re: Should we keep trying to feed the ball to Chris Hilton?

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Should we keep trying to feed the ball to Chris Hilton?

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I think so.

He was there on those plays vs A&M, maybe he was rusty and mistimed his jumps, but Nuss put the ball on the money. So the timing was there between WR and QB.
If you have that and you think he can catch the ball at all, you keep doing it. He did catch a shorter throw, so I think he can catch. They probably should have done that a few times before going deep.

I know people got frustrated about the misses (and the game overall), but if you have a homerun threat, you want to get him going.

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I don't understand the obsession with him

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That’s easy. He has height with great speed. That’s not something any of our other WRs have except for maybe Sampson, and it hasn’t clicked for him yet for whatever reason. It’s not for lack of trying with him, either. Sampson is getting plenty of snaps, especially when Daniels has been out injured.

While most of our passing statistics are really strong, yards per attempt and big plays in the pass game have been a weakness all season. They are pushing Hilton out there in an attempt to open that part of the game up more. There’s no mystery here.

Here’s the thing some of you miss with Hilton. He doesn’t have to show up and be a star to help this offense. A performance like the bowl game from him would be great, but all we really need is for him to hit on a couple of long throws for defenses to have to respect the threat. They have absolutely no reason to do that right now, which is 2nd on the list of issues with this offense behind the lack of a run game.

If Hilton can just make deep throws a realistic threat, that will make the Safeties back up a bit and pay attention to him, and that opens up more space and creates one on ones where we throw the ball the most. The Safeties watching deep in man more will also help our run game.

This is the same thing that really opened up the offense 1/4 of the way through last season. Once Daniels got confidence throwing the ball deep and making defenses pay, it made everything else easier. They had to pick their poison, which wasn’t an issue before. More space in the defense would make Durham and our short game much harder to stop than they are today.

Seemed like they were trying to force plays to him vs just going with the WRs who got them there.

Puzzling.