TL;DR: It wasn't all Rickie's fault, he will probably leave after this year regardless, and don't burn Carney's redshirt.I haven’t read a sentence yet but I noticed your novel long post didn’t receive any likes and I felt bad. So here’s a like
Ha. And...He was better than people think. I think his upside is mid, but you have to give him more time. To think he can't get better makes no sense.
If carney plays and does well he is not sitting behind Angeli for 2 years. He will leave. Also I hope Angeli comes back strong but with any injury you have to wait and see.
Thank you my good sir. Definitely not all Rickie’s fault. I agree.
This list will be more relevant two game from now
Hey. He’s better than 5 P4 QB’s and he’s only started 1 game.
Joe M didnt have the strongest arm.
People that generally have accurate inside info have said it wasn't close.
Watch the safety (I don't think Rickie did). He had it read the whole way. Even without Rickie's arm getting hit, he probably makes a play on the ball.
Crap call by the refs, but Rickie's inaccurate throw put Cook in a bad position. He did that a number of other times during the game, including the play where Cook nearly had his knees taken out.
I agree that Duke blew it up. Maybe it was a run play, but then somebody should have clued Willis in. If they weren't faking the handoff, it was the most halfhearted attempt at taking the ball from the QB that I've ever seen. Regardless, we wouldn't have been penalized for illegal man downfield. All the lineman were no more than 3 yards past the LOS. Even if we had, it's a 5 yard loss and replay the down. Taking the sack was a 7 yard loss and we lost the down.
Oh my lord in heaven. I had absolutely repressed that memory. Hahaha
That’s how coaches lose jobs.
Yeah, while watching the game in real time, I said out loud to stop staring at the recievers (not that he could hear me through my TV). To be fair, I said the same thing during a previous game, probably Tennessee, to Angeli. I don't think he could hear me either, but he was still getting better.
I haven’t posted since the game because I wanted to watch it first. It seemed like we were the keystone cops on both sides of the ball, but we weren’t 38-3 bad. A lot went wrong. A bit of it I put on Dixon, who like vs Conn, did not call a great game. Most is on Cook and the defense. But we moved the ball at the start of the game, and got down to the 6 yard line the next drive and came away with just three points. If we were up 14-3 maybe the game goes differently.
I agree with most of what you are saying. But it’s tough. We realllly don’t have a QB that I trust. And we DEFINITELY don’t have a defense I trust. So not a great spot. If Rickie doesn’t do well the first half against SMU what do we have to lose throwing Carney in? Frans words he beat out Eilliams and Belien as a true freshman. So throw him in and maybe we have our QB for the next few years at WORSE we have our back up until Angeli leaves. If Fran has him beating out Williams and Belien he is obviously showing something in practice. If Collins can’t show much after a game and a half we have nothing to lose.
Valid point.
This was discussed when watching the play earlier in the week. They had single high, the safety was not reading it all the way because we had 2 guys on the other side he was watching as well. The safety reacted fast though. if they ball is outside the hash as the route was intended to be run then there is no chance the safety gets to that ball if thrown well. Its not like on deep balls thrown to 1 man routes QBs dont stare at the WR all the time.Nixon didn’t say anything about the ball being tipped on the interception, he said JRS ran the wrong way.
“On Syracuse’s first possession, Ross-Simmons ran a go route down the sideline that led to Rickie Collins’s second interception of the season. It was one of many instances of poor play from the Orange’s offense.
“That really wasn’t Rickie’s fault,” offensive coordinator Jeff Nixon said Tuesday night following practice. “The receiver is supposed to outside release on that, and the ball is supposed to be thrown on the sideline. He took an inside release on the play, and you can’t do that.”
Duke safety Caleb Weaver, who caught the interception, said Collins was staring down his receivers too long. Both Nixon and Collins denied that observation Tuesday night.”
Syracuse offensive coordinator defends his quarterback: ‘That really wasn’t Rickie’s fault’
Rickie Collins had a subpar performance in his first career start, but his teammates didn't make life easy.www.syracuse.com
I'm just as mortified by the pass protection on that play. Were they out partying all week after the Clemson win? Seems eerily reminiscent of our "preparation" for Stanford following the big GTech win last year.
Shrader’s issue was being a dual threat QB with an undersized line that was unable to protect him. This led to more scrambles and more hits behind the LOS resulting in his inability to stay healthy. Most of his bad passes came with an injured shoulder even though we didn’t know it at the time.
