Jerry the Jacket
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He is better than I thought. I think the Coaches built Sims up to be the savior of the program and now they have a QB controversy on their hands.
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Agreed. Sims has a higher ceiling but there is not guarantee he can reach it. In particular, the turnovers just hurt us with him. We wrote that up to inexperience last year but it was still a problem against NIU and was one of the factors that cost us the game. Yates has the intangibles and decision making ability to be a starting college football quarterback. The team will win more games with Yates at the helm.He is better than I thought. I think the Coaches built Sims up to be the savior of the program and now they have a QB controversy on their hands.
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Without a doubt. At Clemson with terrible blocking and comes out with the best performance by a qb against that team this season. Completed tough passes, ran when he needed to, never turned it over, and pretty much made the right read (or a solid read) on every play.I hope folks recognize how impressive his performance was, given how badly the OL was manhandled.
I don’t think that’s true. He looks way better this year than he did in his limited appearances last year. In 2019, I think he was redshirted because the whole offense was a ****show, and Collins didn’t want to waste a year of Yates’ eligibility. And given that there’s no guarantee he’ll get beaten out, that decision has a good chance at paying off. I’m glad that he can start for us for another 3 seasons after this one if needed.The only reason Yates never got a chance to compete for the starting QB job in the first place is because of how he looks in pads next to Sims. I mean, that’s not a minor thing as size and strength obviously matter. But it really is crazy how many limited game reps Yates he’s gotten until now in the CGC regime.
I’m sure Yates has gotten a lot better, but at one point he was literally 4th string behind Graham, Lucas Johnson, and Tobias. If he even gets a little more playing time over the last two seasons he’d be even better now. Water under the bridge but still odd he never even got a true shot when we were struggling at QB.
Part of my thought process is how our coaches talk about him. Either way, I think we can both agree that had Sims stayed healthy and played at an above-average level, Yates might’ve not gotten a legitimate snap this year.I don’t think that’s true. He looks way better this year than he did in his limited appearances last year. In 2019, I think he was redshirted because the whole offense was a ****show, and Collins didn’t want to waste a year of Yates’ eligibility. And given that there’s no guarantee he’ll get beaten out, that decision has a good chance at paying off. I’m glad that he can start for us for another 3 seasons after this one if needed.
That’s fair. The truth is that we don’t know how Sims would have played in Yates’ place this year. In the NIU game, he didn’t seem like himself or like the coaches had described. Maybe he would have continued the inaccurate throws or maybe he would have settled down and run the offense really well with his athleticism creating extra wrinkles that make it hard to defend. Yates has clearly improved a lot in both his mastery of the offense and his accuracy, but that doesn’t mean that Sims didn’t still legitimately beat him out in the offseason. I’ll just say that we’re lucky to have both of them and that neither has hit his ceiling yet. But Yates has earned the right to be our starting QB for the time being at least.Part of my thought process is how our coaches talk about him. Either way, I think we can both agree that had Sims stayed healthy and played at an above-average level, Yates might’ve not gotten a legitimate snap this year.
Also it’s really hard to come in at QB and play well in the limited snaps he had last year on a horrible team.
I’m sure the coaches thought Sims beat Yates out. But was it Sims’ potential that beat him out? Sims already has significantly more college game experience than Yates, and Yates looks like he’s on a completely different level out there. And I’m not sure we would’ve ever known that if Sims didn’t get hurt this year.
. I was a big Sims fan and TBH I thought we were completely screwed when I first saw Yates come in vs NIU. I will happily eat crow about that now.
Yeah it’s hard to be enamored with the staff’s personnel choices. There’s all the hype, then you watch the performance on the field. We got Yates, Dontae and you have to wonder else what may be lurking particularly on the OL that’s riding the pine watching someone else struggle eating up all the snaps.From what I have seen. I can't beleive Yates didn;t start the season. He is more polished, accurate throwing, knows the offense and is a better leader. The OC scared me right before the season started saying Sims was still making head scratcher decisions. Yates undoubtedly should be the QB. I thought he played really well yesterday and we should have unleashed him a bit more than we did. I understand the conservatism early given field position and wantng to stay in the game but as game bore on, it was obvious he had his emotions and thinking under control so let him rip. We were too conservative.
Hard to be real good in the Red Zone when your OL is the weakest part of the team.The real head scratcher with me is our OC in the "Red Zone". There seems to be a real pattern here, I know Clemson is tough in the RZ, but I'm not just speaking about the Clemson game, I'm looking back since CDP has arrived, there seems to be a pattern here of real head scratchers of what the hell are you doing fella?? Also what are you doing trying to run Mason wide against a team like Clemson, listen I love JM but lets face it he ain't the swiftest in the room. CDP seems to do really well outside the RZ, but we go in the tank with our play calling and execution in the RZ. Again I understand nobody does well against Clemson in RZ.
You talk about folks hidden on the OL. I saw Lay in the game a few times. I know he filled in admirably last year during some injuries/COVID but you have to wonder why we are still playing walkons with a full compliment of scholarship OL available.Yeah it’s hard to be enamored with the staff’s personnel choices. There’s all the hype, then you watch the performance on the field. We got Yates, Dontae and you have to wonder else what may be lurking particularly on the OL that’s riding the pine watching someone else struggle eating up all the snaps.
This game at least has restored some patience in my mind as we wait to see how player development and the starting line ups, playing time unfolds. I wasn’t expecting much other than being able to point to a couple things & say “there’s improvement”. We found a QB, we should have erased doubts that Dontae is just a garbage time stat machine, Charlie Thomas is leading by example, etc.