The voice you hear at the end of the clip, after West Virginia quarterback Will Grier makes a check, fakes a handoff, progresses left to right and from near to far and then whips a pass from the left hash to the right sideline, is head coach Dana Holgorsen. Hoo, ho, ho, ho ho. Good ball.

What’s so funny, you ask?

This is a play we saw last week, and this figures to be a play we’ll see throughout the season, but this is a difficult play to make.

The pass protection has to be there long enough for the quarterback to calmly toggle through his options, and the quarterback has to trust the protection from one tackle to another to stay committed to seeing this thing through to the finish. (If you wondered exactly what Kyle Bosch was talking about before, this is a good example.)

A receiver far across the field has to keep the play alive in the off chance a quarterback is about to make a risky, long-range throw. And then the quarterback has to plant and throw a low-altitude, high-speed pass into a window that’s about to shut once the defense realizes that, no, it did cover everything and, yes, the quarterback did find that one vulnerable area. He’s not coming back to make that th– he really threw that?!

We did not see a lot of this in the Skyler Howard Days. He would flee Bosch’s Holy Land and either move to run or to create more time for his receivers or to get a better look at the play. Near as we can tell, Grier sticks to the pocket, to the plan and to his views. Howard’s throws to the far side of the field did happen, sometimes out of improvisation, sometimes deep down the field and not often and not crisply in the short and intermediate range. Howard did not have a Fisher Price arm, but did we see him standing on the left hash and throwing read-screens to the right hash?

These are running plays for WVU. Grier has a lot of freedom to look at the defense and say, “Nah, a run isn’t a good idea here, but I’ll tell you what. The Z is 1-on-1, and that corner is too far off the line. I can get that there, and he can make the corner miss.” His familiarity with the offense — a new offense to him — will come, and he’ll get better and better with his checks.

Everyone you ask (of course) says he’s sharp already and that he’s going to add to that once he truly understands how to use the pieces on offense to manipulate the defense. But his arm is already here, and it’s expanding the defense a little more than normal from one sideline to another. It’s creating openings in places defenses don’t often consider and it’s delivering balls to tight spots, which is critical in, say, the red zone. It’s seemingly capable of doing things WVU’s offense hasn’t done in a while.

“When I was with Davis Webb last year, he had a tremendous arm, and he’d throw that comeback route to the [far] side all the time because it was open,” said Spavital, the offensive coordinator at Cal and with Webb last season. “Defenses don’t believe you’re going to throw that.”

That’s the bonus involved with the 6-foot-2, 205-pound Grier.

“The problem defensively is there are going to be holes. Now, can the quarterback find those holes? We’ll take our chances,” Gibson said. “With a kid like Will, our game plan would be totally different with him.”

More zone coverage to patrol the openings? Less blitzing to devote more players to defending the pass?

“I don’t want to say,” Gibson said. “I don’t want to give anybody any answer. But he’s a different kind of kid. He’s very, very intelligent. You can’t get him on a lot of stuff.”

Understand Gibson’s 3-3-5 defense presents “a lot of stuff.” He blitzes. He bluffs. He disguises one coverage within another. He’s constantly changing, and he does it all to lure a quarterback into a mistake, be it a hurried throw or a regrettable one.

“He’ll see something, and it triggers him and he knows exactly where he’s going and he knows exactly where to put the ball,” Gibson said. “He’s done it numerous times.”