Reggie is NOT to blame for today's loss.....

[goldmember]

He wasn't great but we had a better than average performance from Reggie. He mostly made good decisions didn't take sacks, and was reasonably accurate. He was actaully 'sharp' for most of the 2nd half.

Here is where the game was lost:

1.) Bizarre 4th down decisions. We go for it tied on 4 and a long yard with a QB sneack and then kick a field goal on 4th and inches.
2.) Poor playcalling - we threw way too many deep balls when the short passing game and running was there for us. Wake did not neccesarily double Calvin every play but they consistantly played way off of our receivers. Why we insisted on throwing so many deep balls? With our plodding offense, these were drive killers.
3.) Dropped balls - by my count we had 7 dropped balls that should of been caught including 2 huge drops by Calvin and 2 more huge one by JJ - including one that would of given us a first down at the 15.
4.) Big plays - Wakes offense was largely inefective but they made the extra play or 2 that we didn't.

 

[juveduke]

He wasn't great but we had a better than average performance from Reggie. He mostly made good decisions didn't take sacks, and was reasonably accurate. He was actaully 'sharp' for most of the 2nd half.

He ran out of bounds for a loss of 3 on that last drive.

 

[goldmember]

Yea, i mean to bring that up....I was at the game, and looked down field when he started scrambling to see if annyone was open. We had 3 receivers out on the route and all 3 were STANDING there - covered. There was absolutely no effort from any of them to get open.

Maybe Reggie has lost the confidence of the team, but the receivers quit on that play. Reggie should of at least thrown it away though, i agree....

I think Reggie is a bad QB and has been horrible at times but all this critism of him mask the real problem out there today - COACHING.

 

[juveduke]

2.) Poor playcalling - we threw way too many deep balls when the short passing game and running was there for us. Wake did not neccesarily double Calvin every play but they consistantly played way off of our receivers. Why we insisted on throwing so many deep balls? With our plodding offense, these were drive killers.

It was horrendous.

How hard could it be for a team to defend against this passing O? All we ever do is throw to the outside to one of two WRs.

 

[goldmember]

It was horrendous.

How hard could it be for a team to defend against this passing O? All we ever do is throw to the outside to one of two WRs.

I think it is being conservative. It is a relativley high reward, low risk kind of play. We throw about half of them out of bounds anyway so there isn't much risk.

 

[Thunder]

Let's put aside Reggie's horribly inaccurate arm for a moment. His height practically takes plays involving throwing over the middle or hitting receivers on a slant out of the playbook. Whenever Reggie throws short, it's almost always a WR screen that forces the WR to make the DB miss in order to get any significant chunks of positive yardage. He needs his legs to really aid our offense and he hasn't had them for how long now?

At his size, Reggie needed to be more sound mechanically to give the passing offense any hope. His physical limitations limited the playbook enough as it was. If he can't run effectively, then his musket of an arm will eventually be exposed for what it is, and it has been exposed badly for the last few weeks. Why the deep ball was thrown so much especially today is anybody's guess. The playcalling definitely didn't play to his strengths, whatever those happen to be.

I don't know about his decision making. Perhaps it was good for his standards, but it was not anything to write home about. On the one broken play on which Reggie rolled out to the left sideline, he overthrew incomplete to James Johnson down the sideline and never saw Dunlap wide open up the middle for a touchdown. I can only say that he wasn't to blame for today's loss in the sense that he's been doing the same thing he's been taught (or not taught) to do for four years. He still stunk though. If this performance was better than average from Reggie, well, that's not saying much about his abilities.

 

[Bogey]

BS! He had 2 recevivers open in the end zone in the 4th quarter, near each other with no one around him. One was in the back and the other 5 yards back of and in front. Reggie throws a laser over the reiver in back of the end zone. Reggie has no feel for the game after 4 years. He NEVER looks to a second receiver. Ridiculous!

 

[cyclejacket]

It's A Team Game.....

Reggie is one of many players to "blame", if we insist on using that word. GT didn't get the job done today when it counted, WF did. I would say there were other positions on the offense who didn't get it done. I would also say there were folks at positions on defense who didn't get it done. The offense didn't punch it in the end zone when they had chances to do so. The defense didn't stop WF when it counted. It's pretty simple and there is no reason to "blame" anyone in particular. I doubt the team is, I doubt the coaches are ... no reason for us to do so.