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How has Tyler VanDyke been progressing?

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Manny said in an interview yesterday that he is doing well and pushing for the 2nd string role, but I have a hard time believing that Manny will make him the 2nd string unless King is injured for a significant amount of time or TVD is leaps and bounds ahead of Perry. The second he puts TVD ahead of Perry, Perry is almost certainly gone and that leaves TVD and Matchoda as the only 2 QBs on the roster next year.

Now if TVD is showing out, maybe Perry sees the writing on the wall and decides to transfer regardless, but no point in making that decision easier for him.
 
Shogungts said:
Manny said in an interview yesterday that he is doing well and pushing for the 2nd string role, but I have a hard time believing that Manny will make him the 2nd string unless King is injured for a significant amount of time or TVD is leaps and bounds ahead of Perry. The second he puts TVD ahead of Perry, Perry is almost certainly gone and that leaves TVD and Matchoda as the only 2 QBs on the roster next year.

Now if TVD is showing out, maybe Perry sees the writing on the wall and decides to transfer regardless, but no point in making that decision easier for him.
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And the could that happen regardless and can not be in the decision-making process IMO. We need to get him some reps this season.
 
The Franchise said:
No one here knows. And no one will know until he gets on the field with live bullets flying. The end.
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This is the absolute truth. I have zero idea what this guy is, or how good he is. Other than he superficially looks like a good quarterback, which means absolutely nothing.

I can find a lot of guys his size and with his physique, that would be absolutely terrible quarterbacks. Of course, I’m hoping he’s an absolute stud.

You will be having a lot of people telling you he looks this way or that way in practice, when the truth is, quarterback is, in my opinion, the hardest position to judge, even by people that know what they’re talking about, when they watch somebody in practice.

Unless you see someone actually playing a college game when the bullets are live, it’s just so hard to judge.

Even guys that tear it up in practice, sometimes get that thousand yard stare when the lights come on, and don’t perform. In my opinion this is one of the hardest positions to project. Even if you have a mountain of information.

Also, there’s a 75 year history of guys that were absolute studs in high school, that bombed out in college. Again this is one of the hardest positions to project into college.

The moral of the story is, you always have to have at least three decent prospects on the roster. They all don’t have to be “superstar“ prospects, but prospects that at least have potential.
 
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Canesfan1899 said:
And the could that happen regardless and can not be in the decision-making process IMO. We need to get him some reps this season.
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Oh I agree, but what I should have said was that if it was legitimately close between Perry and TVD, I don't blame Manny for not putting TVD ahead of Perry. I think the added risk of running Perry off (which may happen anyway) outweighs the benefits of getting some mop up duty time (if we even have the chance to have mop up duty time which doesn't seem particularly likely) for TVD.
 
The Franchise said:
No one here knows. And no one will know until he gets on the field with live bullets flying. The end.
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What about the infamous Greentree gospel. I'm sure ole Manuel will be singing his praises in the spring about how good he looks.
 
Canesfan1899 said:
Completely understand that but was curious to see if he's progressing.
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Point is no one here knows if he's progressing. Even the coaches, who seem him every day, could only say whether or not he throws some decent passes in practice with no one watching. QB is all about what a guy does with bullets flying. Same with kickers. Baxa was a dynamo with no one around.
 
Ivins spoke about him in one of his most recent podcast and says the coaches have told him the kid is rapidly growing now that the initial spook of jumping from high school to the college game has gone away. Unlike many, many of the former players that held that position at UM, TVD is staying after practice and doing all the right things to learn the playbook.
 
oso4lyf said:
Ivins spoke about him in one of his most recent podcast and says the coaches have told him the kid is rapidly growing now that the initial spook of jumping from high school to the college game has gone away. Unlike many, many of the former players that held that position at UM, TVD is staying after practice and doing all the right things to learn the playbook.
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So the opposite of our receivers? Got it
 
305407cane said:
So the opposite of our receivers? Got it
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Hey in defense of the WR's, it's the upper classmen that are following the same path those QB's did. The freshmen and incoming WR's seem to have their heads well placed.
 
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