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This just hit me, and it may not reflect reality, but here is one possible theory.

It could be that Richt doesn’t like what he has seen from Perry & Weldon and doesn’t want either of them taking over as his long-term entrenched starting QB. Jarren Williams is his hand-picked QB of the future and the guy he wants under center for 3 years. But he hates the idea of throwing a true freshman out there and planned to bring him along slowly.

So, the plan was to let the 5th year senior be the QB this season and hope he can do enough (with a ton of help from the defense) to pull off 10 wins like last season. This would give Williams time to develop behind the scenes and then you roll with him starting in 2019.

Now here we are and the 5th year senior is a disaster riding a 4-game losing streak in which he has been exposed. Richt still feels like Williams isn’t ready and doesn’t want to hand the keys to either of the other two young QBs. If he does, his whole plan with Williams is shot.

So what does he do now? Deep down he still wants his original plan to work, but the fans, the media, and apparently also the receivers on the team have had enough of Rosier. He has a huge decision to make.

If Perry and Weldon really are knuckleheads who can’t be trusted then he just needs to throw Williams out there and play for the future.
 
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ddann said:
This just hit me, and it may not reflect reality, but here is one possible theory.

It could be that Richt doesn’t like what he has seen from Perry & Weldon and doesn’t want either of them taking over as his long-term entrenched starting QB. Jarren Williams is his hand-picked QB of the future and the guy he wants under center for 3 years. But he hates the idea of throwing a true freshman out there and planned to bring him along slowly.
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This is what was said about Kosi.

There's no way in **** you can just punt on this season given the talent on the team. You can always open up the competition in the offseason. We know what we are with Malik and CMR is doing the players, coaches, and fans a disservice if he doesn't swing for the fences with one of the 3 young guys.
 
True Fr are playing all over the country. Rosier is not the answer, not as a place holder or anything
 
supacane said:
True Fr are playing all over the country. Rosier is not the answer, not as a place holder or anything
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Exactly! My theory is Malik is the crutch, if he trots those other guys out there and they look terrible as well, it will show the lack of QB development from Richt and Richt Jr.
 
Starting to think Rosier has Marks Nudes or something lol. But seriously I think Perry will play differently when the lights are on than when he plays in practice. But thats just my opinion.
 
andreivelikopoljski said:
I just don't understand how Richt can say that Kosi needs to improve bc he "looks to tuck and run instead of looking down field" and you got Malik lookin rattled after his 1st read isn't there and takin off
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It's coach speak bro. I don't take anything from the richt press conferences and UM media interviews. They literally just talk in circles.
 
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ddann said:
This just hit me, and it may not reflect reality, but here is one possible theory.

It could be that Richt doesn’t like what he has seen from Perry & Weldon and doesn’t want either of them taking over as his long-term entrenched starting QB. Jarren Williams is his hand-picked QB of the future and the guy he wants under center for 3 years. But he hates the idea of throwing a true freshman out there and planned to bring him along slowly.

So, the plan was to let the 5th year senior be the QB this season and hope he can do enough (with a ton of help from the defense) to pull off 10 wins like last season. This would give Williams time to develop behind the scenes and then you roll with him starting in 2019.

Now here we are and the 5th year senior is a disaster riding a 4-game losing streak in which he has been exposed. Richt still feels like Williams isn’t ready and doesn’t want to hand the keys to either of the other two young QBs. If he does, his whole plan with Williams is shot.

So what does he do now? Deep down he still wants his original plan to work, but the fans, the media, and apparently also the receivers on the team have had enough of Rosier. He has a huge decision to make.

If Perry and Weldon really are knuckleheads who can’t be trusted then he just needs to throw Williams out there and play for the future.
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If so, that’s a heck of a plan by Richt. Play a scrub this year, because next year. When has that ever worked?
 
Not only did he refuse to play Williams/Weldon, he refused to play Lingard, Pope, Scaife, et al. All talented guys that should be seeing a lot more PT.
 
Don’t over think it. The deal is that the young guys haven’t lit it up consistently in practice. In that spot you go with the Sr., However the Sr. Is on a 4 game losing streak and could have blown your whole season becuase moral is low and his teammates are turning on him. At this point Richt has to get uncomfortable and hope that one of these guys can take a giant leap.

IMO based on the the suspensions of the more seasoned backups if they showed maturity and focused more on their craft they’d easily would have passed Malik already but there is an old saying that goes “how you do anything is how you do everything”. So odds are if you slacking in your non football responsibility you probably are slacking in some areas there as well.
 
No sir, he said today in his 560 interview "that they need to stay loyal to themselves" That tells me we are stuck with Malik baring an injury. He will look good these next few games against crap teams and then go missing again when we really need him to show up. UNC he will go missing and cost us another game
 
Kosi was his handpicked guy too. The last time Richt had a good qb I had hair.
 
I don't know, I saw a young Virginia Tech team last night led by a sophomore quarterback do pretty god**** good. If that's his plan, it sucks.
 
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Cribby said:
Kosi was his handpicked guy too. The last time Richt had a good qb I had hair.
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He inherited Perry from Alf. He can say Perry was "his guy" after making him recommit but based on recruiting history, that strains credulity.
 
Kendall Boy Cane said:
This is what was said about Kosi.

There's no way in **** you can just punt on this season given the talent on the team. You can always open up the competition in the offseason. We know what we are with Malik and CMR is doing the players, coaches, and fans a disservice if he doesn't swing for the fences with one of the 3 young guys.
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I get what you're saying, but realistically speaking, what are we playing for this season? A spot in the college football playoffs? No. We aren't beating Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, Washington, or Wisconsin. All of those teams at the bare minimum have competent QB play. We playing for an ACC championship? Right. Or are we playing to get to a half decent bowl game? I'd rather go 9-4 this season while letting the QB play sort itself out on the field in preparation for the future down the line.
 
ZuCrew said:
I get what you're saying, but realistically speaking, what are we playing for this season? A spot in the college football playoffs? No. We aren't beating Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, Washington, or Wisconsin. All of those teams at the bare minimum have competent QB play. We playing for an ACC championship? Right. Or are we playing to get to a half decent bowl game? I'd rather go 9-4 this season while letting the QB play sort itself out on the field in preparation for the future down the line.
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You and I are in agreement bud. Only way to know what we have moving forward is to put the young QBs in some real game action.

My fear is that if we ultimately let this year ride out with Malik and we still go in blind into next offseason OR that we don't take a QB this cycle and we are in a tough spot down the road in terms of timing.
 
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