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Hookem2147

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  1. CJ Vogel posted on OTF that Wisner practiced today but was in a green jersey. Right shoulder injury.
  2. Ball State is one of the worst FBS teams in the country and Vandy won 24-14. I’m going to assume they repped Texas the whole week in practice but you should still be able to roll out the ball against Ball State and win by 20+. I think Pavia is super fun to watch and Vandy is much improved, but I question some of the defenses they’ve played. Virginia Tech, Alcorn State, Georgia State, Bama, Missouri, Kentucky and Ball State. Kentucky is probably the best of that group and held them to 288 total yards. Defensively I think Vandy is very meh. Their offense dominating time of possession really helps cover up the defense. They are going to try to ball control us to death and shorten the game. This would be a great spot to fix our opening script woes and jump out to a 14-0/14-3 type lead.
  3. The graphic doesn’t even list a source, which news like that would have. It really was likely a hack job.
  4. 247 said their Instagram account got hacked.
  5. Kirby Smart told us his opinion of Ewers when he squib kicked up 23-0, went for a 4th and goal up 8 in the 4th quarter and 4th and 1 from his own 40 with 2 minutes left.
  6. Yeah, the body language police always make me roll my eyes. What do you expect a dude to look like when he is getting his shit kicked in? Of course when he’s playing well like the Michigan game he is doing all sorts of dances and goofy stuff on the sideline and everyone loved it. His body language and demeanor had no impact on his performance and won’t be the reason he is benched if it comes to that. That is who he is. It’s a football game. No one is jumping around on the sidelines with smiles when you are down 23-0.
  7. That’s on the coaches then. Choosing to play a limited Ewers over a backup who has shown he is very capable is horrible decision making. If that was the case they could have just yanked Ewers yesterday and said it was injury related and some of the heat would have been off. My guess is Ewers is cleared from a medical standpoint but that doesn’t trust himself and it’s mental, which is even worse. Almost like having the yips.
  8. 1) Probably. I don’t think we win because the supporting cast (OL) wasn’t particularly good either. 2) It’s Arch if Ewers is as bad in the short and intermediate game as he has shown the last 2 weeks. It’s hard for me to make a case for Ewers right now. He isn’t bringing anything to the table Arch wouldn’t. For Ewers sake I hope it is injury related because I’ve never seen a QB regress this fast after literally being the favorite for the Heisman.
  9. Sark ain’t stupid man. He knows what he is watching. The playbook opened up this year with Arch in. Yeah, the opponents sucked but we just had so much more of the field to work with in addition to his running ability. There were a lot of valid reasons for Ewers remaining the starter and his experience is valuable, but those reasons are quickly becoming fewer and fewer. He is absolutely playing for his job against Vandy. We can’t have a national title contending team with a third year starter who needs training wheels. He has earned the right to work through some stuff but 3 straight games is enough man.
  10. The dude had like 16 yards passing in 6 drives and was seeing ghosts. At that point his own confidence is about to go off a cliff if you keep just letting him bang his head against a wall. He absolutely made the right direction in sitting Quinn down. At worse, Arch comes in and does the same thing as Quinn but at that point you already had nothing going so who cares (which is what happened). At best, you get a spark from Arch or Quinn calms down (I.e Rattler against Texas in the 2020 game) and looks better the remainder of the game. You can’t look that bad in a home game coming off an injury and a previous game where you already looked shaky and expect to just keep doing the same thing with a capable backup behind you.
  11. Your overall point stands, but calling the 2022 Alamo bowl where 3 of our best players opted out a “big game” is a stretch. Especially now with the expanded playoff, no one is going to give two shits about non-CFP bowl games.
  12. This is the worst set of pass catching RB’s we’ve had since we trotted out Kyle Porter and Daniel Young. For someone who is supposed to be an explosive playmaker, Jaydon Blue acts surprised the ball is thrown in his direction half the time.
  13. Beck just isn’t/wasn’t an accurate thrower of the ball. With that being said, he always seemed to be in control with his pocket movements and mechanics. He was sacked once despite a fair amount of pressure. His issues are far different than what we saw with Ewers.
  14. Hard to comprehend how it has regressed this badly this fast. The competition level doesn’t dictate many baseline things you should be seeing game after game that Ewers showed through the first 3 games this year and really most of last year. A lot of what he has put on film the last two weeks is worse than some of his freshman year stuff. Georgia should have easily picked him off at least 2 more times in the 4th quarter. The second half was no better than the first half for him regardless of some stat padding.
  15. Was quite a bit of downplaying of the Baxter injury when he went down and the guy many claimed was better than him did not record a single carry tonight. God bless Wisner. He is a tough kid but he isn’t built to be the primary back on this team or run between the tackles. The drop off in pass pro from Baxter to Blue/Wisner is also significant. The latter two are very poor at chipping edges and doing little things to help QB’s buy an extra tick or two.
  16. He received at Michigan because he wanted the wind in the fourth quarter. Valid reason. The OU game was the only other game he’s opted to receive in a long time and I’m still confused on if that was documented correctly because the ref turned to OU first after the coin was flipped. The 4th down stuff is what it is. I don’t always agree with it but he’s consistent in the aggressive approach and I think people would be surprised how often analytics tell you to go for it in a game. In terms of managing the clock, I see much worse every week around the country. Nothing he has done in that regard has been super egregious.
  17. Rothstein is pretty high on Ohio State, who we open the season with. Had Texas at #26. Should be a good test.
  18. Gerry brought up a good point on OTF. Muschamp moving into an analyst role for Georgia has hurt them defensively. He is apparently in the building during the week to help with prep but isn’t heavily involved on gameday anymore.
  19. Multiple guys missed practice time last week with strep throat. Maybe it is still going around.
  20. I’d be mildly surprised if Georgia rolled out something like the 3 high safety defense. That typically hasn’t been their MO. Venables had showed it in the past (including the Tennessee game earlier this year) so you kind of knew it was coming. Guys like Saban and Smart typically aren’t implementing those type of junk defenses with the athletes they have. Which is probably part of the reason we have pantsed some of the more traditional defenses we have seen even when they have great individual talent.
  21. Played 4 snaps. If you had to rank our receivers he’s probably the 5th or 6th option right now. I’m not taking Bond, Golden, Moore or Wingo off the field for him as things currently stand. I’ve heard in the past he isn’t the best practice player, which is problematic when you are in a room that talented and do stuff like drop wide open touchdowns in games. Hopefully he turns it around but hard to argue with his playing time based on what we’ve seen.
  22. I thought the decision on both 4th downs Saturday were no-brainers. We obviously picked up the one at the end of the first half but the holding negated it. We kick a FG on either attempt and it makes a 18 point game a 21 point game, so you make a 3 possession game a 3 possession game. I’m going to guess any analytics you want to use are going to tell you to go for it there and that’s not even factoring in how good we were playing on defense.
  23. Based on Sark ripping Ewers coming off the field, I think the read was to hand the ball off on that 4th down RPO. Probably should have handed it off on 3rd down too but Ewers had a wide open guy. Just tried some rushed off platform sideway throw. That sequence summed up his day. I liked the aggressiveness Sark had there. On the OU 10 and basically saying we will score or force you to drive 90 yards which there is no way you can do.
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