Richard Huffman's Musings - Austin Peay edition

If we are content to only throw 5-7 yard passes for the entire season and run the ball about 50 times I'd say that he's a okay option, but really, which of the other 3 couldn't do the same thing?

 

If he's throwing it sideline to sideline, we're really screwed.

 

5-7 yard outs and swing passes, return of the Cutcliffe offense.

 

That I dunno.

We'll find out a whole lot more Saturday.

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Rethought this. One reason might be is he grasps the concept of taking what you are given more and he's not going to force it as much as the other guys would out there. I think "game manager" is near the top of Butch's requirements in a QB at this point.

 

If Worley is the only one that can do that, even right now, we are screwed at the QB position for the next few years.

 

Lost to Western and it may be over even sooner.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

 

Tuscumbia

He looked okay, but remember the competition. I'd still rather see him slide in as the third or fourth option going forward that what else we saw.

 

Right. All I'm willing to say is that he looked better than Smith and Hill, not that he's actually good.

 

Oh, that was broke. The Little Sisters of the Blind just couldn't expose it.

 

She was always ready to give Coleman his BJ.

 

In his presser Jones said a couple of those throw behind were on the receivers running the wrong depth on the routes.

 

Sight adjustments?

 

He didn't go into too much detail. He put the blame on Worley for a couple but said on a couple of others that the receiver ran the wrong depth.

That makes some sense to me, especially with the slant to North in the endzone IIRC.

 

I've basically come to the conclusion that the biggest reason Worley is your QB is because we have no experience at receiver. If we had upperclassmen out there, it might be a different story. I don't think they want to bring along freshmen/sophomore receivers and a freshman QB at the same time. They'd rather use one guy who is smart, has experience, and understands everything while they are breaking these guys in.

It does make sense, to me anyway.

 

I think this might be a big part of it.

 

I'm sure they ran some wrong routes. If they weren't some timing routes involced, I'm even more concerned.

 

My guess is they were supposed break at 3 yards and broke at 5 or vice versa.

 

Impossible and they won't be able to work to improve the timing on that

 

There is no excuse for being that off on basic routes. You can go to any local high school and see kids misfire on those routes and never see a slant thrown behind a WR.

 

Reminds me of the line in Major League: "Nice catch, Hayes. Don't ever effin' do it again." I hope one of the coaches told him that was a terrible throw.

I'm like most everyone else on here at this point. It's hard to evaluate the whole based on the opponent. However, Worley threw floaters behind his receivers that if hit in stride, could've been big plays. The receivers having to literally sit down on the ground to try and make a play is not a good thing. Call it whatever you want, but those are bad throws. The TD to Young and the deep pass to North are both picks in the SEC. Period. Worley has no zip on the ball, and that will hurt in the games to come. Finally, the second string is bad. We have no depth. There was a time, albeit long ago, that our second and third string could score at least 14-21 points on a team like APSU.

We just aren't that good anymore. Yes, the first string flexed their muscle in some ways, but I would expect them to do so. More glaring to me was the lack of output from the second and third string. I hope we play better against WKU.