It's early, but QD has a lot of problems with footwork. I understand this is his first year starting and he needs to adjust to live games, but he should still have the fundamentals down. He throws off his back foot way too much, I think he's afraid to hurt his leg with the brace on it.
OK. Prove it. I'm not saying you can't. I am saying that I have looked for it and have not seen him doing what you say except in situations where he has pressure... when pretty much all QB's throw off their back foot.
He has no presence within the pocket or ability to see the rush. He has not shown the ability to use his footwork to escape the rush or roll out to buy more time. He gets nervous and just throws it or let's the defender make contact. I think he plays scared.
Again. Prove it. We have 3 games and plenty things to look at. If it is a pervasive problem then you should be able to put together 10 or so examples out of his 60+ throws.
If true... then they should probably get JG ready. "Happy feet" seldom get better. It is a natural response that takes much longer than UT has in-season to correct.
He is being too careless with the ball and throwing into double and triple coverage.
He has on a few occasions. But again, if this is a pervasive problem you should have 10 or so examples of him doing it, right? I mean a handful of times... don't really prove that, do they? MOST CFB QB's throw into coverage a few times per game. The definition of a 50/50 ball is that you throw to a covered receiver. If you aren't going to throw to covered receivers vs teams like UF and Bama... you aren't going to throw. (Like UT did the last time they went to the Swamp). They play tight man and then respond quickly when the ball is thrown.
I remember two or 3 times vs GT that Dormady literally "threw into coverage" in a bad way. I haven't rewatched UF... just can't stomach it yet... but there were a couple of occasions where he did in that game. The worst was on the play where UF got the taunting penalty.
He's had a lot of poorly thrown balls. He's missing guys across the middle and wide open WRs, plus throwing behind WRs. So I am also concerned about his field vision and ability to see down the field. It seems like he picks the WR he wants to throw to before the play and if that guy is not open, he checks it down for a 2 yard pass without scanning the field for other open WRs. He's not looking too good or improving.
Again, if it is the huge problem then you have obviously looked at those plays considering the play and responsibility of all of the other players on the field... and concluded that QD's issues as you describe them are the problem. If that is true then it should be VERY easy to cite specific plays or post the video proving it.
I get the argument that he is a new starter, but how long should we wait until we try JG? QD has had 3 games now and has not impressed me once. He has flashes of being great, but he's not consistent. 5 TDs/4 INTs is not going to do it for us.
And there is the crux of it. You could have dispensed with the other stuff and just admitted that you want JG to play.
The coaches let these guys compete for the job for 8 months. It was pretty obvious to me watching the O&W game that QD was much more advanced in running the O. He managed it well and was given more of it to manage. LWSVOL posted on here a few days ago that the competition was never as close as they publicly suggested. A reporter allowed to see closed practice portions slipped up and wrote that QD was the starter 2 weeks before GT.
There are 11 moving parts in an offense. What YOU need to judge Dormady on is NOT the plays where others don't do their jobs well... but the plays where they DO. Because just inserting JG... will not cause Jack Jones to suddenly not get run over by DT's. It won't keep Palmer from giving up on a timing slant route. It won't keep receivers from dropping catchable balls.
On a particular play vs UF, UT had something special set up. They caught UF in a particular look and went max protect with a two man seam route. At the end of the play... you can clearly see that MC and Palmer had drifted toward each other allowing UF's D to get the upper hand. Do you REALLY think adding a QB who really doesn't understand what's going on either... will fix things like that? And that's just one of the obvious ones.
