Originally posted by UNC_Blue:
Originally posted by WoadBlue:
Originally posted by UNC_Blue:
Originally posted by WoadBlue:
Originally posted by BalboaUNC:
I think our offensive line killed us this year. It was hard for us to attack the defense down the field because our offensive line didn't give Quise enough time. If our offensive and defensive line can improve a lot we should be a much better team next year.
Wiliams missed all kinds of open receivers over the year. And that means both bad passes and, even more often, failure to see the open receiver.
The OL when fully healthy was more than adequate to provide time to pass. Williams is simply never going to be that QB. He is a backyard QB, who is easily at his best when running and passing onl;y when Ds converge to stop him running.
Absolutely brilliant, a QB being talked about as a darkhorse for the Heisman, but isn't good enough for woad. You seriously can't make this ignorant shit up.
Yep, tthose Heisman stat games versus MooU and Rutgirls were the most impressive in UNC QB history.
Williams is a 1 Trick Pony as a QB: running the ball from a deep snap. That made our offense this year 1 dimensional.
As for talk about Williams and Heisman - many of the same people talked up Jacory Harris for the Heisman.
Woad, I do love you, and I respect your opinion on most things. But you have some kind of grudge against Williams that is unreasoning. I really don't get it. Is he perfect? Not even... but he threw for 3K yards, 63% completion %, 21 TD vs 9 ints, and ran for like 800 yds and 13 TDs...
It is beyond ignorant to say that "isn't good enough" and want him benched.
The "one dimensional" is from our O-line not blocking for shit.
I think you and a few others would make a case for a healthy offense if Williams ran the ball 90% of our carries.
The stats mean little in terms of what I am saying, save that they disprove your notion that our OL has been awful. It was young, and when injuries hit this year, it clearly had big holes (especially obvious when Crowley went down, but Cohen showed that he is the real deal).
As this is UNC, perhaps you need to get a basketball version in your mind. You can have a high scoring offense in which 1 player is scroing 35 per game and taking half the team's shots. The team's offense can seem wonderful any time it faces teams with poor D or that simply know that because we are 1 dimensional on offense, they can outscore us. That 35 PPG player may even make All-ACC 1st team because of his stats, but if the team fails to develop a well rounded offense, it cannot progress, it cannot win big games versus top teams. That 1 man is too easy to stop anytime a team with some talent on D wishes to stop him and is willing to send 2 men all the time to do it.
Now, if that hoops team has nobody else who can score, because the team is filled with brick-tossers, then perhsp its best bet is the 1 man shooting show. But even so, the team can never get over the hump against good teams until it finds a legit 2nd and 3rd scorer, using both, developing both, producing a much more balanced offense, which necessarily means that the 35 PPG man must shoot less. Say, his % of shots on the team goes down from 50% to 30%.
Our 1 dimensional offense is due to 2 things: many called QB runs, as many as called RBs runs, and Wiliams failing to make reads in the passing game and taking off.
He has gotten passes on the latter all season, but in the bowl the announcers noted several times how Williams missed seeing open receivers. Williams does not routinely stay in the pocket and make reads, and make them successfully, because his natural instncts are to tuck the ball and run. He is a nautral backyard QB - every play is about him running if he can make it so.
As I said going into last year, Williams is in many ways our best RB. He is a powerful and skilled between the tackles runner with very good balance. Every one of his instncts tells him to use those skills at the first sign of possible trouble on a passing play.
The coaches know what Williams can do at QB. They know that his super skill is between the tackles running. Playing Williams and not maximizing his great skill would be silly at best. But the inevitable result of maximizing Williams great skill is tat we must become a 1 dimensioanl offense in which the QB carries the ball far more than any RB (which means none of our RBs get the reps they require) and that the WRs don;t get the catches they could get because Williams many times misses seeing them and at others simply lacks the touch to complete the pass to an open receiver.
And that means that both our deep and talented RB and WR corps are under-developed and under-utilized.
Back to basketball - the '80-82 UGA teams were led by super talent Dominque Wilkins. He was a 1 Man Show who simply could score on anybody at any time. On the offensive court, UGA was 1 Dimesional: get it to the human highlight reel.
Wilkins went to the NBA a year early, and casual fans assumed that UGA hoops would go from medioce to lousy without him. But UGA in '83 beat us in the East Regional Final and made the Final Four. Minus Wilkins, the UGA offfense became multi-dimensional, with everybody taking a part, and it became much harder to stop, especailly in key games and at key possessions.
If we did not have Logan or Hood, I would say that we are so thin and weak at RB that maybe Williams carrying the ball far more than any RB is necessary. But we all have seen that even Brunson has real potential. If we did not have Davis, Switzer, Hollins, and Howard, we could conclude that our WRs are too weak and too thin to worry about a passing game beyond Williams pulling it down and running any time he could not see a WIDE open receiver. But we have seen even true frosh Proehl prove he can get open often and make catches in traffic.
And with all that potential, our offense relies on Williams running over and over.
