Accurate. Good arm. Good timing. Keeps eyes downfield. Can look off a safety. Can throw into tight windows. Can throw with zip and with touch and on the run.
Where is all this hate for Perry coming from? He’s a young guy adjusting to playing at the college level. He has made mistakes and will make more if Richt isn’t too stupid to give him the opportunity.
Should UVA have pulled their QB when he threw two picks in the first quarter?
All this writing Perry off is just mind-boggling.
Thank you!!!! I'm not the only one who thinks this is has been insane. Though Perry's interceptions looked bad, if you watch the plays again and listen to what he said post game, you get a better understanding. Most of these knuckleheads have such knee jerk reactions.
On the first interception it looked like the receiver was wide open deep. Perry didn't see the safety camping in center field. The pass was easily picked off, but the ball was on target. He just didn't see/account for the safety. It happens.
On the 2nd interception, Perry said post game that he thought the receiver was going to break to the sideline. So, either the receiver ran the wrong route or Perry didn't know the correct route. The ball looked so badly thrown because Perry throws with anticipation which is what good/great QBs do. So, if you throw the ball anticipating your WR is going to break right, the ball would have been right on time and either been a catch or an incomplete pass, but not a pick. So, if you understand those two things, you know the sky isn't falling.
I tried to point out that Payton Manning threw 26 touchdowns and 28 interceptions in his first year in the NFL as a rookie. The people here don't want to hear that ****. They expect perfection every down and every game. Though they expect that in the players, but they don't demand it of themselves. I'm just so fed up with the impatience and negativity.
The only thing that burned my *** besides the **** poor blocking was Richt's failure to adjust his play calling based on how the offense was playing. He should have went to the short passing game much sooner. The announcers even said so in the 1st qtr. He's so stubborn. It's like he thinks he's got the horses to just pound people into submission ala old school SEC. Well, you don't have the horses in the offensive trench so add some finesse and adjust your play calling. It does no one any good to say, "Well if we executed, the plays would have worked." Like no ****. If you execute, any play will work. The trick is finding the plays that will work in that given moment. What worked last week might not work this week and what worked in the 1st half may no work in the 2nd. IMO, as bad as the offense was, I think we could have won fairly easily with better play calling. We have the athletes at the skill positions. Get them the ball in space with short passes like you did when we got our only touchdown which was sadly way to late in the game.
