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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 434492" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I know that Lee had a good career at James Madison, and I was pleased for him. He was the exception to transfer students, many of whom turn out to be not terribly good football players anywhere. That scouting business is a powder keg waiting to go off. But: I don't think Vad Lee could have been successful at any P5 program. Johnson kept his word and installed a shotgun for him. He was not particularly good in it. (It remains one of my why-did-we-do-this memories.) He found his level and played well at it. But about those completion percentages, and I am not going to defend 37%. I'll bet that privately Johnson won't. But the deeper you throw the fewer you will complete. It is just much harder, and when you see a stat that a QB completes say 65% of his passes, I promise you he feasted on dump and run stuff, 10-12 yard routes, and was under 50% when the range began to exceed 25 or 30 yards. Johnson's route trees are simple as they are out of the run-and-shoot, and his purpose is to get huge chunks of yardage downfield with one-on-one coverage. He has said that if he needs four or five yards -- I misremember his exact quote -- he can run for that so why pass? Now, if Marshall can run the option and get his completion stats to 45-47%, we should be in business. If he can't he just becomes another Johnson QB who couldn't throw downfield.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 434492, member: 2175"] I know that Lee had a good career at James Madison, and I was pleased for him. He was the exception to transfer students, many of whom turn out to be not terribly good football players anywhere. That scouting business is a powder keg waiting to go off. But: I don't think Vad Lee could have been successful at any P5 program. Johnson kept his word and installed a shotgun for him. He was not particularly good in it. (It remains one of my why-did-we-do-this memories.) He found his level and played well at it. But about those completion percentages, and I am not going to defend 37%. I'll bet that privately Johnson won't. But the deeper you throw the fewer you will complete. It is just much harder, and when you see a stat that a QB completes say 65% of his passes, I promise you he feasted on dump and run stuff, 10-12 yard routes, and was under 50% when the range began to exceed 25 or 30 yards. Johnson's route trees are simple as they are out of the run-and-shoot, and his purpose is to get huge chunks of yardage downfield with one-on-one coverage. He has said that if he needs four or five yards -- I misremember his exact quote -- he can run for that so why pass? Now, if Marshall can run the option and get his completion stats to 45-47%, we should be in business. If he can't he just becomes another Johnson QB who couldn't throw downfield. [/QUOTE]
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