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I usually just snag snippets of the presser and drop them into the quote-posts you see throughout the week but Monken talking about Lunt this week was really fascinating. Some of his quotes are below…
If he breaks a bunch of records, that means we are in bad shape. We want to be able to run the ball and control the clock.
That’s an interesting way to look at it. Basically with Weeden you just pointed him at the Big 12 media guide and said “destroy that.” Same offense, different philosophy this season.
It’s not hard to see that he’s got an unbelievable demeanor, a pocket presence and he is very accurate. There weren’t many balls he threw that you thought were not accurate. Even when he threw into coverage, it was on the money. The flea flicker, the post, the balls were right there.
I lost my mind when the Pac-12 announcers were chastising him for the flea flicker ball as if it pinballed off of Arizona’s entire secondary. If Tracy Moore had glue on his right glove, he would have caught it. That’s how sick that ball was.
Also, how often do you hear a coach call his QB “unbelievable” five quarters into his career?
If we can get him to know where to go with the ball, protect him and run well, they’d better have some good defenders because he’s going to throw it accurately. Just like Brandon Weeden, he is going to put it on the money. He has a level head, and he is going to make a lot of plays and a lot of throws.
Aaaaaaaand there’s the Weeden comparison.
You just see it through the way the guy handles himself. He has an uncanny ability to move around and make accurate throws. When he gets it, he is going to be really good.
[goes outside, sprints a lap around new neighborhood, wishes cigarette smoking was in the repertoire...tries to calm down]
He’s the kind of guy that really likes figuring out puzzles, and those guys are the kind of guys you want, the guys that dissect stuff in their mind.
This is the part that just slayed me. Is he a Rubik cube champion? Does he do Sudoku on the plane? I have so many questions…
I mean, he doesn’t say anything in film. He sits there and you stare at him and wonder if he’s even listening, but he is. He is just figuring it all out, and he is always just replying `yes, sir.’ I cuss at him, and he just says `yes, sir’ so he has an easy, calm demeanor that is hard to explain. He just figures stuff out.
I’d be better at my job if Monken cussed at me too. No I wouldn’t, I’d just want to die.
I don’t get the “when he gets it….” qualifier. He’s already got it.
My homerism almost always takes the pessimistic form, but I am way optimistic on Lunt. I get that national people who didn’t see the game could look at the boxscore and assume he only racked up the yards because of the high number of attempts or that he got it all in garbage time or whatever. But I have no concept of how anyone could watch that whole game and not pencil Lunt in as a two-time All-American.
Totally a homer here, too. But, I think Weston is going to be an absolute star! He seemed completely composed. As a team…fix the DUMB mistakes and we’ll be fine! GO POKES!!
“I’d be better at my job if Monken cussed at me too. No I wouldn’t, I’d just want to die.”
Ditto!
True money-maker idea for Monken should the coaching career go downhill. Go on the motivational speaking tour and just cuss at the crowd for 90 minutes. Guarantee everyone leaves feeling better about themselves.
OK, the O-Line did a better-than-decent job on protection. “The Kid” did his part to make a WHOLE BUNCH of OSU alumni feel a lot better. I don’t think Gundy, Young and Monken are going to just gloss over the serious case of dumb-a** we exhibited, and finally, the AZ loss may have been the best timed wake-up call we could have gotten. I think we’re good to go for ULL and with a little less dumb-a**, should be ready for Texas to come calling…..but I’m an optimist…
We have always said it better to lose early than late in the season. Let’s hope the fire has been lit… GO POKES!
Watching him warm-up and between each offensive series is where I saw his true potential on Saturday night – he is in total control. Everything around him was going completely sideways at the mid-point of the game; but you wouldn’t know it from looking at Lunt. And he is a big kid… it would take more than a few hits to make a dent.
Weeden had 4 career games throwing for more yards than Lunt. Not bad for Wes’ first full game. Think about it…
Not once did anyone think that Lunt should be pulled.
Monken’s phrase “when he gets it” has more to do with when and where to throw the ball based upon split second observation of the entire field. For example, the pass that hit Jackson in the hands in the end zone was thrown to his back shoulder – away from the safety. Difficulty level of 8. Lunt made the throw, but Jackson turned the wrong way and had to spin back to catch it and failed.
However, if Lunt would have held off making that decision a split second he would have hit a wide-open Tracy Moore running another post pattern in the heart of the end zone. Difficulty level 5, and most likely, another 7 points.