What is that you're drinking over there? Logic? You know that's not allowed on the interwebz, right?
Yeah, you make good sense. You've basically got me convinced. And then... And then I go back to last Saturday watching Malik do absolutely nothing with the offense all game long.
The place I disagree is that when I watch our offense with Malik out there, I don't see a guy who really knows what he's doing out there, and I don't see a guy who is efficiently running the offense. And even if he is, he can't get first downs because he can't hit an ocean from the end of a dock. It may well be that, per your argument, Malik is the tallest short man in a land of midgets, but just because I know how a racecar works and can start the engine, get the car rolling, work my way up through the gears and turn laps around the track, that doesn't mean I can get it through a hairpin turn at 5 g's and 140mph. Even if you say that Malik is knowing where the ball should go, what the protections are supposed to be, etc (which is not what was apparent from watching him play last year), the offense stands no chance of working if he's hitting JT on a screen with an uncatchable bullet 2 yards from the target zone.
I'm not a football coach and Richt most certainly knows better than I, but I don't see how constantly going 3 and out and passes bouncing off the hands of diving receivers who are wide open is good for anybody. Honestly, having come from a coaching background and having a lot of experience coaching teams where you might have veterans at most positions and then having to bring fresh blood up to speed to replace a graduated player, it can be a learning opportunity for everyone. Veteran players have to be able to elaborate on responsibilities and the reasons for why a certain play does or does not work. Players become coaches on the field. Coaches have to reinforce concepts, and even veteran players can benefit from the repetition. Reps lead to exponential, or monumental, rather than incremental gains.
It's not something I was hoping for, looking for, or expecting, and it may well not be a fair assessment, but watching that spring game last weekend evaporated any remaining hope I had that Rosier had significant improvement left in him. I get that the DLine was dominant in the 1's vs 1's, but the reason the offense went 3 and out over and over again and didn't move the ball wasn't because of that. It was because Rosier missed a wide open 87 and made him dive for a ball for an 8 yard gain instead of a 20 yard catch and run. It was because Jeff Thomas couldn't handle a bullet of a screen pass thrown outside the ideal catch radius causing an incompletion on what could well have been a spectacular play, but was at worst a 4-5 yard gain. These are simple plays demonstrating an inability to handle basic concepts of the offense. These are the types of plays that keep an offense on schedule and give it a CHANCE to sustain drives. These are the types of throws that you absolutely HAVE to hit on at 90%+. This is basic stuff. Stuff #12 can't do.
I get what you're saying, but multiple guys can learn at the same time. Perry and Williams need reps.
