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OR we need a legitimate running game to open up play action. If we get the ground game going you will be amazed at how much more competent Brewer suddenly looks on downfield passes.
This is a serious question. Are you even enjoying it anymore? It doesn't sound like it from your posts here.
Not that there's anything wrong with NOT enjoying it, I'm just curious.
But ask Tennessee or West Virginia how running off a legend has worked out for them.
Or ask FSU.
Seems to have good vision, runs through contact and makes good cuts. I notice a lot of those highlights seem to be from one game, which is a bit of a red flag. Also question the tackling the defenses displayed
Couple of questions. First, is there a reason we would be on this kid's radar? And second, who has Nevada in their assigned recruiting territories?
Don't forget we hope to have Cline back next season. Bucky, Malleck and Cline. A 3 TE set you can pass out of.
Chills.
Maybe I'm wrong, but don't opposing D coordinators scheme more against an opponent's blocking tendencies rather than against the nuances of an individual back?
And I still think Ford and Phillips have a higher ceiling.
No doubt I could be wrong, but I sincerely believe it.
And his offensive line just seals the deal.
We were talking skill positions. No doubt was Glennon's line better, and Glennon's line wasn't good. But I will say, put Brewer behind Glennon's line but keep this squad's skill position players and Brewer looks like a much better quarterback.
IMO, I. Ford and Phillips have a higher ceiling than any receiver Glennon threw a pass to. But they aren't there yet.
Shades of Hayes and Schembechler there. Only way that interaction could have been better would have been if someone had asked Harbaugh why he went for two and he had responded, "Because I couldn't go for three!"
Coming into the game against us, Barrett had more playing time against an FBS opponent than Brewer did. And that rebuilt offensive line allowed them to score 66, 50, 52 and 56 points in the four games immediately after facing us. To claim they got better after they faced up, well it was a pretty immediate improvement. And trying to argue that they were only #8 because of a preseason poll when they finished the season at #4 is a reach. They were a legit ranked team when we beat them, just like they're a legit playoff team now, and we beat them in their house.
By that rationale, do early season games matter at all? I'll agree with you that teams evolve throughout the course of a season, but to claim that this Buckeye team somehow isn't the same team we beat in the 'Shoe in September is a stretch. We played the #8 team in their stadium and never trailed. To say we got them at the right time, they got us with a QB starting his second game (first against an FBS opponent) after being in the program about two months. And he toasted them. You play teams when the game's scheduled, and the value of the result is not diminished.
It seems you want the result to mean less than it does.
If you pwn the best DC in the game, you celebrate it. Any animosity I had over those shifts evaporated when I actually heard him discuss Tyrod and our program afterward. Nothing but respect out of his mouth.
But my god, talk about setting the table for your successor.
I was just about to post this. Been a while since a commit could say, "I really like the WR coach at one school," and the knee-jerk isn't, dammit he's going somewhere else.
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# | Bitter blog - Strong finish leaves Hokies optimistic about the future on offense I just hope Clark makes the most of spring semester. We need him ready to contribute ASAP.
Have never disliked Harbaugh. He coaches with a "step on their necks" mentality that I respect the hell out of. And he is all about coaching his players to be upstanding young men. He's intense and focused and doesn't take any crap. In a lot of ways he reminds me of Bud.
Over/under on how long until Urban asks him what his deal is?
Good lord. I thought he was still in the $5-6mil range.
EDIT: Not only is your figure accurate, but Saban earned more than $2mil more than the second highest paid college coach (Bob Stoops, $5.25 million)
I don't understand the need to minimize it either, because saying we have the talent to beat an elite team doesn't adversely affect his argument. He's saying it's a lack of consistency that's killing our chances. So it shouldn't matter that we have the ability to beat an elite team. Inconsistency would still prevent us from having a big run.
My only guess is if he admits we have the ability to beat a playoff team, then if we find consistency then we would potentially have the type of season next year he says we aren't going to have.
In general there's a lot of dimsissing the Ohio State win that I just don't get. That's one of the biggest wins in program history, even if it came in a bad season. And it shows what this roster is capable of. Maybe it's that potential that naysayers feel a need to discredit. If you want to establish a narrative that we're awful, you can't accept that we have the potential to beat anyone.
Ugh. The QBR. The "Made For TV" stat.
My issue is, awful is essentially a superlative. It implies not just a lack of ability but a lack of competence. Awful has no redeeming qualities. Throwing out a word like that requires some significant evidence, but as soon as the evidence provided was questioned and refuted, then it became a case of agree to disagree. That's not something that's really doable with awful. If you're saying he's bad, that's one thing. I can shake your hand and walk away thinking he's average while you say he's bad. But to throw out and accusation that he's awful and then to say you're entitled to your opinion and not trying to convince anyone else is intellectually suspect. It reeks of someone getting called to account for hyperbole and not being willing to concede the point.
I'm getting dizzy following your argument.
Any QB who takes a shutout is awful regardless of how he plays in the other 11 regular season games? That's myopic.
Taking escapable sacks makes a QB awful? How many? What's the threshold? And how about the fact that despite being the second most sacked QB in the conference he only lost five yards total in rushing. (Sacks are recorded as rushing attempts.) Doesn't that indicate that for all the sacks he took, he escaped others and turned it into a positive play?
He led the nation in INTs at some point past week 2? Why is week 2 the threshold? Because if we made it after week 6 Brewer wouldn't meet that threshold in your argument? He finished with more TDs than INTs and in line with what the better QBs in the league did in terms of picks: pass attempts.
And setting two single season passing records but not three makes a QB awful? Are you serious?
We wouldn't be having this discussion of you were saying he was an average quarterback, or not a great quarterback, or even not a very good quarterback. But you're maintaining that he's the Nickelback of QBs. "Awful" is not a subjective term. Awful is awful, and you've not done much to substantiate your claim.
Step 1: redshirt Shai and Juice. Especially Shai. Back to back seasons with ACL injuries, the man needs time to mend.
Beyond that, just open it up in spring ball. But honestly I see JCC winning back the stating role, backed by Trey and McMillian in one order or another.
If Juice comes back super strong then you question playing him next season and then I see a thunder and lightning backfield of Juice and JCC. Juice does have a history of being a bull in recovery. The man wants to play, and between the two ACL injuries this year i see Juice as the more likely return for 2015.
But for his own good I think Shai needs the redshirt.
Part of my issue is throwing around strong labels like "awful" without really producing the evidence to back the claim. It's one thing to agree to disagree on whether he's a "good" quarterback or an "average" quarterback. But "awful" is a significant claim that requires significant proof. None of Brewer's stats indicate what I think anyone could rationally ascribe the label "awful."
Which is specifically what I like about his style. The opponent and the scoreboard are irrelevant. He coaches his players to play each snap at 100% effort. Hr has a tremendous respect for the game of football.