Quarterback

[Liper]

He's caught them before. Chavis said Meachem was the best WR to come through since Carl Pickens. Try that on for size!

Yes, they were catching them in practice earlier in pre-season. Well, at least they were catching some of them.

 

[shawnb82]

my comment about home grown kids was made do to the lack of respect for the instituition that the current players are demonstrating, by tossing helmets on the ground and walking off. do i think our best players will come from Tennessee? no. do i think we need more guys from here on ther team? yes.

 

[kiddiedoc]

Originally posted by Liper@Nov 21, 2005 1:03 PM
Chavis said Meachem was the best WR to come through since Carl Pickens. 

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lol: I just choked on my lunch.

 

[Brasszilla]

EA needs a shrink. Let's take a gander at what mistakes he made that proved to be extremely costly to a team. 2nd quarter of a big time with an SEC west rival (LSU), just grenade tosses the ball over his head. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? EA just needs to be calmed down. But by no stretch of the imagination should he be given the reigns to to theam. Jon Crompton should be given a chance too. He's got great vision and mobility that EA doesn't have. Our recievers do need to be jap-slapped into reality.

 

[rwemyss]

I saw Cut doing an interview on WVLT a few weeks ago and the question was put to him about EA, and he said the best thing would be to start all over, from scratch. Mentally and mechanics, the whole shebang. So you better believe Fulmer knows Ainge's mechanics need to be fixed from the ground up, if he didn't see it, his buddy Cut told him.

That said, I'm still going to put all my eggs in the Crompton basket. He has something that Ainge has never had, leadership ability. SOmeone mentioned that EA doesn't get any support on campus, and that INCLUDES on the TEAM! The offensive players don't like him, and I think that contributes to poor play, no chemistry.

 

[Brasszilla]

The thing you have to credit Clausen for is his leadership ability. And his ablity to calm his players. Going into the huddle, with your team down, and ask what you are doing after the game is pretty clever. He comes in cool and collected and the offense always rallys around him. EA probably comes into the huddle like a trainwreck. He needs to have confidence and be calm or else the offense will never get moving.

 

[rwemyss]

Very true, but you can't calm a guy if he comes into the huddle adamant not to listen to you in the first place. If EA is going to be a QB at UT, he has a LOT of burned bridges to mend.

 

[OWB]

Originally posted by Brasszilla@Nov 21, 2005 1:59 PM
The thing you have to credit Clausen for is his leadership ability. And his ablity to calm his players. Going into the huddle, with your team down, and ask what you are doing after the game is pretty clever. He comes in cool and collected and the offense always rallys around him. EA probably comes into the huddle like a trainwreck. He needs to have confidence and be calm or else the offense will never get moving.

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Sure I'll give him credit for that. To me, telling jokes in the huddle is not what I'd call focusing on the task at hand but whatever. RC was calm and collected etc etc and what did that get us?? On a focused team, one could get away with telling jokes or asking what everyone was doing after the game, on this team it just adds on to the lack of focus that we already have. :twocents:

 

[thebiglowboski]

Originally posted by tarnishedforever@Nov 21, 2005 7:58 AM
All of you have talked about how bad EA is at QB. In his 3 starts whom were they against?
All ranked teams with coaches PF couldn't beat before.
Give the kid a break. He's never had encouragement from anyone. And PF let the team decide who the QB would be. When the players wouldn't put out effort for EA. Then PF should have benched them instead of letting them decide who the qb would be.

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uab was not ranked sorry to let you down!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lexvol]

That was my impression of Crompton as well. I was impressed with his impact on last year's recruiting class, and hope that carries over on the the field.

Advantages:
1. Seems to be a leader
2. Wants to be at UT, and the program means something to him
3. Obviously has some ability.

Disadvantages:
1. He hasn't thrown a pass in six months.
2. The speed of the game requires a six game minimum acclamation period.
3. He did not look that good in the Army Allstar game. I realize he had very little prep time.

 

[rollo009]

i hope next year tennessee will pick a QB and stick to him through the good and the bad as i hated the fact one minute EA would play and the next minute RC would be in there. you can't have no rythem at offense by that method or a true leader either.