Here's the way I look at this battle.
I've been a big Malik Rosier supporter for a while now. However, my confidence eroded in him after last year's finish to the season with 3 straight losses.
That said, I still have confidence in Malik that he will ultimately keep his job as the starter, unless he has a very poor Spring camp, then at that point, all bets are off the table.
Something that caught my eye here. Something from Matt Porter of the Palm Beach Post in reference to Rosier and his grade. When Richt declined to give a grade for Malik, that told me something right there. That says to me that Malik is in serious trouble of losing his job.
According to Porter's piece and I'll put it here: Kosi leading candidate to win UM job, he says there are Cane insiders that believe N'Kosi Perry is going to win the job. I don't see it that way right now. As I said earlier, I still think Malik will hang on to his job in the end, but make no mistake, by Richt not saying Malik's grade, definitely confirms what I've been saying for a while now, Malik's leash will be very short.
If Malik struggles in Arlington early vs LSU, Richt will not wait too long to pull him in favor of Kosi. I'll want to see in the Spring game how Malik, Kosi and the other two QBs fare. The Spring game to me, is going to be really Malik's final shot to keep his job. If he struggles in that game, then you'd have to make the move to go to Kosi here.
In Richt's interview with WQAM, Richt's comments on 3/26/18 to Joe Rose on UM and QB situation Very enlightening and on Jarren Williams, it's clear to me, he's the future. The 80-90% completion numbers on the deep balls, tells me also that Malik, as much as I want to see him hang on to his job, might not be the answer there in that regard. The question is in that regard, is Kosi the answer here or Jarren?
A lot of moving parts taking place between now and April 14th Spring Game at Hard Rock Stadium. A lot more questions will be answered after that game, especially with the QBs.
The last sentence of this post should have been the first, and would have been the most interesting lead-in.
ReplyDeleteYou’re good with Malik, until he struggles, then not so much, lol. My man, you just described every fan with every position on every team. You have confidence when he’s playing but having it erode when he was absolutely atrocious the last three games is legend of Captain Obvious was born of.
The future of this program is not and never was Malik Rosier. He was a place holder for the next crop. He’s a second tier running back with a serviceable arm and well below avg accuracy. That profile should never be your ‘guy’ as a 5th year Sr. with an otherwise very talented roster ready to take the next step.
So the real hot take is, who is the guy transferring out of UM in two years, N’Kosi or Jarren?