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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins

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6 hours ago, You don't know me said:

That's the guy that comes to our office to fix the printer.

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You can do a really great job and still under perform. The false dichotomies some of y’all jump through would make a Russian circus performer blush.

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

OL and run game are about the only components I’d blame on Sark. And some of the OL was attributable to Ewers sacking himself and having happy feet.

I’m not sure I’d attribute footwork to Sark since at the end of the day, the player has to execute it in games. We don’t know whether he got coaching on that or not. Sark called plays to Ewers strengths, which we obviously saw in the change of playcalling to Arch, so I think that’s bullshit.

At the end of the day, Ewers is an extremely talented QB physically with some issues between the ears, but we’re all cheering for him. Except Derka. Also, let’s not pretend the OL for the dolphins isn’t dog shit, so the OL concerns ring hollow to me. Achane is a stud despite the weak OL, and if you disagree Tua’s mush brain would like a word.

1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

This is a bit overboard. Texas was a good pass blocking unit last year. Quinn was never hurting for targets at Texas. Just look at the skill position players Quinn had at Texas:

Bijan, Rojo, Brooks, and Blue were all drafted.

Worthy, Whittingham, Mitchell, and Golden at WR

Helm and Sanders all drafted.

Reason people loved Quinn going to Miami was it was a great fit for Quinn. Lot of quick passing and a smart OC that schemes up a lot of quick open looks. I am not sure what Sark should have done other than surround him with a better run game (that is on Flood and Ill beat that drum this offseason). Sark went to a short, rhythm passing game with Quinn. We all know Quinn is good when you can keep him on schedule. It his ability to stay in control when things break down that will make or break his NFL career.

1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

Yeah, I agree with this. I don't think Sark wasted Quinn. I think he did what he could to maximize Quinn. Ultimately, the injury bug got Quinn and prevented him from reaching his ceiling here. Quinn had elite traits in effortless arm talent, great touch, and quick decision making. Those shined when he played well. He didn't have great pocket awareness when he had to hold the ball. And I think the injuries and playing hurt caused him to hold the ball more often than he would have otherwise. I think the injuries also contributed to some of the bad floaters we saw him from him at times. I think his main limiter at Miami will be same as here: ability to stay healthy.

You guys really watched this season and still don't see how Sark let Ewers down? Double throw back screens in the red zone? 12 personnel with Juan Davis as your second TE, basically conceding the possibility of another receiver? Back to the field, slow developing play action? Not addressing the run game which would fail you in big games over and over? Busted protections and penalties from the same player on the right side of the line but never addressing it?

Question? Will a route develop quicker from a spread look or from a compact set? If you come to the correct answer why were we running so much of it?

12 personnel is to run the football. Period. If you cannot run the football why the fuck are you lining up in it? In 2023 it made sense because you had two receiving TEs and you could still spread the field from it, but when you only have 1? The fuck are we doing? Yet we ran more 12 in 2024 than 2023.

Go look at the opening script for the SEC Championship. Wide open and slinging it. After 1.5 quarters Ewers has I wanna say 160-70 yards. We drop a TD pass and get a couple RZ penalties or else its 14-nil. Then what does Sark do? Goes back to his clunky offense and grinds away until the 4th quarter when he has to score again.

Are we really are still here, with the advantages of hindsight, still expecting Ewers to win those Georgia and Ohio State games without a running game?

23 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

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What's funnier is when you realize lil buddy is in his 40's.

6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You guys really watched this season and still don't see how Sark let Ewers down? Double throw back screens in the red zone? 12 personnel with Juan Davis as your second TE, basically conceding the possibility of another receiver? Back to the field, slow developing play action? Not addressing the run game which would fail you in big games over and over? Busted protections and penalties from the same player on the right side of the line but never addressing it?

Question? Will a route develop quicker from a spread look or from a compact set? If you come to the correct answer why were we running so much of it?

12 personnel is to run the football. Period. If you cannot run the football why the fuck are you lining up in it? In 2023 it made sense because you had two receiving TEs and you could still spread the field from it, but when you only have 1? The fuck are we doing? Yet we ran more 12 in 2024 than 2023.

Go look at the opening script for the SEC Championship. Wide open and slinging it. After 1.5 quarters Ewers has I wanna say 160-70 yards. We drop a TD pass and get a couple RZ penalties or else its 14-nil. Then what does Sark do? Goes back to his clunky offense and grinds away until the 4th quarter when he has to score again.

Are we really are still here, with the advantages of hindsight, still expecting Ewers to win those Georgia and Ohio State games without a running game?

What does this season have to do with Ewers? Ewers was barely functional for the first Georgia game last year. And Georgia knows how to completely take apart our offensive line rules. We should have beat Georgia in the SEC championship if not for drops, a missed block on an INT, and failing to adjust to QB run in the second half. Sark let him down in not having a true maximizing running back or run blocking offensive line to help in the redzone. I agree with that. But I also think the play calling that works between the 20s doesn't work as well in the redzone, so I'm not surprised we changed it up there. There are certainly things Sark could have done better, particularly with personnel decisions. But I think the primary limitation on Ewers' time here was his injuries, not Sark. Ewers clearly couldn't put 100% behind his throws the second half of the season. It would have really helped if he could have.

2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Sark is like Dorothy mantooth. Untouchable here.

Are you familiar with the football board?

3 hours ago, scramblyn said:

OL pass pro broke down often, play calling was stubborn (see first point), run game was at key points non-existent, QE's footwork barely changed in his time here, in several instances including the winning TD vs UW, WR play was lazy. while each of these issues has a player component to it, everyone of these issues has a significant coaching element to them as well. All on the offense, he's the OC and he's a well known micro-manager as well as the OC and HC, so yeah, it's on him.

you know what, a lot of qbs have to deal with all of this and then some, and the great ones still find ways to make plays and lead their teams to trademark wins. colt was in a far worse situation in 2008 and 2009 and yet he led us to countless trademark victories and was a two time heisman runner up (him not winning in 2008 was bullshit). he had a pathetic o line, he had no run game, he was the team’s leading rusher, he had nowhere near the nfl talent surrounding him that QE had, had no TE, had freaking greg davis and mack “scares you to death” brown running his offense, and yet all he did was lead us to victory after victory against the toughest schedule in america and did so as the most accurate passer in history. that’s what the actual greats do, even when they’re running for their lives every play and have zero run game to help them out.

that’s always been the problem with this site/fanbase and quinn- y’all want to act like he’s colt mccoy when he didn’t do no colt mccoy shit. and then y’all always want to blame everyone else as to why that’s the case, when the reality of it is that for his last two years as a starter quinn ewers was in the best qb situation in america, yet he routinely failed to live up to the level of play of his teammates, both on offense and especially on defense. after the win vs bama in tuscaloosa there really weren’t any signature quinn ewers wins that i can remember (don’t even try to bring up ASU), despite all of the talent around him and him qb’ing the favored team every single time out. quinn let his coaches and teammates down way more than vice versa. you add to that the inexplicable adoration and exaltation of quinn from this fanbase, and you have one divisive player who is going to be the topic of discussion for a very long time.

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2 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Good lord what are you fucking even talking about “wasted him” ?

suck your own asshole.

23 minutes ago, Derka said:

you know what, a lot of qbs have to deal with all of this and then some, and the great ones still find ways to make plays and lead their teams to trademark wins. colt was in a far worse situation in 2008 and 2009 and yet he led us to countless trademark victories and was a two time heisman runner up (him not winning in 2008 was bullshit). he had a pathetic o line, he had no run game, he was the team’s leading rusher, he had nowhere near the nfl talent surrounding him that QE had, had no TE, had freaking greg davis and mack “scares you to death” brown running his offense, and yet all he did was lead us to victory after victory against the toughest schedule in america and did so as the most accurate passer in history. that’s what the actual greats do, even when they’re running for their lives every play and have zero run game to help them out.

that’s always been the problem with this site/fanbase and quinn- y’all want to act like he’s colt mccoy when he didn’t do no colt mccoy shit. and then y’all always want to blame everyone else as to why that’s the case, when the reality of it is that for his last two years as a starter quinn ewers was in the best qb situation in america, yet he routinely failed to live up to the level of play of his teammates, both on offense and especially on defense. after the win vs bama in tuscaloosa there really weren’t any signature quinn ewers wins that i can remember (don’t even try to bring up ASU), despite all of the talent around him and him qb’ing the favored team every single time out. quinn let his coaches and teammates down way more than vice versa. you add to that the inexplicable adoration and exaltation of quinn from this fanbase, and you have one divisive player who is going to be the topic of discussion for a very long time.

can be both and, not either or, again false dichotomies and shit. QE self sacked, he was injury prone, he threw off his back foot, and play calling was at times atrocious, pass pro broke down in big games, run game non existent. it's like the shit that made us fucking insane this year just magically showed up with arch. doesn't fucking matter. this is just the internet.

38 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

What does this season have to do with Ewers? Ewers was barely functional for the first Georgia game last year. And Georgia knows how to completely take apart our offensive line rules. We should have beat Georgia in the SEC championship if not for drops, a missed block on an INT, and failing to adjust to QB run in the second half. Sark let him down in not having a true maximizing running back or run blocking offensive line to help in the redzone. I agree with that. But I also think the play calling that works between the 20s doesn't work as well in the redzone, so I'm not surprised we changed it up there. There are certainly things Sark could have done better, particularly with personnel decisions. But I think the primary limitation on Ewers' time here was his injuries, not Sark. Ewers clearly couldn't put 100% behind his throws the second half of the season. It would have really helped if he could have.

The same issues we had last year we had this year. Playcalling, O-line whiffs, drops, inability to run the football, and timely penalties. Two RZ trips in the GA game were stalled by a Bond offensive PI and a hold on an outside run. We missed two field goals too. We had a dropped TD and 4 other drops. The QB threw for 358. As a matter of fact the QB outplayed the other team's QB in every game we lost in 2024. Had we done something about the mental mistakes and not try to call fake double screens in the red zone maybe we win that game. Even the offense we ran was a bad fit for Ewers. He is a spread concept guy. Holding the ball forever isn't his game so get it out of his hands quickly.

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