Recruiting Football Talk VII

[VolByLaw]

On Gerald Mincey:

Banged up his knee in practice this week, gutted it out as long as he could. We will see how he improves this week.

-Hubbs

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

The crowd cheered Hadden when he was announced this time. Made me feel better.

14-1

 

[Ten_Titans]

Im just curious, but say something happens where Milton gets knocked of the game and the next game and Nico comes in and balls out, would we go back with Milton when he comes back in or stick with Nico at that point?

I don't think there's any way we would look back. Jmo.

 

[InVOLuntary]

90/10 would be my assessment.

Low point of hospitality and sportsmanship was the crowd around us booing the other team and booing obviously hurt players. It was embarrassing.

High point was the Pride of the Southland Band playing the Aggies fight song to welcome them. I was very impressed by that and so were all the Aggies.

They did get really tired of Rocky Top.

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I give the fans a little break given the number of times teams have obviously faked injuries to slow our offense down. Problem is there's usually no way to tell what's legit and what's not.

 

[Ten_Titans]

The crowd cheered Hadden when he was announced this time. Made me feel better.

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He's definitely built up plenty of good will since the Florida game.

 

[buffaloblue]

Man I love watching Shane Beamers teams lose. Petty, sure. Still love it.

 

[Jimmy Football]

On Gerald Mincey:

-Hubbs

He didn’t have a great game. Makes sense now.

 

[Smokey123]

I just don't see a ceiling with him. He's at best Jimmy Holiday. He's just a guy. Webb is at least big. Still not elite athleticism.

Wouldn't be surprised if we get a portal WR, Leacock and Mike Matthews all surpass Webb and Nimrod.

I'm sure they can be okay, but neither of them will ever be Hyatt, Bru, Tillman, Velus etc. They don't have the body type. Maybe Webb could.

Nimrod is a 6’3 track guy… Ran a laser timed 4.4 40 in HS

 

[Jimmy Football]

I give the fans a little break given the number of times teams have obviously faked injuries to slow our offense down. Problem is there's usually no way to tell what's legit and what's not.

Agree, but teams really aren’t doing it much anymore. Fans need to adjust.

 

[Smokey123]

Here is FDView attachment 587357

Hammer UT at +8.5

 

[Smokey123]

Agree, but teams really aren’t doing it much anymore. Fans need to adjust.

UT fakes more injuries than the opponents now

 

[Glitch]

He knows. The schedule that weekend is weak. Undoubtedly, we have one more game with Gary in Neyland.

 

[Smokey123]

Squirrel is the only really good one

Ramel can be slightly above average at times.

Thornton is the biggest WR bust known to mankind.

Chas Nimrod looks like a G5 player to me. I don't get why he played the whole game. He is just okay. Webb and Leacock are more talented.


My only hope is that Dont'e somehow pulls his head out of his ass.

Nimrod looked like our best WR by far

 

[volbeast33]

Errybody pining for the backup QB. A tale as old as time. When Nico has his struggles next year, and he will, some of you same people will be jumping up and down to give Jake Merklinger a try.

i don’t feel like your assessment is accurate… Joe is the 12th rated qb in the SEC ahead of only Devin Leary…. He is also 12th in the SEC in passing yards which puts him behind every starting qb that hasn’t split time.He is 14th in PYA ahead of only Payton Thorne. He is tied for dead last with Will Rogers for TD passes for full time starters.

He has not been accurate… processes slow….. and really poor decision…. The only reason he is in there is bc the staff doesn’t feel that we have viable back up that’s not a true freshman. I have a feeling that is Joe’s ineptness ends up costing us some of these next few road games. We may end up seeing Nico starting before the end of the year.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Errybody pining for the backup QB. A tale as old as time. When Nico has his struggles next year, and he will, some of you same people will be jumping up and down to give Jake Merklinger a try.

I’ll take that bet. Nico is special.

Coaches are rewarding Joe for staying the course and being a good teammate. We have a players coach and he wants Milton to succeed. But Nico is still the better QB.

Offense will be elite next year.

Anyone who thinks Joe played well yesterday needs to have their head examined. Defense and special teams won that game. Our QB had two weeks to get better and prepare and threw for 100 yards.

I wish Milton was better and became a top pick. But he is who he is and he isn’t changing.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Agree, but teams really aren’t doing it much anymore. Fans need to adjust.

Our offense, while fast at times is slower than molasses at points so I don't think teams need to. Add in the refs efforts to slow us down by calling meaningless penalties and mysteriously stopping play and standing over the ball regardless of if we subbed, the need isn't there as much. There were 2-3 occasions last night that it looked like A&M were faking injuries.

 

[GVol1966]

I can't help but think we beat UGA. Sadly I think it happens because UGA will already have the East locked up. But they will come into Neyland a bit fatigued/complacent and we will be incredibly hungry for a revenge win/signature win for the season.

So you think we either lose to UK or MO

 

[InVOLuntary]

UT fakes more injuries than the opponents now

They typically do it after Xtra points. I bet if you asked the opposing coaches, they don't mind it.

 

[Glitch]

Where would you all mock Tyler Barron right now? I think he might be sliding into late 2nd round

I would not mock him at all. He is a large dude that could break me in half. I would simply ask him if I could get anything for him and stay out of his way otherwise.

 

[Glitch]

Looks like WM pissed Hadden off.

My ball coach!

 

[jave36]

We blew it not getting Nico significant, meaningful snaps earlier in the season particularly against OOC. We are gonna go into next year with essentially a true freshman in game time experience and we won’t have a frickin’ clue what we have. Woulda been nice to know what we’re working with besides a few snaps of handoff duty. Think his snaps vs UVA we’re just to appease the crowd.

We haven't had a lot of garbage time this year unfortunately... UVA was really the only one and he got plenty of meaningful snaps running the offense then. UTSA amd APSU weren't blowouts where the game was never in doubt.

 

[buffaloblue]

Our receivers don’t always look good cause of poorly located balls. Not trying to bag on Joe, but the ball placement and inability to throw on time or into tight windows make our WR look less. Adding a bit of speed and a game changer will help to.

 

[buffaloblue]

Need someone to step up as a blocker to

 

[jave36]

Here is a blatant PI no-call in the first quarter. DB grabs and holds Nimrod's arm before the ball arrives. A call there likely results in us scoring. Instead we have the play where Joe is indecisive and throws out of bounds on fourth down. That play would have never happened. This is at 24:35 on Freak's replay.

Danielson, who watches multiple cameras the whole time (he does not watch the play directly) HAS to see this. What he does is to tell the viewer to blame Joe. It was a nice touch pass. But Danielson says it was thrown late and Joe should have rocketed it in there. Meaning, if anyone stopped to think about what he was suggesting, that the ball should have been a rope without touch. If that had been the case it would have been a fault, and Gary would have told the viewer that instead. Then Brad says "the Tennessee fans" want PI. As if that is merely a biased view. You can hear the boos.

When they finally show us the view that Gary has had the whole time, we immediately see that the DB has his hand around Nimrod's wrist and is pushing his arm away from the ball, leaving Nimrod one-handed and making a catch impossible. Clear PI no-call in the endzone.

I think no one even talked about this much because Danielson had played to prejudice and convinced the viewer it was Joe's fault. A nice way to dodge the PI at the spot.View attachment 587306View attachment 587307

That was the worst one. There was another on a long pass that was under thrown that was probably hard to see. This one though was really obviously an arm bar.

 

[knoxvol52]

Funny as heck watching Titans chase Lamar Jackson around like he stole something..... Fixing to score again 18-13 Ravens 4th Quarter...