Another thing that I noticed was that he actually stepped up when the pocket began to collapse a few times. Never did that in the past. Used to go backwards and/or get sacked. Also seemed to be stepping into his throws more than he used to. He did back-foot a couple of times, so there's still room to progress, but the improvement was apparent to me. Overall he was very decisive and in command, even if he didn't light up the scoreboard. He managed the game well and played very confidently. Most importantly, he protected the ball. I liked what I saw, and feel very good about the direction of the offense.
We'll know a lot more about how effective we can be with the passing game after this week's game. If we decide to run the ball and only attempt 20 passes, then we're likely destined for much of what we saw last year, which is an inept passing game. If we decide to throw the ball a lot and fail miserably (ala the McNeese game last year), then we're doomed just the same. I vote option 3. We throw the ball an ample amount of time and Lee has great success. And please dear God let Mett have some valuable snaps this week.
We didn't have several false starts and procedure calls this game like killed us last year. Delay of game and twelve men in the huddle went on and on last year. Was it because of crowton gone or jj gone?
My guess would be Crowton. Much less confusion at the line of scrimmage and didn't have so many players running on and off the field between plays. I think Kraigthorpe gets credit for this improvement.
I give Lee a B-. He managed the game, the only real mistake he made was the sack he took, and his throws weren't 100% accurate but they were all catchable. The lack of yardage and poor completion % were more on our WR's. I agree with the rest though. Our WR's weren't getting the type of separation necessary and dropped a lot of passes. Oregon's DB's were on top of our WR's the whole night even with stacking the box, which shouldn't happen. It's a young group and hopefully they will improve.
One problem was poor route running. Several times I saw WR's run their route straight into the DB when there was huge holes in the zone open for them. That is often a problem with young inexperienced WR's and should improve as the season goes along.
If you go back and watch the replay Lonergan basically hikes the ball into his nutsack. Lee never even touched it. You'll also notice that Lonergan was a bit. . ."shaken" after the play. :rofl:
is that the same play I am talking about? I will have to go back and watch. I remember Lonergan in immense pain. Goodness, that wasn't cool. All I remember is the left guard was pulling real hard over the center and it appeared may have bumped into Lee before he got the ball. Did you see a left guard pulling on the play?
I'll go back and watch, I would be shocked if at a minimum 6 of those 12 incompletions weren't totally uncatchable.
