3 reasons Texas A&M football should stick with Weigman: Team’s ceiling much higher with no. 15
Because of this, this Texas A&M football team has a lot better opportunity to get to double-digit wins with no. 15 at signal caller. Happy feet in game one or no, he’s just the better option right now.
His ceiling is much higher than any other passer on this team, and maybe any other passer in the entire country. His placement downfield and in the face of pressure is elite—we saw that in all of his starts last year save a truncated game against Auburn (where a schematic change from the first three weeks was evident). We also saw it against McNeese—those were passes that other guys couldn’t make against air.
What happens when Reed doesn’t have the efficient run game that we saw for most of the game against Florida to help him out? What happens when he has to sit back there and dissect coverages? That’s an unknown right now, but the early returns aren’t exactly promising.
Again, he got away with a lot against a bad Florida defense that he wouldn’t against better units coming down the pike. The third down conversion to Tre Watson was a pass back across his body while rolling to the sideline—a cardinal QB sin—but it didn’t matter, because UF is terrible.
All the talk of leadership and the team responding to him better is largely baseless. From what I can gather, it has mostly to do with one clip of him leading a celebration on the sideline (the exact same celebration, by the way, that two different players led in last week’s episode of The Pulse—it appears to take place whenever the team scores or forces a turnover), and the fact that he sounded better in his interview than Conner did when a mentalist came to a team meeting. That’s seriously something people are holding against Weigman.
I don’t expect that everyone will be convinced by this; in the minds of some, Weigman has too much to make up for after what happened in Week 1. The only way he can do that is to lead the team to some big wins—which, I believe, he will have the opportunity to do.