Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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Ulysees E. McGill said:
😳 Dang!...If Joe plays well next year, he will be a top 10 draft pick...maybe even #1. If he can just get his head out of the way in games the sky is the limit for him.
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Based on the draft rankings of Levis and Richardson, it apparently doesn’t matter what’s happening in his head.
 
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Milton

Milton grinned and laughed multiple times Wednesday morning during a pre-Orange Bowl practice interview at a Miami-area hotel. His biggest chuckle came when he confirmed a story that had just been told by Clemson senior defensive lineman Tyler Davis, a childhood friend. Davis told reporters he’d seen Milton throw a football 70 yards from his knees.

“Yeah, I did that,” Milton said. “I would show you the video, but … nah, it’s OK. I try to keep those things in, just because I don't want the attention. I really don’t. I just like to be myself and be around my teammates, so I don’t really do that type of stuff.

“Just the arm strength, I don't really know. I mean, I know it came from God, but I really don't know where else he came from. I just do it.”
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Milton throwing the oranges wasn’t his idea, either, but he said Tennessee’s video crew approached him after practice with three oranges and asked him to throw them, and he obliged.

“They was like, ‘The first two, let's be for distance, and then the third one was put it up for height,’” Milton said. “So the first one was to get a little warmup. The first one hit the hit the fence, and when it hit the fence, they was like, ‘You don’t think you can do over the fence?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I can throw it over the fence,’ so I put more, more air on it, and when I put more air on it, it just hit seven yards up on top of the fence, and it made a loud thump. And everybody was like, ‘Man.’

“And then the last one was pretty high. And then the punter that was on the field at the time, getting extra work, he didn't know I threw the orange. So, it landed right in front of him as he was about to punt the ball, and he like dropped the ball and kind of started running everywhere.

“But it was a great day. It wasn’t a great day for those oranges.”
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As to how far Milton can throw a football … he insisted he doesn’t know. But he gets asked the question a lot, so he just started telling people he could throw the ball 80 yards.

“That’s not true, though,” he said. “That’s not true. It’s more than 80. To be honest with you, I don’t even really know the exact answer. I haven’t, like, really checked.”

In other words, Milton can throw a football 80 yards without maximum effort. He just threw a deep vertical route, and it went more than 80 yards in the air.

“Sometimes I amazed just like you are,” Milton said. “Sometimes I’m amazed and just be like, ‘Dang, that ball actually went far.”
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Milton’s arm strength has occasionally been problematic, though, as evidenced by the “Overthrow Joe” nickname some Tennessee fans gave him last season, when his accuracy in some situations was less than ideal. Milton is well aware of the nickname and understandably doesn’t like it, but he diplomatically said everyone is entitled to their opinions regarding his performances on the field.

“I mean, the beginning of last season, I really didn't know anyone [at Tennessee],” Milton said. “I kind of got out there and just played. So I mean, when people talk about that, they pretty much just talking. They don't really understand the things you have to go through to understand receivers and understand an offense. You have to understand the offense, but you have to understand the receivers, as well. It takes kind of like a development moment that you need with the receivers and chemistry.

“So I felt like I did that well over the summer, and brought it into the season.”
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Milton said he feels as prepared as possible for the moment, and that he’s determined to prove against Clemson what he proved throughout the season against lesser competition in the second halves of blowout wins — that he’s a different player than he was in 2021. Those inside the program believe that, too, and not just because the fun-loving, energetic Milton quickly became one of the team’s most popular players from his first days on campus.

“I mean, you've got to prepare, because you never know what can happen — like, you really never know what can happen,” Milton said. “Not any play is given. So I mean, you can't go out there unprepared. If you're not prepared and you go out there, you're gonna look like a fool, and I'm pretty sure nobody in this world wants to look like a fool. So you have to prepare like the starter every day.”
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I want nothing more than for Milton to look like Cam Newton vs Clemson and burn them alive on the big stage. He deserves his moment of triumph. It would be such a great story.

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Ulysees E. McGill said:
No it isn't...I said it was a possibility, not a probability. With his amazing freakish physical gifts...IF..he plays great and throws up big numbers to go along with those innate gifts...he will be a top draft pick.

Anybody with a brain should see that happening when guys like Levis and AR are predicted to go highly solely because of their physical gifts DESPITE playing like pureed 💩 all year, and neither of those guys are even close to Joe in raw talent....very few quarterbacks are.
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Latest mock has the Colts taking him at 5. Would love for the Bears to take advantage and trade down with them and nab DeForest Buckner in the process.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
No it isn't...I said it was a possibility, not a probability. With his amazing freakish physical gifts...IF..he plays great and throws up big numbers to go along with those innate gifts...he will be a top draft pick.

Anybody with a brain should see that happening when guys like Levis and AR are predicted to go highly solely because of their physical gifts DESPITE playing like pureed 💩 all year, and neither of those guys are even close to Joe in raw talent....very few quarterbacks are.
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Feels like a good time to drop the "if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle" line. Respectfully.
 
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I’ll be more than fine with the colts taking Levis with their 5th pick… Titans need to rest everyone and anyone so they can get back to as healthy as possible for the last game vs Jacksonville. At seasons end there will be a new OC most definitely and wouldn’t be surprised to see some training staff let go as well. Maybe Falcons can give us a easy fix and fire Arthur Smith. 10th/32nd in PPG 2019. 4th/32nd in PPG 2020. I think he’d develop Burks a lot better than DUI in chief. Tannehill also looked a heck of a lot better than his career averages with Arthur.
 
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Heupel on Tim Banks:

“Tim has been a phenomenal leader on the defensive side of the football. When we were going through the process of finding our defensive coordinator two years ago, looking for somebody that had experience that was a great leader, that was multiple in what he was able to do, was relationship driven and had a great ability to teach, for all the things that we encountered when we first arrived on campus, his steadiness, his leadership, his ability to gain buy-in from the guys around him, that's staff members that were coming in.

“Not everybody had worked together. There was some common threads where there were some previous relationships there. But then getting all of our players to buy in to what we're doing. He's done nothing but do a great job of continuing to grow what we're doing on that side of the football, and you can see that in the way our guys play for him.”
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“At the same time, I think bowl games in this era are also about kicking off the following season. For all those things, our kids' focus and energy out at practice has been fantastic. I think it's important that you enjoy the bowl experience while you're here in South Florida, but when you're in meetings and on the practice field, you've got to be dialed in and locked in. I really like how our guys have handled the week up until this point.”
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“Yeah, Friday is important because this is the last game for this football team this season. It's the end of that culmination. We're going to have competition at every position next spring in our program. We've got to go out and earn it and take it every single day, and that's true at the quarterback position, as well. Everybody inside that room understands and knows.
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“I think in today's world for a young man to see that and be able to say, hey, I'm going to sit here, I'm going to compete every single day with Hendon or whoever that young man might be and to handle it the right way is a great story. He's prepared like he's going to be the starter, all off-season, all training camp, all season long. He's continued to grow. We're playing a great opponent, great defense. It's going to take all 11 to go out there and perform at a high level tomorrow. But I'm excited to see Joe go compete, man, and excited for this opportunity for him.”
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These are opportunities and memories that you remember forever, and I've tried to share that with our football team, having played in this game, just what this game means, the exposure that you have, the opportunity that you have. As you get further away from it, your bowl experience is something that you're going to come back to when you're with your brothers.”
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