ill give Meyer one thing over AA for sure... Deep Ball... Meyer could drop it
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ill give Meyer one thing over AA for sure... Deep Ball... Meyer could drop it
AA has a much better touch than Meyer. I look to a couple of games last year. Meyer couldn't complete a long pass to save his life (except for the Iowa game). Arnaud had several nice deep passes last year and this year.
I don't see AA as a deep ball threat. He missed too many open guys and never seemed to get enough air under the ball to let the receiver get to it. As for locking into his primary receiver that may be the receivers' fault. If they are not getting open he doesn't have anyone to pass to. Experience should help there. One thing that AA has that Meyer didn't was a guy behind him pushing him. I hope that Tiller is much better than Love was and AA feels that pressure to perform every day and not get complacent. AA should also benefit from a better line and more running production next year. His passing stats may go down but the offense as a whole should be better.
AA has far better fundamentals - even a blind man could tell ya that. ;)
I'll say this much though - I remember all the hype after Meyer's sophomore season and what people expected from that '06 season. We all know how it actually turned out.
I don't see it happening with AA and the '09 offense - but our defense holds the keys on how good/bad we'll be next year.
I agree with this 100%. I don't think there is any way the offense will regress. I think we'll have a very good offense next year. Unfortunately, our defense will still be god-awful, and that will keep us from really improving, record wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by ISUFan22
When AA ends at ISU, I don't think we will be compairing him with BM. I think we will be asking if he was the better ever at ISU. The mistakes he makes is when he is trying to make something happen. He will get better, not start to elim those. We are in good shape at QB.
Meyer had a couple of very nice deep balls against Colorado last year in that great comeback.Quote:
Originally Posted by bstegs
I agree with others, Meyer had a good long ball. I wonder if that was a product of a weaker arm, where he had to loft the ball higher in the air and his receiver had more time to adjust to it. AA seems to have a much stronger arm and doesn't quite have the touch yet on the deep balls.
I don't think we saw AA throw the deep ball enough to judge him on it. I was really disappointed that we didn't open up the playbook for AA more this year.
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Originally Posted by Rick
I suppose that depends on what you call a deep ball? Yesterday AA had some very nice completions over 20 yards, especially to the TE. I would call those deep balls. If you call a deep ball over 30 or 40 then no he didn't. But then again how many QBs actually complete many of those? If he was chucking it that long all the time this site would be going crazy about the bad play selection.
The one thing I really like about Arnaud is the way he steps back into the pocket to throw. Meyer used to scramble alot when he didn't have to...
You must be talking about his Stage Right exit and sideine toss to Blythe who proceeds to jump up and gets pushed out of bounds while in the air for an incomplete pass.
Yeah - the kid isn't afraid to take a hit.Quote:
Originally Posted by cybsball20
meyer could barely throw a spiral, i think it is hands down arnaud is better than meyer ever was.
I dont think it will be possible for AA to have a slump next year. If he starts slumping than enter Tiller. Meyer never had any one behind him so if he slumped it didnt matter he still played. AA dosnt have that option, if he slumps he'll probably get pulled at least for a little bit so i think there will be a different mindset and both qbs will def be on there toes knowing either one is equally eligable to play next year
Meyer had a great soph season. It lead to most publications picking him as the first team Big 12 qb in 2006. To say AA had a similar saeson to that with no defense helping him is a great compliment to AA. The key, of course, if for AA to get better, unlike Bret, who got worse.