Category Archives: Temple football

06.23.24
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Temple recruiting: A risky strategy

Antwain Littleton II after being the No. 1 reason why Maryland beat Michigan State.

Are the Temple coaches playing five-dimensional chess while the rest of the AAC plays checkers?

Geez, you’ve got to hope so.

Masterman, a Public League magnet school located only a few blocks south of Temple, fields a perennial national chess powerhouse but a lot of those kids would be hard-pressed to figure out Temple’s next move on the AAC recruiting board.

On the surface, it looks like Stan Drayton’s “plan” was to recruit a lot of JUCOs to fill holes–namely on both sides of the line–and sprinkle a P5 transfer here and there.

Meanwhile, the rest of the AAC is filling their holes with accomplished P5 and FCS transfers and, in the case of Rice, stealing a big-time quarterback from a fellow league member.

It appears Temple has replaced that big-time quarterback with a game manager.

Looks like the rest of the AAC has their strategy in a row and Temple is all over the map but maybe, just maybe, this unusual plan works.

If it does, it will look something like this:

Antwain Littleton, the sprinkle P5 transfer, will have a breakout year behind a lot of accomplished JUCO transfers and Temple holdovers looking to prove people wrong.

With a running game for the first time since NFL draft pick Ray Davis was here, Rutgers’ transfer QB Evan Simon becomes a game-manager and hits an explosive downfield play-action pass here and there to keep the defense on their heels. Maybe Simon is tall enough to see over defenses and avoid those pesky Pick 6s that caused the Owls losses at USF and at home to Rutgers in recent years.

He certainly doesn’t have the high ceiling E.J. Warner had here but he might not have to if Littleton runs over the AAC.

On defense, the Owls’ go two-deep on the line for the first time since D.J. Eliot was here and get after the passer enough to cause turnovers. Temple was last in the nation in turnover ratio last year and moving up just to the middle of the pack will make the defense twice as good.

Nobody expects Temple to go from a three-win season to a nine-win season but going from three to six should be doable no matter how risky the strategy looks now.

Stan Drayton, it’s your move.

Friday: Historical Perspective

06.20.24
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Gone too soon: College Football

Steve Levy delivered the line of the week on ESPN during a Tuesday break in the Stanley Cup finals from the Bristol studios:

“The Say Hey Kid, is gone. Too soon. Willie Mays has passed away tonight at the age of 93.”

Say what?

Say hey.

Too soon?

With all due respect, I’d sign for 93 and I might do it on my 92d birthday.

You know what’s gone too soon?

College football.

Born in 1869 with a game at Rutgers with visiting Princeton, the game should have lasted until at least 2069. Unless you are in the SEC or the Big 10, I very much doubt it will.

Temple football allowed a few loud mouths derail its only chance to grab a P5 spot.

It died with the NIL and the transfer portal and not just for Temple. It died for every G5 school with the possible exception of Memphis, who might eventually slip its way into the big boy club. (I even think it is too late for the Tigers.)

Forget Temple football, which is what we almost exclusively talk about on this site. The other 63 teams playing the same level of G5 football do not have a chance to make a significant impact on the national level for a long time, maybe ever.

The NFL is a fair system and college football fans in big cities will soon realize that and abandon college football. The NFL lifts up its lowest teams with a draft that gives those teams a chance to succeed.

College football tells its lowest teams to go to hell.

What do the fans of those teams do?

Hope and pray.

Neither has ever been a good plan.

The BEST plan for Temple was the one I heard a decade ago at a Cherry and White game.

“Mike, the ACC told us that if we built a stadium, it would be LIKELY that we’d get an invitation,” a source told me that day.

That source was no random guy. It was a member of the 18-person Board of Trusteees.

Made sense because the next season Temple, located in the 4th-largest TV market, had the largest attendance in the AAC.

So what did Temple do?

Fast track a stadium only to back away when a handful of neighbors objected.

Would Navy have backed away on Navy-Marine Corps Stadium or Georgia Tech backed away on Bobby Dodds Stadium if Annapolis or Atlanta objected?

Probably not.

Because Philadelphia politics is a special kind of corrupt (on a level with New York City’s 19th century Tammany Hall), Temple threw up its hands.

Now here we are in an NIL and a transfer portal world where Temple can’t afford players or can’t even afford to get TEMPLE painted on the field.

The end is near and there is no Hail Mary (congressional action) in sight.

Willie Mays lived long enough. College football died way too soon.

Monday: Running over the AAC

06.16.24
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QBs: The Best of The Rest

Some pretty good questions led to some funny (curious, not hah-hah) answers and one last week on the OwlsDaily.com message board was one that many Temple football fans are asking.

“Are the Owls still looking for a transfer portal quarterback?”

Had to laugh at the response, which was basically they are still looking for a quarterback but not going to take one just for the sake of taking one.

How is that different from what they did with the RU backup?

Since E.J. Warner left in December, the Owls let a lot of good quarterbacks get away to programs who are still perceived to be inferior or backup jobs at P5 schools. Two come to mind immediately: Reese Poffenbarger (from Albany to Miami) and General Booty from Oklahoma to UL-Monroe.

Sean Boyle is still one of the remaining uncommitted quarterbacks in the portal.

Yes, UL Freaking Monroe.

Both had the kind of background and accomplishments none of the current occupants of the QB room have at Temple.

As soon as Cam Ward was signed by Miami, the Temple coaches should have been all over Poffenbarger convincing him that a year as a starter at Temple was preferable over a year as a backup at Miami. Hell, if he really wanted to play for the Canes, he could have done that next year after Ward left for the NFL.

Seems to me to be a wasted year.

Sean Boyle warming up for West Virginia last year.

As far as Booty goes, the former Texas first-team all-state quarterback probably would have liked to have a shot at his former Oklahoma team on Aug. 30 instead of being sentenced to a year in Monroe, Louisiana. He would have not only been supremely motivated in Temple’s opener but might have brought the Sooner playbook with him and given it to Temple DC Everett Withers (assuming EW knows how to read it).

Water under the bridge now but the bridge to QB success still exists for Temple.

West Virginia’s Sean Boyle is available and, if that name sounds familiar to Owl fans, it should. Sean was a great offensive lineman for Al Golden and, while this Sean Boyle is not related, he brings an impressive background. He was an original Charlotte commit before flipping to West Virginia so he’s not adverse to playing in the AAC. He’s what the Owls need with an inexperienced OL, a guy who is able to make plays with his feet as well as his arm.

Other quarterbacks still in the portal include Oregon State’s Travis Throckmorton, Appalachian State’s Charles Wright and South Carolina’s Tanner Bailey.

All with better upsides than Evan Simon and Forrest Brock. This is not a question of who has the most NIL money. Almost all of the 130 teams have their starters by now but Temple’s biggest carrot is offering one of the few starting positions left and it is a buyer’s market for the Owls, not a seller’s one because this is desperation time for the players still remaining in the portal. Why Temple hasn’t been buying is a head-scratcher.

As far as quarterbacks go, Stan Drayton has fallen on the ball since Warner left and it would not be shocking if he didn’t pull the trigger on a portal guy now.

These guys are in the portal today but may be gone tomorrow. Time’s a wasting and why Drayton hasn’t jumped on one of these quarterbacks is a pretty good question.

There are no funny answers.

06.13.24
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Temple: Hall of Famers in Consecutive Years

Got the word on Thursday that Merrill Reese, the great Philadelphia Eagles play-by-play guy, will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer.

That gives Temple back-to-back Pro Football Hall of Famers in consecutive years.

Don’t know if the Hall keeps stats on that but, even if they do, that puts Temple in some pretty exclusive company.

Can’t imagine there were consecutive years where more than a handful of schools had consecutive Hall of Famers.

Reese’s story is pretty interesting.

Merrill Reese talks about his Temple experience.

He did Temple football games as a play-by-play guy when WRTI (where has was Sports Director) had the exclusive radio rights. He also did a few games here and there on both radio and TV at Temple before he caught on as THE iconic voice of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Not AN iconic voice.

THE iconic voice.

He started working with Charlie Swift on the Eagles games but, sadly, Swift committed suicide by gun on Springfield Avenue in front of Cardinal O’Hara and Reese then became the No. 1 play-by-play guy and his sidekicks included Eagles like Stan Walters and Mike Quick.

With Joe Klecko getting his spot in the Hall last year, this is a pretty big feather in the cap for Temple–more the university than the football program.

Hopefully, like Joe, Merrill will include some Temple remarks in his acceptance speech.

Not the one about the end of the season being the highlight, though.

Unless Stan Drayton dips into the portal and gets a QB, that would probably apply to the end of THIS season.

Monday: The Best of The Rest

06.09.24
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State of The TU Football Union: Stuck in 1987

Thanks to Joe Tolstoy, who released this video yesterday, the first time I’ve seen it in 37 years.

The closest thing to a Temple football State of the Union address is what head coach Stan Drayton had to give to a group of supporters at the 1912 Club last week.

The biggest takeaway was Drayton’s statement that he expects the Owls will be a “totally different football team.”

Sometimes, different doesn’t mean better but Drayton went on to say that the team will be bigger, faster, stronger with greater depth on both sides.

Drayton will not be judged on what he says, though, but what he does. He knows the bottom line has to go from three wins to six wins. Or better. Three to four wins or three to five wins won’t cut it. This is his third year. Time’s a wasting.

Temple fans will see a five-win season as a fifth-straight losing one, not a significant bump from a trifecta of three-win seasons.

So, what has he DONE so far?

It looks like he’s used 1987 solutions (recruiting JUCOS to fill key holes in the lineup) when the 2024 solution is to get P4 backups looking for playing time. Drayton has done that with RB Antwain Littleton, who made an impact at Maryland, but with few other spots on the roster.

So far, no quarterback in sight with nearly the explosive ability of E.J. Warner and that’s a piece that doesn’t look like it’s coming.

What worked in 1987 probably won’t work in 2024 but that’s on Drayton.

The advantage Drayton has over back then is that his schedule is ranked No. 127.

The 1987 Owls of Bruce Arians also had three wins but played the 10th-toughest schedule in the country and won at No. 16 Pitt, 24-21, beat Toledo (13-12) and played relatively competitively in a 27-13 loss at No. 14 Penn State. (Pitt lost to Temple that year but shut out Penn State, 10-0.)

Back then, Arians filled areas of need with JUCOs.

Now Drayton, who played Division III in those days, is reaching back and going with an old solution in a brave new world.

He’s going to try to do it with mostly JUCOs.

That’s the State of the Temple football union and, while it doesn’t look good now, Drayton will look like a genius if the formula works.

For his sake, and Temple’s, I hope next year’s State of the Union address takeaway will be “I told you so.”

06.06.24
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Teams with Temple’s resources poised to do better

Had to laugh at one of the responses to my last post demanding do better in football. He responded saying that college football has devolved into a transactional business and that Temple football can’t compete because it can’t match the transactions.

What that comment missed was the fact that there are teams in the same boat as Temple but they are paddling upstream while the Owls are letting the tide take them downstream.

Same money. Same boosters. Same transactional problems.

The smart guys figure out a way to win with roughly the same NIL money. The dumb guys write down excuses they will mention on the way out.

Mike Farrell Sports did a nice job with this theory mentioning that the G5 schools most aggressive at the highest-profile positions will probably leave the Temple’s of the world behind.

General Phillip Sheridan (err, Arthur Johnson) appoints General Custer (err, Stan Drayton) a couple of years before Little Big Horn.

While Temple “settled” for the second-best quarterback from the 130th-best FBS offense, a team like FAU went out and got QB Cam Fancher from Marshall (who was available to Temple for the four months immediately after E.J. Warner took the lateral move to Rice).

In that story, Farrell mentions that Sam Houston State, Bowling Green and Colorado State–all with coaches making a fraction of what head coach Stan Drayton makes–upgraded their rosters with a slew of P4 talent to move to the head of the G5 class this season.

There is no way you can convince me that UL Monroe– located in the highest crime city per capita in the entire United States–can get a General Booty transfer from Oklahoma to be its quarterback and Temple, located in a world class city (the only World Heritage city in the United States) has to settle for a Rutgers backup and a JUCO who got beat 55-0 by SMU last year as its triggerman at the most important position on the team.

General Booty is only about 10x better than Evan Simon and Forrest Brock combined and but he will play in Lafayette, Louisiana and not Philadelphia, Pa. Hard to believe, Harry.

In a roundabout way, that’s exactly what Stan Drayton told some boosters at a “Temple Takeover” event a couple of days ago.

It was almost a decade ago now since a magazine correctly predicted that the Temple Owls would be No. 1 in football. Now the Temple football coaching brain trust should be concerned that the Owls are being picked for last.

Drayton correctly identified the No. 1 issue for the Owls has being that triggerman but said that it’s between the guy with more career interceptions than touchdown passes vs. the guy who got beat 55-0 and gave no indication that there is any interest in a player currently in the portal.

Hmm.

There is a player currently in the portal who was named MVP in the New Mexico Bowl in 2022 and beat that team who beat his favorite 55-0 losing JUCO QB.

Not only that, but the quarterback also still available is the former high school quarterback teammate of Drayton’s projected No. 1 RB, Antwain Littleton.

We won’t name names because a head coach getting paid $2.5 million per year by Temple should know who is in the portal and who played with his RB starter.

The fact that he has not indicated to any Temple boosters that help is on the way is really discerning and should temper any enthusiasm for Temple’s chances in September.

The message Drayton conveyed to the Temple faithful at Little Big Horn (err, The 1912 Club) was that the Cavalry in the form of a big-time quarterback was not arriving and the Owls will have to circle the wagons around the current meager QB ammunition they have now.

Captain Frederick Benteen and Major Marcus Reno figured that out in 1876 and were smart enough to watch from a distance as a clever enemy scalped General Custer.

If anyone is surprised at the imminent outcome, they never took a post-Civil War history course at Temple.

Watching a massacre is never a pleasant experience.

06.02.24
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Temple: The Unluckiest School in the history of sports

Yankee Stadium’s tribute to Lewis Katz, Temple great and part owner of the YES Network.

On the precipice of winning a national title in basketball, John Chaney recruited two of the top big men in the nation only a decade apart.

Robert Liburd, the 7-foot-2 High School Player of the Year in New York City, and Marvin Webster Jr., the 6-11 power forward and stretch five and son of the great Marvin Webster, were two of many McDonald’s All-Americans (others included Kevin Lyde, Donald Hodge and Mark Macon) who committed to Chaney.

Liburd and Webster tragically dropped dead before they ever got on the court for the Owls.

That robbed John Chaney of his national championship IMHO.

Fran Dunphy’s best recruit was Trey Lowe out of Trenton, N.J. and he never made an impact because of a car accident. Lowe was a top 150 high school talent who maybe might have worked his way into being a top 15 college talent.

That robbed Dunphy of his deep NCAA tournament run.

With some of that knowledge behind me, I got to thinking Temple sports was cursed but it really hit me the day Temple was the only football team to get kicked out of a major conference in 2002 when the Big East pulled the plug.

Fortunately, Temple made its own luck when Bill Bradshaw hired Al Golden (not a buddy) and Golden beat that conference’s Fiesta Bowl rep, UConn, 30-10, in 2010.

More luck was made by a Golden disciple, Matt Rhule, who beat Penn State, 27-10, in 2015 and got the Owls on night prime time TV after the program was celebrated all day on the major networks as Philadelphia turned out big time for ESPN College Football Game Day.

Unfortunately, Temple’s biggest athletic booster, Lewis Katz, never got to see that day because he died in a plane crash on May 31, 2014.

He did, though, live long enough to see his beloved Owls accepted back into a major conference (also the Big East).

No prouder New Yorker than Lewis Katz to see this big sign in Times Square welcoming the Owls back to the Big East.

He did not live long enough, though, to see his AD hire a guy to be head coach who left 18 days later for Miami. That might have killed him.

If that didn’t, surely what happened 18 days later–Pat Kraft hiring an Indiana buddy off a Manny Diaz rebound–would have.

Or maybe if Katz was here all of that would not have happened.

More bad luck.

If luck is the residue of design, Temple owns that, too.

Temple never learned from the bad Karma of the buddy system of hiring and allowed another buddy, Arthur Johnson, to hire another buddy, Stan Drayton.

Maybe that wouldn’t have happened if Katz was here but we will never know.

Now, in an NIL/Transfer Portal Era where the Lew Katz’s of the world are buying the best players, Temple’s luck might have ran out.

Temple needs a new Lew Katz more than ever and, sadly, there are no Lew Katz’s around or no one wants to step into that void. Those of us who do want to step in do not have the funds to own an entire TV network, as Katz once did.

So maybe Temple is the unluckiest school in the history of sports. Given what’s happened, I challenge anyone to find an unluckier school.

My fervent hope is that Temple’s luck has not run out. It is also my biggest fear.

Friday: Poor Survivors

Monday: State of the Union

05.31.24
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In the transfer portal era, the season is won between Dec. and July

I’ll take a QB and anyone who can rush the passer at this point

When I was a kid I used to hate hearing at the barber shop those old guys who used to say “back in my day” this and that used to happen.

Now as one of those old guys I’m beginning to get it.

A year ago at this time we wrote in this very spot almost on the same day that Temple did not do enough in the “recruiting” months to have a winning season.

Unfortunately, we were proven right for 2023.

Odd timing for a puff piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Stan Drayton but if he doesn’t get a QB and a big-time pass rusher in here in 30 days, he’s going to have to change those roller skates to ice skates because that’s how thin his ice is going to be in Philadelphia.

We still think that for 2024.

The difference there is Temple did nothing to improve from the end of May to the beginning of August and paid for that indecision BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY AGAIN.

Temple football has one month to make up for the inaction of Dec.-May and it doesn’t look good simply because the Owls couldn’t afford to wait until June to get moving.

In my mind, Temple needs a proven QB (duh) and a couple of proven sackmeisters at the defensive end positions.

Football is not rocket science.

The teams who win are the ones who keep their quarterback upright while putting the other guy’s quarterback on his ass.

In my mind, Temple has done enough to keep any quarterback it has upright. The problem is doesn’t have a quarterback who can do damage while upright. It used to but that guy bolted for Rice.

The biggest question of this offseason is that 15-20 quarterbacks were BETTER than that guy and Temple sat on this situation and the coaching staff did absolutely nothing to get one after Clifton McDowell left for oblivion. One by one those great quarterbacks left for other schools and Temple is now down to about five who are better than Evan Simon.

What the hell are they waiting for?

Oddly timed puff piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer this week on Stan Drayton. If I’m the reporter, I’m not asking what he does to relieve stress I’m asking him how the hell he intends to turn 3-9 into 9-3. I’m asking him what makes him think Evan Simon and Forest Brock can be better than E.J. Warner.

I’m letting him know he’s rolling the dice of his career on a guy who got beat 55-0 by SMU while the guy who beat SMU 24-22 the year before is still in the portal.

I’m telling him I don’t give an F what goes on behind the scenes but I really care about what goes on during those three hours every Saturday afternoon and why Temple hasn’t won more than three games since 2019.

That’s what I’m telling him.

Defensively, Temple has NOT done enough to strike fear into the bad guys’ quarterbacks and that’s one of two reasons why another 3-9 is way more likely than 9-3.

Like it or not, this isn’t the “back in my day” time when, after a successful recruiting class three years prior and a redshirt year and a promising sophomore year, a fan could say, “hey, Temple is looking really good this year.”

This is 2024 and the indicators are all in what Temple has done in the transfer portal.

One month to get a couple of FCS proven pass rushers and a quarterback who has done something–anything–above the JUCO level on a consistent basis.

So far, the coaching staff is proving the race to pick up the Temple paychecks every Friday is winning over the race to get players who can make a difference.

Not a good sign at all for any current day barber shop talk.

05.26.24
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Grasping at one hopeful straw: The USF game

Nothing would please me more than Temple to be getting this kind of football publicity.

Anyone who has read this website over the years knows we call balls and strikes as we see it.

After the first two years of the Matt Ruhle Regime, we said that if he kept the spread offense that he was so set on that Temple football would be doomed.

Fortunately, Rhule saw the light and demoted Marcus Satterfield from OC and hired Glenn Thomas, went to a fullback-oriented, ball-control running game and turned the Lincoln Financial Field scoreboard into an adding machine.

Despite an ill-timed fumble from DMR and a pick from EJ, Temple was in this game to the end

The ancillary benefit of that was eight-minute drives that kept the ball out of the hands of the bad guys and gave the defense enough rest to cause havoc on their end. Two 10-win seasons followed and by then Rhule found the strike zone to the effect of earning a $7.4 million contract at Baylor.

In the Stan Drayton Era, it’s been high and outside in the sense that recruiting hasn’t been as good as advertised and the game-day coaching was a little suspect.

Temple fans welcoming USF fans to last home tailgate.

With the exception of one foe: USF.

Now USF is being touted as the “next great” Group of Five team but Drayton beat that team, 54-28, one year (getting head coach Jeff Scott fired), and the next year gave USF all it could handle on the road in a 27-23 loss.

If you are grasping at straws for a reason why the 2024 Owls can be significantly better than the 2023 Owls, that game is a pretty impressive straw.

It is the only one.

Think of it this way. The USF team that Temple SHOULD HAVE beaten that day (and if not for an ill-advised late hit would have beaten) went on to beat Syracuse, 45-0, in the Boca Raton Bowl.

Syracuse entered that game with a 6-6 record in a Power 5 conference, beating Purdue (35-20), Western Michigan (48-7), Army (29-16), Pitt (28-13) and Wake Forest (35-31).

Yet Temple … TEMPLE! … gave USF a much-better game than Cuse and that was a game where bowl eligibility was on the line for USF.

And many of the best Temple players from that game are still getting ready for the season at 10th and Diamond. They need quarterback help and it’s up to Drayton to get his players that help.

E.J. Warner had a nice game for Temple there but he still had a Pick 6 that turned the game around so an argument can be made that the Owls aren’t that far away from competing. We mentioned in this space that General Booty was available on May 4 and Temple should have grabbed him by May 5 but Drayton twiddled his thumbs until May 25 and UL Monroe got him. You think Booty would have picked Temple over UL Monroe (with a chance to get back at Oklahoma in the opener)? I do.

Drayton knows what he has to do but has let other programs get the best available quarterbacks.

Just get a taller quarterback who can see over the line and still make the throws E.J. made. Better said than done but the remaining kids on the team deserve their coaching staff to make every effort to find one. I guarantee you this: Booty will start and have better stats at UL-Monroe than any current Temple player in the QB room.

Drayton has sat on this QB situation since the day E.J. left in December. He needs to get moving.

If he sits on the ball and is satisfied with his quarterback room as is, he is dooming Temple just like Rhule would have if he was stubborn enough to stick with the spread after Year Two.

Stubbornness can get you fired. Rhule figured that out in time to make a fortune. Let’s hope Drayton can do the same.

05.23.24
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Could this be THE guy? Err, no

Close but no cigar.

That’s the best analogy I can come up with. Over the last few years, missed some of my buddies who used to be regulars at the tailgate when I walked over to their area and was told by a few people that they would skip this game or that game because they were watching it at a cigar shop.

Hmm.

Don’t blame them.

This was a solid group who tailgated every winning year at every home game in one corner of Lot K. No better fans of a team on the planet than those guys, mostly a group who played for Wayne Hardin in the late 1970s.

They were beaten down by 1-6, 3-9, 3-9, and 3-9 as were many of the most loyal Temple fans.

The cigar analogy applies this week as well.

Kajiya Hollawayne committed to Temple and that represents the closest quarterback skill set that the football Owls need right now.

Temple needs a quarterback who can both run and pass and a Power 4 recruit, at one time, Hollawayne was just that.

Close, but no cigar. Which probably mean half the tailgates this fall will be at the cigar shop, not Lot K.

The no cigar part is that Hollawayne has given up on the quarterback position and has designs on the next level as a wide receiver. Like most talented guys, he has a shot at that but receiving is not the position most in need at Temple right now.

Quarterback is.

Toledo and Liberty are getting their money’s worth. Temple is not.

Guys like Dante Wright and Zae Baines are two of the best receivers in the AAC right now and while Hollawayne adds a nice supplemental piece to that room, the major need is a guy who could once do what Hollawayne did–see the field, create some space for the wide receivers by his ability to scramble and make explosive plays in the downfield passing game.

The plan right now is for Hollawayne to be a wide receiver but the simple fact is that Temple doesn’t have a quarterback in the building now who did at the QUARTERBACK position what Hollawayne once did. Put it this way: Do you trust a guy who was recruited by Rutgers over a guy who was recruited by UCLA at the same position?

I don’t.

I’ll take a Chip Kelly quarterback recruit over a Greg Schiano one any day of the week.

Yet I do trust Hollawayne’s decision to convert to wide receiver which can only mean one thing.

Temple has no more than three months to find a guy with a Hollawayne skill set to play the quarterback position.

Or all of those great receivers will be waving their hands looking for a ball that won’t be coming their way.

Monday: Grasping at a short straw