If he has a serious medical condition, it might be from having run our scout team this year and getting lit up by our DL and LBs.
Height makes a difference as well.
Well, like it or not, his weight/strength went into the decision to RS him, along with inexperience. I know that for a fact. I also don't worry about it downstream. I'm more concerned about the blood problem and its unknowns. There's more than just height and weight involved in body build. Side by side, Watson and BB look nothing alike...
If there`s anything to worry about, that`s it IMO. His physical stature at this point concerns me not a whit with CSC`s conditioning program and a good training table.
I think it was obvious during the ole miss game that he did. Yeah you can make the argument that had cooper kept the ball we might've squeaked out a win, but Coker was far and away the better qb and a bigger part of why we won the title than some give him credit for.
You're using a guy in his first career start against a pretty good defense (Tony Conner was on the field for the game) in his third year of college football to compare to a guy in his fifth year of college football. Entering that game, Bateman had thrown passes in two games - Wisconsin and Middle Tennessee State. That's it.
Genetics play huge role, bone and muscle types.
He's pretty scrawny. For comparison, he's about the same size as Ardarius Stewart.
That pic doesn't look "scrawny" to me. He's a lot thicker than BB. He's supposedly the same weight as BB, but I think heavier, and he's 3" shorter. Makes a difference...
I'm not arguing that Watson isn't a bit thicker, but he's not built much thicker than BB and he survived a beating this year. That's the point I was making above re: punter. Watson's just not a big guy, but he can take the abuse:
I can only wish he had the musculature of Watson. You can look at the two and see there's just no way BB could stand the beating Watson did. Croyle was basically a pocket passer and I held my breath every time he took off to run. If BB is going to survive a season, unless he can gain a lot of muscle, we'll have to use him much the way we used Coker and the other pocket passers...I think you can tell the difference in Blake and our other QB's. Most other QB's on the roster are at least 15 lbs heavier.
