Week 1 Thoughts

[TheWizardofCamelot]

Allar hype is legit. He made a handful of jaw dropping throws - the out patterns across the field are not guard able and his accuracy on the run, phew. 4 drops in there as well, just need those cleaned up. His awareness and ability to move with his eyes staying down the field are elite.

WR room will produce, which was a question mark. Seems like Wallace and Cliff will be the possession types with KLS as the big play threat. McClain and Cephas had good moments as well.

OL looked DECENT - we could run the ball (sometimes felt like we got away from it) and Allar was generally clean. A few missed assignments though.

Singleton and Allen were very business like in their contributions. Singleton seems more polished than last year. Allen seems to have added some quickness to his power game.

Defense underwhelmed but they did hold them to 7. They were able to get off the field in key moments. No TOs or 3 and outs. Carter hopefully was humbled because he missed a few easy tackles. Still seem to be soft at DL (some guys out noted) and up the middle. DEs were neutralized, although Adisa put together a nice game. King and Dixon played well outside of one blown coverage.

Need to figure out ST. Kicker and punter are going to be liabilities. The missed FGs were huge in the moment, those six points would’ve really put WVU in a hole at half.

Can’t be upset with a double digit win over a P5 opponent in week 1. WVU had a strong OL and RB and I think they’ll lean on them to finish middle of the pack in the BIG12.

OSU/McCord look good, but not great. They’re definitely beat-able this year. Michigan seems similar to last year - they’ll try and shove it down our throats with the run game, so we’ll likely need Allar to be great that day to win.

 

[CJFisJoePaII]

Drew's worst throw was dropped INT in endzone. He had too much confidence in his arm on that one and the DB actually baited him into that throw IMO. That is a throw he needs to learn from - if you're going to throw that ball, you have to put it where only your receiver can get to it (which was arched and deep in this case - not a bullet into the front-door).

 

[bvillebaron]

Drew's worst throw was dropped INT in endzone. He had too much confidence in his arm on that one and the DB actually baited him into that throw IMO. That is a throw he needs to learn from - if you're going to throw that ball, you have to put it where only your receiver can get to it (which was arched and deep in this case - not a bullet into the front-door).

Oh I agree. Got lucky there but otherwise a strong performance for his first start. As another poster noted he does a great job of keeping his eyes downfield looking for a receiver while on the move rather than simply immediately tucking it and running like many QBs.

 

[GregInPitt]

Drew's worst throw was dropped INT in endzone. He had too much confidence in his arm on that one and the DB actually baited him into that throw IMO. That is a throw he needs to learn from - if you're going to throw that ball, you have to put it where only your receiver can get to it (which was arched and deep in this case - not a bullet into the front-door).

I don't believe the DB just dropped it. KLS, I believe, was the target and he got his hands in to knock the ball away from the DB. Nice play by KLS. And from what I saw on the replay the ball looked significantly behind KLS. KLS looked to have a step on the DB and if Allar had thrown the ball another 4 or 5 yards ahead it would have been either caught by KLS or incomplete, as you said.

Just a bad throw, but WR's can prevent INT's when they recognize a bad throw. I believe Franklin said he counted it as an INT type pass during his play by play evaluations.

 

[MacNit07]

Allar hype is legit. He made a handful of jaw dropping throws - the out patterns across the field are not guard able and his accuracy on the run, phew. 4 drops in there as well, just need those cleaned up. His awareness and ability to move with his eyes staying down the field are elite.

WR room will produce, which was a question mark. Seems like Wallace and Cliff will be the possession types with KLS as the big play threat. McClain and Cephas had good moments as well.

OL looked DECENT - we could run the ball (sometimes felt like we got away from it) and Allar was generally clean. A few missed assignments though.

Singleton and Allen were very business like in their contributions. Singleton seems more polished than last year. Allen seems to have added some quickness to his power game.

Defense underwhelmed but they did hold them to 7. They were able to get off the field in key moments. No TOs or 3 and outs. Carter hopefully was humbled because he missed a few easy tackles. Still seem to be soft at DL (some guys out noted) and up the middle. DEs were neutralized, although Adisa put together a nice game. King and Dixon played well outside of one blown coverage.

Need to figure out ST. Kicker and punter are going to be liabilities. The missed FGs were huge in the moment, those six points would’ve really put WVU in a hole at half.

Can’t be upset with a double digit win over a P5 opponent in week 1. WVU had a strong OL and RB and I think they’ll lean on them to finish middle of the pack in the BIG12.

OSU/McCord look good, but not great. They’re definitely beat-able this year. Michigan seems similar to last year - they’ll try and shove it down our throats with the run game, so we’ll likely need Allar to be great that day to win.

Odds-makers predict 2-10 for WVU. They could triple that and be a .500 team. They are bad.

 

[summitlion1]

Odds-makers predict 2-10 for WVU. They could triple that and be a .500 team. They are bad.

Massey composite, which is an average of all of the computer polls, has them at 61. They aren't world beaters, but they definitely aren't bad.

 

[bdgan]

Allar hype is legit. He made a handful of jaw dropping throws - the out patterns across the field are not guard able and his accuracy on the run, phew. 4 drops in there as well, just need those cleaned up. His awareness and ability to move with his eyes staying down the field are elite.

WR room will produce, which was a question mark. Seems like Wallace and Cliff will be the possession types with KLS as the big play threat. McClain and Cephas had good moments as well.

OL looked DECENT - we could run the ball (sometimes felt like we got away from it) and Allar was generally clean. A few missed assignments though.

Singleton and Allen were very business like in their contributions. Singleton seems more polished than last year. Allen seems to have added some quickness to his power game.

Defense underwhelmed but they did hold them to 7. They were able to get off the field in key moments. No TOs or 3 and outs. Carter hopefully was humbled because he missed a few easy tackles. Still seem to be soft at DL (some guys out noted) and up the middle. DEs were neutralized, although Adisa put together a nice game. King and Dixon played well outside of one blown coverage.

Need to figure out ST. Kicker and punter are going to be liabilities. The missed FGs were huge in the moment, those six points would’ve really put WVU in a hole at half.

Can’t be upset with a double digit win over a P5 opponent in week 1. WVU had a strong OL and RB and I think they’ll lean on them to finish middle of the pack in the BIG12.

OSU/McCord look good, but not great. They’re definitely beat-able this year. Michigan seems similar to last year - they’ll try and shove it down our throats with the run game, so we’ll likely need Allar to be great that day to win.

There was a play where Allar rolled out right to escape pressure then threw a pass across his body to the middle of the field. That takes a lot of arm strength but is risky. We'll see if that works against better defenses.

 

[wilbury]

Drew's worst throw was dropped INT in endzone. He had too much confidence in his arm on that one and the DB actually baited him into that throw IMO. That is a throw he needs to learn from - if you're going to throw that ball, you have to put it where only your receiver can get to it (which was arched and deep in this case - not a bullet into the front-door).

The DB was beaten and it was a TD with a good throw.

 

[Waltwam]

Allar hype is legit. He made a handful of jaw dropping throws - the out patterns across the field are not guard able and his accuracy on the run, phew. 4 drops in there as well, just need those cleaned up. His awareness and ability to move with his eyes staying down the field are elite.

WR room will produce, which was a question mark. Seems like Wallace and Cliff will be the possession types with KLS as the big play threat. McClain and Cephas had good moments as well.

OL looked DECENT - we could run the ball (sometimes felt like we got away from it) and Allar was generally clean. A few missed assignments though.

Singleton and Allen were very business like in their contributions. Singleton seems more polished than last year. Allen seems to have added some quickness to his power game.

Defense underwhelmed but they did hold them to 7. They were able to get off the field in key moments. No TOs or 3 and outs. Carter hopefully was humbled because he missed a few easy tackles. Still seem to be soft at DL (some guys out noted) and up the middle. DEs were neutralized, although Adisa put together a nice game. King and Dixon played well outside of one blown coverage.

Need to figure out ST. Kicker and punter are going to be liabilities. The missed FGs were huge in the moment, those six points would’ve really put WVU in a hole at half.

Can’t be upset with a double digit win over a P5 opponent in week 1. WVU had a strong OL and RB and I think they’ll lean on them to finish middle of the pack in the BIG12.

OSU/McCord look good, but not great. They’re definitely beat-able this year. Michigan seems similar to last year - they’ll try and shove it down our throats with the run game, so we’ll likely need Allar to be great that day to win.

Too bad about Landon Tengwall. OL would have been even better.

 

[AWS1022]

Odds-makers predict 2-10 for WVU. They could triple that and be a .500 team. They are bad.

I’ll bet you’re a lot of fun at parties….you definitely need to find another team to follow. It’s obvious Penn State will never live up to your lofty expectations.

 

[Online Persona]

There was a play where Allar rolled out right to escape pressure then threw a pass across his body to the middle of the field. That takes a lot of arm strength but is risky. We'll see if that works against better defenses.

Mccord tried this into a little more traffic and got picked off.

 

[AWS1022]

Odds-makers predict 2-10 for WVU. They could triple that and be a .500 team. They are bad.

Bwahahahaha!!!!

 

[PSUWrestlingFanSince2011]

Too bad about Landon Tengwall. OL would have been even better.

Looking like a huge loss losing Tengwall