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Fairly accurate as far as the coaching is concerned. Personally I think Reggie has reached his maximum potential as a quarterback but who could have been much more in another skill position. And his mouth has never rested.

That said if the coaches was so adamant about keeping him at quarterback, then it should have been as someone who ran a diverse offense that kept everyone involved.

'Dinky passes' 'quarterback draws'....just as I have said, this is part of a 'mixed bag' of plays of a 'poorly imagined offense'. Yep these remarks are on the bulleye.

I'm throwing the towel in on this offense. It is frustrating to wait out the spring and summer just to see that nothing is any better than it has been since the BYU game in '03.

Hopefully Rad will respond to this mess and dictate to Gailey the changes in his staff.....or else.
 
I guess we can put Reggie in there w/ Paulus, Kinsey Carter, Donnie Davis, and the THOUSANDS of other QB's that have NEVER reached there potential.

Reggie was a 3* recruit that has led upsets over the #3 and #16 (on the road) and has had some good games, but in the end he has limits.

I don't have a problem w/ Reggie starting b/c I think he is the best we have right now, but to think this guy should have become Shawn or lil joe is IDIOTIC THINKING. That is what makes Shawn and lil Joe special.

Look at the QB's at F$U, Miami OR ANY PROGRAM. Who is not bitching about their QB.

Every team that lost is bitching about their QB. Ugag will be bitching about their QB in a couple of weeks.

I think the jury is still out on Reggie. If we win the ACC he will go down as one of the all time greats at GT.

Do I expect him to do that, no, but I would not be too surprised either.

Our receivers continue to drop passes and the line continues to miss blocks and until those two things are resolved Reggie will NEVER look great.

I think the kid has a BIG heart and gives 100% and think that is why he starts. If we can win the next 2 and then STEAL one in Blacksburg we will be sitting ok.
 
Lawbee: The jury is closed on Reggie. I can't recall a quarterback with such poor fundementals. That is coaching.....but I also have to question whether or not he is coachable to begin with. It wouldn't appear so by his fundementals. Surely the coaches TRIED to get him to be a sound fundementally in his mechanics.

But the selling point on many a thread on these discussion boards supporting the quarterback change in the fall of '03 was an enevitable comparison to Joe Hamilton by Reggie's sophmore or junior season. There was probably hundreds of posts who was thinking another Joe Hamilton was right around the corner. To think the media didn't buy into some of this obvious thinking is nuts.

Bradley says part of this is Gailey and Nix. I agree, the offense as designed is the worse I have ever seen at the Division 1 level....going on 4 years now....While the execution of the FSU and the Miami has been terrible, the schemes appear to be a lot better than ours. They throw intermidiate passes over the middle. They throw to the tightend and running backs.

We just don't even give ourselves a chance to succeed on offense.
 
The QB situation at tech has been a recruiting problem, with QBs, OLs and WRs, and not a Reggie problem. Nothing I've seen from Bilbo, in the Silicon Valley bowl or his short time in 2004 UGA, has shown he was the answer, and Suggs was just awful.

Reggie was a QB ranked average due to his speed and who has been hampered tremendously by his height. He was three star who, to my knowledge, had no offers from big programs for him as a QB. I only know of Auburn who offered him as a DB. By contrast, we beat out Nebraska for Joe Hamilton as a QB, when Nebraska was at the peak of their 1990s success.

Then, with the awful QB situation we had in 2003, Chan put him in at the starter. Ranked as an average QB, he not so surprisingly had average up and down success as a starter, especially when the OL was gutted after his sophmore year.

So, that's why it irks me when people think that Reggie should suddenly look like Brady Quinn or David Greene. He's our best option playing to the best of his abilities with the tools he has, which is all I can really ask for.
 
Florida: How can you possibly judge Damarius Bilbo's skills on the basis of one half on a muddy field.....or stepping at the Georgia game.....the 11th game of the year with no preparation? And then say Reggie has done all you could ask for......going on 4 years?

Gimme a break....
 
Typical retarded column by Bradley. Nobody "fumbled away" any great promise of Reggie Ball as a college QB. Most teams were recruiting him as a DB - maybe we "fumbled away" his great promise there.

Reggie has a lot of heart, great legs, and a decent arm. He has matured into a serviceable QB and has cut down on his mistakes. He has almost a full season ahead of him and there are certainly more good things to come - he may even surprise those who have closed the book on him.

If Bradley didn't have his head so far up Richt's tail end, he might have written a column about how ill-prepared UGAg's true freshman was for yesterday, 42% completions and 3 interceptions. Reggie played much better his first game for GT, 15-24, 147 yards, only 1 INT.
 
mm42 said:
Typical retarded column by Bradley. Nobody "fumbled away" any great promise of Reggie Ball as a college QB. Most teams were recruiting him as a DB - maybe we "fumbled away" his great promise there.

Reggie has a lot of heart, great legs, and a decent arm. He has matured into a serviceable QB and has cut down on his mistakes. He has almost a full season ahead of him and there are certainly more good things to come - he may even surprise those who have closed the book on him.

If Bradley didn't have his head so far up Richt's tail end, he might have written a column about how ill-prepared UGAg's true freshman was for yesterday, 42% completions and 3 interceptions. Reggie played much better his first game for GT, 15-24, 147 yards, only 1 INT.
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Exactly, that a$$hole Stafford threw three picks in his first game and he is considered by many to be the best QB prospect in the class of 2006. Typical AJC baffoon writing on a topic he does not know sh*t about. I am 100% behind Reggie, I like how he gives his all and his drive to win. Also, I am frankly tired of people trashing him and saying that he is not any good, we should support our field general no matter what. This business of trashing our own player is what UGAy, F$U, and scUM fans do because they have no class, we as fans have class and should show it by supporting our QB who would do anything for us to win the ACC or even an National Championship.
 
TechGator1066 said:
Exactly, that a$$hole Stafford threw three picks in his first game and he is considered by many to be the best QB prospect in the class of 2006. Typical AJC baffoon writing on a topic he does not know sh*t about. I am 100% behind Reggie, I like how he gives his all and his drive to win. Also, I am frankly tired of people trashing him and saying that he is not any good, we should support our field general no matter what. This business of trashing our own player is what UGAy, F$U, and scUM fans do because they have no class, we as fans have class and should show it by supporting our QB who would do anything for us to win the ACC or even an National Championship.
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Oh good grief, Bradley is mostly right.....though I believe Reggie's upside as a talent has always been small. Not Bradley's stance here.

As for Matthew Stafford, I can only hope Steven Threet and Josh Nesbitt has 3/4s the talent that the Dawgs freshman has.

Hell fire he even audibled into a play that scored a touchdown! When has Reggie did this or ever been allowed to do such a thing? I remember the first year when Gailey wouldn't even consider allowing Reggie to audible. Does he now? He didn't against Notre Dame. Stafford's doing it his first game.

His mobility was a surprise since I had read Hivers stating he was another Jared Lorenzen in the making.

On the picks, one wasn't his fault, his talent is unmistable.

Being you are Tech'gator' I have to wonder where your allegiances are.
 
Nobody can say for certain that Reggie could have been coached better with a different staff, or that Bilbo was a better option. I don't want to get into another Bilbo argument, but I just wanted to say I haven't seen anything from him that would have suggested he was a better option than Reggie.

As for his performance so far this year, he did a whole lot better against ND's Defense than Penn State. Last year was last year and this year is this year. So far, Penn State could only produce a putrid three points against ND's D while Reggie kept us in the game. We'll know more as time goes on, but I really do think ND fixed a whole lot of problems over the offseason with their D, especially their secondary.
 
statelinejacket said:
Oh good grief, Bradley is mostly right.....though I believe Reggie's upside as a talent has always been small. Not Bradley's stance here.

As for Matthew Stafford, I can only hope Steven Threet and Josh Nesbitt has 3/4s the talent that the Dawgs freshman has.

Hell fire he even audibled into a play that scored a touchdown! When has Reggie did this or ever been allowed to do such a thing? I remember the first year when Gailey wouldn't even consider allowing Reggie to audible. Does he now? He didn't against Notre Dame. Stafford's doing it his first game.

His mobility was a surprise since I had read Hivers stating he was another Jared Lorenzen in the making.

On the picks, one wasn't his fault, his talent is unmistable.

Being you are Tech'gator' I have to wonder where your allegiances are.
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I don't know how me being a Jacket and Gator fan factors into this. From all the hype I have heard from UGAy fans on the net, I believed that Stafford would win the Heisman trophy this year. A heisman trophy candidate should not have thrown three interceptions against the cocks. Sarcasm aside, he did not live up to his billing last night. Bullsh*tting UGAy fans will be crying in their beer when their precious Stafford gets pounded when they play the Jackets in November. As for my allegiances, I am loyal equally to GT and UF. So much so that if they played each other, I could not watch, I would hope for a tie(even though ties are not possible).
 
statelinejacket said:
How can you possibly judge Damarius Bilbo's skills on the basis of one half on a muddy field.....
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Uhhh, maybe the same way you can judge that Garner should be the starting QB on the basis of his high school career?
:nono:

FWIW, I don't disagree with you about RB, but I ain't yet closed the book on him.

If the offense doesn't step up and take control and WIN the games that the D can't win for us, I would expect there will be a change made after the season.
 
GEETEELEE said:
Uhhh, maybe the same way you can judge that Garner should be the starting QB on the basis of his high school career?
:nono:

FWIW, I don't disagree with you about RB, but I ain't yet closed the book on him.

If the offense doesn't step up and take control and WIN the games that the D can't win for us, I would expect there will be a change made after the season.
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Lee, I have never seen any indication that as far as a starter is concerned the quarterback position has been nothing but a closed subject from the day that Gailey made Reggie the starter. I have seen Bennett in scrimmages and in games......and saw nothing to suggest that he is nothing more than a 2nd or 3rd stringer at this level.

Has Garner done anything except what has been expected of him since he commited to Tech? His highschool credientials are impeccable and so was the scouting reports on him. Yet he is just rusting away except for some crumb minutes with the walkons.
 
stateline, just curious about something. You start at least one thread per day on the same subject. I get where you're coming from. I do agree with you partially but it just seems silly to keep rehashing the same thing. Is there nothing else you want to talk about that relates to Tech football?
 
A heisman trophy candidate should not have thrown three interceptions against the cocks. Sarcasm aside, he did not live up to his billing last night.
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I (sadly) have to disagree. Obviously, he is no heisman candidate but he looked really good for a true freshman thrown into that situation. He has a cannon for an arm, a really fast realease, and was suprisingly mobile. He made some good completions downfield while scrambling. uga manhandled both lines of scrimmage as well - i was thoroughly disapointed watching that game.
 
goldmember said:
I (sadly) have to disagree. Obviously, he is no heisman candidate but he looked really good for a true freshman thrown into that situation. He has a cannon for an arm, a really fast realease, and was suprisingly mobile. He made some good completions downfield while scrambling. uga manhandled both lines of scrimmage as well - i was thoroughly disapointed watching that game.
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Yeah, it was a sh*tty game, but I was joking about the Heisman candidate thing. I just said that because all the UGAy fans are saying he is the man to lead them to a NC in upcoming years(which will never happen because Florida beats their a$$ every year and we are due to beat them for the next few years).
 
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