Nico's last play against Arkansas (no throw)

#26
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DieHardVOL said:
I'm no expert on the rule about offensive lineman down field, but it looked to me like both the RG & RT released down field when Nico was flushed out of pocket. I wonder if he had thrown it, it would have just been a penalty regardless.
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Iamaleava said that the football was slippery.
 
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Remember the Hell Milton caught for a very similar play?
I remember
 
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the last play is not what cost us that game, it was the preceding 30 plays that were not TN quality plays that cost. Not to mention Arky drove down the field on our defense the series before and score to take the lead. Our defense needed to get a stop and could not.
 
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that game as a whole wore on Nico, not having time due to your OT barely wanting to block. He slammed his head on the turf pretty hard a few plays before on that drive. Ultimately, Nico has to throw it up and give his guys a chance. Im not gonna sit here and blame it all on him like some people on this forum are going to. Hes young and made an in-the-moment mistake. TBH when he went out of bounds, i thought there was atleast 1 second on the clock until i looked. But play calling has to get better. Just running the football and doing WR screens is not going to win you alot of football games in this league. I think having Golesh and Jeff Lebby in the past really helped CJH because it gave the offense a twist. They knew how to read a defense and how to attack it. I feel like Halzle up in the booth doesnt have that. We all thought it was just Joe Milton last year, but it seems its the same offense and playcalls this year.
 
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The WRs were only 4 yards past the LOS until the LT completely got blown up...

That's where the blame lies.
 
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aRmo said:
that game as a whole wore on Nico, not having time due to your OT barely wanting to block. He slammed his head on the turf pretty hard a few plays before on that drive. Ultimately, Nico has to throw it up and give his guys a chance. Im not gonna sit here and blame it all on him like some people on this forum are going to. Hes young and made an in-the-moment mistake. TBH when he went out of bounds, i thought there was atleast 1 second on the clock until i looked. But play calling has to get better. Just running the football and doing WR screens is not going to win you alot of football games in this league. I think having Golesh and Jeff Lebby in the past really helped CJH because it gave the offense a twist. They knew how to read a defense and how to attack it. I feel like Halzle up in the booth doesnt have that. We all thought it was just Joe Milton last year, but it seems its the same offense and playcalls this year.
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I agree, I do not think Hazle has learned how to attack a defense yet and it is limiting us. Where are the 7 yard outs and the comeback routes? Nico has the arm to make the throws; I feel like all we do is hand the ball off and throw it 40 yards, there is no in between.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Nico was going to get some criticism regardless of how the last play went down.

But isn’t it funny how that one play defines a QB? If he throws that ball and gets a TD the entire narrative on Nico changes.
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Not really. He hasn’t looked sharp since we stopped playing fbs schools.
 
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VolBricks said:
the last play is not what cost us that game, it was the preceding 30 plays that were not TN quality plays that cost. Not to mention Arky drove down the field on our defense the series before and score to take the lead. Our defense needed to get a stop and could not.
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That last people that game falls on is the D. They can only be called on so much. They were on the field all game.
 
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Just watching, I don’t believe the coaches have enough faith in what he can do, and how fast he reads defenses.i know he missed some reads. I think the coaches see the same thing in practice. Hence, run heavy play calling and very vanilla play calling. The OL didn’t do any favors either.
 
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DieHardVOL said:
I'm no expert on the rule about offensive lineman down field, but it looked to me like both the RG & RT released down field when Nico was flushed out of pocket. I wonder if he had thrown it, it would have just been a penalty regardless.
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If the pass had been completed for a Touchdown, they would have taken the penalty and we would have had another chance
 
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I've gone through this past game a lot. This is just my opinion, but I don't believe they were prepared for Arkansas on the by week. They seemed to come out flat and didn't care if they lost or not. Not a lot of effort at all. In '22, they were all hyped up after the by week, couldn't wait to play.
 
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You throw the ball in the end zone regardless.. The game seemed lost already because how putrid it had been. Didn't really care as much as when Milton did it against Ole Miss. Still to not be aware that was the last play it wasn't good.
 
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I don’t know what the future holds but I was expecting much more out of Nico this year. He has looked mid at best against everytime that is actually D1.
 
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A lotta smoke last week about whether 74 had any intention of playing again...then 74 played the kind of game he did...if it's a locker room/attitude thing, needs to get fixed pronto
 
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Daniel_Lincolns_Foot said:
Settle down, my guy.
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I saw Jeremy Pruitt start the same QB a week after he single handedly lost us a game at Alabama. This play did not directly lead to a loss but it left us with no opportunity but to lose. I don't believe you start a QB the next week after either of those two types of things. Gotta have a QB who will not do something like that after having played at least 6 years of football. Any high school team has to have a QB that will not do either of those two things and would be benched if he did.
 
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He ran for his life all night. OL has to be better. Funny how everyone was ready to crown him the Heisman, and one bad start on the road, he’s the worst QB ever and want to bench him.
 
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Watching the Arkansas game, I kept picturing the 22 game at LSU when Brian Kelly was yelling to Jayden Daniels with his index fingers pointed in the air screaming "it's one on one!" Trying to get his quarterback to let loose
 
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