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For the people worrying about killing kaaya confidence

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Times have changed true freshman qbs are playing now.

I found 4 true freshman who started last year.

Hackenburg (psu 7-5)- 2,995 yds, 59%, 20td, 10int

goff (cal 1-11)- 3,488yds, 60%, 18td, 10int

o'korn (houston 8-5) (played at sta in high school)- 3,117yds, 58%, 28td, 10int

webb (texas tech 8-5)- 2718yds, 62.6%, 20td, 9int

Take into account our o-line is better than all of theirs.

None of them had a duke johnson to hand it off to.

Our wrs/tes are 5x better.

kaaya can put up similar type numbers and if he does he would be the likely 2nd best qb in the acc.

We can and will win the coastal with kaaya. No less than 9 wins in the regualar season.
 
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I'm negging when I figure it out on mobile, hacks bury had no choice and plays in the underwhelming B1G, Goffs team was 1-11 and the laughing stick in the pac, Houston always have those over rated QBs that put up video game numbers against lowly comp and Webb will find success cause he's a brain child of kingsbury
 
3 of those 4 were air raid guys who always put up nice numbers and O'Brian is one of the best offensive minds out there. I want Kaaya to start but you gotta look a little deeper then just yards and TDs
 
While I agree with the OP's premise that some people are overly concerned about killing Kaaya's spirit and desire to live if we throw him to the wolves, I'm also seeing a whole lottttttttt of overselling how great a year Hackenburg had.
 
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The best player should win the job. I think its Kayaa. F all that freshmen stuff. BTW If we had Hackenburgh as our QB last year we would have been a much better team.
 
Agree with the OP.
1) The fact that Hackenburg had to start has no bearing on the argument, and except for a couple of opponents, the ACC aren't exactly world-beaters.
2) Performing well on a terrible team is actually a better indication to me than someone who does well on a good team.
3) While spread offenses aren't directly comparable to ours, the qb does spend a lot of time with the ball in his hands and still has plenty of opportunity for mistakes.
4) I will concede that Houston is an outlier.

Regardless, I think the point about the talent surrounding Kaaya is a good one, and based on the glimpses we have had in practice it seems like the coaches are prepping to do just what Consigliere wants: get the ball in the hands of playmakers. Kaaya has also demonstrated a willingness to do just that instead of going for the homerun every time.
 
Heres something explaining why Air raid QBs produce at such a high rate and why you really have to look at those QBs a bit differently...

While at Valdosta, they primarily engaged in addition by subtraction. They cut out a few passing plays that weren’t as useful, shrank the running game to little more than an “iso” lead play and a draw, and, most famously, made the offense asymmetrical: Instead of running each play in one direction and having “right” and “left” variations on each formation, they made the offense entirely right-handed, always putting the tight-end or “Y” receiver to the right and the split-end or “X” to the left, and only moving “Z” around. Both Leach and Mumme have said they were inspired to do this after a conversation with former Baltimore Colts great Raymond Berry, who told them that was exactly how he and Unitas and the rest of the Colts did it. If you flip all of your formations, every time you teach a route — say, a curl or a slant — each receiver actually has to learn two routes, because he has to learn it from both the right and left sides. And the quarterback has to get used to throwing it to each receiver to his left and to his right, depending on each receiver’s quirks. The number of techniques each quarterback had to learn would grow rather quickly.
Further, Berry said, he developed multiple ways to run each route depending on the leverage of the defense; if they asked him to line up to both sides he either had to give up those subtle variations or had to learn to run each of them to both sides, which was nigh impossible. Instead, he learned to run his routes on one side, and Unitas learned how to throw them to him on that side. Once Mumme and his staff made that change at Valdosta, the completion percentage of their quarterback at the time, Chris Hatcher, jumped roughly ten percentage points and he went on to win the Harlon Hill trophy, known colloquially as the Heisman trophy for D-II. Hatcher would of course go on to become an assistant to Mumme at Kentucky and is now the head coach at Murray State.

Heres the full article if your interested (its a good read but very long, discusses ALOT about the air raid)

http://smartfootball.com/offense/th...-to-holgorsen-and-beyond#sthash.DXcZ7S8T.dpbs



And this explains the practice habits of the Air raid offenses. Again if you read it you'll see why these guys can pull a QB from nowhere and have em be productive...

http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-mike-leach-keeps-producing-prolific.html
 
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If we start him on the road in a must win game against Louisville, he better not play like it's his first game.
 
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I just want to see a game without our QB throwing any interceptions. I know, it's asking for a lot.
 
kendallcanes said:
If we start him on the road in a must win game against Louisville, he better not play like it's his first game.
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We haven't seen him play a full game! So what if he turned the ball over, Dorsey turned it over twice against FSU in 2002 and couldn't complete a pass in the first quarter against the Gators. Also against the Gators but in a later year Brock Berlin had a terrible 3 quarters, so if you're predicting utter failure or the ability to win or lose a game on the last two videos you saw (because the other 9 were good for Kaaya) and a total of 5 bad throws that's madness.
 
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