Jeff Sims

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Vespidie said:
I'm imagining the past where in HS, he was probably the best athlete on the field on any given Friday night under the lights, had a speedy receiver or 2, and basically either ran from and away from defenders for huge gains, or chucked he ball downfield and let the receivers run under it for yuge gains or TDs. Basically played a form of chuck and duck to his advantage.
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IIRC his high school team didn't make the playoffs and he didn't have a lot of TDs. Basically, he was a guy who shined in the skill camps and that's what got him attention. Between Miami and UF not offering and FSU pulling the offer, there were red flags. I still was happy with the pick up and can't fault that, but you've gotta recruit behind the guy and we were a year or two late there. We had that nobody from the Tampa area that transferred to be the backup QB at Toledo and then Pyron (who will be a great QB in a year or two).
 
Vad gave his all for GT and had the heart of a warrior He just wasn't good enough. Gef was good enough. Probably never cared enough and lacked the heart.
 
Liberty said:
Vad gave his all for GT and had the heart of a warrior He just wasn't good enough. Gef was good enough. Probably never cared enough and lacked the heart.
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He showed some flashes, but the more and more he plays, the consensus is starting to be that he wasn't. He's accountable for 43 TDs in his career so far and 37 turnovers. That's not good enough.
 
Liberty said:
Vad gave his all for GT and had the heart of a warrior He just wasn't good enough. Gef was good enough. Probably never cared enough and lacked the heart.
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I agree about Vad. He was probably the best pure-throwing QB we had since Hamilton and Godsey, it just didn't work out with the offense we were running at the time. If he had been about 6 years older and would have played under Gailey with Calvin :) that would have been special.
 
georgiatech22 said:
I agree about Vad. He was probably the best pure-throwing QB we had since Hamilton and Godsey, it just didn't work out with the offense we were running at the time. If he had been about 6 years older and would have played under Gailey with Calvin :) that would have been special.
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Vad was a good QB. It seemed to me that after he got his world rocked on one play against Pitt in 2013, he decided that running the ball was not his preference. Also, IIRC, earlier in his career, he won a game (maybe vs. Dook) by throwing for about 4 TD's. CPJ's comment afterward was wtte: That was good but that's not how we want to win football games. I think it was more a comment on the effectiveness of the OL run blocking that day than anything else. It seemed to me that CPJ was saying he wanted ball control, not slinging the thing all over the lot. Maybe I was too attentive to Vad's response seemed to not be thrilled by that.
 
Liberty said:
Vad gave his all for GT and had the heart of a warrior He just wasn't good enough. Gef was good enough. Probably never cared enough and lacked the heart.
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Except when we needed a first down to ice the game against uga and he ran out of bounds to avoid a hit
 
Sims sucked, that's the bottom line. All this, "he had great skills, if only...". You are what your performance says you are. The components that make that up that end result don't mean anything when taken out of that context. It doesn't matter if he has the greatest athletic skills of all time if, for whatever reason, it doesn't translate to the field.
 
BuzzinWreck78 said:
No Simms = No problem. The cornhuckers would be 3-0 without Simms and a far less miserable fanbase.
They beat the clown's nemesis Northern Illinois Huskies 35-11.
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The backup went 14/24 with 2 TDs and 0 Ints. I wonder if Sims will ever see a playing field again.
 
aeromech said:
The backup went 14/24 with 2 TDs and 0 Ints. I wonder if Sims will ever see a playing field again.
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If he has eligibility, probably FBS or HBCU. I just don't see him at a major D1 program. He has crashed and burned. He could have stayed at GT, worked hard, and competed for the starting job, but he tucked tail and ran.
 
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