Just for the record... After I saw the Norfolk state game if I personally had to pick the next game starter based on what I saw... I would have picked Rettig. Granted, my qualifications on making a decision are limited... I only played pee wee and 3 yrs varsity football and have spent the rest of my adult life watching TV from stadium seat or a couch. So just like most everyone else on here I have no qualifications to make a judgement who should or shouldnt be playing QB. But I felt based on my less than fully qualified observations, that there was not much difference between them, but my gut feel was I liked Rettig better. So when Flood announced Laviano as the starter, I was totally fine with it since the coaches have so much more info from months and months of practice and scrimmage reps from which to make their decision. As I have said a million times, they have so much more info to make the selection, and they know the total team and offensive philosophy they aimed for.
We have a defense that is admittedly not going to slow down very many teams and is seriously shorthanded at many positions, hence one that would be very susceptible to tiring out and losing players by attrition. If you were a coach would you want to try to tailor a general season game plan that would create more or less snaps that your shorthanded defense would be on the field each game?. A QB that would have a better chance of sustaining longer more time consuming drives ? Or the one that was higher risk... might potentially have a lot more three and outs... giving the ball back in bad field position when this happens? Yes there is the potential for a quick strike... but at what expense? And even if you did hit the quick strike, your D would be back on the field again tiring out... in between more potential three and outs. I'm guessing the philosophy is the ball control grind it out team. This is no rocket science since we obviously play this way based on the type of close to the vest plays we call.
So my guess is our staff feels like CL is better suited to this type of overall game plan.... even if Rettig were able to hit more frequent quick bombs. And at this point... if this is the philosophy they have chosen, they are going all out with the one who is better suited to that philosophy. Get CL as many reps as possible. I'm sure they would love to have the luxury of getting our backup experience as well, but they have decided it helps no one to be looking over their shoulder... and like everything in life.... you need thousands of repetitions of anything to get good at it. By giving the backup extra chances to take reps... it is only hurting the development of the starter that they feel will be the one who can most quickly help this team in it's overall philosophy to win games. Maybe they also feel that CL is more elusive and will be able to avoid injury with our young offensive line. If they had choses Retting, perhaps they felt that the time invested in him as a starter might have been more at risk due to potential injury if he was less artful in dodging a pass rush. Look at how long it has taken our past QB's to work up to being quality QB's. It doesnt happen in one year or even two. And taking reps away just delays this. This is all supposition, and people may not like this philosophy, but it aint helping anybody to keep ripping the QB decision and Flood. No one is going to look to these message boards for guidance in selecting a QB or deciding whether or not they will fire or retain a head coach. We have one more top notched defense to play, which could be another tough ride for the offense. If Laviano survives... So many things go into a decision like this and it doesnt come down to just someone saying " Rettig can stretch the defense and will open everything up because he has a better arm" If I hear that one more time.....
We have a defense that is admittedly not going to slow down very many teams and is seriously shorthanded at many positions, hence one that would be very susceptible to tiring out and losing players by attrition. If you were a coach would you want to try to tailor a general season game plan that would create more or less snaps that your shorthanded defense would be on the field each game?. A QB that would have a better chance of sustaining longer more time consuming drives ? Or the one that was higher risk... might potentially have a lot more three and outs... giving the ball back in bad field position when this happens? Yes there is the potential for a quick strike... but at what expense? And even if you did hit the quick strike, your D would be back on the field again tiring out... in between more potential three and outs. I'm guessing the philosophy is the ball control grind it out team. This is no rocket science since we obviously play this way based on the type of close to the vest plays we call.
So my guess is our staff feels like CL is better suited to this type of overall game plan.... even if Rettig were able to hit more frequent quick bombs. And at this point... if this is the philosophy they have chosen, they are going all out with the one who is better suited to that philosophy. Get CL as many reps as possible. I'm sure they would love to have the luxury of getting our backup experience as well, but they have decided it helps no one to be looking over their shoulder... and like everything in life.... you need thousands of repetitions of anything to get good at it. By giving the backup extra chances to take reps... it is only hurting the development of the starter that they feel will be the one who can most quickly help this team in it's overall philosophy to win games. Maybe they also feel that CL is more elusive and will be able to avoid injury with our young offensive line. If they had choses Retting, perhaps they felt that the time invested in him as a starter might have been more at risk due to potential injury if he was less artful in dodging a pass rush. Look at how long it has taken our past QB's to work up to being quality QB's. It doesnt happen in one year or even two. And taking reps away just delays this. This is all supposition, and people may not like this philosophy, but it aint helping anybody to keep ripping the QB decision and Flood. No one is going to look to these message boards for guidance in selecting a QB or deciding whether or not they will fire or retain a head coach. We have one more top notched defense to play, which could be another tough ride for the offense. If Laviano survives... So many things go into a decision like this and it doesnt come down to just someone saying " Rettig can stretch the defense and will open everything up because he has a better arm" If I hear that one more time.....
