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swampsting said:
Lamar Jackson would have had a hard time doing a damn thing behind that offensive line against those defensive lines.
I blame Patenaude and his buddy Collins for not coming up with something that tailored to what Yates could do. It was as if they took the game plan for 6-4 Sims and handed it to 5-11 Yates with a "hey, good luck running for your life against a defensive front we have no hope of blocking and have no plan for otherwise."

As for Sims currently, I won't see he has improved a lot. Or even that much. The game plan against Clemson - and the biggest improvement is that there was an actual game plan against an opponent - was quick release, short throws to counter the likelihood of their D front making our O line its jail bitch. Sims still had some bad throws - missing a wide open Malachi on the sidelines and throwing a split finger fastball that two hopped a wide receiver screen. He ran OK but we already know he can do that.
He wasn't the reason we lost but his performance was also far from stellar. It was OK.
What is troubling is a less than 50% completion percentage against a team that gave up 35 points to Charleston Southern the week before. Yeah, there were drops, and that hurts. But against a team like that, you'd expect better numbers throwing it.
Teams don't have to game plan for Gibbs anymore but they will start to focus on Dontae. Once that happens, Sims will have to start making more plays in the passing game. And that means accuracy on throws downfield and better reads.
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speaking of Gibbs... Dontae has more rushing yards and 3 more rushing TD's than Gibbs.. just sayin
 
JJacket said:
I'd give him a B. We won the game. He made two glaring errors that I recall. Had several passes dropped, a few by TE's. He scrambled well and got us some yardage with his feet. Snaps were taken cleanly. We pulled out a few additional running plays in the second half, when needed, to ice the game

We should have stopped WCU more on defense. We let them get out of third down too many times. We didn't contain the QB on scrambles. We got too many penalties extending their drives. Our defense is good at getting teams to third down, but not good at holding them. GT has been like that for over a decade now.

We need TE's to step up. I'd like to see the 6'7" WR dominate the DB who is covering him. If we get the plays to TE and have that threat, it opens the run game for Smith.

Apparently, your hate of Sims had you seeing a much different game
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We only attempted 3 pass plays in the whole second half. That explains why we had zero yards passing. So essentially his passing yards were one quarter
 
Jmonty71 said:
I takes two, to complete a pass. The QB and the WR. So, yes.. It is up to the WR to complete the routes and make themselves a big target. However; it is the QB's job to find the open receiver. I like we are starting to use the RB in the passing game. I wished we did a little more to produce mismatches. I am a fan of the half back angle pass. Most LBs cannot keep up with the speed that the RB provides. So, doing angle routes against a man to man defense is a 8 to 15 gain, almost every time. I am not sure if the homerun pass was a called play or if it was Sims, thinking he could thread a needle. To date, I have seen very little "dime" passes by Sims. They need to stick to high percentage passes. We do a screen, which is good. However; we do out routes, corner routes and fly patterns. I don't like either. The out route and corner route takes a QB with a big arm and can pass in great timing. The fly route requires a deep threat speedster. I don't think we are built for either. I think we have more the possession type WRs. Which means, we should be throwing screens, slants, quick slants, angles, posts and crossing patterns.
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The out pattern is also a pick 6 threat. I have nightmares still of the pick 6 against Fresno State before halftime
 
JJacket said:
The out pattern is also a pick 6 threat. I have nightmares still of the pick 6 against Fresno State before halftime
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100%.. On the best QBs can torch teams, with the out route. I may not like him, but Tom Brady, is one of the best. A well timed out route is almost un-defendable. However; a late throw, will result in a INT.
 
GTWannaBee said:
Are people still holding out hope for this? There is no scenario where the option comes back other than as very small part of the playbook like during the WCU game.
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Why does it matter? It should be obvious to the dullards by now in year 4 that our current problems aren't option related. My point was that the current roster isn't suited to run the option either.
 
That dude gave our TE an F. Maybe we should find an offense that doesn’t have a TE.
 
A side note…I understand that a good passing game involves the QB to go thru their route progressions, but dang guys, i can only assume that our Qbs have been psychologically scarred due to the continued threat of getting destroyed by opposing defenses because the line generally hasnt given them any time to throw the football.
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
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MACHETE said:
Let's wait until after the Ole Miss game to pass final judgement on the QB (and the team). In many ways, this will be the most pivotal "at the crossroads" game of CGC's tenure. If we win, I can see us getting to a bowl game; if we lose, we may not win more than 1-2 more games all season.
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Ole Miss is not pivotal. Few expect us to win that one. The real pivot is UCF. It always has been. They're not great. We should be able to beat them (doesn't mean we will). If we lose to Ole Miss and drop to 1-2, no one will be happy, but it's not totally unexpected. If we then lose to UCF, we're 1-3 and traveling to Pittsburgh and staring at 1-4. It would be hard to come back from that. If we beat UCF we've gone through the toughest stretch in our schedule and come out 2-2, and there is optimism in the air.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
Given that he played for last year's DB coaches, this does not surprise me. Of course UT has much more money to work with due to continued poor decisions by the Hill and our AD's.
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He didn't play for last years DB coach. He played for Geoff Collins and Georgia Tech. He said "everything" was more professional. To me thats an indictment on the AD as much as the coaching staff.
 
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