Why Dylan Thompson Is Struggling
FUNDAMENTALS LACKING … By FITSNEWS || Fifth-year senior Dylan Thompson is 6-2 as the UniYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
FUNDAMENTALS LACKING … By FITSNEWS || Fifth-year senior Dylan Thompson is 6-2 as the UniYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Putting in a different qb who I promise you will not be as good is dumb. It does nothing to address Spurrier’s insanely bad play calling and game management. Dylan is doing fine. He’s not a superstar, but show me more than one other SEC school with a superstar qb. You don’t need one to win games. Any qb will miss some passes here and there.
Play calling, awful game management and horrific defense are why this team is bad. Don’t go placing blame on random people just cuz.
Agreed. The last 7 minutes of playcalling/game management of the Mizzou game was as bad as the last few minutes of the 2013 TN game and the 2010 KY game.
dont leave out the 2006 bowl game, outback bowl vs Iowa,
Tough to believe “it’s all Dylan’s” fault when you watch the ball go through the hands of the receiver, bounce out of his hands or watch the receiver run the wrong pattern. Thompson does throw the ball hard which contributes but blaming him for the teams foibles is like blaming Big T for our state’s position in educational achievement ratings…
Kind of a joke…this article…considering the picture says he doesn’t throw off his back foot and his “elite” receivers don’t block, finish routes, catch the ball, or get open most of the time.
Made a point to say it’s not all his fault. But no way to say it other than dude has missed a lot of sure touchdowns. And good luck accusing Pharoh Cooper of dropping passes.
Many, many well thrown passes have been dropped by his receivers.
Dylan needs to launch the ball sooner. He holds on too long and the formations have already played out by the time he releases.
Tajh Boyd had the same problem.
True Sports Ignorance on Display!!!…The SC OFFENSE took a 13-pt lead with only six minutes left in the game. The D IMPLODED, BLEW the game…now you have every IDIOT-sports sage in Columbia trying to Blame the offense and Spurrier.
What if the score was 43-30, and the D collapsed, and lost 44-43?
Did DT have a less-than-stellar night? YES!!!!…But the D actually BLEW the Georgia game. SC’s offense, w/ Thompson scored 38 in that one, and the D gave it away (but Ga. would not take it)…
The reason Dumb@$$#$ are a problem: is that you end up looking in the wrong direction to fix the problem, because of stupidity. It’s why Spurrier is a GREAT coach. He knows what the problem is. Read SCPSD. We’ve written several pieces that contradict about all the stupidity being published..
Ummm, I think the point is that the score should have been 35 or 42 to 17…
When you give up a 13-point lead w/ six minutes left, it’s because the DEFENSE collapsed. It’s IGNORANT to assume gobs of points, and blame the offense for not having a big enough lead to counter a total implosion by the defense late in the game. People are SO intent to attack Spurrier, you are being absurd. It’s laughable, especially after what the D has done in every game this season.
You either Identify the problem and address it…or you theorize stupidity, and waste four or five games, before admitting who and what the big problem is. Spurrier knows it, and I bet he is already addressing it. And don’t expect the defensive coaches to be back next year.
Who is WE?
WHY DYLAN THOMPSON IS STRUGGLING”
You can dress that pig anyway you want and spend 15 paragraphs of bandwidth opining on it.
I’ll do it in one sentence: He’s not that good.
He is adequate. He did not drop those passes that should have been caught. He is good enough to win with unless you screw up, royally, in other phases of the gamem.
A lot of the idiots in here will not be satisfied until Spurrier and the likes of Thompson are gone so we can get back to being the old dismal Gamecocks and waiting on next year. I have been a Carolina fan for 60 years but I am truly ashamed of the Gamecock Traitors.
Traitors? Why are people traitors for having an opinion that the coaching staff is performing poorly? They get paid too much money to coach this poorly. Are they supposed to sing praises or just keep quiet when this kind of thing happens? Just asking.
I don’t get hating on Thompson b/c he’s one of the best qb’s in the SEC right now and people just need to keep that in perspective. He’s not the reason we’re bad.
When the ships a-sinking…
The rats start jumping….
*Smiles*
“Similarly, Thompson missed Jones on a similar route later in the first quarter – after Shaq Roland dropped a pass that was mildly overthrown.”
Only someone who doesn’t know football would say that Shaq’s dropped pass was over thrown. It was right on the mark, hell it hit him square in the hands at full speed Roland just dropped the thing. that’s another 60+ yards you could have added to Dylans totals and a TD. Then in the A&M game Jones dropped a 30 yard TD pass before half that would have also added to his totals, and Anderson dropped one wide open in the endzone against Mizzou (and that 4 point difference ended up being the cost of the game). Also lets not forget the 4 or 5 passes dropped by Roland on the WR screens that were all on the WR.. Easily Dylan should have about another 150+ yards passing and 3 more TD’s on the season (all three drops I mentioed were 100% going to be TD’s as 2 were actually in the endzone) and USC would be 4-1 not to mention the the A&M game might have been a tad different with that TD at the half with momentum and the ball first to start the 2nd half.
Yes Dylan has been off at times but not as bad as some of the bandwagon /fair weather fans are acting on the radio or in here. Hell half of them were calling for Dylan at times last year or the year before. I am 100% a diehard fan, and can say that some fans have gotten spoiled for no reason and cant see that Dylan gives us our best chance to win right now. He had 1 bad game against Mizzou that wasn’t as bad as every thinks anyway or at least all his fault and everyone is ready to dump the kid. Really???
Thompson ain’t as good as (vastly underrated) Shaw and your defense ain’t what it’s been, either.
It is not Thompson. Shaw had just as many busted plays as Garcia though he ran to keep drives alive. Garcia was Mr Football in FLA. Shaw and Thompson ran successful HS teams. The LCD (that’s Least Common Denominator) is G.A. Mangus. G.A. Mangus was in his second of three seasons as the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee State. There was nothing remarkable about that 2007 team, nor the 2008 squad, both of which finished 5-7. Before the 2009 season, Mangus left to become the quarterbacks coach at South Carolina, under his coach from his playing days at Florida, Steve Spurrier. G.A. Mangus can recruit. Give him that job. After 5 solid years under Mangus, Thompson has lost his abilities, gained no new skills, and is not at fault. Mangus fucked the heads of Garcia, Shaw, and Thompson, not developing them for the job. Shaw smiled once a week, a man determined to forged his own destiny and place. Look at Garcia after five years, Thompson. We need a new QB coach, a DC, Conditioning Coach, Special Teams Coach, Receivers Coach…the sooner the better.
Slurrier seems to be wanting to have redshirt quarterbacks for the near future, there’s been no sign of him playing anyone other than the guy who will be gone next year. Is it his plans for the next head coach to have a quarterback who has never taken one snap in a game?
The Garnet Report=Tits on Boar Hog.
Love how Fits gets another B-list sports person each week.