Peters is fine in the flow of the offense. If he can set and throw within two seconds he shines. This offense is predicated on the run. When you lose your top two (for this game - more if you count the ones that didn't even dress), you lose a credible run threat. When the coaches saw we could only gain one or two yards a carry, they should have made a change to their play calling. I do not remember seeing one time the receiver handed the ball on a jet sweep. We sure faked it a lot. We also didn't see any screens to give our remaining playmakers a chance to do something.
When he is in obvious passing downs three things happen.
1) As stated earlier, our receivers are small and not very fast. When the opposing defense goes max coverage we don't have a playmaker that can gain separation or muscle their way into gaining an advantage. When the play is extended no defense should be able to cover everyone, but our receivers are not finding ways to get open.
2) An offensive line should be able to block three on five and create a pocket. Don't even get me started on what happens when there is a blitz. No quarterback can consistently be effective if he has linemen falling on them, or the defense in their face.
3) Peters has almost no pocket awareness. This is the main reason you can't have him waiting to make longer plays or having to run through read progressions. I give him credit for not forcing it to receivers that weren't open and causing an interception. He just is not your guy if you have to rely on throwing every down. Right now that would be Art.
The good thing that happened is you can see that once we get the players, we will win these games. We should have one this one, but the wheels fell off when we last our running backs. Even so, we were in this game until the end when all indications beforehand were that we would lose big -- and for good reason. Frankly, we had a shot in the UTSA game.
We also found our running back for the future. Josh McCray is going to be a beast before he is done. Combine him with a change of pace guy and we will be fine.
The sky is not falling. There are indications that we will become a better team. But there was a reason we lost so many games in the past and it wasn't all due to coaching. Maybe a defensive back that can actually tackle ... but that might be asking too much.