Pocket passers

[Cuse44]

When have we had a pocket passer at Cuse who has been successful. If you can’t scramble don’t recruit QB regardless of how hard they can throw. Devito may not see a pocket all year.

 

[FloridaFan]

When have we had a pocket passer at Cuse who has been successful. If you can’t scramble don’t recruit QB regardless of how hard they can throw. Devito may not see a pocket all year.

Devito actaully ran quite well. his passing was not the best but he moved

 

[City of Cuse]

Nassib

 

[Dcuse]

Devito actaully ran quite well. his passing was not the best but he moved

He has never in his career escaped the pocket and completed a pass.

 

[FloridaFan]

He has never in his career escaped the pocket and completed a pass.

thats a bold assumption to say never sir

 

[gmoney44]

He has never in his career escaped the pocket and completed a pass.

Dino needs to make it binary for TD. If he moves off his spot, just run it and take what you can get. Nothing good happens if he hangs out behind the line of scrimmage.

 

[SUskibum]

When have we had a pocket passer at Cuse who has been successful. If you can’t scramble don’t recruit QB regardless of how hard they can throw. Devito may not see a pocket all year.

He was our leading rusher today

 

[Dcuse]

thats a bold assumption to say never sir

Never ever.

 

[PhatOrange]

Devito actaully ran quite well. his passing was not the best but he moved

DeVito is good when he steps up - north (and he can obviously run) DeVito bad when he goes east

 

[721Comstock]

DeVito is good when he steps up - north (and he can obviously run) DeVito bad when he goes east

Go west, young man!

 

[CU44SE]

Too many times does devito just continue to drop and drift further and further from line of scrimmage when he looks for receivers. He has 0 pocket presence at all. Even when he does a design rollout pass he drifts 7 yards backward when he rolls out. It’s maddening.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Didn’t someone say they alternate Practice days on which side of the field they throw to? Is it possible that they’re always throwing left the day before a game?

 

[AngryOtto]

Dino needs to make it binary for TD. If he moves off his spot, just run it and take what you can get. Nothing good happens if he hangs out behind the line of scrimmage.

If that was the case he would run every time Taj was covered.

 

[sufandu]

I know we ran the option, but wasn't Philcox pretty much a pocket passer?

 

[RoatanCuse]

Too many times does devito just continue to drop and drift further and further from line of scrimmage when he looks for receivers. He has 0 pocket presence at all. Even when he does a design rollout pass he drifts 7 yards backward when he rolls out. It’s maddening.

Back 20 or 30 years ago we gad another QB who used to run backwards a lot. Maddening.

 

[SWC75]

I know we ran the option, but wasn't Philcox pretty much a pocket passer?

Actually, he was a good runner. We ran the freeze option in those days. He wasn't as fast as Donnie McPherson but Wilcox did OK with it. We went 10-2 that year.

I agree that we we need a dual threat QB both to be our second running back and to make plays when scrambling. DeVito occasionally runs for a first down, (mostly up the middle) and does well on the QB draw. But he's not really an option or RPO guy.

 

[Chip]

thats a bold assumption to say never sir

Other than the ones he completed to Maryland and Clemson players, I'm really not sure he ever has.

And I think he still has the PTSD scars of those two passes. Which on one hand means he's not going to kill us with INTs. But on the flip side, I think it also means he's not taking a lot of chances and trusting anything when his primary target isn't open.

 

[kcsu]

Dino will ride Tommy this year. If he doesn't improve next year could become a difficult situation for all involved.

 

[sufandu]

Actually, he was a good runner. We ran the freeze option in those days. He wasn't as fast as Donnie McPherson but Wilcox did OK with it. We went 10-2 that year.

I agree that we we need a dual threat QB both to be our second running back and to make plays when scrambling. DeVito occasionally runs for a first down, (mostly up the middle) and does well on the QB draw. But he's not really an option or RPO guy.

I knew he was good and that team was good, I just didn't remember for sure if he was considered a pocket passer or a dual threat type of guy. It seema like in that era and before a lot of pocket passers ran option because that's what more teams did then.