Gio Lopez

While I don’t think anyone would confuse him with Drake Maye, I actually think Gio Lopez could have been (I guess technically still could be) a totally serviceable quarterback here IF his coaches had actually schemed and designed/called plays that accentuate his strengths and minimize his weaknesses- more designed QB runs, RPO, move the pocket, roll outs to the correct side for a left handed QB, etc. To whatever extent Lopez has “failed” here is a much harsher indictment on his coaches than on him, IMO.
 
CFordUNC said:
While I don’t think anyone would confuse him with Drake Maye, I actually think Gio Lopez could have been (I guess technically still could be) a totally serviceable quarterback here IF his coaches had actually schemed and designed/called plays that accentuate his strengths and minimize his weaknesses- more designed QB runs, RPO, move the pocket, roll outs to the correct side for a left handed QB, etc. To whatever extent Lopez has “failed” here is a much harsher indictment on his coaches than on him, IMO.
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Play calling all season should have looked like the two second half TD drives. We reverted back to crap after that.
 
theel4life said:
Bruh we can’t win with him.
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We had 5 plays on defense yesterday at least to win game. He was not on field for any of them. I am not arguing he is a great QB or we should count on him next year. But he was not the problem yesterday. We got virtually no running game.
 
no offensive design or qb would make this OL anything other than pathetic. drake maye found that out when he had to play some actual defenses late in the season.
 
OGtruthhurts said:
no offensive design or qb would make this OL anything other than pathetic. drake maye found that out when he had to play some actual defenses late in the season.
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Respectfully disagree. There are plenty of coaches out there with worse offensive lines than we have who do a much better job of scheming and playcalling around those deficiencies. We have an OL with enough size, skill, and most importantly experience level to enable us to do those things – it’s completely on the coaches that we do not try to do so.
 
i don't need or search out respect from anyone fwiw. its nothing more than two differing opinions from two irrelevant humans in the big scheme of things. mike ditka once said an offense is only as good as the big uns on the line. we have ol size as do most p5 schools but no talent at all and we've played some horrific defenses this year. put drake maye behind this line and he would look exactly like he did vs ncstate and clemson. no amount of lfed trickery can be effective for long with a no talent ol.
 
OGtruthhurts said:
i don't need or search out respect from anyone fwiw. its nothing more than two differing opinions from two irrelevant humans in the big scheme of things. mike ditka once said an offense is only as good as the big uns on the line. we have ol size as do most p5 schools but no talent at all and we've played some horrific defenses this year. put drake maye behind this line and he would look exactly like he did vs ncstate and clemson. no amount of lfed trickery can be effective for long with a no talent ol.
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Our offensive line was rated in the top 5 of the ACC and in the top 35 nationally in the preseason by PFF. It returned a ton of experience, which is more important for OL than any other position group on the team. It is underachieving primarily because the scheme and the playcalling are so awful. If you gave almost any other decent college coach this OL in combination with these skill position players, he’d have a top 50-60 offense.
 
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