Some ridiculous Ward numbers

[itsacanething]

Dude carries the ball like he's playing keep away with his little brother. That's gonna need to get coached out.

Like a loaf of bread.

 

[ghost2]

Like a loaf of bread.

But as if you were pretending you're a bread ninja and using the bread as nunchucks.

 

[Highline17]

Please caveman brothers don’t ruin this talent

 

[ben]

Good chunk of my family lives in Chicago. Makes me hate the Bears even more.

I just don’t hate the bears on the same level that I hate the pack and the vikings

 

[CholoCane]

Uh a guy name duke Johnson? King wasn’t bad himself? Dorsett sr year?

Hey, love Duke. But Ward is more electric - simply because he gets to touch the ball every down.

 

[RedSquare]

@RedSquare

Fair observation.

He can be undisciplined, but he does have natural playmaking ability. And he does throw nicely off platform.

 

[Suhrthing]

Caleb Williams
Michael Penix Jr
Bo Nix
Dillon Gabriel
TJ Finley
Austin Reed
Jayden De Laura
Tanner Modercai
Herdon Hooker
Bailey Zappe
D'eriq King

Is that all?

 

[JamesQuall]

Good stuff.

Him behind this OL, which will be something that he has never had, is what I am looking forward to the most. He can dice anyone up if he has the time/protection. We will have to try hard to fvck this up.


….get him a WR1.

Mario and co hearing this challenge.

Nah but seriously. Youre right. It’s an 10+ win type of season. 9 wins is a failure. 8 wins or less is a catastrophe and well… let’s not go there.

 

[brcane1]

Please caveman brothers don’t ruin this talent

 

[Confidence1000]

@Confidence1000 WTF?

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He got krazy what? He needs to hit the **** button bc he’s way outta line

 

[Dream School]

I commented this in another thread so apologies for the duplicate, but it was such a crazy set of stats I thought it warranted its own post. Mods if you disagree feel free to delete/merge:

Ward was sacked 39 times in 2023. Wazzu gave up 3.5 sacks per game, good for 123rd in FBS. Now here's the fun part - statistically, Ward was the same QB or better under duress. Dude got sacked 6 times v Oregon and threw for 430 yards. 6 times v Cal and threw for 354 and 3 TDs.

Now in the rare instances Wazzu actually did give him time? Sacked once v Oregon St. and threw for 400 yards and 4 TDs at an 82.4% completion. In fact the only game he was never sacked was Northern Colorado and he threw 4 TDs at 72% completion, ran for another, and threw for 325 yards IN THE FIRST HALF.

Under pressure he was a star. With time he was otherworldly. Another poster described him as the "anti TVD" and I think that's a great analogy.

Sack avoidance is a skill, it's one that translates school to school and from college to the pros. He was also sacked 33 times in his full (non COVID) season at Incarnate Word. So let's not act like it was all the Wazzu offensive line. He has a part in that.

 

[RVACane]

He got krazy what? He needs to hit the **** button bc he’s way outta line

Yeah he cant be talking about another dude’s

Big Pause

 

[AbsoluteUnit]

Is that all?

Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields lead their teams to the CFP in their first transfer season. Not sure that Cam is on their level. I've wanted to go back through all of the final regular season CFP rankings and map 1st season transfer QBs to teams who were in the top 12... but ain't got time for that. I know there were none this year and think Penix and Williams were the only ones to do it in 2023.

 

[252cane]

Hey, love Duke. But Ward is more electric - simply because he gets to touch the ball every down.

No

 

[TRick72]

Unless Mario & Dawson are total buffoons, it would take a colossal effort for it not to work with a QB of this caliber.

 

[TRick72]

Most transfer QBs take a step in year 2 of an offense. Do you know of any examples of a 1 year success story?

 

[TRick72]

I just got a chub

 

[Shooter McGavin]

If Mario and Dawson somehow **** this up then both should be canned

 

[JamesQuall]

I don’t really like the comparisons we do around here in general but Cam actually reminds me a lot of King

Not a direct comparison of size and measurables of course, but the way he leads his team, the intangibles I’ve seen, the Alpha presence he brings, the command of the game in general. It’s like a feel watching guys like it

Hes just got more physical tools than King but we’ve needed that presence back there

I hope he is at least as good as King and hopefully much better.

King kept plays, drives, and games alive. He won us games single handedly.

It’s the exact opposite of TVD. With TVD if you didn’t call exactly the right play at the exact right time for him against the defense it was game over.

Hopefully Cam brings us the juice and then some King brought us in terms of leadership, heart, and gamesmanship.

 

[Manfred_Cane]

Can he throw on time? Maybe its because I only watched the highlights but I saw a QB who makes big plays but seems to do so mostly after the play breaks down.