Not saying he’s great or anything, but yesterday he had a much better game than in week one, and Smith is NOT one of the main reasons we lost.
See my list above for the main reasons.
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Definitely. O lines job was to give him 3 seconds to look at the only option he was given to target. If nothing is there, run! Or just sit down lol
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If Smith is the answer, what is the question?
Team sport
Yes it is, and when one member of the team is underperforming the whole team suffers. In two games Smith has led the team to one touchdown and 2 interceptions. he has also led the offense to two field goals, both outside the 20 so he has 0 points in the red zone. Seems to me that quarterback is a huge point of failure for this team.
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Smith didn’t underperform last game. As I said, completing 86% of your passes for over 260 yards wouldn’t be considered underperforming as a general rule.
He way outperformed OU QB, whose team won. Indeed, Smith had more passing yards than OU had total offense (249).
Smith wasn’t the reason we lost this week. Game One was a different story; Smith definitely had issues in that game (the poor protection from our O-line didn’t help), but I definitely don’t blame Smith for THIS week’s loss.
I blame questionable coaching (play calling and clock management) and poor O-line run blocking (which led to us getting only 58 rushing yards) more than anything else.
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Smith has a history of not being able to score in the red zone and throwing too many interceptions. Between the 20s only maters if you score. No scoring is no winning. It doesn’t matter how many yards he throws for.
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Hey man. One of the OU QB’s TD passes was basically a gimme following a very bad punt call. So I’m not entirely sold on that line of goods.
I’m afraid that type of simplistic reasoning simply doesn’t work for me.
You’re probably the only person blaming Smith THIS week. That should tell you something.
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He overthrew Jonah Wilson and we missed out on an easy TD. That would have changed the outcome
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So would a lot of other things, like not calling a draw on your own goal line late in the game, or jumping offsides when you would have held OU and gotten the ball back with plenty of time to get into game winning field goal range.
One play doesn’t make a game.
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I really respect you but I don’t think Smith is a good qb. He seems to panic under pressure. As I said before will just have to agree to disagree on the merits of Smith as a qb. I have never heard anything negative about Smith as a person and I respect that of Him.
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Whether he is overall good or not isn’t the issue.
The issues are a) how he played THIS week, and b) whether he’s significantly to blame for THIS week’s loss.
This answers are as follows: a) pretty well over all, and based on that b) no, he’s not.
There are far bigger reasons why we lost and several aspects of our team’s game that were far worse and far more to blame this week than Smith.
I don’t think Smith is a talented as should be at his age/experience, but I assume that the playbook is going to open up as the season progresses
You can’t have a super complicated playbook in the first 2-3 games, which is why they’ve been using so many simple play designs
I hope the playbook caters to smiths strengths
I respect Mr UHLaw as well. But I have to say that Smith wasn’t the ONLY reason we lost but he still was and is a big reason we aren’t “winning” games. Nothing against him as a person.
Against OU I believe Fritz designed short yardage passing plays where there was only ONE option and the rest of the routes and blocking were to free up that one option. That’s the reason for the high completion %. There was only 1 deep-ish ball.
Other times there were players open in a better position/more potential yardage and he didn’t even look. He keyed in on one receiver each time.
The Postma’s and Cotton’s of the world would’ve had 30 pts, with the current O-line.
His accuracy and range are very below average and his speed/elusiveness is non-existent. That really limits the playbook.
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Hard to argue that that passing strategy was an ineffective one given how much yardage it gained.
Contrast that with our run game that only gained 58 yards on 37 attempts.
THAT’S a major reason why we lost.
As were some of the stupid play calling, poor clock management, special team snafus, and stupid penalties.
I don’t know if it’s so much play calling versus the fact that we can’t have an entire playbook ready this early
I’m sure the playbook opens up as the season progresses.
A draw at a teams own goal line is not that uncommon of a play, we just executed it very poorly largely due to the o-line
Given how little time was on the clock, I’d be looking to pass the ball, get up field, and get out of bounds.
Any running play, and in particular, that one, was hard to fathom at that stage, when we should have been trying to conserve the clock and get up field fast.
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Someone else said that we’re playing “defensive offense” and I have to agree. When you’re down on your goal line late in the game with the potential to win, you have to be an aggressive offense. That doesn’t mean throw the hail mary on 1st down, but between our talented TE’s and RB’s we can deploy out of the backfield, we should be able to scheme plays to make positive yards and get out of bounds and move downfield. At some point hit our WR’s who are getting open because the defense is moving up to the line. Maybe we wouldn’t have won. Maybe we throw an int, but at least we are aggressively trying to win the game. Now, if we don’t have confidence that our QB1 can execute those plays, then it’s time for a new QB1.
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D. Smith passed the ball side to side for most the game. Made all the safe throws. His ceiling is a game manager. Coaches do not trust him to make plays to win games. Which is why you hand the ball to the running back for a safety. Be glad when a game changer arrive.
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I think UH was running a lot to control the clock.