You arent being a jerk. I am just hand checking you. You typically post with lotsa enthusiasm and seem like a big supporter and fan, but I think you should slow your roll when you start running the inverted veer with your facts, and promote processing kids who recovered from injury. Of course, you don't have to, and I'm glad I am on a board where we can talk without firing all over the place.
On the football side, I agree with a fair amount of what you said. I have been a JG guy for a while, and have to assume that, unfortunately, JG ran with the Cs at least in part because of his eligibility status. They might have been smart not to put him with the As if there was a chance he would be ineligible. They also knew that Clemson was a longshot, we had to control TOP and force turnovers. So there was no reason to start with the highest risk option, and plenty of reason to think that TO could move the ball. Looking back at the film, he and JP did move the ball. If it weren't for some costly gaffes, we would have been about where A&M was this weekend: totally outmatched but not a million points down. Unlike you (and maybe most on here) I have liked the game planning, but not all the calls and execution. I think they must have thought that LJ could do about what the Wisconsin QB did -- hit open underneath stuff and screens, get everyone set up, hand it off and maybe hit one down the seam when needed. It seemed like he didn't read the check downs, was inaccurate on everything outside of the box, did not have his eyes up when the pocket changed, and could not beat them with his legs. If I am dissapointed in anything with CDP, it's his evaluation of LJ as the #1, but in his defense he has never said that and has been pretty clear that he wants a #1 to emerge.
Like everyone, I'm confused by the counting difficulties in the swinging gate, but meh. We haven't lost one that we should have won...yet.
As it is, the 3QB stuff seems like three subsections of the playbook, and we seem to be tipping our tendencies in a bad way. Similarly, I don't buy CGC's notion that it makes us difficult to prepare for; I don't think he does either. It's not like you are forcing them to prep for the 3-0 and the Air Raid and a downhill/PA scheme. The sets and other personnel are all the same, it's just that 2/3 of the decision tree gets foreclosed by who is in at QB. That will be even more true once the surprise factor is gone. I am not against multiQB in theory, and beyond scheme, the real challenge is that they may all be limited in the same way -- they cannot operate a pro route tree at this point. That is just an assumption with Graham, since from what I have seen, he has not made too many misreads, and when he does, he makes them at full speed.
I am hopeful for an O with James mostly at QB and TO almost always in the package. This makes it harder to predict our plays, and if JG can throw and run, then the whole playbook is available. LJ is a competent backup and we know that he could run a similar offense to JG, but without some of the explosive potential. So we could install something with JG and LJ as QB and TO as QBX. That seems like an interesting "innovation" that I frankly think is forced by our roster. I would start with a base formation of JG in pistol with TO at deep pistol and JP as the sidearm, but we'll see..
