Horner

[BillingsMafia]

Here we are the weekend after thanksgiving and no playoff game. Stitt needed to go.
I think the major weakness in the Stitt offense was the lack of a bread and butter short yardage pass play. Stitt used the horizontal pass as his go to play and too many times it didn't work. It seems the few times I saw a pass go to Horner the guy was money. If he could touch it he caught it. I always wondered why Stitt didn't use the guy on short yardage slant routes more. If he would have we would have a game to watch tomorrow.

 

[HookedonGriz]

Thank you for your insights Mr Horner. Ha I kid. Josh was a stud and should have been utilized more.

 

[kemajic]

Here we are the weekend after thanksgiving and no playoff game. Stitt needed to go.
I think the major weakness in the Stitt offense was the lack of a bread and butter short yardage pass play. Stitt used the horizontal pass as his go to play and too many times it didn't work. It seems the few times I saw a pass go to Horner the guy was money. If he could touch it he caught it. I always wondered why Stitt didn't use the guy on short yardage slant routes more. If he would have we would have a game to watch tomorrow.

He seemed to want no part of the middle of the field. Made defending much easier.

 

[grizghost]

Here we are the weekend after thanksgiving and no playoff game. Stitt needed to go.
I think the major weakness in the Stitt offense was the lack of a bread and butter short yardage pass play. Stitt used the horizontal pass as his go to play and too many times it didn't work. It seems the few times I saw a pass go to Horner the guy was money. If he could touch it he caught it. I always wondered why Stitt didn't use the guy on short yardage slant routes more. If he would have we would have a game to watch tomorrow.

Horner was a reliable target that should have been used more..l hate to see him go!

 

[go4two]

Here we are the weekend after thanksgiving and no playoff game. Stitt needed to go.
I think the major weakness in the Stitt offense was the lack of a bread and butter short yardage pass play. Stitt used the horizontal pass as his go to play and too many times it didn't work. It seems the few times I saw a pass go to Horner the guy was money. If he could touch it he caught it. I always wondered why Stitt didn't use the guy on short yardage slant routes more. If he would have we would have a game to watch tomorrow.

He seemed to want no part of the middle of the field. Made defending much easier.

Couldn’t agree more! What was Stitt’s deal on the boundary only?

 

[reinell30]

Another reason why Mr. Stitt was relieved. Josh was the most under utilized player on the team. He became an asset in the NDSU game but Stitt forgot about him. He changed Josh's job from receiver to blocker because the O-line was so bad at blocking for Stitt's bubble passes.

 

[griz5700]

It’s because all Stitt could see was the backfield and sidelines. Tough to see over all those big guys in the center of the field.

 

[granitegriz]

I said it all season long, use Horner up the seem. Rarely using him was a mistake!

 

[bigkid]

What a waste of a good player....

 

[grizpack]

Very little was designed for him to go into the middle... Not hard to see that.

 

[Griz Man]

Totally agree with the premise of this thread. The strange thing is that Horner was utilized quite a bit as a clutch, over-the-middle receiver during Stitt's first year. Went back and looked at the box score of the 2015 win over MSU - Horner had 5 receptions for 58 yds (compared with 2 catches for 15 yds this year). I recall a lot of those catches two years ago were on 3rd down. Last year Horner had no catches in the MSU game; Bingham had 1 for 21 yrds.

Gustafson was using Horner effectively two years ago - don't know what happened...