this game finally made some things perfectly clear...

[ramblinwise1]

Suggs is not the man, mentally or physically. You have to put most of the blame on that pass before halftime to the pitiful throw, not the play calling. He consistently underthrew men all day. No offense to the young man but I hope to never see him throw a pass in a game situation again.

Bilbo is the man and should have been playing for much of the year. However, DBo is a long way from being a good college quarterback. He throws balls into coverage, throwing back against his body. He is a super athlete, but he may be better suited at tailback than QB. He needs some intense tutelage, development and coaching between now and next year, but if he can't learn to not meltdown, he needs to move to RB. You can't trade 1 TD for 2-3 INT's, it just won't work. I certainly hope that this is not an attitude related thing, where Bilbo see's himself as some riverboat gambler QB taking chances and hell bent on not learning the finer points.

Defense played great for most of the game. Clearly gave up on the last TD run though. Our corners NEVER turn and look for the ball, never have and never will. Are they coached to never learn. Even Coach Cooper pointed out in the zone the Dbacks are supposed to face the QB and read, not pretend he's in a race with the receiver going down the field.

I am sick and tired of seeing our team get manhandled on the field. If our staff doesn't put this team on intense weight training... a player should not be on the team who doesn't put the hours in the weightroom and show progress. I don't believe this staff put any emphasis on this, they think their coaching pro players...

2 plays cost us this game: the interception returned for TD before half (duh) and the 3rd and 17 or so when their QB scrambled and got the first down on their go ahead drive. Can't win games giving up the 3rd and long...

 

[techjacket]

1) D was on the field too much as has happened plenty of times this season

2) No Bilbo is not a good QB right now but had he gotten the chance this season he would have had a field day today

 

[bugboy]

I gotta agree about Suggs. AJ, we appreciate your effort out there, but we need to move on to someone that gives us a chance to get better. Damarius gives us that chance. He also stunk today, but I think his upside is better than AJ. It's too bad that it took an entire year to sort this out, but I really think that clearly, Bilbo needs to be the man. He'll make mistakes and he must get better and he must work harder. But I think that Bilbo combined with a healthy Hollings gives us a chance to improve next year.

 

[GTLaker]

Unfortunately I missed part of the second half due to a New Years eve commitment (Happy New Year everyone). (Apparently the part where Bilbo threw 2 more INTs). I'll admit that I am part of the Bilbo crowd. His talent is so much better than AJ's and it seems that the team thinks that it has a chance to move the ball. Unfortunately I wouldn't look for great things from him early next year. it looks like he will be going through the learning curve that I hoped he could have experienced this year if he had been given more time.

Personally, I would rather take a shot with him. It does look like he can create a big play. With AJ I was just hoping that we would not lose.

Hopefully experience will correct the judgment mistakes that he makes.

 

[ncjacket]

Only thing about Bilbo is that he wouldn't have gotten the chance to play today if he had played more during the season. What I mean is that if we had given him the ball and let him grow into the position we wouldn't have made a bowl game IMO. He would have developed more possibly but I think we win 5 at best.

Hopefully he uses the time between now and the start of spring ball to get his act together. I assume Suggs is done, but the freshmen are coming in hungry and he can still lose the position.

I agree on the weight training. I don't know if the staff has eased off or not though considering we were pushed around a fair amount last year as well.