Yes. If his arm was a person, it would be one of those people that talks to everyone like they're deaf. "HEY, CHRIS, I GOT A BALL FOR YOU TO CATCH!" Chris Black: "What?!"
****Bama vs. FAU - Postgame Thread****
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Well I'm more confident than what I was last week. We have two serviceable qbs with totally different skill sets and offensive style that they run. So I think whoever is named the man will be good and if he struggles we have a good option behind him.
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He made some mid range throws also which may be enough to loosen the defenses up. I think sims will be the man. You could even see his confidence increases this game also.
I'm telling y'all… A dual threat quarterback that can still give the efficiencies that SAban wants will be scary good if he improves from here. It is just such a different style than what we are used to.
I'd remind people that LSU has spent the majority of the Les Miles era using two QBs in some fashion (other than the times where they had clear #1 QBs in Russell and Mettenburger). They haven't been as successful as us over the totality of the time period but they have had some dang good teams that have really challenged us and any other SEC team with their physical offense.
We may be heading for this kind of situation. Sims gives us something extra with his legs while Coker isn't quite polished enough to argue for giving him all the snaps with the first-string. I get the feeling that we're going to need his arm at certain points in the SEC schedule. Of course, he needs to clean up his reads and decisionmaking...but he's got another week before we go live-fire. Their skillsets are diverse enough that it gives the opponent a good bit to prepare for in a week. We haven't even seen a ZR keep from Sims and he spent the majority of his backup tenure doing only that.
We may be heading for this kind of situation. Sims gives us something extra with his legs while Coker isn't quite polished enough to argue for giving him all the snaps with the first-string. I get the feeling that we're going to need his arm at certain points in the SEC schedule. Of course, he needs to clean up his reads and decisionmaking...but he's got another week before we go live-fire. Their skillsets are diverse enough that it gives the opponent a good bit to prepare for in a week. We haven't even seen a ZR keep from Sims and he spent the majority of his backup tenure doing only that.
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I could care less what Ware thinks about anything. Good thing there was Eli to listen to.
Coker threw deep several times. Have to wonder if Saban and Kiffin called those plays to show him the other options rather than always going for the home run.
I liked what I saw from Jake in the second half. He's not consistent, though. That can really hurt us later in the season. That can also be fixed with more playing time. Would expect to see a similar rotation against USM next week.
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I liked what I saw from Jake in the second half. He's not consistent, though. That can really hurt us later in the season. That can also be fixed with more playing time. Would expect to see a similar rotation against USM next week.
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Anyone besides me a little befuddled about the lack of utilizing 88 in the offensive game plan? I thought maybe they were taking that away from us in the first game. But today, when we could do pretty much anything we wanted, I expected to see the ball go OJ's way a couple of times at least.
I love Blake. He's ok. He's shown some improvement. But it's obvious that coaches are very careful with what they allow him to do vertically. That's not because they're unfair. They know his limitations. These swing passes are not gonna work against sec defenses. Good for Blake, he's got some PT. But we've got to move on to the guy with the most upside. SEC defenses are just going to crowd the line with Blake and shut us down. Coker showed tremendous improvement over the course of the game. Time to give him an opp at the starting role.
Ok, that is your opinion. I think Coker played well after a rocky start. definitely gives the team another dimension.
I would like to see more designed plays to him but both qb's missed him running wide open today
That at was the knock against Coker at Florida State. Always overthrowing receivers.
Don't know how it looked on TV, but from inside the stadium the entire offense played faster with Sims in the game. It looked and felt like everyone was more comfortable.
I would give Blake Sims an A+ except for that handoff to Yeldon in the 3rd quarter. We should have had points on that drive.
I've got to watch that so called hand-off again.
We don't need a B. Sims vs Coker controversy. We need a Bama NC! If it takes playing both QB's to get it, then so be it. It is what it is! They both have their strengths. That Blake Sims TD run showed one of his strengths. I think he showed leadership on the sidelines also in interacting with Coker when he made good plays.
Sims played an almost perfect 1st Quarter. I actually hated to see him come out of the game. He could have put up some incredible numbers!
Coker's long throws were off and his play with 7 seconds left in the 1st half were not heady! We should have had at least 3 points! He should have thrown the ball away quickly if no one was open. Did he know that we only had 7 seconds left on the clock? He should have!
I've got to watch that so called hand-off again.
We don't need a B. Sims vs Coker controversy. We need a Bama NC! If it takes playing both QB's to get it, then so be it. It is what it is! They both have their strengths. That Blake Sims TD run showed one of his strengths. I think he showed leadership on the sidelines also in interacting with Coker when he made good plays.
Sims played an almost perfect 1st Quarter. I actually hated to see him come out of the game. He could have put up some incredible numbers!
Coker's long throws were off and his play with 7 seconds left in the 1st half were not heady! We should have had at least 3 points! He should have thrown the ball away quickly if no one was open. Did he know that we only had 7 seconds left on the clock? He should have!
Ha. I'm sure. It's nothing personnel. I like Blake. But, think about it. Swing pass. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Shot downfield or intermediate throw. SEC defenses will crowd the line and take it all away. Coker opens up running lanes. The defense has to respect the pass and can't cram the box.
Defensive line is very worrisome. Robinson got pushed out of the hole like last week. To be called the strength of the D heading into the year, it now looks like the weakspot of team
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I don't think anybody doubts that, but there's more to it than upside. I keep seeing people saying that Blake will get ate up in SEC play because he can't throw the deep ball, but the same is true with the inaccuracy and slow routine passes that Coker was throwing. Blake makes the routine throws very well, which has always been the bread and butter of our offense. Coker has to get better with those to win the job, IMO. There's no doubt that Jake has a cannon, but he'll have to be a lot better than he was to today to be the starter, IMO.
The fact that Blake performed like he did against a much better team last week has to be taken into consideration also. I'd argue that if Coker made the mistakes he did today last week, we could have very easily lost that game. That kinda tells me why we didn't see him last week until the last 2 plays.
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