It's all about health and durability. He has talent in spades and will get better with reps. He is a natural athlete, not some over-coached QB that has hit his ceiling. The durability issue should freak everyone out tho. If I was in Vegas I would set the O/U at 4.5 weeks before he gets hurt.
I pray he makes it 4 quarters Sept 3
setting the bar low
As do I...I'm just not confident that he'll be able to hang in the pocket. I'm nervous he will bail out and get decapitated by CJ Hicks
I'll be pleased if he's at 100% for 3 of our 4 most important games (OSU, BYU, Clemson and USC.) If he needs to take a week or two off in the middle of the season to heal up, Pyne should be able to lead us to victory against UNLV and 'Cuse.
Agree and would say that 90% of it is the mental piece. Plenty of guys with strong arms, can run or do both. It's making the correct decision in a hair split second that is the difference. The photographic memory makes that even better. Until I see his delivery as a consistent problem in games, I'm not worried as long as he's putting it where it needs to be.
I remain confused by the concern with Buchner's mechanics, but otherwise I wholeheartedly agree with this.
I feel like after reading all the stuff on him, he's got a little bit of gunslinger in him. In any case, I'll live with the turnovers if he leads an explosive offense for the Irish (which is what I'm expecting).
I'd take the over, personally. I think the coaches will do a much better job of instructing him to slide or get out of bounds to avoid contact now that he has the keys to the offense and he's not just a rotational piece. Probably something they've worked on early and often, especially now that he's named starter.
Define hurt. Are we talking banged up and misses a series or 2?
On an RPO isn't it reading the defense pre-snap and then basically just one live read anyway?
Brady has one as well
2 live reads: pass then hand off or keep.
I think you're splitting hairs OMM. Maybe photographic memory isn't the right word, or maybe you use it in a more strict sense. Peyton Manning had a photographic memory and always talked about how he would recall seeing a particular defense before the ball was snapped so he knew what was coming. Therefore he had to decide to keep the play or audible. Never seemed to slow things down once the ball was snapped.
Lol
grumble grumble wind-aided, something something arm angle wouldn't work in game
Think it's just that Prister is a very....measured guy. Doesn't really hype up many of the players.
Prister's takes are horrendous. The only thing he is useful for is his observations of who is at what positions and depth. Everything else he says is just horrible. It's almost like he always defends the admin and what ever coaching staff is in place. The crap he has come out and said about Kelly now that he is gone has contradicted his constant defending of the staff when Kelly was here. He always has to add a caveat when ever he does actually criticize the staff. Like making excuses why ND will never be the juggernaut it once was because every excuse we have all heard never including the biggest reason which is the current administration to use every tool at their disposal and the coaching staff having to play by different rules then the rest of the big dogs in college football.
Look at less than a week ago, blue & gold are going on about how the QB1 spot was looking wide open because Drew Pyne was throwing better against air than TB, 2/3 days later Buchner named Starter, the press have absolutely zero clue until informed.
