Mike McNeill, the TE that never was

BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA said:
Watson should be arrested for the misuse and abuse of McNeil this season!!!It is a shame!!!
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It's a good thing coach Watson has called those deep routes to Niles Paul after 'the article'. It's pretty obvious coach Watson's football IQ is on a whole other level. I'm just assuming he just didn't want to wear out one of our best receivers and decided to give McNeil a much needed rest. How smart of him! I really hope McNeil is ready to go for Oklahoma State.

Thanks for looking out for us coach Watson!

 
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I don't think Watson was to blame as much as the quarterbacks were. I saw him running wide open a number of times, just not getting thrown to. I even saw him trying to explain to Bo to try and get Taylor to look his way, or something to that effect. Who knows.

 
Well, we can't exactly clamor for a change in offense that involves 70%+ runs, with a running QB that is a liability in the passing game, and still expect McNeil (or any WR) to put up good stats.

 
As a blocker, McNeill didn't play very well Saturday.

As a receiver, I couldn't see him much on TV, but I imagine any time he was in man coverage he was probably covered - he's not fast enough against UT's secondary unless they let him go.

I heard that several times there were people running wide open that the QBs missed, but from what I could tell on TV, on at least a few of those plays, it looked like the QB had already made the decision to go to the also wide open underneath man, and was throwing the ball just as the deep man released and became open. So I'm not sure if that's really on the QBs or not, but I thought the QBs generally made pretty good decisions in the passing game.

 
Hercules said:
As a blocker, McNeill didn't play very well Saturday.

As a receiver, I couldn't see him much on TV, but I imagine any time he was in man coverage he was probably covered - he's not fast enough against UT's secondary unless they let him go.

I heard that several times there were people running wide open that the QBs missed, but from what I could tell on TV, on at least a few of those plays, it looked like the QB had already made the decision to go to the also wide open underneath man, and was throwing the ball just as the deep man released and became open. So I'm not sure if that's really on the QBs or not, but I thought the QBs generally made pretty good decisions in the passing game.
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As blockers as a team, no one played well.

As receivers, he was open more than I thought, which was a suprise most of the game. All of our receivers broke free more than I would have imagined. So the line about routes being open was true. Taylor just missed them, some times because of the pressure and other times because he was already tunnel visioning on his receiver.

 
NU'd said:
October 18th, 2010 at 3:51 pm

McNeill had a raggedly layer of Cotton thrown on top of him.
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heh. heh. heh. Pretty funny comment to the blog article there.

 
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Hercules said:
As a blocker, McNeill didn't play very well Saturday.
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That wasn't just last Saturday. He may throw the weakest block this side of the Missouri river. Every cast member from the movie Willow could be a better blocking TE then Mike. A bag stuffed with tic tacs and a dead weasel would be...

You get the point.

 
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