He told me a few years ago that he had to keep up with me during class time with Zeno. He knew I had studied the gameplan and knew what Coach wanted to hear. I couldn't hold a candle to his physical skills/ability. I could hand-off with the best of them! LOL!
IMO, he was easily the most gifted QB this university every had. I know that sounds like just an old teammate taking up for his era, but Roy was special. I was going to hold off, but I'll add more in a new post below.
Agree on Henry. Amazing passer, cool under pressure. Understand why ND signed him.
LL has 2 things going for him. 1. He is a leader. 2. Most times he does not hurt you.
LL rarely will take control, put the team on his back and make things happen. Coach is staying with what he knows because of #2. Fields will make mistakes. LL still makes way more than he should for being so experienced. I think Fields will be a better QB when he is under center full time.
Once again someone needs to explain to me what putting a team on your back means as a QB?? Like throw the ball deep to himself. Then catch it break 5 tackles and run for a touchdown?? The QB touches the ball every play and runs the offense. He can’t make the line block or the receivers get open or the rbs find a hole if any. I just don’t understand the comment. It’s not like basketball where you give a guy the ball every possession and let him try to score. Or a pitcher throwing a no hitter. Or a hitter going 5 for 5 with 2 HRs.
And if you mean run like Scott did. Our defense gave Scott the middle all night. To the point that I lost my voice.Nichols didn’t give Levi that kind of open field to run.
The appearance of an open field to run often disappears if not taken advantage of.
Scott looked to #5. When he wasn’t open Scott took off. It’s not Levi’s job to immediately look for the running lanes it’s his job to go through his progressions and get it to the check down if possible. If he could run 10 yards up the middle all night I’m sure he would have taken advantage of it. It wasn’t there.
The concern Saturday should be with the running game and why the defense didn’t adjust to defending the middle.
I wonder if we have a distorted memory of Richard Parell. I only saw the little bit he played in 1988, but look at his college numbers.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...pannell-1.html
108 competitions on 246 attempts for 1331 yards. 3 TD's and 14 Int's. a complettion rate of 43.9%. Not what I would call stellar.
Hatcher will throw 10-12 deep balls in a game and complete 3. Levi throws 5 and completed 3 Saturday. Both offensive TDs were deep balls. One in stride and one 50/50 ball.
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