Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Bassmaster_Vol said:
If you guys have a subscription to the athletic, I highly recommend the piece on A. Taylor. If you don’t have a sub they will let you read 3 free articles a month so go check it out. This kid has a lot of great influences in his life. He’s already our best player on defense and is going to be an absolute star here imo. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Pruitt turn him into a first rounder.
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David Ebben's stuff is consistently the best sports writing I read all week. Love his work. The Taylor article was particularly good. Love that dude even more. My people are from Coffee Co., so I've always had an eye on him, glad to see he turned out to be such a baller, and apparently a really great kid, too.
 
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BruinVol said:
Let's look at things this way regarding the 5 leagues




Best team in each league:
1 Bama
2 Clemson
3 OU
4 michigan
5 Washington State

The SEC clearly wins this one


#2 team in each league
Georgia-Ohio State
West Virginia
Washington
Boston college


Giving the SEC and Big Ten a tie for winning this one even though I think Georgia is better.


#3 team in each league
LSU
Texas
Mich State
Utah
Syracuse

SEC wins easily this group


#4 team in each league
Miss State -Penn State
Iowa state
Oregon
NC State

Another tie between SEC and BIg 10


Number #5 team
Auburn
Wisconsin
Stanford
NC state
Texas Tech

SEC wins again



Number 6 team in each league
Texas A@M
USC
Iowa
Texas tech
Pitt


SEC wins again


Number 7 team
Kentucky
Purdue
Baylor
Virginia Tech
Cal


SEC wins again


Number 8 teams
Florida
Arizona state
Northwestern
Ok state
Miami

SEC wins again


Number 9 team
USCe
Duke
Maryland
Tcu
Colorado

SEC wins yet again


10th best teams:
Mizzu
Ga Tech
K State
Arizona
Indiana

SEC wins again


So can we please stop this parity, other leagues are deeper, Bama is the only good team BS this board keeps spewing out?
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good post....

I think you have to put LSU #2 when they beat UGA by 20....even though UGa has won the East and is technically #2....
I just hate the puppies.....LOL
 
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MikeVol44 said:
good post....

I think you have to put LSU #2 when they beat UGA by 20....even though UGa has won the East and is technically #2....
I just hate the puppies.....LOL
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Great point. I guess I was thinking about the playoff picture but you make a great point
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
If you guys have a subscription to the athletic, I highly recommend the piece on A. Taylor. If you don’t have a sub they will let you read 3 free articles a month so go check it out. This kid has a lot of great influences in his life. He’s already our best player on defense and is going to be an absolute star here imo. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Pruitt turn him into a first rounder.
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Taylor is playing well for a freshmen but I don't think he is our best defensive player this year.

My top 5.
1. Kyle Phillips
2. Bryce Thompson
3. Alexis Johnson
4. Darrell Taylor
5. Alontae Taylor

Kyle, Alexis, and Darrell have had a sneakily good year so far.
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Taylor is playing well for a freshmen but I don't think he is our best defensive player this year.

My top 5.
1. Kyle Phillips
2. Bryce Thompson
3. Alexis Johnson
4. Darrell Taylor
5. Alontae Taylor

Kyle, Alexis, and Darrell have had a sneakily good year so far.
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No way DT should be over Alontae
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Taylor is playing well for a freshmen but I don't think he is our best defensive player this year.

My top 5.
1. Kyle Phillips
2. Bryce Thompson
3. Alexis Johnson
4. Darrell Taylor
5. Alontae Taylor

Kyle, Alexis, and Darrell have had a sneakily good year so far.
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I'm torn about this. I like Kyle Phillips a lot. But there have been games where he has been completely non existent, just getting blown off the ball. Unfortunately, he is very slow also. But he seems to show up in some games so I definitely would have him in my top 5. AJ is the same as Kyle in this regard. Darrell Taylor has had one good game. He has not impacted many others at all. Bryce has the interceptions, but he's been thrown at more than Taylor. Taylor is ranked top 5 in the country in yards allowed. One of the best ways to tell who is a great corner is that teams do not challenge him. Teams do not throw at him and we rarely hear his name. This is good for a corner. If he wouldn't get tossed from games it would be better, but I have him up there as playing as good as anyone if not better on defense this year.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
I'm torn about this. I like Kyle Phillips a lot. But there have been games where he has been completely non existent, just getting blown off the ball. Unfortunately, he is very slow also. But he seems to show up in some games so I definitely would have him in my top 5. AJ is the same as Kyle in this regard. Darrell Taylor has had one good game. He has not impacted many others at all. Bryce has the interceptions, but he's been thrown at more than Taylor. Taylor is ranked top 5 in the coun
try in yards allowed. One of the best ways to tell who is a great corner is that teams do not challenge him. Teams do not throw at him and we rarely hear his name. This is good for a corner. If he wouldn't get tossed from games it would be better, but I have him up there as playing as good as anyone if not better on defense this year.
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Alontae has also made 2 boneheaded decisions to get ejected from 2 games.....gotta be smarter.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
If you guys have a subscription to the athletic, I highly recommend the piece on A. Taylor. If you don’t have a sub they will let you read 3 free articles a month so go check it out. This kid has a lot of great influences in his life. He’s already our best player on defense and is going to be an absolute star here imo. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Pruitt turn him into a first rounder.
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David Ubben posted a link in the FF.

Alontae Taylor's story
 
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Alright, let’s get some predictions on who we end up with in the class. A few are gonna have to git if we are going to land all these big fish we have momentum with.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
If you guys have a subscription to the athletic, I highly recommend the piece on A. Taylor. If you don’t have a sub they will let you read 3 free articles a month so go check it out. This kid has a lot of great influences in his life. He’s already our best player on defense and is going to be an absolute star here imo. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Pruitt turn him into a first rounder.
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Completely agree! I also highly recommend subscribing to the Athletic. They come out with all kinds of great content daily.
 
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Big Orange#1 said:
True, there are pros and cons to both. I also hate seeing a 1 loss team lose their division and not get a chance but a 9-3 team make it to a conference championship just to get smacked
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That's just the nature of the game....It was the separation of the SEC into divisions that allowed 2 SEC teams to get into the playoff last year and PROVE that they belonged there.....
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Taylor is playing well for a freshmen but I don't think he is our best defensive player this year.

My top 5.
1. Kyle Phillips
2. Bryce Thompson
3. Alexis Johnson
4. Darrell Taylor
5. Alontae Taylor

Kyle, Alexis, and Darrell have had a sneakily good year so far.
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I think Taylor will have a legit shot to be a first round pick down the road
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Alontae has also made 2 boneheaded decisions to get ejected from 2 games.....gotta be smarter.
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I disagree on the last one. It ended up being targeting, but it wasn't intentional and def not agregious! He was already lowering to tackle before the qb went into his slide. It was a complete bs call.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
If you guys have a subscription to the athletic, I highly recommend the piece on A. Taylor. If you don’t have a sub they will let you read 3 free articles a month so go check it out. This kid has a lot of great influences in his life. He’s already our best player on defense and is going to be an absolute star here imo. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Pruitt turn him into a first rounder.
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People are freaking out about it in the FF that The Athletic is a subscription site. Been spoiled with people posting VQ stuff for free I guess
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Alontae has also made 2 boneheaded decisions to get ejected from 2 games.....gotta be smarter.
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One boneheaded decision. The other was a stupid targeting call that wasn’t his fault. And had he done the first against any other team than bama he probably wouldn’t have been ejected
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
Taylor is playing well for a freshmen but I don't think he is our best defensive player this year.

My top 5.
1. Kyle Phillips
2. Bryce Thompson
3. Alexis Johnson
4. Darrell Taylor
5. Alontae Taylor

Kyle, Alexis, and Darrell have had a sneakily good year so far.
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DT really shined against UGA, but I haven't really seen much from him since.. I'd throw Shy in there at 5, bump Alontae up a notch.
 
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