Sim's last TD to close the game is a good "Vince Young" example. He doesn't look like he is running that hard or fast if you just look at him, but if you look at the UNC defenders, LB's, CB's, and S, he absolutely outruns any angles they have and is obviously blazingly fast
Still a Freshman thanks to the COVID season.
The forward thinking brain of mine thinks he going to own the ACC soon enough. The game is going to slow down for him the more and more reps and PT he gets.
It seems like there were some in the know who were saying he was hurt heading into the NIU game.
And I believe those are the better constructed Adidas uniforms. Not sure exactly how.
Watched the condensed game with the missus last night and pointed that out to her. He looked like he was just jogging while outrunning everyone.
One diff is that one of those two is hard working and the other could not always stay awake in meetings.
We don't kneed to get political.
I honestly think he was just too amped/wound up too tight/too much internal pressure on himself. Our staff has made it known that the foundation has been set and this year it's time to start winning games. Jeff knows he had a lot of turnovers last year and needed to clean that up and improve to put us in better chances to win. I think he was trying too hard to place the ball in perfect positions to not get intercepted instead of just playing loose and trusting his arm.
The 2nd one is absolutely threading the needle. That is a tough throw and the timing has to be perfect.
Me and some other fans talked about that.
Patenaude had some comments a couple weeks ago that maybe the big stage was too much for Sims? Particularly having an unrestricted crowd for the first time? That and maybe he had some pressure on him with al the work he put in over the offseason, expecting to be perfect from the first snap. Hopefully this game showed him that he can just play and have success, and if it starts to get away from he has a solid backup in Yates to take over for a short time.
You are mistaken if you think that I said that throw was not "threading the needle". Without a doubt, a bullet throw will be better for threading the needle most times. I suppose if your receivers cant get open or you cant find the open receivers, you have no choice but to bullet it into a needle window. But that isn't my concern at all. Maybe it should be something of a concern...
I don't understand your argument then. All three clips he provided showed passes where Sims "laid it in there" if that's what you want to call it. Intermediate pass to the sticks at the sideline, deep ball outside the numbers to the front pylon, and RPO on a cut back route across the middle. Every one he put in a perfect tiny window where our guy had opportunity to make a play and the defender did not - the definition of threading the needle. If you're referring to being concerned about hanging a deep ball out there for one of our guys to run under away from a defender, well first one of our guys has to do that. We didn't all game against UNC.
