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Who Do You Think WILL Start at QB Week 1?

Who Do You Think WILL Start Week 1 at QB?

  • Jake Heaps

    Votes: 82 75.9%

  • Brad Kaaya

    Votes: 24 22.2%

  • A 2QB Rotation

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Total voters
    108
  • Poll closed .
Tad Footeball

Tad Footeball

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Figured I'd gauge our collective genius again to see who we think WILL start week 1 at QB.
 
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I want Kaaya. But if I had to be honest, I'll be surprised if Coach Golden goes with him against UL.
 
I think Heaps too and they'll use the "it was soooooo close" rationale and state that Kaaya is capable and ready if needed. My issue with that is it being such a tight race shouldn't actually benefit the guy that's pushing Chris Weinke-dom in age.
 
I think the "Experience" of Heaps will allow him to win the job and Kaaya will be the backup. I also think Heaps was held out of the last scrimmage and the backup battle was between Kaaya & Olsen.
 
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Why do people want BK over Heaps? I want the guy who gives us the best chance of winning and don't care what he looks like or his name. Forget all the coach speak, might as well try and decipher tea leaves, but we weren't there in practice, film study, etc so we don't really know should start or how they've actually been doing overall.
 
INCaneFan said:
Why do people want BK over Heaps? I want the guy who gives us the best chance of winning and don't care what he looks like or his name. Forget all the coach speak, might as well try and decipher tea leaves, but we weren't there in practice, film study, etc so we don't really know should start or how they've actually been doing overall.
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Maybe I am just misreading certain things but it seems like some fans are almost upset at the fact that Heaps "seems" to be playing well. I am with you, just give me the guy who can get it done but it doesn't seem like either has distanced themselves. I personally would just rather see Kaaya in there because he is our future. The schedule sets up nicely the two weeks after it so it's not like he is facing this gauntlet right out of the gate. And yeah it's a solid road test but let's not act like we are walking into Oregon or Michigan.
 
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Heaps. I'm convinced this decision was made around the time they decided to rest his arm. And this is what I would prefer. Don't care who it is, I would be very apprehensive to put a true freshman into that role game 1 on the road under the lights.
 
so far the coaches have been so conservative always playing the older guys rather than the most talented guys i hope they change that this season
 
I have no idea nor am I or anyone else here qualified to know who gives us the best chance to win. It's a leap of faith either way.
 
i think it's not that people want kaaya to start, it's that they want kaaya to be so good that it's impossible for him not to win the job. aka they want him to be a once-in-a-generation type quarterback, and i agree! that would be incredible. i would like for him to be so good that he has to play now but if he's not that i'm fine with them rolling heaps out there and letting kaaya get his in due time.
 
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Tad Footeball said:
I think Heaps too and they'll use the "it was soooooo close" rationale and state that Kaaya is capable and ready if needed. My issue with that is it being such a tight race shouldn't actually benefit the guy that's pushing Chris Weinke-dom in age.
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Don't we just want the guy who gives us the best chance to win?

If in the coaches' minds Heaps is that guy - even by a small margin (i.e. "it was soooooo close") - then shouldn't we want Heaps taking the snaps? I don't understand why it matters in terms of who starts if the guy who's better by a hair is 16 or 26 or 96 years old.

Now I certainly understand the thinking that a guy that's played college ball for years and started games should have a clear advantage over a true freshman that just arrived, and therefore he should be able to beat him out by more than just a hair. But if he doesn't wipe the floor with the freshman but instead just edges him out, he still beat him out, right?

The close battle speaks more to me about Kaaya's trajectory than anything. It makes me think he has a chance to play a lot of ball here and help us win a lot of games. I see it as he's already so good that he's 1B to Chris Weinke-dom's 1A (this assumes Heaps gets the nod). Thing is, if Kaaya really is good, that means Heaps is just a bit better than that at this moment. But if Heaps isn't very good and he's still ahead of Kaaya, what does that say about Kaaya?

In any event, I'm saying play the guy who gives us the best chance to win NOW. I don't care if that guy gives us a little or a lot better chance than the other guy. All I care about right now is beating Louisville's *** on 9/1.
 
MiamiVice7 said:
Tad Footeball said:
I think Heaps too and they'll use the "it was soooooo close" rationale and state that Kaaya is capable and ready if needed. My issue with that is it being such a tight race shouldn't actually benefit the guy that's pushing Chris Weinke-dom in age.
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Don't we just want the guy who gives us the best chance to win?

If in the coaches' minds Heaps is that guy - even by a small margin (i.e. "it was soooooo close") - then shouldn't we want Heaps taking the snaps? I don't understand why it matters in terms of who starts if the guy who's better by a hair is 16 or 26 or 96 years old.

Now I certainly understand the thinking that a guy that's played college ball for years and started games should have a clear advantage over a true freshman that just arrived, and therefore he should be able to beat him out by more than just a hair. But if he doesn't wipe the floor with the freshman but instead just edges him out, he still beat him out, right?

The close battle speaks more to me about Kaaya's trajectory than anything. It makes me think he has a chance to play a lot of ball here and help us win a lot of games. I see it as he's already so good that he's 1B to Chris Weinke-dom's 1A (this assumes Heaps gets the nod). Thing is, if Kaaya really is good, that means Heaps is just a bit better than that at this moment. But if Heaps isn't very good and he's still ahead of Kaaya, what does that say about Kaaya?

In any event, I'm saying play the guy who gives us the best chance to win NOW. I don't care if that guy gives us a little or a lot better chance than the other guy. All I care about right now is beating Louisville's *** on 9/1.
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You make valid points and at the end of the day all any of us are doing is analyzing (oft overanalyzing) coach-speak. Like you said, the debate does fall into a belief about Kaaya's trajectory. My belief is that if Kaaya is already soooooo close to a guy that probably doesn't have a huge potential upside then you roll with the guy that is going to progress over the season rather than the guy that might give you a slightly better edge in week 1. I think most in the Kaaya camp just don't see the point in rolling with the guy probably already showing you wayyyy more of his top potential than they guy almost matching the max potential of the veteran as an 18 yr old.

Again, this is all based on very sketchy data as the coaching staff very easily could only be spreading public sunshine about the QB competition so as to try to boost both guys confidence.
 
Tad Footeball said:
MiamiVice7 said:
Tad Footeball said:
I think Heaps too and they'll use the "it was soooooo close" rationale and state that Kaaya is capable and ready if needed. My issue with that is it being such a tight race shouldn't actually benefit the guy that's pushing Chris Weinke-dom in age.
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Don't we just want the guy who gives us the best chance to win?

If in the coaches' minds Heaps is that guy - even by a small margin (i.e. "it was soooooo close") - then shouldn't we want Heaps taking the snaps? I don't understand why it matters in terms of who starts if the guy who's better by a hair is 16 or 26 or 96 years old.

Now I certainly understand the thinking that a guy that's played college ball for years and started games should have a clear advantage over a true freshman that just arrived, and therefore he should be able to beat him out by more than just a hair. But if he doesn't wipe the floor with the freshman but instead just edges him out, he still beat him out, right?

The close battle speaks more to me about Kaaya's trajectory than anything. It makes me think he has a chance to play a lot of ball here and help us win a lot of games. I see it as he's already so good that he's 1B to Chris Weinke-dom's 1A (this assumes Heaps gets the nod). Thing is, if Kaaya really is good, that means Heaps is just a bit better than that at this moment. But if Heaps isn't very good and he's still ahead of Kaaya, what does that say about Kaaya?

In any event, I'm saying play the guy who gives us the best chance to win NOW. I don't care if that guy gives us a little or a lot better chance than the other guy. All I care about right now is beating Louisville's *** on 9/1.
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You make valid points and at the end of the day all any of us are doing is analyzing (oft overanalyzing) coach-speak. Like you said, the debate does fall into a belief about Kaaya's trajectory. My belief is that if Kaaya is already soooooo close to a guy that probably doesn't have a huge potential upside then you roll with the guy that is going to progress over the season rather than the guy that might give you a slightly better edge in week 1. I think most in the Kaaya camp just don't see the point in rolling with the guy probably already showing you wayyyy more of his top potential than they guy almost matching the max potential of the veteran as an 18 yr old.

Again, this is all based on very sketchy data as the coaching staff very easily could only be spreading public sunshine about the QB competition so as to try to boost both guys confidence.
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Fair point. And truth be told, I find myself pulling for Kaaya to win the battle, probably for the above reason.
 
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Canething said:
The only thing stopping Kaaya from starting are the size of Golden's nuts
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They look kinda small but at least they're spicy.

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Heaps will start. Golden penciled Heaps in as the starter the second the transfer became official. I'm not knocking Heaps and I just want to see the best guy for the job get the job. Having said that, the only way Kaaya was going to win this battle was to outplay Heaps by a mile which obviously didn't happen.
 
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