'25 Portal Thread

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Stoerner Fumbles said:
It’s just a stupid characterization to say we’re signing a depth player at a skill position. Anyone who says that doesn’t understand how it works. You sign great players and they compete. I’ve heard AP say this too. “They like Lewis. They’re looking for depth.” Sure they like Lewis. He is fast and strong and can get stronger. He’s also young. He can also get hurt. Georgia and Alabama are five deep with RBs that could start at any school. Kids come to compete and play. Any running back we sign will be hungry and stubborn and believe he can be the starter. That’s the job description. “Hey buddy, we need a third guy. That’s you.” does not happen. If they sign Thomas, it will be because they believe he can contribute. He isn’t the only option, or the best.

We did not tell Seldon to move on, and the problem was not lack of talent or his desire to play WR. He’s a freak athlete, but he was injured more often than not for two solid seasons. Sometimes it’s best for a kid that talented to start fresh. If there is a complaint in that room, it’s that the snaps allocated didn’t follow the practice performance. Seldon caught balls out of the backfield and had the speed to run sweeps and the option. That’s happened often in practice, but never in a game. Lewis and Sampson had success in a two back set in the red zone, but it never got called in a game. We had a talented versatile room, and we basically ran one play, with one guy 75% of the time. We’re talking to some very good RBs. If we sign a “third guy” we just didn’t deliver. That isn’t the goal.
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Oh noes… this almost sounds like (gasp!) a questioning of ideology and a desire to improve…

Insider sniper gang probably conducting surveillance at this very moment 😵
 
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walkenvol said:
Am I wrong in thinking we’ve invested our O tackle NIL$ in these 2 guys and for better or worse they are the 2 O tackles barring injury or total collapse?
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You are not wrong

They are the starters and in todays age you can’t have kids on the bench you’ve invested millions in

For better or for worse. Better develop them
 
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#12,280
Stoerner Fumbles said:
He’s a smart guy who follows data, but he can be dogmatic about it. We have a high ypc every year doing it his way. It’s hard to question statistically. It works against decent talent. I think it becomes a problem against great teams with fast defenses. Our red zone offense definitely could’ve benefited from developing a more diverse run game, and versatile use of our backs. We have an RPO play that releases the TE and the RB into downfield pass. It’s been bulletproof in practice in the red zone. We haven’t used it once in a game. Same thing with the two back set. It’s hard to understand.
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We have a 2 back set? Meaning we have a split 2 back set out of the gun? All year I was thinking that we put Sampson and Lewis in the backfield and flex one of them out to matchup against a Linebacker or safety.
 
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walkenvol said:
Am I wrong in thinking we’ve invested our O tackle NIL$ in these 2 guys and for better or worse they are the 2 O tackles barring injury or total collapse?
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OR maybe we find a developmental victory in that full room where they only had 1 portal exit when room is at a premium. OR our people are talking to a late window target. Why give in to emotional insecurity? Watch some Dr. Phil and take another shot.
 
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barney said:
man the penn state wide receiver unit was not good. is that the best we can do?
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They aren't a team that throws it a lot outside of Warren and their top 2 WR's. . It's hard to judge them by their offense. Plus, when you have Tyler Warren, you target him as much as possible. Penn St's top 2 WR's had more catch's than our leading WR's.

Evans only started 6 games and averaged almost 20 yards a catch.Outside of Thornton, none of our WR's were even close to the 20 ypc number.
 
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