Whitmer is a great QB. yes he still has to grow, but we have to understand when your constantly put on a 3rd and long situation... that adds a lot of pressure on the QB.... Any QB would have a rough game in those types of situations especially when the defense knows the play because its sooooo predictable... DeLeone constantly had McCombs who is 5'7 166lbs run up the middle and left Whitmer to handle a 3rd and long constantly, like, if we don't have big talented backs! I blame DeLeone! of course our O-Line and QB going to look bad with play calls like DeLeone's
We have seen nothing to think he is a great qb. He has 5 INT's through 2 games. I am not saying he is not going to develop, but there has been nothing to indicate he is a great qb right now. With that said, we need to give him a chance. I want to see improvement each game. Shouldn't be hard to improve from this one. Can it? In the NC State game, he showed nothing positive. At all. 3 INT's (2 of which my section was screaming, No No No!!!! when we saw him lock on a receiver), 1 should have been INT, no pocket presence, no touch, and throwing the ball behind receivers.
He is certainly an upgrade nobody's debating that. I agree the biggest issue by far is play calling, and we win that game with a reasonable plan that excludes the wildcat. The things that get me really frustrated keep happening before the snap.
Okay maybe he's not great but has potential and again with a predictable offense and always put on a 3rd and long any QB will have an issue
How can you say the biggest issue is playcalling when our qb showed no ability to execute any play? The play calling was poor (specifically the timing of the wildcat) but there were a ton of player failures here. How can we think we could win that game? Our only big gainer was a swing to McCombs who did the work himself? Maybe I am still steamed, but I have no idea how anyone right now can say Whitmer is an upgrade over JMac right now. He was abyssmal today. I would say there play after 2 starts is equal.
Again, might just be steamed, but what is the potential? And believe me, I am praying that he lives up to the hype. What we knew about him is that he threw too many INT's in JC. He has 5 in 2 games so far. He has shown nothing so far. Not a sweet deep throw, not hanging in the pocket, not an amazing run. Nothing. He has to step up or we are going to waste one of the Nation's best defenses. (yes, they are that good). I am going to check out a little while because I need to calm down.
BECAUSE MAYBE THE OPPOSING DEFENSE ALREADY KNOWS WHAT OUR DUMB OFFENSE IS GOING TO DO ITS CALLED PREDICTABILITY... THE DEFENSE CAN DEFEND A PLAY THEY CAN SEE COMING! DO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THESE THREADS AT ALL?
Do you remember how bad McEntee was last year against Vandy? He just went 15-27 for 204 yards and 3 picks. Against Vandy McEntee was 10-27 for 99 yards and 3 picks.
Whitmer is an upgrade over McEntee (how soon you all forget) but so far, it isn't a large improvement. IMO, he has better pocket presence than JMac ever did (very low bar there) and he can be pretty accurate, leading the receiver on the short stuff. That being said, his judgment on throwing into coverage was abysmal. Two of the three INT's were balls that should never have been thrown. Both into double coverage. Given JMac is our second option, we're all going to have to take our lumps with Whitmer and hope he improves his judgment drastically.
I don't know how you can say that. Granted, he played lousy today and 3 INTs are not going to cut it. But CW wasn't the biggest problem today. If our OL played terrible today we win the game. I'm actually afraid to watch the game on DVR because I don't want to confirm what my eyes saw today.
We lost by 3, so it's reasonable to say we change a few things for the better and we win that game. Keep in mind we had probably 25 yards of plays called back and -30 on false starts, that plus the wildcat is a huge hole to start from for any QB. Jmac would have been sacked 8 times today if he is in there IMO.
That's why tomorrow I will step off the ledge. We lost 13-10 to a good team, IMO. I, like alot of us here, tend to go a little overboard right after a loss. I am going to try and relax a little (looks at bottle of vodka in frreezer)
