http://www.roanoke.com/sports/uva/uvafootball/2404224-12/cavaliers-will-...
Per Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times:
"Back-up quarterback Greyson Lambert, who has led Virginia on fourth-quarter touchdown drives in each of its past two games, has been slated for playing time when the Cavaliers play host to Virginia Tech on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
'Well give Greyson some opportunities to go in the game, Mike London said. Its important that he gets some development as the season winds down.
I thought he did a nice job [at Miami]. At one point, they had their back-ups in. Later, when [Lambert] started moving the ball, they put their first team back in.
Lambert, a 6-foot-5 redshirt freshman from Jesup, Ga., entered the game with 7:13 remaining and finished 13 of 19 for 134 yards.
Starting quarterback David Watford was 10 of 25 for 106 yards and was intercepted three times in a 45-26 loss to the Hurricanes.
London said his staff had not determined if Lamberts playing time will follow a pre-ordained pattern, similar to the way UVa used Watford as a true freshman when he was a back-up to Michael Rocco in 2011."
So, the Hokies get Watford and now have to study limited film on Lambert. It is hard to determine the impact of this is without some inside knowledge about which quarterback that the players think gives them the best chance to win, but Virginia was the better team against Miami for 3 quarters and their effort was completely sabotaged by Watford's poor play.
Thoughts?
Comments
Is he a mobile QB? If so we could have some problems.
He's more of a pocket-passer.
Well with the recent track records of pocket passers...dis gon b bud
For a split second, I thought I was in the Thanksgiving sides thread...
Nope.
Who's she?
Mike London has perfected the 2-QB system!
Feel like UVA has a better chance with Watford. A non mobile freshman QB possibly starting his first collegiate game against our defense? Yeah, good luck with that.
I'll never understand why teams ever think it's a good idea to have a QB rotation. It never, ever works out. A wildcat style play or two is one thing but straight up switching QBs for periods of time just ruins the flow of the offense and takes them out of sync. You either make a permanent switch or stick with one guy, but you don't keep switching back and forth on purpose.
UF made it work pretty well in '06 with Chris Leak and Tim Tebow. I generally agree with your statment, but just throwing that out there
Duke is 9-2
Connette is much more of a wildcat qb. When they put him in on 3rd/4th and 1, you know exactly what hes going to do. Problem is, we still couldnt stop him the couple times he did go in so he's pretty effective.
Connette has come in for relief a number of times this year, throwing and running, and saved their bacon. The NCSU game, #7 was off all game and Connette came in and stabilized. Looked like he did something similar in the comeback vs. UVA as well.
Not going to disagree that he's been a decent qb in relief of boone (as per his stats), but in Duke's perfect world, Boone was the much better pocket passer they wanted. His injury put Connette in a position where he had to succeed to keep Duke winning but when Boone is playing well, Connette is really just your stick-it-in guy.
tysean glenrod did pretty ok for a stretch there.
If he's a pocket passer, I see our D-line making sure he's not having a good day.
Cardinal Fang, please fetch..., the comfy chair!
Nobody expects.
The Comfy Chair
Maybe not McCarron, but even he didn't do too great statistically.
If it weren't for Watford's ties to Hampton High School he would have been benched many moons ago. London cares more about winning recruits than winning games.
Two conflicting thoughts:
1. UVA's best chance of winning is having Watford come in and follow a similar gameplan as CJ Brown. Organized chaos, let the rush come up field and look to run as your 2nd read. But Watford is a significantly worse passer than Brown, which is hard to say.
2. Lambert is what's for dinner. Dadi is licking his chops at his mobility. But, Lambert has proven, mostly against backups, that he deserves more minutes. He should have been starting all year. He's not great, especially right now because he has so little experience, and throwing to his sad-sack receivers against Kendall and Facyson and Tone is probably not going to go well for him. But, hell, why not?
Of note, I've been watching them all year to see how this specific issue went down. I expect we will have a similar issue next year, with an incumbent who is just good enough not to bench and a raw freshman QB who could be better if we'd just bite the bullet and play him. I think Leal should be better than Watford, at least passing it, but Ford very well may give us just what Lambert is giving UVA right now.
Kinda surprised they're going to play Lambert on the road in a hostile environment in front of a lot of VT fans. Maybe they should have done this earlier in the season when they had a home game?
Wait... Who is that?? It looks like a white Mike London!
Very, very telling signal here. Basically, London is saying the season's over and he is merely using this game as an evaluation tool for the spring, which mean, there will be fewer fans at their spring game than last year's spring game.
So, this is actually their Fall- Spring game.
Exactly. Except with fans there (Hokies).
They should have done that after they lost their 7th game of the year.