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

Williams alone? No.

However, Williams might be what the doctor ordered for this team. He is very different from Morris...and has his own limitations, but those limitations (and his strengths) might be beneficial to Miami's overall team performance. A more methodical offense that relies on the run game and the short to intermediate passing game will help extend drives, raising time of possession and keeping that god awful defense off the field. Plus, he is going to be a better red zone quarterback then Morris was, helping turn some of those stalled field goal drives into touchdowns.

If he flops, he flops...no harm done, just put Kaaya or Olsen in there and ride the young guy, but I think Williams deserves a shot.
 
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I watched a couple games just now, VT and FAU. You guys are correct. There are times where we do have open guys intermediately and he ignores them just to chuck it deep. We still don't work the middle of the field like I'd prefer but that doesn't change the fact that Morris does indeed ignore it when we do.

I'm willing to give slappy Coley the benefit of the doubt and see how his offense looks with somebody else.
 
WildcatDefense said:
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I watched a couple games just now, VT and FAU. You guys are correct. There are times where we do have open guys intermediately and he ignores them just to chuck it deep. We still don't work the middle of the field like I'd prefer but that doesn't change the fact that Morris does indeed ignore it when we do.

I'm willing to give slappy Coley the benefit of the doubt and see how his offense looks with somebody else.
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You should go back and watch when Fisch was here. He left plays on the field then as well. Morris should have been forced to wear a shock collar and shocked every time he forced it into coverage. When we played good teams, most would set back in Cover 3 or 4 and wait for Morris to chuck it deep.
 
Here's the deal--we run those short/intermediate routes, but it's always towards the sideline on curls/out-routes. We never threaten the middle of the field unless it's the equivalent of a pop pass to Walford up the hashmarks. And how many freaking times did Hurns or another WR catch that 8-10 yard out this year? Hurns made him some NFL money off of those catches alone this season. Nothing wrong with that route as a part of the offense, but not the majority of it.

When you don't attack the middle of the field though, you're begging the defense to bring LB's on blitzes on 3rd down against an immobile QB that is trying to set up for throws 30+ yards downfield. That's a recipe for 3rd down failure, and that's exactly what the numbers bore out this season.

I think some of this is Morris not throwing to those routes because he's not good at them, but then again--Davon Johnson had ONE good season running slants out of the slot and keeping the chains moving last year before getting hurt. That's basically all Davon did, was work the short zones and sit, or run a slant against man to man. And it was Morris pulling the trigger.

At the end of the day, this was not the same offense Jedd Fisch had us running with playbook language changes, even though that's what Golden/Coley swore up and down would be the case in the preseason. Even if you want to argue that it was the same, then the way it was implemented and coached to be executed was NOT the same, not by a longshot. Morris had some boner moves he pulled last year, throwing into coverage deep...granted. But last year--there were times where we did move the ball down the field thru the air 5-15 yards at a time, and could use the whole field, sustaining drives...you can go back and look at our comeback against GT for proof of that.

This year, under a new OC/QB Coach in Coley, Morris made more mistakes downfield, and also became blind in his reads and progressions. I put part of that on Morris for not "owning the process, and not growing in his progress...however, I also put a big part of that on Coley for not making sure that the message was loud and clear to his starting QB to take care of the football and to be efficient with the football...and to boot, not putting Morris in the best plays to succeed from down to down.
 
Oh, and as for the actual question by the OP--I would say yes, with the following caveats:

1) Williams can improve his arm strength even more than he did last year to this year,
2) He improves his athleticism and isn't a garden statue in the backfield,
3) He mimics his 68.8% completion rating and 3/1 TD to INT ratio in full time duty as the starter,
4) He gets in the film room, and doesn't repeat the mistakes of his predecessor,
5) Coley figures out that we can attack the middle of the field.

If those 3-4 of those 5 things happen, then Williams will be an efficient pocket passer, and should strike fear into the heart of opposing DC's, mainly because of the weapons and talent he has the privilege of throwing to. If Coley's smart (and at this point I think he's as smart as a bag of hammers), we will see more single-back or I formations, and go back to a more traditional pro-style attack, running the ball with Duke to set up playaction down the field to S. Coley/Walford/Dorsett/Berrios/etc. If he's not, then I facking give up.
 
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kperez4446 said:
I don't know hoping I'm wrong but I don't have a good feeling about next year

I don't want to hear bout Dorsey comparisons because Dorsey played a lot of football not just his senior season.
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I'm not sure Peyton Manning would strike fear into anyone's heart behind the O-line that performed last Saturday....
 
Williams wouldn't strike fear into my 87 year old grandmother but I think he'll be a game manager more than anything next year.
 
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