canestim
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Couldn't agree more. Simplify things for him. Kaaya is not used to making these reads. Test that RPO stuff only sparingly and when we have big leads. Ease into it. Let him do what he's proven he is good at.
We are asking our coach to simplify things for a 3rd year starter that has NFL aspirations. Are you kidding me? Not saying Richt hasn't been dog **** the last few games but Kaaya 100% has to be better. I'm not blaming Richt Right for Kaaya ****ting his pants every 3rd down (which he also did against FAU btw) and missing wide open receivers by a mile. That's all Kaaya.
I'm not talking about simplifying from a playbook standpoint or route standpoint. I'm talking about not bogging him down with all that pre and post-snap decision making and not asking him to run a system that he's never run that requires too much movement from him.
You're taking a painfully slow guy who doesn't appear to make decisions all that quickly and asking him to ride the RB and make a split second decision to give him the ball or pull it out and then try to set his feet to make a throw. It's too much, and it's not working.
Put him in the gun and let him do what he's shown he can do. Get in a rhythm and play some pitch and catch.
How much discretion does kaaya have? If richt is letting him make reads at the line before the play then I think it's reasonable to put more blame on kaaya. He's a third year player who has seen a lot of defenses. By now he should be able to see the matchups and put us in a favorable play. He's missing a lot of reads. It made sense to simplify the defensive scheme but I don't think it does for the offense. Play calling has been too restrictive
Bottom line: Rick is the HC and OC. Kaaya is a college kid. It's up to the guy making $4M to dial up good plays and not leave it up to a college kid.
Now that there's 3 desultory samples against the 3 P5 teams we have played it's clear the offense isn't working. It's up to the guy making $4M to fix things and find things that the college kid is comfortable doing to get him rolling.
I agree with Franchise, Kaaya has cement feet but if he's the best QB we got it's Richt's job to get him firing on rythm. Some of it's been Richt play calling, some of it's on the OL, some of it's on Kaaya, and some of it's on the wr/te's dropping passes but at the end of the day it's really all on him.
All that aside my real issue with Kaaya is his lack of leadership. He just doesn't have that swag confidence go for the kill I'm taking this over type leadership. But again, if he's our QB it's Richt's job to find out what's best and make it work which he ain't doing.
Dorsey would throw a duck and be on the sidelines like "****** I don't care how bad my pass is you catch it" lol. Berlin would get that fire in him to do whatever it took to win. Even Jacory had a little dog swag in him, not much but a little.
I was watching Green Bay vs Dallas on Sunday and if Brad Kaaya had as much time as Aaron Rodgers does to pass he would be shredding it. But he doesn't and that's for Richt to figure out something to make it work. He's got faults but he is still a very good QB and the best one on the team.