, With Carney even in the short sequence he showed more poise then Rickie has shown in 4 games. He made a couple of good plays. When nothing was there he didn't panic and lose yards or turn the ball over.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Collins issue is seeing it fast enough to be set properly to make the throws. When you see things late you make bad throws. Just like baseball.

The last pick was not a bad throw that just PI not called and the WR not making the play.

The 2 picks were the right play but to the wrong place.

Its getting better. But we run block so poorly we cant even really run play action and that doesnt help any QB.

Some of the throws late were low, and again because he was late getting to that read and not really set. A couple times he tried to make throws when he would have been to just run, but he ran for his life a ton and Angelli is probably not saving those plays.

We win that game 30-13 with Angeli just because he’s able to process defense and we don’t give them 17 points.

 

[Blanko97]

We win that game 30-13 with Angeli just because he’s able to process defense and we don’t give them 17 points.

That's what is lost in a lot of these. Sure you can blame the defense PLENTY, but when you have a QB who is good for throwing away possessions 2 - 3 times a game and at least one of those is in plus territory you are putting them in a terrible spot. Its not simply that he cant move the offense, its that he is actively detrimental to the offense AND the defense by giving short fields and taking opportunities away from your all conference punter to at least attempt to flip the field.