Not exactly. There are posters who are concerned about McIlwain's accuracy. To be fair, many of them base their assessments on observations of practice.KoreAmBear said:
There's not a Garbers/McIlwain v. Bowers rivalry going on is there? I only see those two together, never with Bowers.
85Bear said:
Has any reporter actually asked any of our coaches about Bowers? I'm not questioning their decision to go with Garbers/McIlwain. However, I find it odd that multiple articles have mentioned the surprise of Bowers dropping to 3rd string, but no one (that I could find) has actually tried to dig further on the topic with the coaches or players.
Wilcox: "It's nothing Ross has done."85Bear said:
Has any reporter actually asked any of our coaches about Bowers? I'm not questioning their decision to go with Garbers/McIlwain. However, I find it odd that multiple articles have mentioned the surprise of Bowers dropping to 3rd string, but no one (that I could find) has actually tried to dig further on the topic with the coaches or players.
Thanks. I had not seen that Wilcox statement before, and while it's not much, it's something.Fyght4Cal said:
Wilcox: "It's nothing Ross has done."
Leading me to believe that it's the things Bowers has not done - moving in the pocket, identifying coverages, working through progressions, finding the open man, making correct RPO reads etc.
The weird part is you recall there were a few drops that hit the receivers right in the hands (Hudson for sure had one). Had those actually been caught, would any of this have happened? Would have been the same guy back there with the same capabilities, but I just can't see them pulling a guy who had gone 5-6 or something in the first quarter.Big C said:
They'll never tell, but I wonder at what point in the UNC game, they decided to sit Bowers. I imagine they had certainly talked about it in advance. What if Bowers had been performing a bit better? A fair amount better?
Disagree. Last week his TD passes to Laird and Noa were both dimes.oskirules said:
I'm also concerned about Garber's accuracy on the mid range-deep pass. Since the UNC game,most of his passes were way overthrown.