Why I'm excited for Joe Williams to be our starting RB

[Wilson’s Mustache]

RB Joe Williams (@JWills_28) puts up the fastest 40 time of the day at 4.35. #UteFast pic.twitter.com/hnLskH7w3k

— Utah Football (@Utah_Football) February 23, 2016

• This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Wilson's Mustache.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Wilson's Mustache.

[Tony (admin)]

Woa.

[Anonymous]

They should have him carry a football all the offseason.  Like those baby projects teenagers get.  DON’T DROP THE BALL!

[Wilson’s Mustache]

Like I’ve said before. Learning to not fumble a ball is incredibly easy to teach/learn. Booker had a horrible time holding onto the ball at one point in his career and then became one of the most reliable RB’s in the country at limit fumbles/carries.

[Tony (admin)]

ouch

[rbmw263]

Im still more excited for the return of T Rapido

[Wilson’s Mustache]

I’m kind of hoping that the RB spot is deep enough that Troy McCormick can fill Covey’s spot.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by Wilson's Mustache.

[Anonymous]

It feels like Utah has more playmakers on the offensive side of the ball.  Going into last season it was very much Booker’s offense.  I didn’t feel like they had a backup plan after that.  Utah did lose some depth at tight end and that really made things worst as well.  Fakailoatonga is a special player and I am excited to see him and Repp line up.  This is the third year of hype for Patrick so I hope he can stay healthy.

 

It really will come down to how well Williams can take hold of this offense.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

Pease in his interview on ESPN 700 said that Tim Patrick was nearly unstoppable in practice. I really hope that dude is healthy and ready to go this year. He’s got a combination of size and speed that is had to match up against.

[Anonymous]

And Travis Wilson was the best practice QB Utah ever had. Then put a real pass rush on him and circuity froze.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

Thats not true. Travis was mediocre in many of his practices.

[rbmw263]

Troy will be far more effective primarily out of the backfield. Use him in the slot here and there. He is just so quick and dynamic. Putting him solely in the slot limits him, imo.

[Anonymous]

Just need to teach Williams to hold onto the ball.

[Anonymous]

If Travis was mediocre in many of his practices, it doesn’t say much for the rest of QB prospects we had on hand. SMH

If you look at Whitt’s recent comments on Travis (other thread), he says “Travis won a lot of games for us. We didn’t use him as a TE, but that’s a possibility.” As I’ve suspected they worked with what they had and got the best out of him. They game planned around his weaknesses and focused on things he could do. Despite all the negative comments on this coaching staff and their inability to develop a QB, they really did a good job with what they had in Travis Wilson. The travesty is that they could not recruit something better in the 4 years that Travis Wilson was here, because that bar was not very high at all.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

I think a big problem was that before Travis got here the cupboard was bare. When Jordan Wynn went down Utah was forced to turn to a raw, inexperienced, true freshman QB. After that, Utah’s fate was essentially sealed.

By giving the reins to the Freshman they made it very hard on themselves to not have him start the next 4 years because he was the “incumbent” QB going into spring/fall camp every year. If anyone was going to get the starting job away from TW it was going to be Kendal Thompson, but he just didn’t quite perform well enough to do it.

It was always very unlikely they would allow any of the underclassmen a chance to start over both Wilson and Thompson. We really do not know what we have in Brandon Cox or what we may have had in some of the other QBs that transferred.

Thats why this spring will be so exciting. Despite what the coaches said in the past, we will have a true and open QB battle.

May the best man win.

[Anonymous]

You can never convince me that Thompson was a qb prospect.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

He isn’t a qb he doesn’t have the mental abilities or arm to make throws.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

Personally I don’t think we saw enough from him to say one way or another. It took Travis 3 years before he was able to get his TDS/INTS ratio positive.

I guess we’ll never know.

I’m excited for Troy Williams and the kid from Florida.

[Anonymous]

I’m in the camp that we saw way to much of Wilson, but sadly he was probably the best they had.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

I was referring to Kendal.

[Anonymous]

We saw too much of Thompson as well and I would take Wilson over that guy.

[Wilson’s Mustache]

2 1/2 games is not much…

If it were then Travis would have been benched his sophomore year and never seen again.

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