after reading a few articles,

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it's perfectly clear whats going on. everyone else may know this, but it's not clawson's fault. he has to dumb down the playbook so we don't ask our qb to do too much.

i hope jc can get past this mental block he has. i think he has enough ability, but he needs a breakthrough moment. one little thing that let's him know he can make plays, he can make the throws, and he can lead this team.

or maybe i'm silly, and he just sucks.

i hope its the former.
 
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Yep. Reports are it was at less than or around 25% of his offense was put in and they just said that it's getting even simpler after the struggles so far. Sad.
 
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At this point, I don't think it's on Clawson at all.

His focus' are:
A) Instill the playbook in the team.
B) Build up Crompton.


Both of these were far called a long process, but I think people expected a little more from B. A wouldn't have been done in entirety this entire year.
 
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Yeah, this is what you get from a QB who is from the hills of NC. Kinda like how west coast QB's aren't tough. :rolleyes:
 
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I think that Crompton simply doesn't have what it takes mentally to run the offense. He's got the physical tools, but he lacks the football intellect to get it done. He doesn't make his progressions and has no touch or control over that big arm of his. He should be on the sidelines until he gets it figured out. Surely he doesn't give us the best chance of winning.
 
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superdave1984 said:
I think that Crompton simply doesn't have what it takes mentally to run the offense. He's got the physical tools, but he lacks the football intellect to get it done. He doesn't make his progressions and has no touch or control over that big arm of his. He should be on the sidelines until he gets it figured out. Surely he doesn't give us the best chance of winning.
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Sadly, apparently he does. Very scary stuff.
 
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Is learning an Offense any more mentally challenging than his studies for his Degree? Makes me wonder what his GPA is.
 
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jt8137 said:
it's perfectly clear whats going on. everyone else may know this, but it's not clawson's fault. he has to dumb down the playbook so we don't ask our qb to do too much.
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i finally realized this after last week. i have watched the replays, and on a lot of plays our receivers are open (2-3 steps in most cases, wide open sometimes) and jc either locks in on option #1 or simply doesn't see them. i wonder what he did all of last year? new system or not, it doesn't seem to me he prepared himself to be 'game ready'. where's all the talk of him 'looking over old richmond film' and all that jazz? sadly for clawson, a bad qb is going to get him run out of town. i know the qb's are his responsibility directly, but he can't MAKE jc see the field, read a D, go through his progressions etc when he's under fire...
 
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in his defense, our line doesn't give him much time very often. i definitely thought we'd see more 'moving pocket' by now with two or three "receivers" (back, te, wr) running routes that cross right in front of him. takes pressure off of 1. the line, thus jc, and 2. jc to make progression downfield- he'll have 3 options right in his face. the ankle must be more of a problem than they are willing to publicize.
 
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Meh - the line does a decent job... not the greatest.. but he definitely isn't running around like Jimmy Clausen last year. It's all on him.
 
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If Crompton tanks it down on the Plains, the coaches should be forced to move on to one of the other guys more capable of grasping the system.
 
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I don't want to say that Crompton is the worst QB we've ever had but he certainly might be the slowest. Not that Heath Shuler and Tee Martin were geniuses but I think they were both brighter than Crompton, and had more athletic ability to make up for it. Crompton does have some very good physical tools, but god he is slower than smoke off .... in reading defenses, and deciding where to throw the ball. He looks oblivious even in your typical practiced game situation, and his clock management skills leave a bit to be desired...to say the least. He also hasn't proved to be the best at talking to the media at this juncture. And perhaps another point that might be worth mentioning are his Sporting News articles. I have not been impressed, or even satisfied with them thus far. He writes like he’s in about the 9th grade. Makes me a little uneasy....again to say the least.
 
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but honestly, who saw him in the Army All American game and came away feeling good about his ability?

I sure had my doubts.:unsure:
 
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I saw him in the all american game, but I also played against him a couple of years in high school so naturally I had high expectations for him. The past three games have really put things in perspective for me....but apparently not for him. He would have been better off just going to App. State.
 
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Clawson is the Offensive Coordinator. The offense stinks. That is his responsibility, plain and simple.

Fulmer will not give Clawson as long as he gave Sanders to get it fixed.
 
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Does anyone else find it a concern that our offensive OC seemed to have no idea how unprepared (or unable) Crompton was to run this offense before the season started? I mean if a guy can't run 25% of your offense that is certainly something that should have been clear before week one, right?
 
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KB5252 said:
Does anyone else find it a concern that our offensive OC seemed to have no idea how unprepared (or unable) Crompton was to run this offense before the season started? I mean if a guy can't run 25% of your offense that is certainly something that should have been clear before week one, right?
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We only have three QBs. Maybe he new Crompton wasn't ready but he was our best option. Clawson is not gonna come out and say we don't have a QB that's ready cause they all suck. It's obvious that none of our QBs are really very good. And if i remember right , Clawson didn't recruit these guys. So i think to drop all the balme on him is ridiculous. I've seen him call plays that would have worked if Crompton had the ability to not lock onto ONE reciever. There's been people open he just can't see the field. That's not Clawsons' fault.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
Clawson is the Offensive Coordinator. The offense stinks. That is his responsibility, plain and simple.

Fulmer will not give Clawson as long as he gave Sanders to get it fixed.
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Problems not Clawson, its Fulmer. Remember we were in this same position last year with Cutt as OC. Cutt had Ainge who is obviously way better than Crompton.
 
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JMBIGORANGE said:
We only have three QBs. Maybe he new Crompton wasn't ready but he was our best option. Clawson is not gonna come out and say we don't have a QB that's ready cause they all suck. It's obvious that none of our QBs are really very good. And if i remember right , Clawson didn't recruit these guys. So i think to drop all the balme on him is ridiculous. I've seen him call plays that would have worked if Crompton had the ability to not lock onto ONE reciever. There's been people open he just can't see the field. That's not Clawsons' fault.
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It may not be his fault that Crompton can't see the play developing but what I do blame him for is not being able to see just how much of the offense Crompton could run before hand. I want to believe that an OC knows before the season starts what he has to work with and would have adjusted his offense accordingly beforehand. Not week one and week three as we have seen.

I'm not placing all the blame on him just saying I blame him for not knowing what he had to work with before the season started, which was very obvious he had no clue Crompton lacked the skills week one against UCLA, otherwise he would have made the game manageable for Crompton.
 
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KB5252 said:
It may not be his fault that Crompton can't see the play developing but what I do blame him for is not being able to see just how much of the offense Crompton could run before hand. I want to believe that an OC knows before the season starts what he has to work with and would have adjusted his offense accordingly beforehand. Not week one and week three as we have seen.

I'm not placing all the blame on him just saying I blame him for not knowing what he had to work with before the season started, which was very obvious he had no clue Crompton lacked the skills week one against UCLA, otherwise he would have made the game manageable for Crompton.
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I understand your point, but at the same time Clawson never had a chance to see Crompton play at game speed. For all we know, he did a better job of making check downs and reads in practice, but it all fell apart once he saw live action. Clawson only got to evaluate him wearing a green jersey during practice.
 
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. . .If that ultimately proves to be the case. . .kind of reminds you of Ryan Leaf!! Many thought he would be better than Peyton!! Duh!
 
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