Harry Heinous
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Carpe ******* diem, Perry !
Yes. Really.Not really, when you consider the starter was below average last year. It's not like he's trying to unseat Baker Mayfield or someone that is actually polished in their craft. If a true freshman ever had a decent shot it it, it's an EE Williams.
I believe he is coming in far better prepared than both Weldon and Perry, and is far more talented than Rosier. Yes it is a difficult task, but the job is ripe for the picking. If he came in late, I’d say no chance, but coming in early increases his odds greatly.Yes. Really.
It’s not just about beating out a below average senior incumbent. He’ll need to jump 2 other excellent prospects with experience in the system. How many reps do you think a 4th team QB will get in the course of spring and summer practice?
I’m not saying he can’t do it. I’m saying it’ll be a Herculean task. Yet we have a lot of people in here thinking there’s a good shot he’ll win the job.
Rosier's problems weren't mechanics, or that he was 10 lbs heavy. His problem was simply not being able to make reads and get the ball accurately to his targets when he did. Those problems won't be fixed with mechanics or salad.
Explain the first half of the Toledo game. Most of the Bethune game. Heck, pretty much every game leading up to the UNC game when he got hurt. Mechanics were not his main problem. Sure, an injury would make him worse, but he was already quite bad to begin with.Actually once Rosier's shoulder became injured he added some compensatory mechanisms that weren't ideal. Earlier in the year I have him throwing a perfectly thrown seem to Berrios. Stride was more compact, Rosier was upright after the throw, balanced. Fast forward to around the UNC game. Same concept to Berrios and Rosier was a lot more elongated in his base. (I had him at least 10 inches longer from the exact time of the release in stride distance)
The ball was caught but ultimately it was inaccurate and Berrios did not have any run after the catch potential. He has problems being a consistent mechanical entity delivering the football.
Explain the first half of the Toledo game. Most of the Bethune game. Heck, pretty much every game leading up to the UNC game when he got hurt. Mechanics were not his main problem. Sure, an injury would make him worse, but he was already quite bad to begin with.[/QUOTE
My intention wasn't to totally excuse Rosier's inaccuracy on mechanical reasons only to accentuate it. He does have some mechanical faults that arise from time to time that cause him to be less accurate. But like I believe you are alluding to, sure there is more than just the mechanical side.
Ultimately Rosier has deep roots to baseball and his delivery is somewhat equivocal to a baseball throw. He is not a short rotational C thrower. He tends to be a long deliverer of the football. I do not like that for essentially two reasons. 1. It allows the db more time to break on the ball. 2. The more accentuated you are with a wind up the more that has a propensity to go wrong mechanically.
Then as the season progressed and as Rosier got more comfortable with the offense, I think he became a little too predetermined with his reads. PITT game was an example of that with some zone blitzes. Rosier was content to hit slants and a lot were batted down or disrupted repeatedly. That would be an example off the top of my head I can think of. Read it. Don't just throw it.
You go ahead and combine those two issues, mechanical faults with misreading the coverage and you will get a less accurate quarterback. Mechanics are definitely part of the problem at times. That I can promise you.
I guess my point was that mechanics were not his main issue, and that fixing his mechanics won’t fix the bigger faults. I believe as a 5th year senior his time to fix those issues has almost expired. It also makes me think that he just doesn’t have the natural talent to excel at the position. Enough to be adequate, but not enough to truly get us to the next level. That being said, I hope he takes a huge step forward and proves me wrong.
Then as the season progressed and as Rosier got more comfortable with the offense, I think he became a little too predetermined with his reads. PITT game was an example of that with some zone blitzes. Rosier was content to hit slants and a lot were batted down or disrupted repeatedly. That would be an example off the top of my head I can think of. Read it. Don't just throw it.
That's it right there. Rosier has, and always will be, a one-read QB. Now, you can gameplan around that to an extent, and I think Richt did as good a job as can be expected mitigating Rosier's limitations. Rosier was being told "here's your guy, if he's not open, tuck and run" because that's the extent of Rosier's skillset as a QB. Eventually, any competent DC with a modicum of game film is going to get hip to that and see that Rosier just doesn't read the field. Add even a little bit of disguise or change to a defensive coverage and he's toast.
Mechanically, as Roman pointed out, that elongated delivery really affects timing - late on deep throws, late on timing routes like slants/curls - so even if Rosier made the right read, often the WR would have to make a ridiculous catch where maybe another QB hits him in stride (or finds a more open receiver.)