At this point in his career, Bo Nix is a known commodity. At Best, Bo is a game manager who struggles against elite competition.
Ty Thompson and Jay Butterfield deserve better than to be buried on the bench because they didn't work with the OC before. The goal at Oregon should always be to aim for the postseason, and it is difficult to see Bo leading us there.
Playing Bo this season will further stunt our long term QB growth. IMO Lanning is playing with fire trotting Bo out, since it doesn't appear our current team is decent, and he is sacrificing our long term winning chances to let Bo have a nice senior season.
It's pretty clear that we'll likely see TT at some point this weekend and he's either going to look capable of running an offense and going through progressions or he won't. My only question once the backups get their opportunity is that if TT still looks like he needs more work processing will we finally see JB?
Frankly in the new era of Transfer Portal and wanting to be a Playoff team, I'm not sure how much development teams will be able to afford out of their QBs. Typically a guy just has that ability to process or not and as it relates to the team's success, that's really going to come down to the Defense getting their stuff together.
People aren't realizing just how awful that Defense was and focusing more on the Offense when the scheme and play-calling looked great by and large.
Reality is most successful QB’s usually start and stay at a school, there are exceptions like Burrow and sometimes a QB uses the transfer portal to follow a coach like with Caleb Williams. Usually where the portal is best is for a transition or gap period, something to carry over the team between QB’s. It can’t be consistently used for the QB position and if it is it can cause trouble. Helf tried it and it backfired when he promised Prukop the starting job and robbed the fans and team of seeing Justin Herbert his entire Freshman year. Sure Vernon Adams was a great pickup the year before, but more often than not a 5th year QB will be serviceable at best.
Basically what I’m trying to say with this way too long post is that Thompson and Butters may end up being very good, but I’m afraid Mario and Dillingham are too short sighted and are using grad transfer QB’s in a role that should be serviceable. It’s honestly a miracle we still have Thompson and Butters as you’d think by now one of them would transfer given that they’ve had to sit on the sidelines. Nix is probably the best QB for now, but unfortunately with Bo we are riding on Dante Moore being ready to shine day 1 and that’s a big risk, it’s very rare you have a Trevor Lawrence or Justin Herbert capable of starting day 1. My worry is that once again they’ll have to either persuade Nix to return or have to find another grad transfer QB for 1 year next year while Dante Moore learns the system and develops. I just wish Mario would’ve developed TT or Butters and that Dillingham won’t be too short sighted and will develop at least one of them so we can have more options and legit QB battles going forward.
These assessments seem to be based on one game (yes I know about Bo’s time at Auburn) and absolutely no definitive data points on TT or JB in real games.
Maybe both TT and JB will play this weekend but there are some rumors floating around that TT is still struggling with the playbook.
lmduck wrote:These assessments seem to be based on one game (yes I know about Bo’s time at Auburn) and absolutely no definitive data points on TT or JB in real games.
Maybe both TT and JB will play this weekend but there are some rumors floating around that TT is still struggling with the playbook.
I'm hopeful that TT looks far improved from his Stony Brook drives.
Don't play the blame game. Bo made a couple of mistakes. Our defense made the mistake of not getting off the bus and playing. Worst defensive performance I've seen in a long time. I hope lanning chewed their prima donna overated asses...
"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
nogerO wrote:Don't play the blame game. Bo made a couple of mistakes. Our defense made the mistake of not getting off the bus and playing. Worst defensive performance I've seen in a long time. I hope lanning chewed their prima donna overated asses...
Word is DL lit them up big time and if you saw his comments after practice yesterday you know he is still not happy
StevensTechU wrote:Backup quarterback = Most popular guy on the team
I'm far from a Bo fan, but interesting that we're fixed on quarterback when the defense stopped Georgia zero times.
Spot on!
Will add that running 'polls' such as this put us right in synch with what UW fans are known for. They did it all last year with their QB situation and their coach. Not saying neither one needed to be replaced or not, but quite honestly this makes us look and sound like what we despise in them, arrogance ,entitlement and pettiness.
nogerO wrote:Don't play the blame game. Bo made a couple of mistakes. Our defense made the mistake of not getting off the bus and playing. Worst defensive performance I've seen in a long time. I hope lanning chewed their prima donna overated asses...
Word is DL lit them up big time and if you saw his comments after practice yesterday you know he is still not happy
This worries me, is this gonna motivate his team or is he losing them? Guess we’ll find out more Saturday.
nogerO wrote:Don't play the blame game. Bo made a couple of mistakes. Our defense made the mistake of not getting off the bus and playing. Worst defensive performance I've seen in a long time. I hope lanning chewed their prima donna overated asses...
Word is DL lit them up big time and if you saw his comments after practice yesterday you know he is still not happy
This worries me, is this gonna motivate his team or is he losing them? Guess we’ll find out more Saturday.
Duck07 wrote:It's pretty clear that we'll likely see TT at some point this weekend and he's either going to look capable of running an offense and going through progressions or he won't. My only question once the backups get their opportunity is that if TT still looks like he needs more work processing will we finally see JB?
Frankly in the new era of Transfer Portal and wanting to be a Playoff team, I'm not sure how much development teams will be able to afford out of their QBs. Typically a guy just has that ability to process or not and as it relates to the team's success, that's really going to come down to the Defense getting their stuff together.
People aren't realizing just how awful that Defense was and focusing more on the Offense when the scheme and play-calling looked great by and large.
You are clearly trolling. You told me Ty Thompson would save the program 2 years ago.
Duck07 wrote:It's pretty clear that we'll likely see TT at some point this weekend and he's either going to look capable of running an offense and going through progressions or he won't. My only question once the backups get their opportunity is that if TT still looks like he needs more work processing will we finally see JB?
Frankly in the new era of Transfer Portal and wanting to be a Playoff team, I'm not sure how much development teams will be able to afford out of their QBs. Typically a guy just has that ability to process or not and as it relates to the team's success, that's really going to come down to the Defense getting their stuff together.
People aren't realizing just how awful that Defense was and focusing more on the Offense when the scheme and play-calling looked great by and large.
You are clearly trolling. You told me Ty Thompson would save the program 2 years ago.
