Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#108,203
JT3 said:
The Commanders are doing this and look fine. Which is why I like Ward over Sanders bc he is more mobile. A mobile QB can help a bad OL.

Plus I'm not confident we could draft the right OLineman anyway. Our previous 2 OL 1st round picks are average at best.
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The Commanders have one of the better lines in the NFL, I've seen them consistently ranked well inside the top 10.......




Ward will not play within the confines of a system. In fact he does everything within his power to play outside of a system and freelance. That doesn't translate to the NFL very well. Unless he can play within the confines of a system...... Something he hasn't shown yet, I have a hard time believing he can do that in the NFL, we will see. My guess is Ward is a guy you sit for a couple of years behind a seasoned pro and tech him what you need to be successful..... But I doubt he gets that.

Not that I think he would play for us but Sanders is a very solid pick and his game translates to the NFL as a pocket passer. Many people have the wrong view of him as a mobile guy who likes to get out of the pocket but that's not his best game..... He's just having to play that way, run for his life, behind a very bad o line.

Well if your reasoning behind not drafting linemen is that we haven't had a great track record the same could be said for our QB picks.......
 
#108,207
#108,207
Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Especially when he flashed potential in his few opportunities. It would be one thing if Mike Matthews looked overrated. But on the rare occasions he played he looked like our most talented receiver and one of the most talented players on the entire team. It's inexcusable that he didn't get more playing time.

Also why did Boo Carter have to strong arm the coaches into playing offense? I remember watching his high school highlights and thought he looked better on offense than defense. Huepel and the staff dropped the ball this past year when it came to Matthews and Boo. Both guys are elite talents that could have helped us.

This is on some Butch Jones/Alvin Kamara type incompetence.
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Yeah...i dont see that.

The coaches careers, the food on their tables, the roofs over their heads and everything else depends on winning in a game where a couple inches or a single play can be and often IS the difference between winning and losing. Everything in their lives is counting on them. No way that they sit Matthews OR anyone else who gives them a better chance to succeed. If Matthews was prepared, knew the playbook, made the right reads and ran the correct routes in practice giving the coaches confidence in his ability to perform in games then he would have been on the field. Period. This isnt Butch Jones. This staff has won 30 games in the last 3 seasons in the SEC. If MM was the best option...he would have played. We needed him. Bru has been hurt. Missed the whole Vandy game. Thornton has been hurt. Missed lots of playing time too. If MM was ready to replace them, he would have been on the field. He wasnt. So either you have to believe an immature 18yo kid didnt prepare, study and work the way he needed to in order to play...OR that the same coaches that begged him to come here and paid him BIG money to be here had some Irrational vendetta against him and kept him off the field even though it hurt the team and could have lost us games. I dont need half a second to consider which one of those 2 scenarios actually took place.
 
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#108,216
Rishvol said:
Why is this fanbase so quick to cut this university to pieces and then complain about every little thing they cause (yes these stupid tweets and rumors do extreme harm and make recruits not want to come to the university)
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It’s really bad. It appears that they want the garbage to be true.
 
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#108,221
Girth Brooks said:
Do with it what you will…

@Ericvol2096



Since the idiot margin is out in full-force, this isn’t my information and, again, I clearly said, “do with it what you will.” I don‘t need to be counseled on the veracity of the post. The lack of transparency with Spyre should cause anyone to question them, and it is why I don’t give to them.
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What did this say? It's gone now.
 
#108,222
#108,222
marcusluvsvols said:
Yeah...i dont see that.

The coaches careers, the food on their tables, the roofs over their heads and everything else depends on winning in a game where a couple inches or a single play can be and often IS the difference between winning and losing. Everything in their lives is counting on them. No way that they sit Matthews OR anyone else who gives them a better chance to succeed. If Matthews was prepared, knew the playbook, made the right reads and ran the correct routes in practice giving the coaches confidence in his ability to perform in games then he would have been on the field. Period. This isnt Butch Jones. This staff has won 30 games in the last 3 seasons in the SEC. If MM was the best option...he would have played. We needed him. Bru has been hurt. Missed the whole Vandy game. Thornton has been hurt. Missed lots of playing time too. If MM was ready to replace them, he would have been on the field. He wasnt. So either you have to believe an immature 18yo kid didnt prepare, study and work the way he needed to in order to play...OR that the same coaches that begged him to come here and paid him BIG money to be here had some Irrational vendetta against him and kept him off the field even though it hurt the team and could have lost us games. I dont need half a second to consider which one of those 2 scenarios actually took place.
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Coaches that win games can still make mistakes. Look at Texas right now. They've got a shot at winning the national title and many people feel they're starting the wrong guy at QB. It would be one thing if the receivers ahead of Matthews were performing at a high level. But they weren't. Which is why it would have made sense to let the young guys play and prove themselves. If they weren't any good then it wouldn't be a big deal cause the older guys ahead of them weren't good either. But recruiting an elite guy and never giving him an opportunity to prove himself in a struggling position group makes zero sense.

The worst thing that could have happened is Matthews plays as bad as the older guys and we realize we need to find a better receiver for next year. Instead now we're paying him more money in hopes he sticks around and lives up to his 5-star potential.
 
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#108,223
marcusluvsvols said:
Yeah...i dont see that.

The coaches careers, the food on their tables, the roofs over their heads and everything else depends on winning in a game where a couple inches or a single play can be and often IS the difference between winning and losing. Everything in their lives is counting on them. No way that they sit Matthews OR anyone else who gives them a better chance to succeed. If Matthews was prepared, knew the playbook, made the right reads and ran the correct routes in practice giving the coaches confidence in his ability to perform in games then he would have been on the field. Period. This isnt Butch Jones. This staff has won 30 games in the last 3 seasons in the SEC. If MM was the best option...he would have played. We needed him. Bru has been hurt. Missed the whole Vandy game. Thornton has been hurt. Missed lots of playing time too. If MM was ready to replace them, he would have been on the field. He wasnt. So either you have to believe an immature 18yo kid didnt prepare, study and work the way he needed to in order to play...OR that the same coaches that begged him to come here and paid him BIG money to be here had some Irrational vendetta against him and kept him off the field even though it hurt the team and could have lost us games. I dont need half a second to consider which one of those 2 scenarios actually took place.
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Kamara was a backup RB here
 
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