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Who should start next week?

Who should be Wake's Starting QB vs Indiana

  • Wolford

    Votes: 114 63.7%

  • Hinton

    Votes: 56 31.3%

  • Kearns

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Doofus/Numbers

    Votes: 7 3.9%
  • Total voters
    179
If you go back and look at Wolford's interceptions, from what I remember, they were good decisions that had it been a split second earlier would have gotten there but instead he got hit and the ball didn't quite get there. Now, it may be a case of him underestimating the speed at this level and thinking he has more time than he does.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
If you go back and look at Wolford's interceptions, from what I remember, they were good decisions that had it been a split second earlier would have gotten there but instead he got hit and the ball didn't quite get there. Now, it may be a case of him underestimating the speed at this level and thinking he has more time than he does.
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I think what a lot of people are forgetting is that both Wolford and obviously even more so with Hinton is that both are very young quarterbacks playing behind a bad offensive line. Mistakes are going to happen with young quarterbacks behind a good offensive line, behind a bad offensive line it's magnified even more. On Hinton's first interception Saturday he was creamed as he was throwing and Army was only rushing 3. I'm not excusing bad throws, but right now anybody we put behind center is being put in a tough spot until we get better play up front. Hate to rag on the O-line guys so much, I'm sure they're playing as hard as they can, but it's the truth. It is next to impossible to overcome a sub par offensive line, even more so than a sub par defensive line. At least on the defensive side you may have great linebackers and a great secondary, in fact that was kind of how we were last year on defense. On the offensive side, you can have a great QB, great receivers, and a great running back, and it still not cover up a bad offensive line. It will help to an extent, but not cover it up. Look at Andrew Luck so far this year playing behind an Indy O-line that isn't very good.
 
BillGeorge said:
I am not happy with our OL play, but I am even more disappointed with the blocking of our running backs on passing downs.
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I certainly agree, but isn't part of that on the O-line as well? Our RB's are sometimes being asked to do an awful lot when it comes to pass blocking due to the O-line problems. It's not really fair to expect a 200lb running back to really be able to block a 250 to 300lb d-lineman coming on the pass rush that hasn't even been slowed down by the O-line. Of course the failure to identify and pick up the blitz falls more squarely on the RB's though.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
I certainly agree, but isn't part of that on the O-line as well? Our RB's are sometimes being asked to do an awful lot when it comes to pass blocking due to the O-line problems. It's not really fair to expect a 200lb running back to really be able to block a 250 to 300lb d-lineman coming on the pass rush that hasn't even been slowed down by the O-line. Of course the failure to identify and pick up the blitz falls more squarely on the RB's though.
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Yeah, the RBs shouldn't have so much blocking responsibility when the other team is rushing 3 or 4 every play.

In blitzing scenarios, all you really need to ask a RB to do is tarry anyway, not really block, or we should be sending them out for screens. We should be getting the ball out quickly on those plays anyway.
 
Bad O-line. You start the guy that can run. Hinton is in.
 
...and a damn shame at that. :(

Remember the early Grobe days with great OL play- the cut blocking, sweeps, etc.

Hell, at times, you couldn't even find the ball carrier! :thumbsup:
 
Caldwell's OL.
 
Why did Grobe stop all the creative offensive plays, trickery, orbit sweeps and cut blocking? When he first got here he made the OL lose weight to be quicker . Then he changed to a bigger OL. We led the ACC in rushing 4 or 5 times and declined to one of the worst rushing teams. Hard to figure..
 
BillGeorge said:
Yeah, the 2001 victory in CH 32-31 where Julius Peppers was sucking air in the second half as the Deacs OL dominated their DL.
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We had 9 or 10 guys we played on the O-line then and it really kept us fresh up front and wore down other teams. It's hard to believe we had that much quality depth up front, but we did. Even though we had some really good lineman after that, we never had that kind of depth again.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
We had 9 or 10 guys we played on the O-line then and it really kept us fresh up front and wore down other teams. It's hard to believe we had that much quality depth up front, but we did. Even though we had some really good lineman after that, we never had that kind of depth again.
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And when grobe took over he would literally rotate a fresh new 5 in the middle of a series.
 
DeacsOrDie said:
And when grobe took over he would literally rotate a fresh new 5 in the middle of a series.
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Exactly. While Grobe did recruit some really good o-lineman, we never had that kind of depth up front again. Caldwell had stocked the pond up front before he was fired.
 
On the old board I remember people saying the league office asked us and GT to limit cut blocking and told the officials to pay extra attention to the chop as opposed to cut.

GT told them to take a hike / we'll use any legal scheme. We (wellman) said we'd work to limit the cuts.
 
Deacon92 said:
On the old board I remember people saying the league office asked us and GT to limit cut blocking and told the officials to pay extra attention to the chop as opposed to cut.

GT told them to take a hike / we'll use any legal scheme. We (wellman) said we'd work to limit the cuts.
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I hope that isn't true. That was before Paul Johnson came to Tech, I'm not sure they were using cut blocks anymore than anybody else at that point under Chan Gailey, so that part doesn't add up.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
I hope that isn't true. That was before Paul Johnson came to Tech, I'm not sure they were using cut blocks anymore than anybody else at that point under Chan Gailey, so that part doesn't add up.
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The part about the ACC asking Wake to change their OL blocking is true and Wellman agreeing to make the changes is also true.
 
The crazy thing about all that is we weren't even in the top half of the league for chop block penalties those years. Wellman should've told them to take a hike, cut blocking is legal, every team does it to at least some extent and the option teams do it practically every time they snap the ball. Of course Wellman also hired [Redacted], so why should anything shock us.
 
looks like Hinton will be starting Saturday......per Clawson's latest comments.
Said Wolford is somewhere between doubtful and questionable and Hinton has been practicing with the first team
 
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