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Mertz named SEC Offensive Player of the Week after USC win
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What is lost in his stats (but everyone sees it) is that he is a BALLER and a leader... he gets hit all the damn time and balls on. It elevates other players, they buy into him, and they are willing to do everything they can to contribute. Also love the way he constantly pumps up the D (yeah, i said "pumps up the D"!!!) on the sidelines... he's just flat out a baller and leader... he's having the time of his life and I'm happy for him.
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Only because he finally hired a prostitute
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It’s what I like most about him. His toughness and leadership. We need someone with those attributes to step up on defense.
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His toughness and leadership, as MJM just said, are by far his biggest attributes. They are completely the opposite of what we had in AR last season. With all the experience he had coming in, I was pretty confident that Mertz would be an upgrade there, even though I knew he was pretty limited physically. There's a lot more to being a QB than how far you can throw or how fast you can run.
I'm not sure what to think of Mertz from here. It's possible his ceiling is a little bit higher than I thought, and maybe he'll throw for a bunch more yards than expected down the stretch. Even in this 423 yard game, there were a TON of passes off target in which he was bailed out by fantastic catches - his accuracy is still well in question. As he gets more comfortable, perhaps that will improve. I sure as hell hope they let him keep airing it out down the field.
Pearsall is about as great of a safety blanket as a QB could ask for, a guy that vacuums up balls anywhere near him. When in doubt, just chuck it up to him. He needs to be targeted at least 15 times a game.
I'm not sure what to think of Mertz from here. It's possible his ceiling is a little bit higher than I thought, and maybe he'll throw for a bunch more yards than expected down the stretch. Even in this 423 yard game, there were a TON of passes off target in which he was bailed out by fantastic catches - his accuracy is still well in question. As he gets more comfortable, perhaps that will improve. I sure as hell hope they let him keep airing it out down the field.
Pearsall is about as great of a safety blanket as a QB could ask for, a guy that vacuums up balls anywhere near him. When in doubt, just chuck it up to him. He needs to be targeted at least 15 times a game.
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@Detroitgator I'm not sure I'm clear on your leading indicators for Mertz. It's it because he's a baller? A leader? That he pumps up more D than T's mom? You're being coy with your opinions.
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I think he's got room to improve from here but we've got to get him some time on straight drop back passes so he can work both sides of the field. In the Vandy game he had a few chances to stand in there and hit some deep balls but didn't seem to get his feet set right. Hopefully this bye week will gives us a chance to put our best oline together for the next couple of games.
- Jul 15, 2014
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Rewatching the game, he threw left in this game a lot more than you think/he has in the past.
As for his straight drop back, some of us talked about this the other day and hopefully it gets addressed with MERTZ (and I think it did in the 4th Qtr after one such play). He drops so far back that he's way out of an otherwise fantastic "horseshoe" pocket and when our tackles give an end a final push away because they think "he can't be back this far!", there Mertz is... when this happens, and he takes three steps back up into that pocket, he delivered most of the time.
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But we knew this BEFORE the game, that their pass D sucked... I'm guessing that MAYBE that was part of our actual gameplan, but we wouldn't want to give "tater and crew" too much credit, would we?
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I'll bet if you went back through the season you'd see that we've probably had 80% of our successful pass plays OF MORE THAN 10 yards to the right side of the field.....I'm not taking into account WR/RB screens that aren't even across the LOS....Even the design of our pass plays looks different going into the left hash mark toward the sideline.
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In fact I have video of Karl Dinardo and staff last week when they finally discovered it was legal to throw more than 10 yards downfield...
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For his sake and the team's, that needs to stop. I remember Herbstreit saying our big guys looked slow. I believe it was Utah and he was talking about our DL/LBs. But our OL has to start moving and handling business.
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It's why he gets up so slow a lot of times... there's no cup on the planet big enough to cover those huge balls.
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