Ford has been quoted multiple times (chew on that) saying:
- he loves the coaches and gives reasons (details) - he has lots of good friends on the team that tell him honest shit and he believes it - he can definitely see him playing at UW (within interviews that he keeps info very superficial for other schools except for UW - devils in the details) - he specifically touches upon Eason as "big arm and NFL bound" so he gives details about personnel and scheme. He does not do this for usc or Oregon IIRC. - blah blah blah...
Point is that you read between the lines you can plainly see that he's a SoCal kid looking for a reason, for justification, to leave and go out of state.
That's not easy for many reasons. Family and friends. Emotional attachment and history.
We can't have it both ways where we expect croots to easily leave home and come to UW and for Washington kids (like smalls currently and fozzy previously) to stay home and spurn out of state schools.
Lastly, I pointed out a long time ago that a tuitele interview was almost identical to a ford one. Superficial niceties to all schools and then all of a sudden unprovoked details about UW. Surprise.
Ford may ultimately stay home but things definitely point to UW.
Exactly ... the tea leaves have been saying that
This also reminds me of a similar path that Irvin’s recruitment went down
Georgia also had a guy named Chubb in the backfield that year. Might have heard of him, he was ok in college.
So he should have been better than a 55% completion percentage with a dominant running game?
AGREE
Yeah, he probably should have been better. He didn’t really have to do that much though because his team was better than 2018 USC. I guess I look at Daniels numbers and think that he probably had more of an opportunity than Eason did.
Georgia also had a guy named Chubb in the backfield that year. Might have heard of him, he was ok in college.
So he should have been better than a 55% completion percentage with a dominant running game?
AGREE
Yeah, he probably should have been better. He didn’t really have to do that much though because his team was better than 2018 USC. I guess I look at Daniels numbers and think that he probably had more of an opportunity than Eason did.
I'm not looking at raw yardage if that's what you're talking about.
Daniels had a better completion percentage, better yards per attempt and better passer rating.
The only thing Eason had better was TD:INT ratio (which isn't nothing).
But the point is less Daniels > Eason than it is talking shit about how good Eason is while going to be while saying "Daniels sucked so he's not going to get better" is completely asinine.
Both were highly rated. Both of them were bad as true freshman QB's. Both will probably greatly improve over their careers.
JFC the fucken I love JT Daniels thread. Fuck him he sucks fuck USC they suck. That is the point! Stats are for fucken losers! We will win period I don't give a shit if Skinny is decimal points below him! Wtf! Any other fucken USC recruiting points you want to make for USC?
With the visit this weekend and the hire of Kingsbury plus his obvious like of USC I jsut find it hard to say we are winning this battle. Yes there are some tea leaves that make me cautiously optimistic but I just don't see how we win this battle. Feel free to bump me if I am wrong.
Georgia also had a guy named Chubb in the backfield that year. Might have heard of him, he was ok in college.
So he should have been better than a 55% completion percentage with a dominant running game?
AGREE
Yeah, he probably should have been better. He didn’t really have to do that much though because his team was better than 2018 USC. I guess I look at Daniels numbers and think that he probably had more of an opportunity than Eason did.
I'm not looking at raw yardage if that's what you're talking about.
Daniels had a better completion percentage, better yards per attempt and better passer rating.
The only thing Eason had better was TD:INT ratio (which isn't nothing).
But the point is less Daniels > Eason than it is talking shit about how good Eason is while going to be while saying "Daniels sucked so he's not going to get better" is completely asinine.
Both were highly rated. Both of them were bad as true freshman QB's. Both will probably greatly improve over their careers.
And this is why looking deeper than surface level stats matters.
For example, the UW Defense ranks 1st in the conference years (conference games only) running now in just about every material metric (in 2018 1st in yards per pass attempt, yards per completion, yards per defensive play, points allowed per game, points allowed per 100 yards (a metric I think that is relatively important) and turnovers forced, 2nd in defensive plays per turnover forced, and 3rd in yards per carry allowed). The only category where Washington WAS NOT in the top 3 defensively in the conference was completion percentage against which was 9th!!! Ready for your mind to be blown? UW was 9th in completion percentage in the conference in 2017 (only other categories where they weren't #1 were tied to turnovers) ...
The takeaway: completion percentage can be a massively overrated stat ... which intuitively we should all know if you follow any kind of football and see huge completion percentages for guys like Sam Bradford who do nothing but check the ball down.
I'm not going to claim to be an expert on what USC did offensively this year versus what Georgia did in 2016 with Eason. However, super high level, SC does throw a lot of quick screens to their receivers trying to get them the ball in space. I don't ever really recall that being a large part of Mark Richt's offenses at Georgia. Moreover, those kind of quick WR screen passes aren't really high end plays in the SEC due to the size/speed combinations there that tend to limit those plays to nothing more than run plays ... and when you have guys in your backfield like Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, you probably are better served just handing the ball off.
Likewise, when you cite yards per attempt and passing rating as signs of one being better than the other, you are intuitively also saying that the sample sizes are similar ... which we know defense in the SEC is far different than defenses in the PAC12 South. My guess/expectation would be looking back at Daniels' numbers this year would show that he was pretty good against the shit teams and struggled on the road and/or against the better defenses he saw.
And your point about a TD to INT ratio not being meaningless to me is actually a really strong indication of future performance for a young QB. A young QB is typically going to make poor decisions leading to INTs ... but on top of that, the other big challenge is that whether those bad decisions come in the red zone or they start getting gun shy as the speed of the game magnifies itself there, TDs are often a bit of a challenge. So a 2:1 TD:INT ratio is actually a really nice sign for a young QB.
The TL, DR portion of this is that while Daniels may turn into a good QB (I wasn't overly impressed with him this year), the reality is that Eason's got all the tools you are looking for and will step in next year for Browning and be able to do things at the QB position that UW really hasn't had the capability of doing since Locker (in terms of arm strength) and probably going back to Cody Pickett in terms of matching up arm strength with the talent to go with it. And to be clear, Eason's ceiling is far greater than Cody's.
With the visit this weekend and the hire of Kingsbury plus his obvious like of USC I jsut find it hard to say we are winning this battle. Yes there are some tea leaves that make me cautiously optimistic but I just don't see how we win this battle. Feel free to bump me if I am wrong.
I am thinking we? should revoke your doog status. Where's your doog faith?
Obviously ignore completion percentage but if you want to argue about completion percentage you should probably check ypa before writing 4 paragraphs about how maybe Daniels was just checking down while Eason was hucking it deep.
Also I wouldn't just assume Eason was facing a much tougher schedule. The SEC East was pretty bad that year and he drew last place Ole Miss and 8-5 Auburn from the West (missing Bama and LSU.)
JFC the fucken I love JT Daniels thread. Fuck him he sucks fuck USC they suck. That is the point! Stats are for fucken losers! We will win period I don't give a shit if Skinny is decimal points below him! Wtf! Any other fucken USC recruiting points you want to make for USC?
With the visit this weekend and the hire of Kingsbury plus his obvious like of USC I jsut find it hard to say we are winning this battle. Yes there are some tea leaves that make me cautiously optimistic but I just don't see how we win this battle. Feel free to bump me if I am wrong.
I am thinking we? should revoke your doog status. Where's your doog faith?
On my burner twitter that I use to tweet at recruits.
Obviously ignore completion percentage but if you want to argue about completion percentage you should probably check ypa before writing 4 paragraphs about how maybe Daniels was just checking down while Eason was hucking it deep.
Also I wouldn't just assume Eason was facing a much tougher schedule. The SEC East was pretty bad that year and he drew last place Ole Miss and 8-5 Auburn from the West (missing Bama and LSU.)
It just means more in the SEC ... haven't you heard?
Also, yards per completion, yards per attempt, etc. that's where I'd go back to is the SEC defenses are better than the PAC defenses.
We'll see going forward ... I stand by my assessment.
Any 247 subscribers that can find out who Ford's one UW cristoball is from?
Wiltfong - UW on 9/13/18 (latest CB put in) Biggins - Undecided on 9/6/18 (As of now he would put UW, but wants to wait until after USC visit before putting it in) Angulo - USC on 1/7/18 Huffman - No CB
Those are the only 4 worth paying attention to.
BACK ON TOPIC!!!
Huffman put in an undecided CB today. Not much of an update, but at least it's about Kyle Ford.
Any 247 subscribers that can find out who Ford's one UW cristoball is from?
Wiltfong - UW on 9/13/18 (latest CB put in) Biggins - Undecided on 9/6/18 (As of now he would put UW, but wants to wait until after USC visit before putting it in) Angulo - USC on 1/7/18 Huffman - No CB
Those are the only 4 worth paying attention to.
BACK ON TOPIC!!!
Huffman put in an undecided CB today. Not much of an update, but at least it's about Kyle Ford.
Any 247 subscribers that can find out who Ford's one UW cristoball is from?
Wiltfong - UW on 9/13/18 (latest CB put in) Biggins - Undecided on 9/6/18 (As of now he would put UW, but wants to wait until after USC visit before putting it in) Angulo - USC on 1/7/18 Huffman - No CB
Those are the only 4 worth paying attention to.
BACK ON TOPIC!!!
Huffman put in an undecided CB today. Not much of an update, but at least it's about Kyle Ford.
Yeah after he predicted Ford to UW on Jude's podcast he puts in a foggy crystal ball for him a couple days later. Fucking fat pussy.
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Both were bad. I expect both to get better.
This also reminds me of a similar path that Irvin’s recruitment went down
AGREE
Daniels had a better completion percentage, better yards per attempt and better passer rating.
The only thing Eason had better was TD:INT ratio (which isn't nothing).
But the point is less Daniels > Eason than it is talking shit about how good Eason is while going to be while saying "Daniels sucked so he's not going to get better" is completely asinine.
Both were highly rated. Both of them were bad as true freshman QB's. Both will probably greatly improve over their careers.
For example, the UW Defense ranks 1st in the conference years (conference games only) running now in just about every material metric (in 2018 1st in yards per pass attempt, yards per completion, yards per defensive play, points allowed per game, points allowed per 100 yards (a metric I think that is relatively important) and turnovers forced, 2nd in defensive plays per turnover forced, and 3rd in yards per carry allowed). The only category where Washington WAS NOT in the top 3 defensively in the conference was completion percentage against which was 9th!!! Ready for your mind to be blown? UW was 9th in completion percentage in the conference in 2017 (only other categories where they weren't #1 were tied to turnovers) ...
The takeaway: completion percentage can be a massively overrated stat ... which intuitively we should all know if you follow any kind of football and see huge completion percentages for guys like Sam Bradford who do nothing but check the ball down.
I'm not going to claim to be an expert on what USC did offensively this year versus what Georgia did in 2016 with Eason. However, super high level, SC does throw a lot of quick screens to their receivers trying to get them the ball in space. I don't ever really recall that being a large part of Mark Richt's offenses at Georgia. Moreover, those kind of quick WR screen passes aren't really high end plays in the SEC due to the size/speed combinations there that tend to limit those plays to nothing more than run plays ... and when you have guys in your backfield like Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, you probably are better served just handing the ball off.
Likewise, when you cite yards per attempt and passing rating as signs of one being better than the other, you are intuitively also saying that the sample sizes are similar ... which we know defense in the SEC is far different than defenses in the PAC12 South. My guess/expectation would be looking back at Daniels' numbers this year would show that he was pretty good against the shit teams and struggled on the road and/or against the better defenses he saw.
And your point about a TD to INT ratio not being meaningless to me is actually a really strong indication of future performance for a young QB. A young QB is typically going to make poor decisions leading to INTs ... but on top of that, the other big challenge is that whether those bad decisions come in the red zone or they start getting gun shy as the speed of the game magnifies itself there, TDs are often a bit of a challenge. So a 2:1 TD:INT ratio is actually a really nice sign for a young QB.
The TL, DR portion of this is that while Daniels may turn into a good QB (I wasn't overly impressed with him this year), the reality is that Eason's got all the tools you are looking for and will step in next year for Browning and be able to do things at the QB position that UW really hasn't had the capability of doing since Locker (in terms of arm strength) and probably going back to Cody Pickett in terms of matching up arm strength with the talent to go with it. And to be clear, Eason's ceiling is far greater than Cody's.
Obviously ignore completion percentage but if you want to argue about completion percentage you should probably check ypa before writing 4 paragraphs about how maybe Daniels was just checking down while Eason was hucking it deep.
Also I wouldn't just assume Eason was facing a much tougher schedule. The SEC East was pretty bad that year and he drew last place Ole Miss and 8-5 Auburn from the West (missing Bama and LSU.)
Also, yards per completion, yards per attempt, etc. that's where I'd go back to is the SEC defenses are better than the PAC defenses.
We'll see going forward ... I stand by my assessment.
Huffman put in an undecided CB today. Not much of an update, but at least it's about Kyle Ford.