Townie72
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Welch threw two bounce passes, one of which a receiver caught on “one hop”.
I get how that happens when you try to stop a throw at the last instant.
But these bounce passes brought to my mind the last Orange QB who had that weapon in his arsenal, the much maligned and sometimes over-praised Troy Nunes. He threw at least one of these in a bowl game, I recall.
Tommy Devito’s indecision and bad decisions Pale in comparison to Nunes, who was the master of making bad plays much worse. Nunes seemed to believe that when a play broke down he could avoid a loss by outrunning the tacklers. A couple of times that required running full speed away from the line of scrimmage and towards his own goal line.
I think this had worked for Nunes in high school. He was fast, But in college it didn’t because the defenders he was facing were as fast as he was, if not faster.
Now here’s a controversial statement: Devito reminds me of Nunes when he pulls the ball down and tries to dance and evade tacklers and out run them. What worked in New Jersey in high school, just isn’t going to work at this level. But it’s extraordinarily hard to forget what you learned over and over again at that lower level.
I get how that happens when you try to stop a throw at the last instant.
But these bounce passes brought to my mind the last Orange QB who had that weapon in his arsenal, the much maligned and sometimes over-praised Troy Nunes. He threw at least one of these in a bowl game, I recall.
Tommy Devito’s indecision and bad decisions Pale in comparison to Nunes, who was the master of making bad plays much worse. Nunes seemed to believe that when a play broke down he could avoid a loss by outrunning the tacklers. A couple of times that required running full speed away from the line of scrimmage and towards his own goal line.
I think this had worked for Nunes in high school. He was fast, But in college it didn’t because the defenders he was facing were as fast as he was, if not faster.
Now here’s a controversial statement: Devito reminds me of Nunes when he pulls the ball down and tries to dance and evade tacklers and out run them. What worked in New Jersey in high school, just isn’t going to work at this level. But it’s extraordinarily hard to forget what you learned over and over again at that lower level.