Vad's Performance

BuzzLaw said:
Vad didn't get enough game experience through the season. He therefore made rookie mistakes and didn't play as well as Tevin, but Tevin didn't beat him by much
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That is a point of contention. The Tevin backers would say it was 3-7. Wait they haven't said anything about that yet...
 
The concern with Vad was his throwing off balance, off the back foot, just trying to throw it long in the hope it would be caught. He's got to be better than that next year.
 
77GTFan said:
The concern with Vad was his throwing off balance, off the back foot, just trying to throw it long in the hope it would be caught. He's got to be better than that next year.
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This. I wish I had more faith that our coaching staff would work really hard with him to correct this. Nesbitt did this constantly and never got better.
 
77GTFan said:
The concern with Vad was his throwing off balance, off the back foot, just trying to throw it long in the hope it would be caught. He's got to be better than that next year.
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The only reason he was throwing off his back foot is because the UGAy defense was in his grill each and every pass play. That could be because he's was trying to hit deep passes, but again, he didn't even have time to drop back.
He's never thrown off his back foot in recent games he's played. You guys wanted Vad in there and now you wanna break his ass down for playing arguably the best defense we've played this year.
 
Vad throwing off his back foot on the INT was not a problem. Its only a problem if throwing off your back foot causes you to leave the ball short. He still got plenty on the throw and did the right thing by throwing it long. Even if it got picked...
 
Yeah, it was a bad throw, but it wasn't a bad interception in the scheme of things. He was trying to make something happen on a deep ball and overthrew his man into the hands of a safety at the 5 yard line. This wasn't staring down one target at your own 30 yd line and having the CB jump your route for a pick six.
 
As we all thought before the game, it wouldnt have mattered which QB we played. Same outcome either way.

Regarding the OP question, I thought Vad played like you'd expect a freshman to play against a top-5 team. Lots of mistakes and occassional flashes.
 
I did find it interesting that my uncle mentioned to me after the game, "Your freshman QB looked like a freshman in the game, but he also showed that he at least has playmaking abilities. I wonder why your coach is still the senior quarterback...he doesn't impress me at all."

This was coming from a man who graduated from UGA law school and is a die-hard UGA fan. I hadn't said a word to him about Vad vs Tevin, but he noticed the same thing in one game that many of us had been saying.
 
BuzzLaw said:
Vad didn't get enough game experience through the season. He therefore made rookie mistakes and didn't play as well as Tevin, but Tevin didn't beat him by much
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The lack of defense made it a moot point.

We were moving the ball consistently, slowly but consistently, against a vaunted UGA defense when Tevin was playing and we had the luxury to play our preferred offensive game.

The mistakes could have cost us the game if the game was close ( see lack of any semblance of defense . )

We needed just a tad of a defense and mistake-free execution on offense to have a chance. We appeared to be executing the offense that way until our center problems ran us off the rails.

UGAs defense appeared to be conceding yards and going for turnovers from the start of the game. That approach has been used successfully by others, unsuccessfully by teams like Duke.
 
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