Bo has not had to deal with an analagous situation to losing our top 2 QBs.
HAHAHAHAHA! Really? So in a defense that is built like an offense (in that it has ONE linebacker that makes ALL the calls), Bo losing his top 2 linebackers is not like losing the top 2 qbs??? Give me a break! Bo did what a good coordinator does. He worked his a$$ off to teach the scheme to the guy, really coached him up, built his game plan around what his guys could do that week and what they couldn't do. That is what a good coordinator does.
Meh. Defense is really not built like the offense at all. Offense revolves around the QB. Sure the LB makes the calls, and it hurts, but it's not nearly the same. Any NFL defense, there's a guy that makes the calls, with a green sticker on the back of his helmet. Same thing: can't even try to compare the importance of that guy to the QB. He is important, but not the same.
And in our case, Lavonte was really our best LB anyway, just needed to be brought along.
Defense is just plain different than offense. We plan to play the season with 2 LBs. We have a ton of them on the roster, but we thin out the depth at the top, so OK. We'll just run a lot more 1 LB sets.
We have three actually viable guys at QB. I have NO idea why everyone thought our QB depth was strong. There was Zac, who most people and maybe Bo don't believe in anyway, and there's Taylor, a complete project RFr that has done a pretty good job, and Green, a 2nd-year project whom only star-gazers expected anything better out of. Nothing proven outside of Zac, and even Zac hadn't proven much. Behind that, you got your walk-on and your converted LB. When one of those #4/#5 guys now taking #2 reps, that should tell you the kind of trouble we are in at QB.
I suppose in '08, we had some depth issues at LB too. But that's a position where we were able to take a RB there and make it work, and throw in some freshmen walk-ons like Matt Holt and Matt May, and get some quality enough games out of them. You
really think QB is an analagous position?
While Green may be a 3rd string quarterback he is far from it. What i mean is Green started games last year when Lee wasn't hurt. It's not like he has never played in a game before the Iowa St game. From a traditional sense he is not a 3rd string quarterback at all. 3rd string qb's never take a snap in a game if the team even has one.
Green's situation is really just FUBAR. If he comes in here with 3 stars or 2 stars it is a completely different view of him, and consequently, of his QB coach.
Complete project at QB, projected to be a WR/TE in college, but we tried to make him a QB through and through. Needed him to burn his redshirt after Witt transferred and Spano went down again, or else he would have been our
fourth QB, redshirting, last year, instead of next-in-line. And of course, he was kept off the field for most of the year even with our starter ailing with a throwing arm injury that was limiting him severely.
That lack of redshirt year threw back Cody's development. I'm honestly baffled as to why he didn't redshirt this year, because he needed it and he still needs it. He's the kind of player that always was going to take a while to develop and hasn't been able to just stop, breathe, and work on that. If what you're trying to say is Cody isn't a typical 3rd string QB, you might be right, because typical 3rd string QBs on most teams are probably quarterbacks and not still-developing athletes. If you mean he is better than the typical third string, I think that's mistaken. Even this year, he would be #4 with a healthy Spano, IMO. OFC, Spano's career is ruined.
