Like a loan officer at one of the banks I do business says, "A giraffe never changes its spots". We will see.
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Like a loan officer at one of the banks I do business says, "A giraffe never changes its spots". We will see.
Amen! I'm sick of hearing the reason J'Mar played bad was because of the OL. He holds onto the ball way to long and fumbles way to much. He's indecisive on when he should run or throw. Play calling on offense has been more of a detriment to J'Mar then the OL playing bad. From what I can remember we had some success with slants across the middle early on. Why did we go away from that?Originally Posted by DogsWin
Our backup QB scored more points (1 TD) than our starting QB. Until our starting QB can STOP GIVING THE FOOTBALL TO THE OTHER TEAM we are going to suffer offensively.
Our OL is underperforming, but they had nothing to do with J'Mar scrambling and then trying to set and throw a 60 yard bomb pass. Are you kidding me!!! RUN THE FRIGGIN FOOTBALL OR GET RID OF IT QUICKLY!!!
Hard to sugarcoat that performance tonight. It will go down in history as one of the worst for a Tech QB. Having said that, Higgins and Cameron looked bad their first years to play, and they turned out to be good QBs. I think J has more potential than either of them. However, if he doesn't stop turning the ball over and quick he needs to be benched.
Nobody is happy in Bowling Green right now after WKU laid a 20-7 egg at Illinois when the Illini only beat Ball State 24-21. Probably not the worst time to be catching the Hilltoppers.
Smith's passing efficiency rating was an average 136.5 against NSU. It was a bad 85.9 against Mississippi State. This is the official NCAA stat. ESPN's QBR is click bait and will never be an official stat.
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...and he telegraphs his throws. Announcers were pointing that out.
Give me a break guys....we were outclassed at every position. I would be interested to hear from the board if there was a particular position where someone thought we had an advantage. Our WR's were much smaller and slower than the opposing secondary, and both lines were significantly smaller.
J'mar is, and will continue to be just fine. He is a sophomore, with limited game experience. The goal is to win the conference, and nothing that happened last night has any influence over that.
Plan your dive, and dive your plan. J'mar is our guy.
Thank you Lord for blessing Louisiana Tech for the last three seasons with an experienced quarterback... I guess the jig us up.
Please be with Tim Rattay (one of your best blessings ever) in the immediate future as we know that only he can teach the skills needed to prevent another embarrassing event such as we endured last night.
Amen
We saw lots of turnovers-balls held to long, and a not ready for public viewing team. The QB position should be open at this point for sure-he did nothing to hold his rank as starter. Is that the coach-maybe, but he wasn't the one with the turnovers and poor decisions.
How many of our last three fifth-year senior quarterbacks had above average seasons in their sophomore years?
J'Mar Smith has got to be leading the nation in fumbles by a QB through the first two games and it is killing our football team. All the 'potential' in the world is worthless if he cannot protect the friggin football. His job is to produce points for our team, not the opponent.
"What bothers me is not the interceptions, what bothers me are the fumbles. The fumbles are things we've talked about and if you can't protect the football, then you can't play," Holtz said. "We cannot win turning the ball over. In two games, he had a couple of turnovers last week, he had a couple of turnovers tonight. It's just playing in the offense mentally and protecting the football."
Relinquishing 27 points off turnovers is tough to overcome and against an SEC team makes the hill that much steeper.
This thread has the same title as one last year except substitute Higgins. No, not year before last or when Higgins was a RS freshman, but last year before he was all conference etc. We will be all right. MSU has a very good team and in two years when we go to Starkville Smith will be a senior.
Runningback.
How much is J'Mar and how much is coaching?
One could possibly make the argument for "above average", depending on the standards used, but the main thing that I took from your question is that we don't currently have an "above average" quarterback.
Too many bubble screens. Felt like Jack Bicknell was calling the plays out there. We rarely threw the intermediate rout. When we did we were successful with it. I guess some of that could be contributed to the o line not holding up.
@JuBru
Neither of our backs has the measurables or put up the stats that their RB (#22) put up.
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