Serious QB discussion

Let me type slowly.

We are, I think I got it wrong before, 23 - 9 with Josh Heupel coaching at TN. We were ranked #1 at one point last year. We are currently ranked in the top 20. We have lost exactly _-----one-----_ game since Hooker got injured and Joe Milton took over.

What stands out for me is not Heupel's starting Joe over Hooker previously but Coach Heupel creating a team that wins.

You do you.
Miss Heuple

I think your son is an amazing coach. I appreciate all he has done to bring us back to relevance after our years in the wilderness. If you will please ask him to improve on the one flaw that I have noticed. Ask him to consider not starting Joe anymore. Keyton too for that matter. You son has a history of sticking too long with certain players. After the season we can discuss W. Martinez.

Sincerely
Jxn Vol
 
Miss Heuple

I think your son is an amazing coach. I appreciate all he has done to bring us back to relevance after our years in the wilderness. If you will please ask him to improve on the one flaw that I have noticed. Ask him to consider not starting Joe anymore. Keyton too for that matter. You son has a history of sticking too long with certain players. After the season we can discuss W. Martinez.

Sincerely
Jxn Vol
Mr Jxn Vol

If you're a fan of the team, you can usually spell the head coach's name correctly.

Coach Josh Heupel
 
Miss Heuple

I think your son is an amazing coach. I appreciate all he has done to bring us back to relevance after our years in the wilderness. If you will please ask him to improve on the one flaw that I have noticed. Ask him to consider not starting Joe anymore. Keyton too for that matter. You son has a history of sticking too long with certain players. After the season we can discuss W. Martinez.

Sincerely
Jxn Vol
At least spell his name right. It’s pretty clear you think you’re smarter and more qualified than he is. Milton is not playing well I agree, and anybody who’s watching agrees, heupel too. There are other factors going into his decision that me or you don’t know.
 
Milton is not an elite QB and will never be elite. The piss poor, throw it up for grabs interception at Florida and the freeze up on 4th down against A&M are but 2 examples. Did Nico burn his red shirt status by playing a few downs?
I believe?....you can play in 3 games now and still be redshirted. Preseason they said they were not going to redshirt Nico...It's hard to redshirt your backup QB. But unless things change the last part of the season and he doesn't play I'd be surprised if they don't redshirt him.
 
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At some point we are going to need a QB to win a game for us. Joe can’t do that. We are lucky we are as good as we are in other areas.
Against AP we had the ball 20 mins and won easily, defense playing 40 mins. Florida first half, defense couldn’t get off the field on 3rd down, give up 26.

What says Nico and his 6 yards passing is the answer?
 
Mr Jxn Vol

If you're a fan of the team, you can usually spell the head coach's name correctly.

Coach Josh Heupel
Like I said. Take some Midol for the cramps.

Forgive my fat fingering a post on an anonymous message board. I’m swapping between work emails and this. So there may be future mistakes.
 
Against AP we had the ball 20 mins and won easily, defense playing 40 mins. Florida first half, defense couldn’t get off the field on 3rd down, give up 26.

What says Nico and his 6 yards passing is the answer?
That’s just it. We don’t know. We do know what Joe gives us, correct?
 
Against AP we had the ball 20 mins and won easily, defense playing 40 mins. Florida first half, defense couldn’t get off the field on 3rd down, give up 26.

What says Nico and his 6 yards passing is the answer?
I understand the frustration people have with Joe, but people act like heupel doesn’t get to watch nico every day in practice. And they use heupel starting Milton over hooker as ammo to support this, even though this is a completely different situation. Hooker was a veteran with good experience. Even though he wasn’t great at VT, he had put up decent numbers. Nico was in high school 10 months ago. But they will bring up tua at Bama, blah blah blah. It’s just senseless whining at this point
 
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At least spell his name right. It’s pretty clear you think you’re smarter and more qualified than he is. Milton is not playing well I agree, and anybody who’s watching agrees, heupel too. There are other factors going into his decision that me or you don’t know.
I don’t think I’m smarter if you are talking about coach. Just think there is a history of starting players over others. That’s really my only point.

The other poster that keeps not understanding my point, I’m going to have to say I’m leaning towards a firm maybe I am smarter. Like I said I’m swapping between this and work. I may make some grammar errors in the future.
 
I swear my YTTV subscription must be different than the satellite or cable most people still use for their sports games. On my screen, what I see is a QB who has issues throwing accurate balls for simple routes like slants. I'm seriously struggling to remember the last time I saw him attempt a basic out route. It's more often than not he completely misses the receiver on vertical routes. His only TD yesterday was a simple rollout with his primary read being a TE running with him in the flat. That's not impressive; that's expected out of high school (or maybe even middle school) QBs.

The point being is that we're playing a limited playbook now. And I'll ask the opposing side again to seriously convince anyone to think so low of Nico that he couldn't come in and run the barebones offense that we've seen being for Milton. Again, the idea that Nico couldn't reach the "standard" of hitting 50% of his throws for barely 100s and throw a nasty INT is absolutely ridiculous and delusional.
Pretty basic route in the Keyton drop Saturday.

Nico in limited action 2/5 for 11 yards, long of 6 yards. Playing against bad teams in mop up duty.
 
I believe?....you can play in 3 games now and still be redshirted. Preseason they said they were not going to redshirt Nico...It's hard to redshirt your backup QB. But unless things change the last part of the season and he doesn't play I'd be surprised if they don't redshirt him.
I think it's 4 games and Heupel said earlier they wouldn't redshirt him. I think Heupel expected we'd get to see him more, however.

I've said before, if Nico thought he was being passed over, not played, getting slighted by Coach Heupel and TN, he'd be a VERY hot commodity in the transfer portal. I'm sure he knows that.

There's zero indication, not a rumor, nothing that anyone on the team sees Joe Milton starting as an error by Coach Heupel. Nico appears fine with it and the portal is right there if he wants it.
 
So nobody believes that Nicco can hand the ball off and throw for 100 yards ? What if he hits on a few more throws and it's 150 yds and more points ?
 
So nobody believes that Nicco can hand the ball off and throw for 100 yards ? What if he hits on a few more throws and it's 150 yds and more points ?
And maybe he won’t run out of bounds in front of the sticks.
 
Hooker had the benefit of Hyatts speed freeing up others. Many here want to believe the deck is the same when comparing the two.
We were able to put up numbers against Clemson without Hyatt but having Hyatt sure did help during the season.
Keyton boy oh boy has he taken a step back. He's dropping and fumbling just about every time something comes his way.

I still think we're going to have some surprise plays instore for Bama this week GBO
 
So nobody believes that Nicco can hand the ball off and throw for 100 yards ? What if he hits on a few more throws and it's 150 yds and more points ?
We need those extra yards because we're losing.....er.....uh.....wait...... we're not losing? From this discussion I thought we were 1 - 5 and Joe Milton was costing us wins.

We're not losing. Nico isn't playing because he either isn't better at running the gameplan (which is what the coaches have said) or we just haven't needed him to win, which is obvious.
 
It just be pathetic in your life that you delight in continuously ragging on a 20something D1 football player.
I don’t take this as serious as you. Everything on a message board does not have to be taken so personal.

It just not be pathetic in real life. 😜
 
I don’t take this as serious as you. Everything on a message board does not have to be taken so personal.

It just not be pathetic in real life. 😜
My man, I'm waiting on "the boss" to tell me it's time to get my old butt up and get ready to hit the gym for what halfway passes as physical therapy, but Medicare likes it better if they don't get billed except for the gym membership.

If it were serious, I'd drive to West TN and meet you at the Waffle House, as is the custom here. 🥊😜🧇

You do seem to have, as we used to say, "a hard on," for Joe to be replaced. We're winning, enjoy the ride as long as it lasts.
 
We need those extra yards because we're losing.....er.....uh.....wait...... we're not losing? From this discussion I thought we were 1 - 5 and Joe Milton was costing us wins.

We're not losing. Nico isn't playing because he either isn't better at running the gameplan (which is what the coaches have said) or we just haven't needed him to win, which is obvious.
So keep status quo and get one offensive TD per game. That's what you want ? You realize without special team scoring we loose that game at home right ? Why are TN fans so opposed to change when something is not working ? Seniors are not always the best players on the team.
 
Pretty basic route in the Keyton drop Saturday.

Nico in limited action 2/5 for 11 yards, long of 6 yards. Playing against bad teams in mop up duty.
Stats would look a lot different if Keyton catches that ball and we get a couple of obvious pass interference calls.

Our recievers got mauled in the 1st quarter.
 

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