They wanted him to force balls to inexperienced WR who he didn’t think were open.
Making a jump that might not be true about forcing throws. Could be they were open and Jamie either lacked confidence in the WRs or in his arm as he never seemed the same after the injury. Unfortunately his injury vs. Louisville closely coincided with losing Surratt/Washington, so will never know how much might have been his confidence in himself post injury vs. new WRs, but clearly our O changed as Jamie took the run wayyyyy too much.
What is undeniable is that Jamie didn't give his WRs any chances. Against Duke when we could have worked to get them going we ran 66 to 25 passes. Duke didn't have a good passing D either. Most stark is vs. the Cuse when he chose the run 19 times vs. 13 passes (including an INT) whereas Sam had 43 passes to 25 runs. Pretty sure the Cuse D didn't change when Hartman came in and the mix completely flips between Jamie and Sam. Not to mention Sam's clear effectiveness vs. the Cuse while Jamie struggled. That game to me tells me everything we need to know and that this O will be just fine with Sam.
Not to say it couldn't have been better with a healthy Jamie and WR corps, but I would be willing to bet Sam will put up some gaudy #s rivaling what Jamie did early on.