Will Sims have a break out year?

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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Seems to throw a lot of short passes at targets feet.
 
He certainly hasn't impressed David Hale of ESPN. For what that's worth.
Hale broke down all 131 FBS QB situations. Talk about time on your hands.

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From Heisman or bust to intriguing non-Power 5 battles: The 25 tiers of college football QBs

This year's quarterback class should be a deep, talented and ridiculously fun crop. But why stop at just the top tier of QBs? We're sifting through all 131 quarterback situations.
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But here's a pullout of his estimation of Sims and his peers.

Tier 11: Maybe this is the year they put it all together (five players, four jobs)
Oregon's Bo Nix
Wisconsin's Graham Mertz
Georgia Tech's Jeff Sims
Clemson's D.J. Uiagalelei and Cade Klubnik

Nix, Mertz, Sims and Uiagalelei were all blue-chip recruits and started games as freshmen. Nix knocked off Oregon in a marquee win to open his career. Sims staged a dramatic comeback over Florida State. Mertz was nearly perfect (20-of-21 passing) in his starting debut against Illinois. Uiagalelei threw for 342 yards filling in for Trevor Lawrence against Boston College. All four were supposed to become superstars. Instead, Nix transferred, Sims and Mertz have been mediocre at best, and Uiagalelei was one of the worst statistical QBs in the country last season, despite Clemson winning 10 games, and he could easily lose his job to Klubnik, another highly touted freshman, if he doesn't take a major step forward this season.
 
swampsting said:
He certainly hasn't impressed David Hale of ESPN. For what that's worth.
Hale broke down all 131 FBS QB situations. Talk about time on your hands.

www.espn.com

From Heisman or bust to intriguing non-Power 5 battles: The 25 tiers of college football QBs

This year's quarterback class should be a deep, talented and ridiculously fun crop. But why stop at just the top tier of QBs? We're sifting through all 131 quarterback situations.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

But here's a pullout of his estimation of Sims and his peers.

Tier 11: Maybe this is the year they put it all together (five players, four jobs)
Oregon's Bo Nix
Wisconsin's Graham Mertz
Georgia Tech's Jeff Sims
Clemson's D.J. Uiagalelei and Cade Klubnik

Nix, Mertz, Sims and Uiagalelei were all blue-chip recruits and started games as freshmen. Nix knocked off Oregon in a marquee win to open his career. Sims staged a dramatic comeback over Florida State. Mertz was nearly perfect (20-of-21 passing) in his starting debut against Illinois. Uiagalelei threw for 342 yards filling in for Trevor Lawrence against Boston College. All four were supposed to become superstars. Instead, Nix transferred, Sims and Mertz have been mediocre at best, and Uiagalelei was one of the worst statistical QBs in the country last season, despite Clemson winning 10 games, and he could easily lose his job to Klubnik, another highly touted freshman, if he doesn't take a major step forward this season.
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Being compared to Bo Nix is never a good thing
 
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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Spot on!
 
I hope Sims does, but I can't say I'm confident he will be our starter by the end of the season.

After 2 bad seasons, I will personally have about 6 quarters worth of patience (assuming he starts) before I'm ready to see what the next man up can do.

Based on his history, I also worry about Sims staying healthy, even if he has a hot start to the season.

I think we will likely see QB carousel for the first 1/3 of the season.
 
Helluva Entrepreneur said:
I hope Sims does, but I can't say I'm confident he will be our starter by the end of the season.

After 2 bad seasons, I will personally have about 6 quarters worth of patience (assuming he starts) before I'm ready to see what the next man up can do.

Based on his history, I also worry about Sims staying healthy, even if he has a hot start to the season.

I think we will likely see QB carousel for the first 1/3 of the season.
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Only way another QB see the field is if Sims is injured
 
Jmonty71 said:
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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I don’t agree with lumping both years together as if he hasn’t improved year to year. The numbers are there.
 
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