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QB1 Will Howard (Official Thread)

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dragurd said:
Fields held the ball too damn long and passed up the right play big game hunting. He was a freak athlete and a competitor can throw a hell of balll but as a QB give me the guy who makes the right play more often then not.
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I’d take Fields, but he definitely held onto the ball too long. I also think we’d have seen him breaking off huge runs in the playoff if he hadn’t gotten hurt.

As good as that team was. We only got a glimpse of what they had played for the playoffs against PSU.

Anyway it’s a fair point. In college he could get away with it, and I think we’d see an amazing downfield passing game with his arm, but Will has a much better intermediate game.
 
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dragurd said:
Recency bias but not in the same way you are thinking. Watched too much fields in the NFL and noticed he has some of the same issues he had in college but way worse. Aka is he is the epitome of a see it throw it QB vs CJ's anticipation. The difference is we regularly had people wide ass open from the wealth of wide receivers we had so not as much as an issue and now he hesitates on things he see's open not trusting his eyes in addition to that making it worse.

Not to say Howard has his own issues on being late. See the throw to the wide ass open by 10 yards Gee Scott that resulted in a loss of 2 yards cause he threw it late enough Scott didn't have time to stop and turn it up.
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I think I can make a pretty strong argument that Stroud is the only Ohio State QB who has ever consistently anticipated throws and thrown guys open at an elite level. Maybe Smith in 2006 is the exception. We've have good throwers, generally, since Day showed up, but most of them still wait longer than is ideal a lot. Fields did take it to the next level in terms of never giving up on a play even when it was high time to do so and got away with it more often than most through sheer physical talent.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
I think I can make a pretty strong argument that Stroud is the only Ohio State QB who has ever consistently anticipated throws and thrown guys open at an elite level. Maybe Smith in 2006 is the exception. We've have good throwers, generally, since Day showed up, but most of them still wait longer than is ideal a lot. Fields did take it to the next level in terms of never giving up on a play even when it was high time to do so and got away with it more often than most through sheer physical talent.
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Haskins wasn’t bad.
 
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