Devrin Young

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Blood Runs Orange

Blood Runs Orange

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Should not be playing ahead of Marlin Lane. Neal is clearly the top back, but Lane has looked significantly better than Young through 2 games.

Young is good in the return game, but he is simply too small to play RB in this offense. He would probably be more useful in a spread type offense. But, he is too small to run between the tackles, and his speed getting laterally has not been overly impressive. I think he will get eaten alive by an SEC defense trying to run laterally. If he had not broken that one long run he would have averaged about 2 yards/carry tonight.

Lane, on the other hand, does a good job of running north/south, and is averaging over 5 yards per carry through the first 2 games.
 
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I'd actually make a Case for Lane being the Starter, way better instinctive back then Raijon, who seems like he just wants to go to the outside all the time...
 
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snake5040 said:
I'd actually make a Case for Lane being the Starter, way better instinctive back then Raijon, who seems like he just wants to go to the outside all the time...
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I wouldnt be totally opposed to that, although I do think Neal has looked solid. Young should definitely be the 3rd string (or maybe 4th behind that Watson kid) running back.
 
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Blood Runs Orange said:
Should not be playing ahead of Marlin Lane. Neal is clearly the top back, but Lane has looked significantly better than Young through 2 games.

Young is good in the return game, but he is simply too small to play RB in this offense. He would probably be more useful in a spread type offense. But, he is too small to run between the tackles, and his speed getting laterally has not been overly impressive. I think he will get eaten alive by an SEC defense trying to run laterally. If he had not broken that one long run he would have averaged about 2 yards/carry tonight.

Lane, on the other hand, does a good job of running north/south, and is averaging over 5 yards per carry through the first 2 games.
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Young was averaged 5.8 yards a carry? Did we watch the same game?
 
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Speaking of the Watson kid..... Looked like a decent prospect today of course it was G. State...
 
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Oh...and BTW...UGA's Gurley looks better than our top 3 combined...

Just sayin'...
 
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Blood Runs Orange said:
I wouldnt be totally opposed to that, although I do think Neal has looked solid. Young should definitely be the 3rd string (or maybe 4th behind that Watson kid) running back.
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I'm mainly going off of the NC State game because it was against a decent defense unlike the game today, and Lane looked 100x's better then Neal..
 
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snake5040 said:
I'd actually make a Case for Lane being the Starter, way better instinctive back then Raijon, who seems like he just wants to go to the outside all the time...[/QUOTE]

I thought Neal did a much better job of hitting the hole today except for the couple that were designed to go outside. And he averaged 5 ypc. Young averaged 5.8.
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Vol8188 said:
So instead of 5.8 yards per carry he will average 4?

What is 4 x 3? O yeah, A FIRST DOWN!
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Again, take away the 30 yard run he had late in the game during garbage time, and he had 16 yards on 7 carries. Thats 2.3 yards per carry. 4 of those is a turnover on downs. Thanks for playing.
 
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Blood Runs Orange said:
Again, take away the 30 yard run he had late in the game during garbage time, and he had 16 yards on 7 carries. Thats 2.3 yards per carry. 4 of those is a turnover on downs. Thanks for playing.
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Did you get the memo? We are a big play offense.
 
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NMVol said:
Right and if you take away 39 points the Vols lose today 13-12.


Seems like deja vu?
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:no: Wow. Yes, Devrin's 30 yard run in garbage time when the game was clearly over is exactly the same as the Vols 39 points. Any other outstanding analysis?
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
I thought Neal did a much better job of hitting the hole today except for the couple that were designed to go outside. And he averaged 5 ypc. Young averaged 5.8.
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I agree, he did do better today, but I think Lane is the better back at doing that, although I think the carries should go like this:
Lane: 45%
Neal: 35%
Young: 15%
Watson: 5%
 
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NMVol said:
Did you get the memo? We are a big play offense.
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Fine. If Devrin breaks one of those against Florida, Bama, or Georgia, I'll happily come back here and eat crow. Just dont see it happening after watching him the first two games.
 
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Blood Runs Orange said:
:no: Wow. Yes, Devrin's 30 yard run in garbage time when the game was clearly over is exactly the same as the Vols 39 points. Any other outstanding analysis?
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Curry was still coaching. G St. was still playing. They gave their all. Did you see those last two TOs. G St. would not quit.

Edit: You know one can prove just about anything as long as you pick and choose the stats you want to use. (Pls note the rhyme.)
 
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