My coach would tell us if ya get one hand on it, you could have caught it. 2 hands, you should have caught it.
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Yes I understand “on target” but as some have stated you have to take into account inappropriate velocity changes from a young QB. I was just using 30% as an arbitrary number. I think the vast majority of people put almost all the blame on the receiver though, with minimal blame on the QB. The WR job is to catch the ball, the QB job is to get it there. It’s not really the QB fault if they make an accurate throw but the WR can’t catch it.
100%...as a mildly average wr in high school, that was the expectation, just like in baseball if you are hitting with a man on second base, it's your job to advance the runner...if you don't you failed. Even as a db, if the ball's in your area, it's your job to compete and high point the ball for interception. We need burners on the outside, for sure, but we a few more of these guys.
Yeah, it's not like we had Pickens, Harper, etc NFL guys out there. Just as disturbing, to me, is that we couldn't get Matthews on the field...he showed flashed his talent, but there were WR frosh all over the country making an impact on games. It's obvious to me that we value him b/c we got aggressive to keep him, so, to me, it's on the staff for lack of getting him on the field, even though he had an injury thing in early part of season.
I actually prefer D4H over him.Legion of the miserable posting his usual BS trash. Dude thinks he knows about football. He thinks we should just overlook the many great passes thrown by Joe and Nico that were flat out dropped. Oh he brings up Bru? Bru doesn’t look anywhere close to what he did in his first year. I guess his injury had nothing to do with it. Let’s just ignore the almost 10 TD passes in 2023 that were dropped. Oh but Joe. lol. The WRs practice on machines that throw it harder than Joe did.
Yeah obviously all these drops were on Nico. I mean what most of us witness was fake. We didn’t see the WRs dropping passes. We’re all of the perfect? Nope. But many hit them in the hands and were dropped. At the college level, you should catch something that hits you in the hands. Yeah let’s ignore multiple sports broadcasters and analysts that said our WRs were not very good. We should just all take legions of the miserable child’s word. He is almost in D4H level idiocy.
I've wondered that too but I have been told certain QBs throw a more catchable pass than others. Whether they may not put as much spin or velocity or maybe its certain QBs throw more to the condition of the play versus someone like Milton that threw a rocket about every pass. I know Mahomes throws it different in a lot of different dynamic situations from a underhand throw or a shovel toss to a rocket when needed.
I'm one of his biggest critics and even I don't think he sucks. But he dang sure isn't "as advertised" and he definitely isn't living up to the NIL money he's getting. We are missing out of other players that would add quality to our depth and could be the difference between breaking through to the next level but instead we are giving all that money to one guy. At the end of the day we could fix all problems with more money. But so far that's not in the cards and as log as that's the case, we are not going to improve. Sure we can eliminate dropping the once a season game to inferior teams, a la Arkansas, but getting past Georgia and getting beyond the first or second round of the playoffs is a pipe dream.
Exactly! Some are acting like he's a 3 yr starter and has started 30+ games. Comparing Nico's 1st year and Peyton's, it's not even close. Nico had much better stats as a 1st year starter and doesn't turn it over like Peyton . I think Nico takes the next step this upcoming year and has a great Sophomore season. Of course that's with the Oline improving with pass blocking, the WR's not dropping passes and Nico becoming more accurate on the deep ball. Definitely blame to go around and not solely on Nico. Pretty amazing how some of our fans just like to bitch and blame 1 player without looking at the big picture. It's pretty impressive how wrong some of them are.
