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Look at this year. Bama and Georgia yeah they are in but Florida will lose 1-2 more, so will A&M. And yes you still get a Cincinnati to the party this year on an expanded playoff. I can’t see 4 SEC teams top 8. Maybe in a perfect storm year but they beat up on each otherNot sure if you have 2 loss teams I could see 4 make it from SEC.
Yes true. To be fair the lack of pass pro is contributing to his footwork issues. But at the same time footwork did not make him throw a pick 6 into soft zone prevent coverage. He was set.Mertz has no confidence in himself, and his throwing mechanics have fallen off miserably. Watch his feet on this pass.
What we see out there now, in no way resembles that QB we saw his first time out, against Illinois. Nothing is the same.
Don't think it's coaching. Tolzein and Stocco both took steps up with PC as OC / QB coach, Wilson was a much more polished pocket QB at UW than he was at NC State. His comp % at State was high 50% as a ceiling, at UW it was 72%, INT at State averaged 12 his last 2 years there, had 4 at UW.I'm not saying Mertz is a bad QB. I'm stating that there are problems in how he's playing that could deal with issues created from coaching. If you continuously tinker with a QBs game, eventually the wheels will fall off. I wonder how much tinkering they did with him.
I keep hearing how Chryst was a Badger QB. Yes, he was. He didn't really play much. In fact, as time went on, he ended up being buried way down on the list, and at one time as low as #5.
Yes and no. I never saw Tolzein as a game manager. I remember the OSU game where was much more than that. I get the OL issues and WR issues but I posted in earlier the 3rd down pass to Pryor that he ran a perfect route for a 1st was late, he also ran a deep out and go and had 3 yds separation that was a TD and missed and Dike ran a perfect stop and go route and was overthrown. That just pitch and catch stuff. Also the Wilson comp is validThey were caretaker type QBs who were supported by effective offensive lines, and RBs who required so much attention that their passing games were kept to the minimal, for success. We have no running game now, no overwhelming offensive line, and our WRs are sub-par. Comparing their success to what you expect of Mertz today is totally unfair. Especially since the Chryst/Rudolph combo shows absolutely no offensive imagination.
I've been this route as a player, and a coach.