So Simms was interviewed and asked about him running. he said he wanted to run the ball a lot but CDP told him to stop running it. This is back to turn him into pocket passer....aka NFL... Simms is a duel threat OPTION QB
At one point we had one backup QB. Look at some of the highlights of his runs, he gets lit up in quite a few, especially vs Pitt.
I think this is more "you're a QB first, go through your progressions before you bail out and run." He was a true freshman (and will be again), so there's a ton for him to still learn. If his first instinct is to pull the ball down and run when his first or second read isn't there, then I might, as the OC, tell him the same thing. It's about context, and I'm not sure your comment reflects that.
Prescott is a perennial all pro QB. They said the same thing about him. I think any QB who wins - no matter how he plays - will get a chance in th pros. If I were Sims I'd be lobbying to run more so I could compete with the new breed.
Interesting. I just watched a replay of the 2020 Pitt game. In the first quarter, behind 3-0 we drove 90 plus yards using over 4 minutes of the clock with the highlight being a long pass from Sims to Jalen Camp on what looked to be a double move of some sort down the middle. Beautifully thrown pass and catch to the two yard line. Somehow, Mason got stuffed and we ended up with 4th and goal from the two yard line. Sims took the ball wide on a run/pass option came back inside made two guys miss with the obligatory shake and bake and ran through an arm tackle for the touchdown. Impressive but what followed was not impressive. We got the ball again deep in our own territory and before you can say "Trevor Lawrence" it was three and out. This is a pattern that happened all too often. Flashes of promise and brilliance followed by longer stretches of three and outs and turnovers at critical moments. IIWII for the moment anyway.
The restrictions were understandable with Simms getting lit up as he was from time to time but once you took away the running, that offense became the old "chuck and duck" behind that offensive line.
That’s what’s frustrating. With the players we got your garden variety ACC team should never be able to take away our running game except for the top 4-5 national title contenders every year. Teams like Pitt we should chew up & spit out like a piece of bad meat. Simms should have that extra time in the pocket they use to defend the run to be able to make better decisions. Instead, we neutralize our run threat with bad strategy and instead of learning from our mistakes early we just keep repeating the same failing cycle. Damn we’re an Engineering school. We’re not supposed to keep hitting the reset button over & over again expecting a different result like the morons up the road.
And what did that so called efficiency get us? He was the head coach not offensive coordinator . Do I really need to go over how his tenure ended? I get it, he was great at abusing lower tier teams and teams not prepared. But the teams who actually had a pulse abused his offense the last several years of his tenure. I loved CPJ, but he didn’t evolve his system in either philosophy or due to rule changes. That’s on him. I truly believe if he wouldn’t have evolved his system he could have gotten hired by a factory and showed everyone how smart he was. But he got old and immoveable.
I think it’s coming where we take that next step back into the 2nd tier of teams behind the factories, but we will only go where the offensive line takes us. We all hope it starts in year 3, but I’m not optimistic. Other teams have programs that are just many years ahead of ours right now in terms of quality depth along the lines. Collins is trying to address this but it’s a long process and not every player pans out. Take a guy like Wing Green. He’s from down my way. Physically, he has the size. And Collins took a flyer on the size alone. A lot of eyebrows were raised down here when Collins offered because he wasn’t seen as a P5 player. Look at his offers. GT took a chance on the size alone. Most of our coastal competitors don’t have to take chances like that because they already had size and depth. I’d be pleasantly surprised if Green turns into a player for us, but I’m not holding my breath. But it was a calculated risk based on where our program was at that time. It also got GT in the door at Lee County which attracts all the talent in the 4-5 county radius until you hit the Moultrie/Valdosta borders.
I remember my first beer.
Actually Johnson was the OC, and really the OL coach too. And he was good at it. But as you point out, he was paid as HC, and overall, he wasn't so good at HC.
This is a curious statement, the guy with two NCs, bringing Navy back, us to 3 ACCG and two Orange bowls was not a good HC? If you base this on issues with defense, then you must apply the same to Gailey as we had very little offense during his tenure.
Now that is not nice...insulting morons by comparing them to Athens Correctional.
Yep. SOWEGA (which is Albany talk for "Southwest Georgia") is correct in every word. Optimism will grow when Sims has time and Gibbs/Mason have holes to run through. Not one second before.
If only they called running plays for Sims...