I just have a good feeling that NEB will be throwing much more this game. If Wats is even a decent O Coorindater....we should be throwing more passes this game to soften up their run D schemes.
yep, Wats is the big "if" factor....
This is an example of the impossible situation coordinators are often in.
We tend to gobble up incredibly rosy pictures of our players. In short, we think they can do anything, and we demand our coordinators to turn them into things they often aren't. For example, in another thread, Hunter, you call Watson to use Taylor like UT's Gilbert. Never mind that they are not close to the same kind of player. Taylor is not going to be used like Gilbert, plain and simple.
Gilbert is a throwing quarterback (perhaps a bit of a dual threat, too, but by our standards he would be "laughably slow, as a grandma"), one of the top guys in his class, right up there with Matt Barkley, and spent last year paying his dues and being groomed fast behind Colt McCoy. Taylor spent last year largely as a scout team receiver, making the switch in the offseason. Taylor has tremendous, tremendous athletic skills and you can't say he doesn't have the desire to be a quarterback.
But at the same time, he has a very long way to go in that department. People say that's fine, we don't need him to be far along. Fine. Evidently, the coaching staff agrees with that sentiment. But understand, this means we rely on Taylor's strengths, while understanding that he needs a simplified passing game and he will struggle if we ask him to make progressions all over the field. Also, that passing game, that relies on getting receivers wide open, is predicated on the continued delivery of Taylor's running as a threat.
In short, the offense is tied down to the things Taylor is capable of handling at this point in his young career. And those things are quite limited in scope, and even then, we've seen Taylor struggle with them: pressing too much, searching for the big play over just playing the game and keeping the O in good situations on the field, making bad reads and bad decisions. Of course I'm highlighting just the negatives here; he does bring some amazing positives, which we've all seen. But understand what the limitations are to running with an unpolished athlete at QB. There are tradeoffs to every decision, and I'm not saying this one isn't worth it. But to expect a decision like this to not have its particular consequences that we have to live with, is folly.
