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I don’t understand the Reggie detractors-

Up until 3 weeks ago Reggie was one of the top rushers in the conference along with being no. 1 in TD passes. Both of these facts have won us many games, and lifted a Tech team that was predicted 3rd in the division, to the top of the conference. And all of this is with one of the toughest schedules, and toughest opposing defenses, in the nation.

wrt his percentage being low -
Should he try to force more of those passes that he has been throwing away? Remember, there is a much higher probability of throwing a pick. Given the team’s results, the lower percentage has not hurt us in both of our losses. More forces would likely have cost us 1 or 2 more losses. If he goes the other way and throws away more passes, then he would have had fewer TD’s and again probably 1 or 2 more losses. It is easy to “armchair” his decision making, but again, the scoreboards are looking good so far.

Reggie’s latest problem is that he has not shown his running threat up the middle due to his injury. This has allowed the Defenses to hedge to the outside and put more pressure on him, and hence he has a lower percentage in the last few games.
 
I really don't understand all the dumps on Reggie. The guy is tuff as nails and would rather win than eat. He has compensated for his shortcomings and beat off all challengers for his position. We did not recruit well at QB until this year so RB has been our only real option at QB.
I think there are 3 main reasons for his high throws and low completion percentages. #1 is that his arm is not very acurate at times, though it is strong. I saw Unitas throw ~17 straight completions in person in the 60's against the Falcons and he was throwing the ball into a 2 foot circle on slants, outs, and hook patterns so that the receiver was the only one who had a chance at the ball. Reggie just does not have that kind of accuracy.
#2 is that he does throw the ball away a lot, and has been coached to do that.
And the third is Calvin's "fault". Calvin is 6-5, and has a vertical leap of at least 48" according to his teamates. No defensive back can come close to that. So, it is understandable to miss high, if you are going to miss, with Calvin as your #1 receiver.
As Reggie goes, so goes the Jackets and he has done a remarkable job this year.
 
I have one thing to say to the Reggie detractors: look at the scoreboard.

To the ones crying that Chan should have given Nix free reign earlier, what makes you so sure that Nix would have done better? Chan specifically said that he waited until he thought we had a strong enough offense to give Nix an opportunity to succeed. Sr QB, experienced OL, Jr Calvin, I'd say he gave Nix exactly that. With our OL the past three years, I could just as easily see Nix having lost a lot more games than Chan did over those years.

Then the same nancy's would be all over themselves to get rid of Nix before he had an opportunity to show us what he could actually do.

Don't be in such a rush to judgment.

I'm as frustrated as the next guy at some of the inconsistency Reggie still shows. But we are 7 and 2 and will likely be 10 and 2 at the end of the year thanks in large part to him.

Finally, the argument that we would have won 31-6 is totally false. For example, if we were up by two TDs or more, I could very easily see our offense go conservative for the rest of the game. Don't assume that Reggie would throw 4 TDs if he didn't throw the two picks. Sometimes the ice cream is worth the extra fat (at least this year).
 
Bogey said:
And the third is Calvin's "fault". Calvin is 6-5, and has a vertical leap of at least 48" according to his teamates. No defensive back can come close to that. So, it is understandable to miss high, if you are going to miss, with Calvin as your #1 receiver.
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Did you really just say that?

Ok, picture this... Reggie at QB without a Calvin to throw to the last 3 years?

Reggie is tough as nails but due to poor recruiting and poor QB development has been in a position that he is not suited to play. I bet Reggie would have been a phenomenal safety. But he's done a good job of not making mistakes this year.
 
If Reggie is the hero of the ACCCG and Orange bowl he will go down as one of the ALL TIME great GT players.

Not necessarily all time great QB's but definitely someone who probably maximized his talent. This is a tougher schedule than any other GT QB has ever faced.
 
As many people have posted before: If Reggie isn't gimpy and can actually run (there were 2? QB designed runs against NCS compared to tons against earlier teams... doesn't that seem a bit off?) this whole discussion would be moot. I agree with BOR, coaching isn't the problem, but for a different reason. Reggie wasn't mobile against Clemson and we lose big with a one-dimensional offense. Reggie still isn't his usual mobile self against Miami and NCS, but we adjust our gameplan to fit our personnel and pull out wins anyhow. I think Reggie is great, and to rag on him for being inconsistent during this great season is a bit short-sighted.

P.S.: Anyone who doesn't realize that Reggie's comp. % is low because he throws the ball away a lot rather than forcing throws isn't paying attention to the game. The only thing that is "mind boggling" is our arm-tackling on kickoff coverage.
 
I would love to see a statistic that counts sacks as incompletions. In the Miami game, Wright completed 60+ percent of his passes but was also sacked 6 times.

And if anything, a sack would be worse than an incompletion because of how they kill drives. It's something like 80 percent of drives with a sack don't get their team any points.
 
(there were 2? QB designed runs against NCS compared to tons against earlier teams... doesn't that seem a bit off?)
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I didn't even count that many. Essentially all of his yards came off of a scramble. He had 1 for sure against Miami. Seems to me the coaches are trying to protect him a lot more after Clemson.
 
There's a great post about Reggie from Contact. I am in the camp we won't miss Reggie that much but I really appreciate his heart and acknowledhe his improvement this year.

As far as cumulative stats, that simply means he has played a lot. Any four year starter will have some good stats but that doesn't mean he is a great or even good QB. But his TD:INT ration definitely says a lot this year. Of course, Miami dropped two INTs in their hands so maybe the defense is just dropping more this season.

and RB is hurt which makes you apreciate him but wonder why TB doesn't at least get a few series. I'm still hopefuly Benter will get some meaningful series the next two weeks.

First post here I think in 2 years; i had actually forgotten about this place.
 
I said it earlier and I'll sayt it again: If we design runs and draws for Reggie the next 2 weeks, it would be stupid. Let him throw, let him hand the football off these next 2 games. Then maybe he can be healthy for the game against that suddenly sub-par team from Athens and the ACCCG. Those two are the big ones. Hell, let Taylor hand the football to Choice and Grant 30+ times if Reggie is too dinged up.

Bottom line: To be successful after the Duke game, we need a healthy, mobile Reggie Ball.
 
Reggie's completion % is lower than it might be because of the balls he throws away. But on those he's trying to complete, his % is lower than most teams would find acceptable. It is what it is. When Reggie sets his feet he can hit his spot. When he's drifting or on the run, look out.
 
One thing I think was very interesting I heard Joe Hamilton say about Reggie, is that his %age is lower because he's making more difficult throws - further downfield. He doesn't often dump the ball off for easy passes and small gains.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing, because picking up yardage in very large chunks is one of the things we ask Reggie to do, to move ourselves down the field.

I think in order to really evaluate Reggie's performace vs other QBs, we need to rank them all by yards per pass attempt, while subtracting sack yardage and add scramble yardage to the pass yardage totals. That would give a much clearer indication of Reggie's effectiveness at excecuting pass plays.
 
Reggie not dumping off to backs, etc. is probably his own fault of not going through reads. He looks downfield on his one receiver and if he isn't open, throws it away.

Reggie has had a decent career with some very big wins. But, he's also doing his backup thing again and this will cause us to lose at Georgia if he doesn't correct it soon.

We need to get back to solid football, something we aren't exactly doing right at the moment. If we don't, there will be a big solid THUD coming up.
 
Reggie not dumping off to backs, etc. is probably his own fault of not going through reads. He looks downfield on his one receiver and if he isn't open, throws it away.
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He's dumped off more to backs and TEs this year than he has in previous years. His reads still aren't great, but they aren't as bad as they used to be. Most of the time I've seen him throw it away recently it's because there really isn't anyone open, and he's being chased down.

The "Reggie Running Backwards" thing is a side effect of us relying heavily on rollouts in our gameplan for State, since they worked so well against Miami, and NC State's defense selling out to contain the rollout as part of their gameplan. Even so, the really long CJ touchdown was on a rollout.
 
Reggie has had a decent career with some very big wins. But, he's also doing his backup thing again and this will cause us to lose at Georgia if he doesn't correct it soon.

I thought we played UNC this week.
 
Yes, my mistake, we are focusing on UNC. If we keep backing up IN THE POCKET, we are at a much higher risk to losing to any team in the country.
 
If we keep backing up IN THE POCKET
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All of the "run backwards" instances vs NC State were on called bootlegs towards a linebacker or DE who had a wide blitz called to contain a bootleg to that side. I don't see this as being a relapse into old habits, as much as some opportune defensive playcalls.
 
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