danny daniel
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I respect your points. No argument with Sims "earning " the start (that can be fixed among Collins, Yates, and Sims). Yet to be determined if Sims has overcome some bad 2020 habits. Coach P does not have a good record of getting ahead early so I am not sold on that strategy.Yates definitely provides a more predictable guy. He’s like another coach out there with a lot of talent.
I just think the Sims we saw against UNC is more of who he is than the guy who started NIU.
It’d be easy to use his performance last year to make assumptions (and I wouldn’t fault anyone for doing so), I’m just choosing to believe he’s made the jump the coaches told us about leading up to the season and game 1 was an aberration.
My thought is if we can come out and put up some points early, we can put pressure on Pitt to score and let our edge rushers get hot again.
I think we can win with either guy, our offense is just so much more explosive with Sims. I also think that just like Yates earned the starting job with his performance against NIU and beyond, Sims did the same Saturday.
No question Sims is more explosive and we definitely should use him in the red zone every time and maybe even in most of the game time. Until he proves himself I am cautious about mistakes he might make playing early and especially 60 minutes. At this point we do not know. We know more about Yates and we know his ceiling is lower, but we know he is less likely to give the game away early. It could go either way.