Outside of QB, the LBs are the biggest question mark in my book.
Hopeful that French and or Hughes balls out.
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What transfer will make the biggest impact this upcoming season?
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Hopeful that French and or Hughes balls out.
Hughes is a monster of a LB on the recent WOM Video
He looks like a real top LB
Amazing to see the roster evolution for the past 3 years
Middle LB is such a hard position to predict. Landman never looked physically like the beast he was. He wasn’t fast or huge. It was all between the ears: How quickly he saw and felt what was happening and beat the ballcarrier to the hole. Insane instincts and understanding.
NHG was also a beast in the middle who looked a bit more like a beast.
We’ve had tons of guys who looked the part. Very few who were it.
I think Martavius French
Cerebral position. Have to read and react quickly. Could be the biggest and fastest but if you can’t diagnose a play you’re screwed.
Even a guy with very limited athleticism, ex. Rick Gamboa, can be useable at MLB.
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Tawfiq Byard. He is exactly who Coach Livingston wanted from the portal.
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CitizenKane
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I think what we’re really saying with Salter is he struggles to pick up on complex offensive concepts or recognizing defenses. Have no idea if that is due to study time or something else. This means it’s up to the coaches to design the offense to fit his physical skills and not make the offense too complex. Plenty of great college QBs weren’t brilliant when it came to the playbook. I mean look at Montez for CU or Jake Plummer for Arizona State. That said Salter’s ability to run combined with arm talent should lead to him being highly successful. If he isn’t then it will be as much on the coaches as on Salter.
That said the most important transfer is going to be Oatis, dominating the middle frees up the backers against the run and will allow the outside rushers to get significantly more sacks by preventing QBs from stepping up. This D has a chance with him to be the most dominant we’ve seen at CU since the 90 s. Without him they’d just have a chance to be good
Bump. Also add yet to be named RB.
Shurmur is going to have to pull back on complexity and just let Salter do what he does best. This does not need to be an overly sophisticated offense for us to be successful. I hope he realizes that.
CitizenKane
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I think we saw a little of that in the spring game on the first drive with the sprint outside in a very shallow drop back and then throw the ball. He likely only has two options to throw to on that play and otherwise would run. That said, I hope Shurmur is able to do exactly that.
One of the hardest adjustments for NFL coaches moving to the college ranks is making scheme simpler and play call nomenclature a lot shorter.
Weren’t Chip Kelly and Bobby Petrino’s some of the simplest offenses out there?
I trust that Prime has a handle on this and will work with Shurmur to adjust accordingly. However, Prime is also selling an NFL vision for players at CU, QBs included, so I think the expectation will be that the QBs learn how to operate an NFL-caliber offense.
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This will be disappointing to me if we have to simplify the offense to allow a 5th year senior to be able to run it.
I mean, he transferred from a school well known for requiring a lot of intellectual heft from its students, that vaunted institution of academic prowess: Liberty.
You don't know the half of it. Take the academic standards of the "regular" students at Liberty and lower them by half. Then lower them by half again. That's the level the football players sit at that school.
Heh. At least the football players aren't missing much compared to the normal students there.
That’s sort of the point: if we brought in a 5th year senior QB as a bridge to allow Juju the time he needs to mature, and that senior, “mature” QB can only intellectually handle—essentially—the Veer offense, we’ve made a poor choice.
On that note, Liberty hired the Baylor guys post scandal. So I believe that their offensive concept is the Art Briles "veer-and-shoot" which is simple enough on terminology, number of plays, and route trees that he was even able to install it on the high school level. Shurmur, coming from an NFL background, could simplify his offense by 50% and still be more complicated than that.
Mick Ronson
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agree.....but, i'm not really sure that's exactly our problem. I also think NFL types (Bill Callahan) come into it thinking they can just outsmart little old college coaches with a big dick hooray approach. Charlie Weiss is another example.
Meanwhile guys like Chris Klieman and Kilani Sitake are doing OK. NIL may change that. I know BYU is NIL out the wazoo in hoops so I may be going against my own point here but I don't buy the woo Shurmer is so smart for CU offense.