Still thinking it will be Johnson starting vs. Stanford but wondering why none of the 3 scholarship QB's haven't passed Green.
Falling for the Fitz misdirection again I see...
The only way TJ would start ( other the injury) is if he is WAY ahead of Hunter. You don’t sit the guy with a better arm, better legs, and most importantly 3 years left if the competition is close. We already know how this is going to turn out.
Correct! (Hope to see you at our tailgate for UNLV.)
While I agree with this on one hand, on the other hand this would suggest that Fitz is basically using TJ Green as a media prop and that just doesn't strike me as something Fitz would do to the kid.
They've gotten better at the fake criticism since then. I specidically recsll Fitz saying that hey might play all three QBs situationally in the first game, which was, of course, utter nonsense...
I do not understand the idea, presented frequently on this board, that Fitz is only interested in confusing our opponent. Stanford is preparing to play against the Northwestern offense. It is what it is. McCall is not going to change his offense very much depending on who starts. Both Green and HJ are studying the same playbook and practicing the same plays! Sure, if HJ starts, we are more likely to throw downfield on occasion. Everyone can reasonably predict that. But, Stanford has our long pass patterns and protection schemes on film already. There is very little opportunity for deception here. Furthermore, nobody has seen Hunter in our offense - so how could any opponent really prepare for him? Looking at 2-year old film of him in for a few plays at another school will not be of any real help. Our pass patterns are evident in last year's film and will likely be the same patterns regardless of who is throwing the ball - only the emphasis on long or short patterns is likely to change, and that just a bit. In terms of an opponent's problems with preparation, Anderson's influence on the OL may constitute a bigger change from last year than any QB is likely to be. I think many of us are just over-thinking this thing, something Coach Shaw is not likely to do.
Yeah, I think this is the first time that I've felt that HJ actually may not be anywhere near as ready as we'd hoped. It shouldn't change anything about whether HJ should start because of his raw playmaking ability, but Green may actually need to play if/when HJ struggles.
I don't see the parallel. To me it seems more like Kyle Prater (presuming he's not ready). Colter played because he was better than Evan Watkins, Brewer played, IIRC, because CJ was hurt and there was no discernible difference, at that particular moment, between frosh Brewer and frosh Kafka. If you mean 2011 for Colter, other than the Army debacle, it had little effect. He had a little 2010 experience over Siemian, and I think that, unless they were truly concealing a Persa injury, Colter was just a seat warmer / change of pace for Persa until he was ready.
This team is all about Bowser and the D. The QB position just needs to manage the offense and not lose the game for us.
Right, agreed. However, our running game was good once we found Bowser last year, but not outstanding by any means. Our defense was great at times and good to very good at others, again not outstanding.
At this point, only way this is still a competition is if TJ has improved significantly to make Hunter's physical abilities not enough to seal the deal.
