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Pass blocking for JT has been "subpar" this year... makes last year almost look like the NFL Bronco's passpro.
Don't you have some dishes to wash
Learn to block the trolls.
I watched Georgia Southern platoon QB's as well. I think in this offense it most likely a necessity to do that, but CPJ is stubborn. It would also help to put JT in the gun more, & I know some of the players agree that would help JT out but Paul's not gonna do it, even despite gun plays being in his playbook.
I don't know how much of the passing game is worked on by coach and if it's made a priority for him enough to make it a consistent part of the game plan even when the run is working. IMO the passing game needs to work on getting skill players in space more but that's deaf ear thoughts.
I think JT was more the example of a winner to follow last year than leader. A big problem this year is the true leaders have moved on - Days, Shaq and Smelter.JT felt like a leader last year and this year with so much confusion on the line, it seems like he has lost some of those qualities
Now I like a joke as well as the next guy. Until TW started throwing fluttering butterflies, Nesbitt was the worst passer since, well, anybody. The quintessential throw-it-through-a-battleship ... but couldn't hit the battleship.Like winning the shortest midget contest. JN threw better
I have to admit I don't get it it either, given past success, and given that Navy's QB has made a career of the midline, all the way to a TD record.I don't think it is fair to say running the midline isn't JT's thing. Getting yards after contact may not be JT's thing, but the midline has a lot to do with a speedy guard that can get out and open a lane. Bring Shaq back, and JT would look good running the midline . Just like he did vs Mississippi State.
Getting skilled players into space more? Why has Johnson never thought of that? If that is a problem, it is, then the problem really is that our skilled players can't create any space. At this level one seldom gets the uncontested completion and needs to use his arms and body to create some room. Waller got good at it. Smelter was a master at it. Ditto D. Thomas. Hill just used his sprinter's speed to create it. Then forgot to catch it too often, but nobody's perfect.Learn to block the trolls.
I watched Georgia Southern platoon QB's as well. I think in this offense it most likely a necessity to do that, but CPJ is stubborn. It would also help to put JT in the gun more, & I know some of the players agree that would help JT out but Paul's not gonna do it, even despite gun plays being in his playbook.
I don't know how much of the passing game is worked on by coach and if it's made a priority for him enough to make it a consistent part of the game plan even when the run is working. IMO the passing game needs to work on getting skill players in space more but that's deaf ear thoughts.
Lol, seriously, JT has played fine this year, he definitely isn't the problem. It's also amazing how people show less 'leadership' when the players around them are less talented and/or younger.
I'm thinking we are headed in the right direction. Most of our QBs coming up are in the 6'2 range. I feel like the prototype on our board should be in the 6'1" - 6'2" range and in the 210-220lbs. That would be ideal imo.Time will tell if we get that guy. What we need is someone who can run the mid-line and get tough yards on the interior like Nesbitt, have a great 7 step drop passing and see over the line like Vad Lee, make reads like Washington, and have breakaway speed, elusiveness, and passing accuracy like JT. That isn't too much to ask, is it?
Sometimes is being niceBut he said that sometimes a player or players will break through and instead of just throwing the ball away, he'll try to scramble and evade the rush.
I have no idea why people think JT is not a good passer. In my book he is far and away the best passing QB we have had at GT in the CPJ era. Who would you put ahead of him?
I'm thinking we are headed in the right direction. Most of our QBs coming up are in the 6'2 range. I feel like the prototype on our board should be in the 6'1" - 6'2" range and in the 210-220lbs. That would be ideal imo.
Hmmm... I have never praised JT for his height. He is a great QB and athlete however.Last year some of us were praising how JTs height actually gave him an advantage in the mesh. Guess it's never as good or as bad as it seems.
No question that this is part, a piece, of the problem, but the major pieces are the inexperienced receivers and Abacks, and the often abysmal blocking up front. Whether our guys are too slow, too confused, too inexperienced, I don't know. But every game we have played since the first two the middle linebacker has been running around like a center fielder, a good one, and everybody else is running the bulls ... at Thomas. Last season even when blocking broke down Thomas was able to slither away, sometimes crazily deep behind the LOS, and either throw it away or make a play. But now he is retreating far behind his blockers and the DEs and LBs are teeing off, sealing him off, and if they don't get him, he is nailed by the MLB up the middle. Not pretty. I don't have an answer but Johnson and crew know they have to come up with it before next season because -- and I say this as a Johnson supporter -- another one approaching '15 and it is all over. I don't think the AD would have any choice. I'd hate it, but there it is.Actually, JT is indeed part of the problem. Not only has CPJ said so, but a buddy of mine who's on the coaching staff said so as well.
He said that JT is trying to do too much...said he wasn't sure if it was a product of reading press clippings or just feeling the weight of making plays on his shoulders too much. He also said that Justin is supremely confident in his abilities and sometimes that gets him in trouble. Now, he stressed that Justin was not the primary problem...that falls on the blocking of both the offensive line and the A- and B-backs.
But he said that sometimes a player or players will break through and instead of just throwing the ball away, he'll try to scramble and evade the rush. While that's an admirable trait, when it is inevitable that he's likely to go down (2 or 3 players have a direct bead on him), the smarter play is to throw the ball away out of bounds. Even if that means we have to punt. But when he takes a sack and we lose 10 or 15 yards, that puts the offense in a hole that is very difficult to get out of...often leading to us being forced to pass even more...and the defense knows that a pass is more likely.