CB Thaddeus Dixon

#28
#28
OrangeMoundTNVol said:
How is adding competition equal to dumping two starters? You lost me here
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You are failing to understand the difference between the current real world environment of college football vs playing NCAA on Playstation. This idea that you can throw multiple upper tier SEC starter quality players in the same position room and let them battle it out is fantasy land. Is the idea that 'competition is good for the players' accurate? For sure. But in the current landscape you have to get that competition from the younger/unproven guys and hope they compete their tails off and push the starters to improve. You are not going to get a guy that knows he is good enough to start at the highest level to join a position group with 2 other guys that already know they are good enough to start at the highest level. Basically, if you add him you will lose either McCoy or Gibson. Point blank.
 
#31
#31
Pawleysvol said:
You wanna dump Gibson and McCoy for him? Stop getting enamored with EVERY player in the portal. It’s like some of think we have ZERO good players on the roster.
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Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
 
#32
#32
JohnnyD123 said:
Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
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We certainly need help at Safety. Gave up a lot of yards an a few TDs because of lack of speed at Safety.
 
#33
#33
JohnnyD123 said:
Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
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I love our corner situation. If the kid wants play safety then I would definitely take him.
 
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#34
#34
JohnnyD123 said:
Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
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Now imagine for a second…..that players could improve from year to year 🤯

And it’s difficult for your secondary to look good when the DL gets manhandled.
 
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JohnnyD123 said:
Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
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Is he a definite upgrade to McCoy or Gibson?
 
#37
#37
therickbol said:
You are failing to understand the difference between the current real world environment of college football vs playing NCAA on Playstation. This idea that you can throw multiple upper tier SEC starter quality players in the same position room and let them battle it out is fantasy land. Is the idea that 'competition is good for the players' accurate? For sure. But in the current landscape you have to get that competition from the younger/unproven guys and hope they compete their tails off and push the starters to improve. You are not going to get a guy that knows he is good enough to start at the highest level to join a position group with 2 other guys that already know they are good enough to start at the highest level. Basically, if you add him you will lose either McCoy or Gibson. Point blank.
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Look, here’s the reality. We have a good to awesome corner tandem. They tend to struggle with bigger body guys, see Arky/see OSU/see KY game. As a coach it’s your job to address the previous season short comings and you worry about feelings second. Worrying about feelings get your family uprooted once they just start to feel like home. Ask Butch and his kids who are all Knox Catholic graduates
 
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#38
#38
JohnnyD123 said:
Did you not watch what Ohio state did to our secondary? We need all the help we can get there. If there is a def upgrade available, and you don’t go get him, then I guarantee you that you will be the one to blame the coaches for it when we get torched again.
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You act like every team we played had OSU B level WRs. They didn’t. Not even close as a matter of fact. Our secondary was very good for the vast majority of the year. Also we can’t just go load up in the portal like other teams. We are still under scholarship restrictions and DB is not a huge pressing need like OL.
 
#40
#40
LittleVol said:
Come on now OrangeMound
We talking about Jeremiah Smith…
6’3 220 athlete with 4.3 speed.
McCoy was an All-American. And he was no match for Jeremiah Smith.

9 recs 179 yards 2 TDS vs #1 ranked Oregon.

There’s no CBs in college that can cover him.

We have as good a tandem at CB than anyone.
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And we wasn’t WIDE OPEN a lot when matched up with our CBs. The vast majority of his yards were from the shallow crosses when matched up with LBs and I THINK it was Smith who made the big play on the post where Jakobe Thomas had to come across the field to save a TD but not sure. That may have been Egbuka.
 
#41
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BigOrangeTrain said:
You act like every team we played had OSU B level WRs. They didn’t. Not even close as a matter of fact. Our secondary was very good for the vast majority of the year. Also we can’t just go load up in the portal like other teams. We are still under scholarship restrictions and DB is not a huge pressing need like OL.
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Well if our goal is to win a title,or at least win a game or two in the playoff, then we are going to play Ohio state or Texas or Oregon. We’ve been terrible for 2 decades at corner and safety, and y’all act like we are just fine there lol.
 
#42
#42
bpalmer28 said:
And we wasn’t WIDE OPEN a lot when matched up with our CBs. The vast majority of his yards were from the shallow crosses when matched up with LBs and I THINK it was Smith who made the big play on the post where Jakobe Thomas had to come across the field to save a TD but not sure. That may have been Egbuka.
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It was Egbuka, Smith had his way with our boundary corners. Almost looked like they were too small for him. They are great against small, shifty WRs tho. It’s the big boys that scare me, and our third corner is even smaller. Hopefully Beasley takes a step though, I’m high on him. As far as the Washington corner, I would take him any day of the week. You could move RG3 to nickel and Boo to safety. I’m not looking forward to another year of Turrentine
 
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