Lamarcus Coker (Merged)

#26
#26
OWB said:
Fumbling aside, could it have been much worse? From what I saw of him tonight, he protected the ball as well if not better than Hardesty.

When you have that kind of athlete, it's a total waste having him on the sidelines when he could be a game changer.

Oh well, his 89 yard run was a breath of fresh air. He just burnt every defender on that field.
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Yeah, and we DID see that speed on the trick play last week... anyone else would have been caught at around the 5. :wacko:
 
#27
#27
OWB said:
When you have that kind of athlete, it's a total waste having him on the sidelines when he could be a game changer.
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I agree. If he's not going to get on the field at tailback, make him a Z receiver or something.
 
#28
#28
rwemyss said:
Yeah, and we DID see that speed on the trick play last week... anyone else would have been caught at around the 5. :wacko:
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Yep, just further evidence that he should be on the field someway, somehow..:good!:
 
#30
#30
utfantilidie said:
In the past he seems to have been fumble prone, but I was telling my brothers tonight as we watch PPV early in the game I wish they would put Coker in.After tonight,he might be just what the doctor ordered, maybe we can begin to keep some defenses honest.
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I told Phil..................:whistling:
 
#31
#31
Is it just me or does it seem like every week we'll have a back do good, then the next week that same back does bad and his back up does good. Then we start the guy who did good the 2nd week and he plays bad the 3rd week and his back up does good. If you followed that at all it seems we cant get a consistant back.
 
#32
#32
seems like UT doesnt make some needed adjustments in personnel.......until after the Florida game.
 
#33
#33
Coker looked better than Hardesty, for sure, but Coker's long run won't happen often, so toss that out. 7 rushes for 57 yards is still almost 8 yards a carry. Very good. Can he do it getting 15-20? Probably. Can he do it in the 1st half? I don't know.
 
#35
#35
I have been saying that Coker could add a lot of speed and make the other D cover the outside run opening things inside and the passing lanes. I look for some real big runs from the inside now.
 
#36
#36
VolinArizona said:
Coker looked better than Hardesty, for sure, but Coker's long run won't happen often, so toss that out. 7 rushes for 57 yards is still almost 8 yards a carry. Very good. Can he do it getting 15-20? Probably. Can he do it in the 1st half? I don't know.
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How can you toss out an 89-yard TD run? That's not very fair to Coker.
 
#38
#38
I do not think the whole reason he was not playing as much was his fumbling. I do not think he has/had the protection packages down. If you do not have that you willl not see the field to often. If he messes up and goes to the wrong side to block it could get ainge hurt. I think that is a big reason he has not played.
 
#39
#39
i have a question. was the starting offensive line in the game with coker? if so how was hardesty and foster having so much trouble finding room to run and coker breaks a long one and has some other pretty good runs. i realize they have different styles of running.
 
#40
#40
I think it was a combination of some good running by Coker along with a worn down Marshall Defense.
 
#41
#41
One problem with Hardesty is he does not hit the whole, it looks like to me he is thinking to much and trying to dance around to much. He needs to hit the whole and when he gets to the DB's thats when he needs to do his dancing.
 
#42
#42
I think you make a good point, but there has to be a hole in order to hit a hole.
 
#44
#44
Does everyone agree that in hindsight, Coker should have had more then 19 carries after 4 games?
Thats less then 5 a game. He's been the most explosive back at UT this year.
 
#45
#45
oklavol said:
Does everyone agree that in hindsight, Coker should have had more then 19 carries after 4 games?
Thats less then 5 a game. He's been the most explosive back at UT this year.
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I agree, I was thinking he should have gotten some carries against UF, that would have been a novel concept.
 
#46
#46
I agree that he maybe should have seen the field more, but I just don't know how much of a difference he really would have made.
 
#47
#47
GAVol said:
I agree that he maybe should have seen the field more, but I just don't know how much of a difference he really would have made.
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None of us do, but I think it is very small minded of the coaching staff to not have used him more, just to see.
 
#48
#48
Small minded? I think this is just a case of a young guy getting buried on the depth chart and having to play his way into more playing time. It happens all the time.

Coming into the season, Foster was the clear #1 tailback and Hardesty has played OK, so no matter what happened, Coker was going to have to fight for carries.
 
#49
#49
GAVol said:
Small minded? I think this is just a case of a young guy getting buried on the depth chart and having to play his way into more playing time. It happens all the time.

Coming into the season, Foster was the clear #1 tailback and Hardesty has played OK, so no matter what happened, Coker was going to have to fight for carries.
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Buried on the depth chart? I believe Foster was semi-questionable for the UF game. So the only person conceivably in front of him was Hardersy. That's buried? You doing PR work for the coaching staff?
 
#50
#50
allvol123 said:
Buried on the depth chart? I believe Foster was semi-questionable for the UF game. So the only person conceivably in front of him was Hardersy. That's buried? You doing PR work for the coaching staff?
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Being the #3 tailback is what I would consider buried. It's just tough to get touches for that many guys. That's all I was saying. You can obviously argue that he should have never been #3, but I'm just throwing out a reason why it took until the 4th game for him to get significant carries. If Foster hadn't gotten hurt, we still might not have seen much of Coker.
 
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