UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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CFordUNC said:
You're telling me! My 3-year-old son is in the 96th percentile for height and weight. We thought he was big. His 6-month-old younger brother is even larger: in the 99.99th percentile for height and weight. Bring on all of the NIL chaos in about 15ish years or so!
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I hope their size is a result of post-birth weight gain and not indicative of their birth size!
 
Gio to wake. Gio was not our problem. He just was not the answer. If after his first five games next year he is averaging over ,200 yards passing, has 6 passing TDs, 2 rushing, no INTs and is completing 69 percent of passes UNC fans will be saying, now he is playing well. He will have some help at wake.
 
Lot of smoke about Jordan Washington, former 4 star TE for Texas. Got at least 2 years. Caught seven passes 1 TD. Usually when there is this much smoke we get the guy. Position of need.
 
heel79 said:
Gio to wake. Gio was not our problem. He just was not the answer. If after his first five games next year he is averaging over ,200 yards passing, has 6 passing TDs, 2 rushing, no INTs and is completing 69 percent of passes UNC fans will be saying, now he is playing well. He will have some help at wake.
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I've definitely come around on my thinking about Gio. More than Gio himself not being very good, I just don't think *we* were a good fit for him given our offensive philosophy and what we were trying to do schematically. He was completely handcuffed, kneecapped, whatever you want to call it by a bad OC, bad scheme, and even worse playcalling/utilization. He's probably a completely serviceable quarterback in the right offense and with the right playcaller.

It is interesting to me that the guy who we went out and got to be our presumed QB1 next year actually had almost identical stats and performance ratings in his last full year playing as Gio had last year (and actually Gio had fewer turnovers). Granted, Edwards is going to have a much more capable offensive playcaller in Bobby Petrino than Gio had.
 
CFordUNC said:
I've definitely come around on my thinking about Gio. More than Gio himself not being very good, I just don't think *we* were a good fit for him given our offensive philosophy and what we were trying to do schematically. He was completely handcuffed, kneecapped, whatever you want to call it by a bad OC, bad scheme, and even worse playcalling/utilization. He's probably a completely serviceable quarterback in the right offense and with the right playcaller.

It is interesting to me that the guy who we went out and got to be our presumed QB1 next year actually had almost identical stats and performance ratings in his last full year playing as Gio had last year (and actually Gio had fewer turnovers). Granted, Edwards is going to have a much more capable offensive playcaller in Bobby Petrino than Gio had.
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Edwards is 6-3 228 and played an entire season on a bad Maryland team in the big 10. So numbers against different competition..actually our highest ranked portal recruit right now. No clue if he is good or whatever.
 
heel79 said:
Edwards is 6-3 228 and played an entire season on a bad Maryland team in the big 10. So numbers against different competition..actually our highest ranked portal recruit right now. No clue if he is good or whatever.
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Yeah, to me, that's the best thing about the two QBs we are bringing in, their size. 6-3 225 and 6-5 230 are prototype NFL QB sizes for a reason. It's interesting, I was reading Jason Staples' evals of both Edwards and O'Neill and I felt like he is not all that impressed by Edwards and more impressed with O'Neill, but says that O'Neill is just too raw and inexperienced to be QB1 in a must-win year for us.

I do think that the notion that Bill Belichick is going to be in a "make or break" type year with a guy like Billy Edwards as his starting QB is not something I'd have ever imagined. I do think that we'll get more serviceable quarterbacking out of him in conjunction with Petrino than what we had last year.

It's interesting as a UNC football fan to think back to the turn of the century. With a few exceptions- Joe Dailey, Nathan Elliott, Chazz Surratt, Jacolby Criswell, and Gio Lopez- UNC has been on an absolute heater for the last 25 years when it comes to starting quarterback play. We've been downright spoiled, in fact. Darian Durant, Matt Baker, TJ Yates, Bryn Renner, Marquise Williams, Mitch Trubisky, Sam Howell, and Drake Maye. That means that only for essentially 5 seasons out of the last 25 years have we not had *very* good-to-absolutely elite QB play. Out of that list, if Edwards can even just replicate the performance of a Matt Baker or a 2007 or 2008 TJ Yates, he'll be serviceable. We just can't have him replicate a Nathan Elliott or a Joe Dailey, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to those guys as people.
 
CFordUNC said:
I've definitely come around on my thinking about Gio. More than Gio himself not being very good, I just don't think *we* were a good fit for him given our offensive philosophy and what we were trying to do schematically. He was completely handcuffed, kneecapped, whatever you want to call it by a bad OC, bad scheme, and even worse playcalling/utilization. He's probably a completely serviceable quarterback in the right offense and with the right playcaller.

It is interesting to me that the guy who we went out and got to be our presumed QB1 next year actually had almost identical stats and performance ratings in his last full year playing as Gio had last year (and actually Gio had fewer turnovers). Granted, Edwards is going to have a much more capable offensive playcaller in Bobby Petrino than Gio had.
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Gio vs dook waa an entirely different player. If he played that way all yr we would've had a few more W's.
 
heel79 said:
Lot of smoke about Jordan Washington, former 4 star TE for Texas. Got at least 2 years. Caught seven passes 1 TD. Usually when there is this much smoke we get the guy. Position of need.
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He was second string, sounds like a good get. The OSU TE being floated was 3rd or 4th (behind some great TEs), probably not a bad option but I'm guessing the texan is a little more experienced.
 
Picked up a WR with good size that seemed pretty comparable to the WR we just "lost." Seems like the loss/gain balanced out, though my analysis isn't based on much besides stats and size.
 
mpaer said:
We are still recruiting O Linemen-including 2 from Arkansas
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We certainly need more bodies so I’m sure they are still recruiting OL. But I hope they find some guys who are like a 2-time all-conference team captain from Valdosta St or some crap. Or a 6th year senior who has started 4 years from Kansas. I think taking OL guys buried on the depth chart at a P2 team are actually bigger swings. I think CFord made the point well earlier about production over potential at OL.
 
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