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#31,479
Brillovol said:
To me, it’s Nico’s awareness and speed of reads. He missed a wide open Bru on the first or second drive. Tried to force a couple passes that woulda been picked off by better DB’s. Didn’t matter, but it could in a big game. His skill level is sky high, but he still hasn’t put it all together yet. He makes up for it by insane accuracy on long throws.

He's not Hendo ‘22 yet. It’s coming tho. When it does, we’re gonna be unstoppable.
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Agree 100%, Nico looks like an inexperienced qb, which he is. He will get better at that stuff as the season progresses, but you could definitely see some growing pains in him vs Nc State and Kent State
 
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#31,480
Brillovol said:
To me, it’s Nico’s awareness and speed of reads. He missed a wide open Bru on the first or second drive. Tried to force a couple passes that woulda been picked off by better DB’s. Didn’t matter, but it could in a big game. His skill level is sky high, but he still hasn’t put it all together yet. He makes up for it by insane accuracy on long throws.

He's not Hendo ‘22 yet. It’s coming tho. When it does, we’re gonna be unstoppable.
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I think talent at WR across the board is better also, and that's scary. When Brazell and Thornton put it together👀
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Hopefully Pearce can become that dude we all know he is. So far he has been on a milk carton.
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he tormented NC State's QB, despite not tallying a sack. He had a 'sack' versus KS, but got bear hugged and held.

NC State Double Teamed, and threw quick passes. Agree at some point you have to make plays, but guarantee he will get one.

Dude is ridiculous.
 
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They just need to continue to coach Nico up on the "when" to use his legs. In a game like Kent State, don't expose yourself to injury. The rest will come with playing time. The positive is that he is showing he is tough and willing to give his all for Tennessee.
 
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Brillovol said:
To me, it’s Nico’s awareness and speed of reads. He missed a wide open Bru on the first or second drive. Tried to force a couple passes that woulda been picked off by better DB’s. Didn’t matter, but it could in a big game. His skill level is sky high, but he still hasn’t put it all together yet. He makes up for it by insane accuracy on long throws.

He's not Hendo ‘22 yet. It’s coming tho. When it does, we’re gonna be unstoppable.
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That's exactly right. He's being hyped and he's going to be amazing but his inexperience shows up at times. He's still been effective though which tells you just how talented he is. He'll need to get better if we're going to score a lot of points against elite defenses.

I expect Saturday to be a dogfight. We're rolling into Norman for a night game with a redshirt freshman QB making his first true road start. I know we're the better team but I don't expect it to be easy.
 
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Aesius said:
True, but I mean... I'd be okay if Mike Hamilton had hired Gary Patterson in December 2008 instead of Kiffin, too.
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If you go with changes in history, you will change the present. I am no longer willing to play the what if game because it could mean that we don’t have CJH. He could be the current HC at oklahoma and Tennessee stumbling with venables. 😳☹️😡

I made peace with our desolation decade and a half since it means that we have CJH at the helm. 😎

First of many to come

16-0 🤠
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
It could turn into a complete rout if our defense destroys them like that, and so then our offense can wear that good but thin defense completely out late in the 2nd quarter...we have seen that happen.
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Oklahoma is really not any better than NCst. They for all their talking on X the they are fixin to find out.
 
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JCVol00 said:
Agree 100%, Nico looks like an inexperienced qb, which he is. He will get better at that stuff as the season progresses, but you could definitely see some growing pains in him vs Nc State and Kent State
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To be honest, I thought he would look a lot more inexperienced than he has. His floor is the highest I've ever seen for a UT QB. Manning looked a lot worse in his first few games. He's a good as Manziel was.
 
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