Well that’s a problem with all our WRs and RBs. Even the simplest 5 yard out pass is an adventure as the receiver needs to adjust to the badly thrown pass. They need to either stop or turn the other way to adjust to the constant error throws. Kills the momentum of the play and loss of potential YAC.
or really it's a problem with one qb that I hope can his sh8t straight and soon....
agree with you but think about this- when was the last time we had a QB that was consistent on that simple pass?
Those who have seen many Rutgers games this past season have surely witnessed lots of GW's errant throws that got any number of targets nearly killed.
Seen this coming?
You've got it backwards.
But MAYBE they did...in practice...and the kid couldn't hold onto the ball? Block? Run routes properly> You can't blame RU without knowing all the facts. Sorry. I thought he WAS going to be "that" guy, but he just wasn't. Probably why he dropped down to FCS.
Why ? He probably would have just dropped it anyway.
Let’s be fair here. His options apparently were to fair catch or let it bounce and roll by. Clearly they didn’t want him to return the punt unless it was really wide open. So his options were to not do something wrong or do something that did nothing positive (fair catch). So a dropped punt stand out and there is no way to make up for it. Wide receivers drop passes all the time and often the QBs throws the next one to them. Announcers talk about it all time. RR was put in a situation where all he could do was, essentially, nothing good but something bad.
These are completely different route types. You're supposed to throw a higher pass on a go route (Gavins throw) so the receiver runs under it and drops into their hands. This way if you have the DB beat, there's no way for them to get a hand on it.Some pitchers are fastball aces and others throw the movement pitches
Eli Manning was a skanky short passer who could miss guys a few yards away - he often overthrew.
His long passes could be great though and it was unfortunate that Eli's last years were spent being unable to pass long. People used to say "Eli is old and cant pass anymore" but he was hideous short passer in 2005 lol.
I think Wimsatt is better at long passes - even his short passes want to go long lol.
I think Wimsatt would get to throw longer but he has to bring the altitude down.
Announcers called his 50 yd ball to Washington a "moon ball" and it was - practically out of the frame.
Moon balls are dangerous in B1G were DBs will eat them right up.
RU's WR are usually not very good at contested balls.
Here is a GW "moon ball" followed by a Sheduer Sanders' pass of about same distance - both from the 50. Sanders has almost no arc and Gavin's looks like arch in St Louis.
I actually saw him in games in 2022. He was an open field weapon. Absolutely should have found a way to get him tjhe ball in space (hello jet sweep!) and let him run back the kicks.
not-for-nothing....BUT....his 2022 stats:
I never said he didn’t drop the punts. They were bad plays, no doubt. My point is that he was essentially put in a spot where the only outcome for him was nothing good happened or something bad happened. Hard to play that way.
They were more than bad plays. They were backbreakers. That's why you need someone back there you can count on to catch the ball.
He seemed fumble prone. who knows how much he fumbled in practice.
If he's fumbling in practice you can't put him into the game. Even burning one of the freshman redshirts is better than risking turnovers.
kid was pretty dynamic when allowed to field a kickoff. But- fumble 1 this year- I am sure they had it up on the big screen in front of the entire team- and then numerous times in the ST's meeting- "You never do this!"
Wasn’t about fumbles. Was about getting on the field. He had a couple nice plays in 22 but that role he assumed in 22 was no longer needed. He was brought into the program to be a WR and he was passed by Dremel who was a walk on. Dremel is a football player that is an athlete, Rochelle is an athlete that plays football.
I always thought it was a positive (meaning something good), if/when a punt was caught cleanly.
Same- you are inside the 10 or 20- signal fair catch and then catch it- that is what you are expected to do. Positive. You sit back and see you can't get to a punt clean inside the 20- you signal FC and just let it bounce- maybe the result is that it is downed at the 1...but again, you did your job- positive
I think I get it. And based on that logic, someone like a crossing guard has a good outcome only if they actually stop a car from entering the cross walk/pushes a child to safety. If they just escort the child across the street nothing good happened. Makes sense now.
