Will Sims have a break out year?

BigDanT said:
We’ve all seen his flashes, and to be honest non of us really know anything about his mentality. In other words you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Agreed. Sims is an obvious running threat. He has shown nice touch on his short and medium passes. He is passable on the long ball. Not great, but he can hit it.

Where he needs work is decision making. They is is especially true with the way our line has played the last two years. When to take a sack and when to risk it. That is an extremely hard thing to learn when you are as good a running threat as Sims. He needs to improve on understanding coverages, but is probably ahead of most year 3 guys due to playing time. Sims gets dinged because he has been forced to learn in games and not just in practice.

As far as physical toughness, you can’t run as much as Sims and not expect your QB to get beat up. Once you get hurt, it affects all aspects of your game. Hopefully, the new OC will be able to balance Sims’ risk/reward on runs better than CDP.

tldr - Sims will be fine (and possibly our best offensive player)
 
WracerX said:
Agreed. Sims is an obvious running threat. He has shown nice touch on his short and medium passes. He is passable on the long ball. Not great, but he can hit it.

Where he needs work is decision making. They is is especially true with the way our line has played the last two years. When to take a sack and when to risk it. That is an extremely hard thing to learn when you are as good a running threat as Sims. He needs to improve on understanding coverages, but is probably ahead of most year 3 guys due to playing time. Sims gets dinged because he has been forced to learn in games and not just in practice.

As far as physical toughness, you can’t run as much as Sims and not expect your QB to get beat up. Once you get hurt, it affects all aspects of your game. Hopefully, the new OC will be able to balance Sims’ risk/reward on runs better than CDP.

tldr - Sims will be fine (and possibly our best offensive player)
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I agree. I think if we can really get the RPO down, he'd be a force, to be dealt with. However; the O-line has to, repeat has to, be able to provide decent protection. I do think he is now the most talented player on the team, as in raw abilities. If the errors get reduced and the mental lapses are down, from the last 2 years, we may see the improvement, we've been wanting.
 
Jmonty71 said:
I agree. I think if we can really get the RPO down, he'd be a force, to be dealt with. However; the O-line has to, repeat has to, be able to provide decent protection. I do think he is now the most talented player on the team, as in raw abilities. If the errors get reduced and the mental lapses are down, from the last 2 years, we may see the improvement, we've been wanting.
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Will Sims suddenly become a consistently accurate passer? Extremely rare at this point, but it has happened. Or are our receivers consistently going to get 5 or 10 yards separation from the nearest defender? If either or both happen, he will break out. Otherwise, no.

I am guessing neither will happen, so I'm predicting "No - no breakout."
 
Jmonty71 said:
I hope that Jeff Sims has made the dumb mistakes, due to youthfulness. I hope that he can turn into the QB that we thought he could be. However; now the question is this. Is there enough talent around him now? I think Sims will have a better season, stat wise. However; not sure you would call in a "break out" year. Open to hear other opinions on this.
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I’m hoping that Long is going to breakdown sims tape and try to play to his strengths. Mid range passing and running the football.

I think for sims to breakout, we will need a couple of things to happen:
The OL will have to be serviceable. I think good is a tall order with all the new faces, but we don’t need to be in the bottom third at stuff rate and bottom 10% in sacks per dropback

He will have to commit to running the football. If he’s worried about his body we can do a running package for Pyron in the red zone, but our success will depend on his toughness but more importantly his decisions in the zone read game. He needs to be executing that play and choosing right most of the time. Sims could be Vince Young running it, but he has to commit to it and choose wisely.

Sims has had a streaky career, but I’m hoping that a focus on moving the ball and staying out of 3rd and long, obvious pass plays will help him. His worst turnovers have been when everyone knew he was dropping back in the pocket. I’m also hoping that a good play caller won’t be running into 9 man fronts twice then 7 yard drop on 3rd and 9.
 
The best chance for breakout is offensive playbook that gets the ball out of his hands quickly and if he embraces running the ball. Simple progression, if its not there run for your life.
 
cicada said:
My unprofessional views are:
Pros
  • He has a lot of potential.
  • He is a weapon running the ball.
Cons
  • He seems to fumble too easily.
  • I hold my breath on almost all pass plays.
  • He has not been coached very well.
  • Sometimes running the ball, he goes down too soon if he's facing an on coming DB.
  • He has missed several games.
Question: Is he a leader?
Big question mark - Why does Tech struggle so much fielding a decent offensive line. Even Sewak had a decent offensive line 7 years ago.
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We haven't recruited or maintained personnel on the OL very well
 
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