If your a DC does Ryan Williams strike fear in your heart?

My guess is he kills it with the short to intermediate routes, something we did not do this year.
The TE will reemerge as a weapon which will open up the offense.
All the best college QBs work the entire field something Morris either could not or would not do.
 
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Positives for Williams-He's a quick decision maker, he goes through his progressions fairly quickly and doesn't stare down receivers. He distributes the ball well, doesn't just look for one guy. His deep ball arm strength has improved as seen against USF and mentioned by Coley.

Negatives-He's immobile. Guess what, so was Stephen Morris. Aside from maybe Phillip Dorsett, Williams is going to make everyone happy.
 
If Williams can distribute the ball to our play makers, he will strike fear in a lot of DC's hearts. That's all he needs to do.

Coley is going to need to tailor the offense / play calls to Williams' strengths and give him consistent, easy checkdowns. Things he did not do this year with Morris. Been seeing a lot of Coley gets a pass, it was all Morris' fault comments. If Coley doesn't improve / change how he is designing plays, teaching them in practice and calling them in the game, not sure how a much weaker armed QB is going to fare any better. Additionally, Coley needs to actually incorporate the play makers into the offense as well. For example, Sandland was almost exclusively used as a blocker despite the fact he was a receiver in high school and a receiving TE in JUCO. He wasn't highly recruited / brought in to block. He was brought in to use a somewhat unique size and skillset to create easy mismatches all over the field. Only problem is nobody told Coley apparently. Another example: trying to turn Duke into Ironhead Heyward. I saw nothing this year to lead me to believe that all Coley needed to really light up the scoreboard was a physically average (to below average) QB. I pray a lot of you guys are right about Coley, but my lying eyes didn't see the open receivers all over the field (especially of course the middle of the field) that I keep reading about.
 
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My guess is he kills it with the short to intermediate routes, something we did not do this year.
The TE will reemerge as a weapon which will open up the offense.
All the best college QBs work the entire field something Morris either could not or would not do.

Our OC doesn't work the entire field.
 
My guess is he kills it with the short to intermediate routes, something we did not do this year.
The TE will reemerge as a weapon which will open up the offense.
All the best college QBs work the entire field something Morris either could not or would not do.

Our OC doesn't work the entire field.

Maybe because he knew our QB couldn't, you never know.
I do know the few times Williams got in the TE became a factor.
I actually think the offense will improve under Williams.
 
It's a hard question to answer as he hasn't played for us yet. He had a very good season at Memphis which is quite encouraging as a freshman. If James Coley can customize our playbook to Williams' strengths then yes as he is talented and smart QB. The plays we ran this year don't seem they would fit well for Williams and that is the true question. Is Coley's playbook his way or the highway or is he good enough to adapt to his personnel.
 
It's a hard question to answer as he hasn't played for us yet. He had a very good season at Memphis which is quite encouraging as a freshman. If James Coley can customize our playbook to Williams' strengths then yes as he is talented and smart QB. The plays we ran this year don't seem they would fit well for Williams and that is the true question. Is Coley's playbook his way or the highway or is he good enough to adapt to his personnel.

Except that he has played for us.
Love our loud mouth fan base that don't know Wtf they're talking about.
 
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It's a hard question to answer as he hasn't played for us yet. He had a very good season at Memphis which is quite encouraging as a freshman. If James Coley can customize our playbook to Williams' strengths then yes as he is talented and smart QB. The plays we ran this year don't seem they would fit well for Williams and that is the true question. Is Coley's playbook his way or the highway or is he good enough to adapt to his personnel.

Except that he has played for us.
Love our loud mouth fan base that don't know Wtf they're talking about.

He played in mop up time and vs SSU and USF so it's hard to evaluate him fairly against two very bad teams. He showed some promise last year vs UNC as well. We will see but the real question is if James Coley will adjust to cater to his strengths or stick to just calling plays that are in his playbook
 
My guess is he kills it with the short to intermediate routes, something we did not do this year.
The TE will reemerge as a weapon which will open up the offense.
All the best college QBs work the entire field something Morris either could not or would not do.

Our OC doesn't work the entire field.

Maybe because he knew our QB couldn't, you never know.
I do know the few times Williams got in the TE became a factor.
I actually think the offense will improve under Williams.
You're exaggerating... I think everyone is blowing the SSt game up more than they should... Walford has been involved in our game plan and there was a game where Morris completed multiple passes to Walford and Cleveland... As Wildcat said our OC doesn't use the entire field... I think many of our fans are setting thselves up for major disappointments... Williams isn't a scrub but to suggest our offense would be better may be an extreme... I think we become even more limited...
 
Maybe Coley just had a hard-on for the vertical game because Morris has a cannon. Hoping William's causes him to open up the whole playbook.
 
Answer to the op.

No.

But I'm not sure that there is any relevance at all to striking fear and winning games.
 
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If used properly Morris would strike fear in my heart with his arm strength and the speed Miami has at WR. Problem is, the offense became too predictable. Halfway through the season every DC figured out that we were just gonna stretch defenses vertically.

Some of the deep balls that worked in the beginning of the year were thrown into double-coverage later on in the season.

Most DC's simply went Quarters Coverage against us and defended the deep ball cause they knew were weren't gonna hit them underneath. (at least that's what it looked like)
 
You don't think the offense will be better with Yearby,Powell,Braxton and maybe the Griffen kid added in the mix? How about a healthy Duke and Coley with another years experience and weight training? What about a QB who throws to the TEnds, slot receivers and the backs and picks up first downs and moves the chains? You can't teach vision and poise and Morris had none of these qualities. How about a 6'6 QB who can see over the line of scrimmage and understands the offense,still don't think this offense could be better? Williams does not have to be great to move this offense,just understand yards and distance and keep the chains moving. If Canes need 3 yards to get first down and four more downs, don't throw the ball 50 yards. Take what the defense gives you. I would bet the farm Williams is football smart and our screen game and short passing game will be vastly improved. Just move the **** chains and everything will take care of itself.
 
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You don't think the offense will be better with Yearby,Powell,Braxton and maybe the Griffen kid added in the mix? How about a healthy Duke and Coley with another years experience and weight training? What about a QB who throws to the TEnds, slot receivers and the backs and picks up first downs and moves the chains? You can't teach vision and poise and Morris had none of these qualities. How about a 6'6 QB who can see over the line of scrimmage and understands the offense,still don't think this offense could be better? Williams does not have to be great to move this offense,just understand yards and distance and keep the chains moving. If Canes need 3 yards to get first down and four more downs, don't throw the ball 50 yards. Take what the defense gives you. I would bet the farm Williams is football smart and our screen game and short passing game will be vastly improved. Just move the **** chains and everything will take care of itself.

That's all fine and dandy but this year those options often weren't there. You can't rely on checkdowns, you have to create mismatches in the middle of the field and put intermediate defenders in a bind. We don't do that. We don't force LB's to cover slot WR's.

4th & 9 in the redzone and Coley calls all verticals. (which is what he does every 3rd & medium)

To me, it's plain to see, just watch other team's offenses against our defense. Notice how they throw the ball right next to our Linebackers? Ever notice how they run hitch routes next to Perryman, or dig routes behind Cornelius? WE DON'T DO THAT.

The routes aren't there for Morris to even look at. I just watched the whole game and rewound every play.
 
You don't think the offense will be better with Yearby,Powell,Braxton and maybe the Griffen kid added in the mix? How about a healthy Duke and Coley with another years experience and weight training? What about a QB who throws to the TEnds, slot receivers and the backs and picks up first downs and moves the chains? You can't teach vision and poise and Morris had none of these qualities. How about a 6'6 QB who can see over the line of scrimmage and understands the offense,still don't think this offense could be better? Williams does not have to be great to move this offense,just understand yards and distance and keep the chains moving. If Canes need 3 yards to get first down and four more downs, don't throw the ball 50 yards. Take what the defense gives you. I would bet the farm Williams is football smart and our screen game and short passing game will be vastly improved. Just move the **** chains and everything will take care of itself.

Your premise sounds great. Assumes of course that Coley isn't a high school caliber OC. Something I don't think he proved this year.
 
You don't think the offense will be better with Yearby,Powell,Braxton and maybe the Griffen kid added in the mix? How about a healthy Duke and Coley with another years experience and weight training? What about a QB who throws to the TEnds, slot receivers and the backs and picks up first downs and moves the chains? You can't teach vision and poise and Morris had none of these qualities. How about a 6'6 QB who can see over the line of scrimmage and understands the offense,still don't think this offense could be better? Williams does not have to be great to move this offense,just understand yards and distance and keep the chains moving. If Canes need 3 yards to get first down and four more downs, don't throw the ball 50 yards. Take what the defense gives you. I would bet the farm Williams is football smart and our screen game and short passing game will be vastly improved. Just move the **** chains and everything will take care of itself.

That's all fine and dandy but this year those options often weren't there. You can't rely on checkdowns, you have to create mismatches in the middle of the field and put intermediate defenders in a bind. We don't do that. We don't force LB's to cover slot WR's.

4th & 9 in the redzone and Coley calls all verticals. (which is what he does every 3rd & medium)

To me, it's plain to see, just watch other team's offenses against our defense. Notice how they throw the ball right next to our Linebackers? Ever notice how they run hitch routes next to Perryman, or dig routes behind Cornelius? WE DON'T DO THAT.

The routes aren't there for Morris to even look at. I just watched the whole game and rewound every play.

I haven't re-watched the bowl game because I'm not a glutton for punishment. I do remember many times throughout the season however where we had guys running free on digs and slants and even curls and they were not even looked at by our QB.
 
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