Solid depth piece that addresses the QB room without betting the farm on portal drama. Brousseau's stats show he can manage games and his experience dealing with a bad offensive line (32 sacks allowed) means he wont panic when things break down. The real value isnt just having an experienced backup, its having someone who's already adapted to college speed and can step in if JKS gets dinged up.
Anyone have a sense of the qb room's (besides JKS) style, strengths, weaknesses, guesses as to backup order? I've completely lost track of who everyone is. (Can i blame the transfer portal for this too?)
Man, Lupoi is doing a bang-up job with the transfer portal. Wish we didn't lose Uluave or Ferrelli, but he's really paid needed special attention to the O-line and receivers. That's going to help JKS.
The QB class next year is going to be stacked - Manning, Moore, the dude from Duke who is transferring, probably Underwood from Michigan. Wait to his junior year and JKs easily could be the top pick
It's a weird balance nowadays. If your starter is too loyal, his likely successor you've developed transfers so you're still scouring the portal. That being said, the strategy is to be as successful as possible and not plan too far in advance. You're right that the next starter (aside from injury) may not even be on the roster yet.
Being on the West Coast may provide some advantage in retaining Hawaiian players like JKS and Lopes, though it's not remotely close to a lock.
It's also just not good roster management. You don't need Mahomes sitting behind Brady. The Packers only had Rodgers sitting behind Favre because of how far he fell down the draft. Since we have a QB1, we should be spending on protecting that QB and making sure if we need a backup he has the tools to not suck too hard (good OL, RB, and WRs).
You are so right with that comment. So many are only interested in the "skilled" players we get, such as RB's, WR's, and QB's. We lost too many DL, OL, LB's and DB's.
I would love to have Mahomes red-shirt during Brady's last year and have Mahomes ready to take over, a la Oregon with Dillon Gabriel / Dante Moore and now Dante Moore / Dylan Raiola. This actually seems pretty ideal to me.
Solid depth piece that addresses the QB room without betting the farm on portal drama. Brousseau's stats show he can manage games and his experience dealing with a bad offensive line (32 sacks allowed) means he wont panic when things break down. The real value isnt just having an experienced backup, its having someone who's already adapted to college speed and can step in if JKS gets dinged up.
Anyone have a sense of the qb room's (besides JKS) style, strengths, weaknesses, guesses as to backup order? I've completely lost track of who everyone is. (Can i blame the transfer portal for this too?)
Wow, Devin Brown to Weber State, I'm guessing that means he a starter?
Man, Lupoi is doing a bang-up job with the transfer portal. Wish we didn't lose Uluave or Ferrelli, but he's really paid needed special attention to the O-line and receivers. That's going to help JKS.
The QB class next year is going to be stacked - Manning, Moore, the dude from Duke who is transferring, probably Underwood from Michigan. Wait to his junior year and JKs easily could be the top pick
Can any of them also play wide receiver like jennings
Will be interesting to see how the QB depth chart stacks up behind JKS. Agree, Brousseau's probably the more likely backup.
I imagine we trust in JKS this year and swing for the fences on a 2027 QB to develop while JKS is hopefully a Junior at Cal.
It's a weird balance nowadays. If your starter is too loyal, his likely successor you've developed transfers so you're still scouring the portal. That being said, the strategy is to be as successful as possible and not plan too far in advance. You're right that the next starter (aside from injury) may not even be on the roster yet.
Being on the West Coast may provide some advantage in retaining Hawaiian players like JKS and Lopes, though it's not remotely close to a lock.
It's also just not good roster management. You don't need Mahomes sitting behind Brady. The Packers only had Rodgers sitting behind Favre because of how far he fell down the draft. Since we have a QB1, we should be spending on protecting that QB and making sure if we need a backup he has the tools to not suck too hard (good OL, RB, and WRs).
You are so right with that comment. So many are only interested in the "skilled" players we get, such as RB's, WR's, and QB's. We lost too many DL, OL, LB's and DB's.
I would love to have Mahomes red-shirt during Brady's last year and have Mahomes ready to take over, a la Oregon with Dillon Gabriel / Dante Moore and now Dante Moore / Dylan Raiola. This actually seems pretty ideal to me.
I'm laughing and shaking my head at my own response... isn't this how the great schools used to do it before NIL?!
That would be awesome if JKS stays with us until he is a Jr and I think it’s possible