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I said somewhere else, Motu isn't bad. He shows flashes. He just isn't ready, and the fact that he's being forced to play is a result of recruiting failures, not anything that Motu did.
I think Motu is one of those players the could be a beast his senior year. There just isn't anyone here now to give him time to learn as a sophomore and junior.
I'd like to see the P5 get proactive about this and pool all officials together and set a standard across all five conferences. It could also be the first step on the P5 breaking ties with the NCAA and becoming their own body, which I'm fully in favor of.
He lacks something in lateral movement. More than once he looked like he was in position but couldn't slide to the proper gap. Instead he just took a step forward and maybe kind of in the direction of the ball carrier and got immediately absorbed by blockers.
Shegog looks like a beast at whip. Hopefully he has the cover skills of a nickel back, so we don't have to keep switching back and forth between whip and nickel.
I like Edmunds at backer, but don't see any answers at Mike. I think we sink or swim with Motu.
This is talking shit? Wow. Low threshold.
This is a personal experience that adds to the conversation over what kind of character Bucky Hodges has. If the dude's a jerk, and people have firsthand accounts of him being a jerk, that's not shit talking. That's an unflattering anecdote. And the more I hear about Bucky, the more I think there are probably tons of those out there.
We are, slowly but surely. Major chains are now starting to embrace a no-tip policy with a higher employee wage. Joe's Crab Shack is the latest.
I dunno. Their late surge in the 4th looked like they had gas left in the tank.
I'm with you on 95% here. Absolutely, we and other programs have instructed our defense that if you are at all tweaked, you go down to signal you need to come out. Honestly, that's the safest way to do it. Prevents turning a tweak into an injury, and prevents risk of penalty.
I don't think there's a signal from sideline to go down. If we had great depth, then yes. But we just don't have the horses in the defensive backfield to fake an injury to a healthy player just to buy a few more seconds between snaps. We want our starters on the field because the drop off behind them is pretty steep.
I'm not 100% certain of that. I think Fuente is about to walk into more of a conditioning situation than he was aware of. We're one of the only programs in P5 football that didn't do two-a-days. Our offense was gassed in the fourth quarter against Tulsa, and it showed. I think it's going to take a season to get the offense as a whole in shape to run Fuente's offense for four quarters.
He was 6'7" at the snap. We're not sure how much he grew while running his route.
They gotta change the wording on that to "above the shoulderpads." Would eliminate pretty much all confusion, since there's a definitive line above which it's targeting.
But also, I hate calling any contact above said line "targeting." The word targeting implies intent. Like I said down the thread, there should be one penalty for incidental contact above the shoulderpads, and a more severe penalty (with ejection) if the contact was intentional.
Thanks, I was still thinking the helmet of the player initiating the hit had to be what made first contact. If I read you right, now if first contact on any hit is above the shoulderpads, it's targeting?
None are getting fired (at least, not technically, just not retained)
Lefty certainly got no benefit of the doubt from this fact when he came here from Auburn.
Yes, but, look at the trajectory. In 2015, we gave up the bulk of our sacks (18 of 34) in the month of October, mostly coming when Motley started struggling as we hit the meat of our conference schedule. Motley lacks pocket awareness and took a lot of sacks he shouldn't have. Once Brewer returned, we rebounded nicely and gave up 9 sacks total in our last five games. Compare that to 19 sacks allowed over the last five games of 2014.
I think you're making way too many unfounded assumptions here, which, to be honest, surprises me given your posting history. You are assuming that telling a player to go down equates to faking an injury, when there can be more than one reason to tell a player to go down.
It was pretty clear Strohman was trying to play through pain in that series. Given that he was visibly limping on the field, Foster basically had three options: let Strohman play gimpy, call a timeout, or tell him to get down so he can be substituted without risking a penalty for too many men on the field. Now I agree with you, telling a tweaked player to go down for substitution is gamesmanship. But it's not faking an injury.
You're leveling a pretty serious accusation, considering that actually faking an injury is against the rules of NCAA football, regardless of whether you personally feel the practice is unethical.
Stacy Searels has really done a great job in two years of righting the ship on the OL. The table is set pretty nicely for Vance Vice. I hope Searels gets a top quality P5 job, he deserves it.
Incidental helmet-to-helmet contact like in this play is getting called targeting way too much, which leads me to think they should have two penalties and have ejection only tied to the more serious call. Think of the old incidental facemask vs intentional facemask penalties. Implementing an incidental contact penalty would actually give the replay official something to look for during review as an objective standard in determining if contact was intentional or not.
The thing that gets me is, my understanding of the targeting rule is that helmet-to-helmet contact is supposed to be the initial contact between players, but I see targeting called (and upheld!) when the shoulder clearly makes contact first.
Not only that, but if a player is trying to limp off the field and can't make it to the sideline by the next snap (a real possibility against today's no-huddle offenses), then that's a penalty on the defense. The general rule should be, if you're limping and need to come out, go down. That's not faking an injury, that's ensuring a player doesn't aggravate an injury by trying to hustle off the field.
The review of a targeting call is purely for show. I don't think I've ever seen one be reversed. Safety being such a focus at all levels of the game right now, if a flag gets thrown for targeting, it's gonna get upheld. And that's a big problem, because targeting has become about a 50/50 call.
Give Fuente two years and we'll be doing the same thing.
He's the best we've ever had. I hope he makes a quick transition to Fuente's scheme, because he's gonzo after next season.
Isaiah Ford 2015 Totals: 75 receptions, 1164 yards, 15.5 ypc, 89.5 ypg, 11 TDs
Games Brewer Started: 46 receptions, 728 yards, 15.8 ypc, 104.0 ypg, 5 TDs
Games Motley Started: 29 receptions, 436 yards, 15.0 ypc, 72.7 ypg, 6 TDs
Totals are divided by who the starter of the game was (Brewer gets credit for Ohio State, Motley for Miami), because that's way easier than trying to figure out which QB actually threw each of Ford's receptions.
Factor out Isaiah going straight HAM in the Independence Bowl, and over the course of the regular season he actually had a better ypc under Motley, and his ypg under Brewer 83.5. His career day against Tulsa really skews the numbers, but Isaiah is just that good regardless of who the QB was.
But like fernley said, Motley will not be QB1 next season.
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10 years 6 months
# | Discussion: Will the outcome of the Independence Bowl have any lasting effect on you? What a game.
I'll carry optimism for the offense and concern for the defense into 2016.
Tell me Lefty has to score more that 52 to win, I'd have said we were fucked. Tell me Lefty's gonna put up 55, I'd have said we were about to win it in a walk.
Bud has work to do. I think Lefty just got himself another gig somewhere with that performance. And Frank goes out a winner.
Not sure how any of it will carry over into next season, but for tonight, I'm just savoring the end of a legendary career.
Could be worse. Could be a Saturday wedding in autumn.