In fairness, Wilson played baseball this spring

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The ESPN announcers said nothing of how that probably hurts a QB pretty badly. I predicted a Wilson drop off but he'll be better later in the season again.
 
Wilson is a pretty good player, but he has no weapons around him, and a below average offensive line. And you're right, the baseball thing doesn't help.
 
I liked the way they introduced Wilson in the pre-game. They said "Russell Wilson, the best quarterback in the ACC." WTF? I mean, I can understand "The First Team ACC QB in 2008" or something like that, but how often do you hear a player unequivocably called "the best"? I doubt we will hear Dwyer introduced as "The best running back in the ACC" - more like "one of the best", "the ACC Player of the Year last year", etc. I've never even heard Tebow introduced that definitively. Sheesh.
 
The best QB had a freshman sub for him during a game that they were losing. Preplanned or not, that's not a good sign.
 
either way.. stonehanded receivers arent gonna help anyones numbers
 
In fairness, State's receivers lost them the game. Wilson was still injured and you could tell. Every time you thought he would get a break, a WR would drop the pass. The drop in the endzone hit the WR right on the damn chest! You have got to be kidding me!
 
midatlantech said:
The best QB had a freshman sub for him during a game that they were losing. Preplanned or not, that's not a good sign.
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Why? They've been saying all during camp that they are doing to do that in every game, no matter the situation, so that Glennon gets some reps. More than likely it's so he doesn't transfer, but it has nothing to do with Wilson and anyone who has paid any attention to State understands that. The problem they have IMO is that the coaches have been preaching to him about stayiing in the pocket and not running so much to a point that it's screwed up his game. Add in a questionable OL and poor play from the WRs and you get what you saw last night.
 
The receivers were horrible. I think their dipped their fingers in Crisco before the game.
 
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Why? They've been saying all during camp that they are doing to do that in every game, no matter the situation, so that Glennon gets some reps. More than likely it's so he doesn't transfer, but it has nothing to do with Wilson and anyone who has paid any attention to State understands that. The problem they have IMO is that the coaches have been preaching to him about stayiing in the pocket and not running so much to a point that it's screwed up his game. Add in a questionable OL and poor play from the WRs and you get what you saw last night.
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They also stated that Wilson, at 5'11" has a bright future in baseball and has a good chance of getting drafted pretty high next year. That combined with his "reputation" of being injury prone. It only makes sense to have a backup that is ready to step in. Glennon should be a good one too. I was confused on the situation though. I would have thought that you keep Wilson in when you are down and let him get more comfortable. This isn't the middle of the season....he played 2 series and it only hurts to let him sit it out for a while. Oh well... O'Brien gets a lot of money to make the calls. I do not.
 
GaTechBuckeye said:
They also stated that Wilson, at 5'11" has a bright future in baseball and has a good chance of getting drafted pretty high next year. That combined with his "reputation" of being injury prone. It only makes sense to have a backup that is ready to step in. Glennon should be a good one too. I was confused on the situation though. I would have thought that you keep Wilson in when you are down and let him get more comfortable. This isn't the middle of the season....he played 2 series and it only hurts to let him sit it out for a while. Oh well... O'Brien gets a lot of money to make the calls. I do not.
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Exactly. NCS needed to get the offense going, not waste a series of downs to get PT for a backup.

By the way, Wilson couldn't outrun Tech's slowest defender.
 
midatlantech said:
Exactly. NCS needed to get the offense going, not waste a series of downs to get PT for a backup.

By the way, Wilson couldn't outrun Tech's slowest defender.
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He can, but he wasn't. That's why I think the State staff has him screwed up. He was looking for something to do with the ball instead of just running it like he did last year.
 
ncjacket said:
He can, but he wasn't. That's why I think the State staff has him screwed up. He was looking for something to do with the ball instead of just running it like he did last year.
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I heard that theory on SECSPN last night and you may be right.

But after watching the whole game, it sure seemed like he had zero burst when choosing to run. DT's were chasing him down.
 
midatlantech said:
I heard that theory on SECSPN last night and you may be right.

But after watching the whole game, it sure seemed like he had zero burst when choosing to run. DT's were chasing him down.
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He had it last year so I'm assuming it's not gone. He seemed to be looking around instead of running to me.
 
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