"......I sure hope Paulus didn't play all 150 plays. You have to remember he's playing against the Syracuse defense, which may account for the lack of INTs.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for injecting Paulus into every discussion of Duke football. But I'm pretty sure he isn't on the Duke team. So, maybe we can discuss those who are.
The plan is to redshirt Schroeder if at all possible. But Duke only has two other QBs, so an injury to either would force Cut's hand. I suppose Gattis is another emergency option. He's at WR now but also is a true freshman. I don't think a decision has been made on his status. But Duke is very deep at WR so a redshirt may be in order.
I was most impressed by Schroeder's poise. Remember he was playing with a shaky line against the top Duke line. He had third-team WRs against first-team DBs. But Schroeder didn't bail out, didn't panic despite constant pressure. He seems to have good footwork and that ability to feel pressure and react accordingly.
Of course, QBs were touched not tackled so it might be a different response when he gets pounded down not whistled down.
As I said earlier, I still haven't seen him hit anything long. But he was overthrowing receivers who didn't have much if any separation from the DBs. So it's likely more a timing issue than an arm-strength issue.
Renfree's mistake on the pick was a classic mistake of a talented youngster. He simply thought he could muscle the ball into an area without much space. Should have gone to Plan B. Or C.
It should be noted that both the O and D have been pretty vanilla in both recent scrimmages. Neither Renfree nor Schroeder have faced much in the way of stunts, blitzes, clevely disguised defenses. Nor have they been asked to execute anything out of the ordinary. It's going to be a lot more complicated in real games.
FWIW, I'm not sure if I mentioned this in the earlier posts but the new scoreboard is still not ready for primetime. I can't imagine that it won't be ready for Richmond but some folks might be looking at some overtime.