We are every bit as good as Cincinnati and KU. The difference is, they both have superior athletes at QB and we don’t. Donovan continues to underwhelm. He has moments of greatness followed by terrible mental lapses. Yesterday’s attempted flea flicker was a perfect example. Instead of realizing the play was breaking down and running to a wide open right side of the field, Donovan threw into double coverage and of coarse was intercepted, killing every bit of momentum we had. This is a reoccurring theme.
Also, if you study Donovan’s tenure at QB you’ll notice that once Donovan throws an interception, it starts to affect his decision making. Seems like he starts second guessing himself, taking too long to throw, OL protection starts to give way, and our whole offense grinds to a screeching halt. This happens week in and week out. Sadly, this is all mental and can’t be coached away.
The team as a whole is good. Defense in particular is much improved over recent years. But as we all know, without a consistently good QB you’ll be mediocre at best. Your QB can’t throw 3 interceptions in a game and still expect to win.
We have to get two quarterbacks next season to be good. Starting and backup. I do not believe we have next years starter on campus.
At least we have three remaining games to tailgate.
In CWF’s defense, because of Donovan injury, he didn’t see him at all in spring and only limited in fall practice. But Donovan was our only QB with Big XII experience and was the senior leader. He made the decision most of us would’ve made
Somewhat improved but still bad. QB play is not good but part of that is an OL that can’t pass block, slowish wrs, poor route running wrs and wrs/tes that don’t block well or at all.
The best QB Fritz inherited gets hurt at end of spring and misses this whole year. (McMickle) The QB Fritz brings in to help is decent but injury prone and misses way too much time being hurt. (Criss). Ale, for whatever reason, doesnt play much. Fritz is stuck playing Smith because he has to. Next year, we have a top QB coming in, plus our returnees next year and QB figures to be a much better played position than it has proven to be this year. I think we’ll also add another QB who will help. We’ll be a lot better next year.