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QB Kyle McCord (transfer to Syracuse)

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calibuck said:
Gotta ask the question, if it was merely a case of throwing of the proper foot, why wasn't this problem corrected long ago. I get that habits need to be broken and then fixed, but come on. As QB1, Kyle gets most of the attention. And believe he would have been beaten up by the coaches if he persisted in throwing off his back foot....OK, so maybe twisted ankle helped him get it right, and certainly his placement was miles above what he demonstrated in the prior nine games. On Marv's catch and run, there was only a small/tad of slow down required to haul the pass in, and several of his 'touch passes' had some tremendous accuracy. His performance was in the very great area, and hopefully will silence the 'fans' that are calling for his head. Would that we see this against TTUN, which tOSU will sorely need. Go Bucks!
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because you can tell them, show them, tell them and show them until the cows come home. A kid's mind will slow down in competition when it's ready too. Imperfect humans are imperfect humans.

I pull no punches with Day or any other coach but there is little a coach can do besides make him aware it's happening and give him some tools to work on the mental game. The only criticism you can really level is that, because experience eventually fixes it, if the kid had more experience from last year he would have been farther ahead this year.
 
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calibuck said:
Gotta ask the question, if it was merely a case of throwing of the proper foot, why wasn't this problem corrected long ago. I get that habits need to be broken and then fixed, but come on. As QB1, Kyle gets most of the attention. And believe he would have been beaten up by the coaches if he persisted in throwing off his back foot....OK, so maybe twisted ankle helped him get it right, and certainly his placement was miles above what he demonstrated in the prior nine games. On Marv's catch and run, there was only a small/tad of slow down required to haul the pass in, and several of his 'touch passes' had some tremendous accuracy. His performance was in the very great area, and hopefully will silence the 'fans' that are calling for his head. Would that we see this against TTUN, which tOSU will sorely need. Go Bucks!
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I think the short answer to your question (first sentence of your post) is that people are different

CJ Stroud had one bad half, during which some people thought they’d seen enough that they could make a permanent decision about him. After CJ went on to post a PE of over 200 in THAT GAME and then to go over 200 6 more times that season, those same people just blithely said “I was wrong, so what”, completely ignoring the larger lesson that making determinations when you don’t have enough information is always stupid. And unwise. But also stupid

CJ was an extreme example. Kyle is taking longer than most who have Ryan Day to develop them. But he continues to progress. We’ve seen glimpses…

13 days brothers
13 days
 
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calibuck said:
Gotta ask the question, if it was merely a case of throwing of the proper foot, why wasn't this problem corrected long ago. I get that habits need to be broken and then fixed, but come on. As QB1, Kyle gets most of the attention. And believe he would have been beaten up by the coaches if he persisted in throwing off his back foot....OK, so maybe twisted ankle helped him get it right, and certainly his placement was miles above what he demonstrated in the prior nine games. On Marv's catch and run, there was only a small/tad of slow down required to haul the pass in, and several of his 'touch passes' had some tremendous accuracy. His performance was in the very great area, and hopefully will silence the 'fans' that are calling for his head. Would that we see this against TTUN, which tOSU will sorely need. Go Bucks!
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I think surviving the first injury is a big moment for a lot of QBs. He had the ankle injury in Madison and you could tell the next week with his comments about thinking it would hurt more that he kinda came to the realization that getting hit is not that big of a deal.
 
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sg86 said:
I think surviving the first injury is a big moment for a lot of QBs. He had the ankle injury in Madison and you could tell the next week with his comments about thinking it would hurt more that he kinda came to the realization that getting hit is not that big of a deal.
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He was apparently hurt much earlier in the year Wisconsin just aggravated it. And unlike CJs shoulder we didn't have a body bag game with a healthy backup for him to get right
 
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I think that as Kyle's ankle continues to get better so has his footwork. He's pretty lethal when his
feet are set and he has time to throw. He showed how good he can be in the first half against Sparty.
I think that providing him with an outlet on most passing plays and Kyle being content with dumping
the ball off for a short gain has also paid dividends for the Offense. No so many 3rd and long plays
where he's at a disadvantage. And, of course, the much improved run game is also adding to his
efficiency and effectiveness.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
“I thought his feet moved better in the game,” Ryan Day said in his postgame press conference. “Just watching the rhythm of the game, the feet – he started off a little better in the Rutgers game, then he started off a little better in this game – the game is slowing down for him. You’re beginning to see that happening. Not that it’s all perfect all the time, it’s not. But when his feet are right and he’s found the rhythm of the game, that’s when he’s playing at his best and he threw some really nice balls tonight.”
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Which just shows why the backup QBs really need more actual "game reps". Even in "garbage time" the coaches should call more passing plays for the backup QBs. Just handing the ball off doesn't do as much for the QBs development as passing would.

 
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ScriptOhio said:
Which just shows why the backup QBs really need more actual "game reps". Even in "garbage time" the coaches should call more passing plays for the backup QBs. Just handing the ball off doesn't do as much for the QBs development as passing would.

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I agree they should be calling more pass plays with the backups in. I totally get Day's decisions in 2021 and 2022 given how awful the defense was. He couldn't trust them to take his foot off the gas offensively and I don't blame him.

This season though, I think he's doing Devin/Lincoln a disservice by not letting them sling it a little.
 
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