Not sure getting Montez into games just so he can play running back actually helps him develop as a QB.
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Takeaways from the Rocky Mountain Beatdown
- Thread starter The Alabaster Yak
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Not sure getting Montez into games just so he can play running back actually helps him develop as a QB.
I'm not sure that it's up to him either but so far the coaching staff has given in when push comes to shove. Sideline reporter on Friday's game said he was arguing with the coaching staff about going back in after taking the shot in the fourth quarter. There was also the time last year when he had no business going back into a game but he ran out and sent Apsay back to the sideline.
Whether it's Montez or Awini, just putting either in for running plays is silly. If there is no threat of a pass, then the running plays aren't likely to be successful anyway. I'm all for giving either of them some play time, just to spell Sefo if he needs it - but treat them as full QBs with most of the playbook ready to go. I really thought that Montez or Gehrke would get to play in the 4th quarter last week just as a reward for working hard in the program.
Well Awini is injured currently, and Montez did get time in the 4th. Just not much.
I think him getting to see defenses in real life, make the play call, run the ball does help more than watching from the sidelines. Besides, he doesn't always HAVE to run, refer back to the Tebow stuff.
I just hate the concept of him coming in next year after basically 2 red shirt years. If CSU is any indication, we won't be giving him too many series of his own. And only handing off to the RB or taking a knee doesn't do much, either.
Personally, I'd give him at least 1 series per half in EVERY game, unless we are really in a battle with MI, ORE, Stanford, etc and Sefo is having another banner game. Seems like every good team that I watch with a Sr. QB and a soph / jr in waiting does this. OSU won a title swapping QBs all the time.
Watching any CFB this weekend you would have noticed that only 2 teams in the top 25 was successful rotating QB's.
I agree, I want Montez to get more time playing, and I think he will this year. My guess is this weekend he will get some good minutes and I hope against OSU we can see him some.
You can also do it too much. Auburn apparently confused themselves as much as anything, but they were switching mid-series, too.
Part of me is also greedy, I didn't get to see any of the preseason camp stuff, so I have no idea what he looks like in game, but I still think it would be best to get him more than 2-3 quarters of play this entire season.
Part of me is also greedy, I didn't get to see any of the preseason camp stuff, so I have no idea what he looks like in game, but I still think it would be best to get him more than 2-3 quarters of play this entire season.
I think Sefo is our Tim Tebow-esque QB. Big body that can run with mediocre to slightly above average passing ability.
SerenityBuff
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The beatdown continues.
You can't see "snaps taken" for QBs in the box score. You can see if more than one quarterback attempted to throw the ball. You can't see if the attempt was in garbage time or while the game was competitive.
With those caveats, 11 of the top 25 teams had at least two quarterbacks who threw passes this past weekend, and there were 107 quarterbacks who threw passes for the 65 P5 teams (incl ND). As the sharp observer will notice, Montez is not included in that 107 - so the statistic actually understates the number of QBs who took took snaps in games.
Playing multiple QBs is probably more common than @Shldr2Shldr thinks it is, and is less common than @ZandiBuff thinks it is. And, not to pick nits, but I don't think playing your backup QB for one series per half is "rotating QBs;" IMO "rotating QBs" is when they are both getting 1/3 or more of the snaps, which I think rarely works well.
Just found this, for those who were wondering:
Laguda moved up in the lineup early in camp when regular starting free safety Ryan Moeller suffered a sprained ankle. Moeller is recovered and is playing again, but the CU coaching staff started Laguda as they are bringing Moeller back slowly.
Laguda moved up in the lineup early in camp when regular starting free safety Ryan Moeller suffered a sprained ankle. Moeller is recovered and is playing again, but the CU coaching staff started Laguda as they are bringing Moeller back slowly.
Yeah. Moeller was limited the last week of practice after being held out of a few. Plus, he's working his way back from that moped injury last season so they're taking it slowly with him.
Thanks haha. I grew up a FSU fan. My dad is from Florida and is an alum so at least my fandom isn't completely random like Tini's was/is.Well congratulations on fsu and cu winning.
What is the old saying, if you have 2 QBs, you don't have any?
I agree that true rotation sucks, kinda like what we did with RBs last year. Definitely not what I'm advocating here.
Is there a Gif of the CSU QB signaling first down?
If not, there should be. There was a tweet with it followed by a pan to the score, which was 37-0 at the time. Pretty funny stuff.
It's going to be the biggest highlight of the "2016 Rammin' It" season when CSU Video pulls things together for the senior banquet.
agree ^^ but, ut did a great job with their QB rotation vs nd
Gif for all to use
Drew Soicher will definitively declare CSU "the best football program in the state" while using that image in the "still of the night".
Being fairly new to the forums still, is having bad ideas and/or vague takes and then beating them into the ground a common in season thing or is it because we won and it's bringing posters out of hiding?
It's not just because we won; it happens when we lose too.
Most of us are idots, but that doesn't stop anyone from coming strong with his hot takes or stubbornly digging in no matter the evidence to the contrary.
Oh, we're just getting started!
