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Stephen Morris Clutch Last Drive

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Although it was his fault that we needed a last minute drive to win...... coming from 90 yards back to win, w/ the thought of knowing you had the worst game of your career, and still made some Clutch throws when needed, takes some cojones.

Clutch Last Drive by our QB, he definitely needs to get that ankle fixed and get coached up some mo..... but Stephen Morris is the only QB on this team that I trust to beat an FSU and VT.
 
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I'm sorry but Morris played like **** last night. He should have been pulled after his first INT. What's the point of having Williams if you're just going to sit there and watch Morris **** the bed all night? He should have been sat and settled down instead of allowed to keep going out and costing his team all night.
 
I don't know about it being a clutch drive for him..

We ran the ball 10 times and threw it 3. They were wide open sideline throws, from what I remember.
 
Morris wasn't clutch on that last drive.

Crawford, Clements, and the OL/TEs blocking were clutch.
 
WhatTheHell said:
I don't know about it being a clutch drive for him..

We ran the ball 10 times and threw it 3. They were wide open sideline throws, from what I remember.
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Exactly! Coley (OC) took the burden off of Morris and relied heavily on Crawford and Clements. And I don't blame him either.
 
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Picksix said:
I'm sorry but Morris played like **** last night. He should have been pulled after his first INT. What's the point of having Williams if you're just going to sit there and watch Morris **** the bed all night? He should have been sat and settled down instead of allowed to keep going out and costing his team all night.
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I think his presence had a calming effect on the team in that final drive...... even though the receivers were open, he still had to make the throw, knowing that he has been terrible all game.... that is commendable imo.

He couldve over thrown one of the receivers at any point during that drive and the game couldve been lost.

Gotta give it to him on that.
 
Williams could never make that throw Morris threw to Waters on the final drive. That's the frustrating thing with Morris, he'll look like Jacory for the majority of a game, than make throws only a few in CFB can make.

I still think he's the best option going forward.
 
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BrazilCane said:
Picksix said:
I'm sorry but Morris played like **** last night. He should have been pulled after his first INT. What's the point of having Williams if you're just going to sit there and watch Morris **** the bed all night? He should have been sat and settled down instead of allowed to keep going out and costing his team all night.
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You can WTF me all you want to but Morris looked like **** all night. Maybe you missed the 4 INT's he threw? At no time did he look comfortable at all at any point in the game. I don't care that Williams couldn't make one long ball pass to Waters late in the game. Maybe Williams had a hot hand and it would have never had to come down to Morris having to use his cannon to win the game. I'm sick of Morris having to use his cannon because he doesn't take the easy passes that are given to him sometimes.

My only gripe about last night was why we never saw a series or two out of Williams when Morris was sucking. He sure as **** couldn't have been any worse.
 
As god awful as Morris was last night, I still trusted him during that drive, even if he only threw it 3 times. I have trouble believing I could trust a Ryan Williams to lead that team down the field.
 
I'm as ****ed as anyone at Morris, I mean ****ed...but I do give him props for making the throws we absolutely had to have on the final drive.

He knows as much as anybody that he sucked last night and almost single-handedly lost that game. But he tightened up enough to make those throws.
 
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Realistically, this was the first time he played a defense that its main formation was a 4-2-5. With that being said, the main flaw with this defense its susceptible to the run as we saw and the only place to throw is a corner type route against the sideline, and that's a very hard throw to make, NFL qbs have a tough time with it.
I'm not giving him a pass on that game, their were boneheaded mistakes but we won't face that formation again.
 
zone3cane said:
I think his presence had a calming effect on the team in that final drive...... even though the receivers were open, he still had to make the throw, knowing that he has been terrible all game.... that is commendable imo.

He couldve over thrown one of the receivers at any point during that drive and the game couldve been lost.

Gotta give it to him on that.
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I have to say he really looked shaken up to me. He appeared to have no confidence, which was very disconcerting. I was literally saying "oh no" those three times he dropped back.

But admittedly, he did make the three throws. Hopefully, he can build on that moving forward, bc we are not going to beat FSU an VT w/o at least solid QB play.
 
I don't give a rats ace who was clutch on that final drive... the whole feckin offense came through and got us the W. From the O-Line to Morris, Crawford, OT, Waters, Hurns and Warlord.

GOD ****! Now all I need is video of that entire last drive so I can play it on loop while I attempt to work today!
 
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i'm starting to that that you're related to morris, because you find every excuse in the book to ride his jock. he had a bad game. period. his td-int ratio is lower than jacory's. this season so far is proof that fisch had more to do with last year's success than morris.
 
Zone.....in the WEZ you said you were done with Stephen Morris. I guess that just refers to the WEZ and not CIS? In the words of Denny Green "He is who we thought he was".
 
LUcanesfan said:
WhatTheHell said:
I don't know about it being a clutch drive for him..

We ran the ball 10 times and threw it 3. They were wide open sideline throws, from what I remember.
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Exactly! Coley (OC) took the burden off of Morris and relied heavily on Crawford and Clements. And I don't blame him either.
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Yeah, if anything Coley was "clutch" in the 2nd half last night by recognizing that Morris was a liability. Plenty of other OC's would have panicked in that situation and went to the air simply because they were behind.
 
The whole offense manned up big on that drive. Virtually every play was well executed under huge pressure, no false starts, no dropped passes, backs protecting the ball. Impressive overall especially considering the circumstances.
It's my opinion that the offense seems to really excel when they get the ground game going, the confidence level goes up for everyone.
 
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