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Wood vs. Hirsch, Spring Conclusions

Re-watched the Spring Game. Wood is the leaderin the QB derby. Hirsch is OK, but Wood looked quite a bit better IMO.
 
NYbuffDIEHARD said:
I am glad to see most of agree Wood looked better, he did. I just don't see it with Hirschman, he has had considerable playing time in real games and the guy just doesn't look good to me, ever.
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+1
You can see improvement in both guys, but it's pretty clear that Hirschman doesn't have the same upside.
 
Darth Snow said:
heh. I thought it was terrible. JT was wide open with no one near him due to a blown coverage and Hirsch overthrew him to the point it took a brilliant catch by JT to save the TD.
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Hirsch didn't know JThom would be so wide open when he threw the ball. He the threw it to a spot where only JThom could get it. At least that's my interpretation of that particular play. And yes, JThom made a nice, diving catch. I'm going to enjoy seeing him play. The kid has skills.
 
sackman said:
Hirsch didn't know JThom would be so wide open when he threw the ball. He the threw it to a spot where only JThom could get it. At least that's my interpretation of that particular play. And yes, JThom made a nice, diving catch. I'm going to enjoy seeing him play. The kid has skills.
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What I don't get is how a ball that's snapped at the 35yd line gets thrown in the end zone and there's no one within 15 yards of the WR. Schematically, wtf was that. I have only two confidence instilling answers:

1. We are DARING CSU to throw deep over the middle on us in the first series because we plan on picking it off
2. A mutually agreed upon show of offensive force to make teams think twice about double covering Prich

My not so confidence instilling answers are:

1. Our safeties haven't realized you can't leave a gigantic part of the field open without giving up easy TDs
2. Our coaches haven't figured out how to teach #1
3. We are waiting on some true FR to step into the position because we haven't found a safety with good instincts
 
Hopefully the safeties will be better with TSmith and Orms starting (if healthy).
 
AKfan said:
How so? Connor was rated better coming out of high school (bigger, taller and faster). Connor also had significantly better offers.
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Trickett has an arm. In the few snaps I saw of his at FSU, it was evident as to how his Dad talked Jimbo Fisher into extending a scholarship. But he never got bigger, he is still way too skinny to take the kind of punishment QB's take at the D1 level.
 
AKfan said:
How so? Connor was rated better coming out of high school (bigger, taller and faster). Connor also had significantly better offers.
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But how many offers did Jordan Webb have to beat out Connor last year?

Trickett did really well for FSU as a freshman.
 
mac2012 said:
But how many offers did Jordan Webb have to beat out Connor last year?

Trickett did really well for FSU as a freshman.
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WB & CO. psyched the living sh*t out of Wood when they got here and could not recover him from their own mis-deeds and faux pas. They expected him to be perfect and excoriated him when he was less than; then wondered why the kid didn't/couldn't step up!

AS far as I observed, only two players got better last year: Bahktiari and Kasa. Bahk because of his brother and Kasa because he was a TE, the only thing WB knows how to coach. That staff wins the Ricardo Patton Memorial Award for making a whole team and almost every player on it, worse!
 
mac2012 said:
But how many offers did Jordan Webb have to beat out Connor last year?

Trickett did really well for FSU as a freshman.
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I wouldn't say these are "really good stats" for a freshman with all the talent around him...

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Darth Snow said:
those are solid stats.
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They are solid stats. I wonder how much of that had to do with the talent around him. Florida has athletes who never see the field who are better than some of the guys we are counting on to start.

If he were potentially interested in coming here (have we had any indication that he is interested in us) then I would leave it up to M2's judgement. Unlike our last transfer ex-starter he has actually won multiple games at a high level. If you can complete passes against SEC secondaries the speed of the game isn't an issue for you.
 
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