MichaelUngar#1fan

I will only make this one post as I know it will only get flamed. I am not trolling. Just facts: Sam Ehlinger is about as endearing a person and leader as you can be. Truly Colt-esque. I've done a total 180 on him since his Freshman year when I had no hope for him whatsoever and I will gladly eat my crow as far as any bashing I ever did of him - it wasn't fair then. I was the guy calling for Heard all that time. That's where I wasn't wrong, though. As a thesis for my argument, here it goes: Sam Ehlinger is the reason we are even a 9-10 win team these past two years, this year included, and the next year too (as his starting position is completely unthreatened due to the fact he is pretty damn good and moreso the fact he is a clean cut good white dude), but more importantly, he's also the reason we aren't more than a 9-10 win team. Jalen Hurts demonstrated why me calling for Heard was correct. You need a dynamic running QB to be in the National Championship hunt, period. If you don't have that, you need a guy like Lawrence or Burrow, who are Aaron Rodgers-esque with their accuracy, pocket awareness/decent mobility. Sam isn't quite that. The reason it is so important was obvious today. Hurts was the difference. As Klatt and Gus Johnson pointed out, his threat as a runner on the play action reads is everything and disguises who the hell has the ball. It is a coach on the field. It is what VY posed. It is what Manziel posed. It is what Watson posed. This is what elite QB looks like and what we should have at UT QB, where it all started with the best of them all, VY. Lamb was a beast, but he was mostly a beast because of Hurts threat in this manner. They weren't the only two beasts. Their RBs ate all day too. Again, all Hurts. I love Sam Ehlinger and am not trying to bash him. These are just facts. QB is the most important position in all of sports, period. In football, after QB, a damn good defense comes next. Our defense is young and we played well today actually despite getting statistically shredded. Case in point. Now we know how USC felt when they tried to cover someone like VY. That said, consider this the beginning of my call for R. Johnson to QB immediately. Won't happen of course. But we need to go ahead and set that standard if we want to fast track to the top of CFB. #1 quality of a QB we look for should be, how are you when your house is on fire? Flat footed? Not very fast? Not very aware? Sorry, next. Sam played tough as hell and played well overall of course. Admirably well. He's a warrior and you can't take that from him. But he also took a ton of sacks and waddled out on roll outs for 2 yard losses and gains and intentional groundings more than I can stand or our team can stand in the face of a truly good opponent. Let the R. Johnson and whoever else is down the recruiting pipeline similar to him era begin ASAP. Flame away.

live stream link anyone? Overseas can't find game

Holy christ. So many idiots.

Heard isn't a world beater as a thrower. He's not god awful either. Sam is. It's what he can do running the ball, of fucking course. And no, don't come at me with the bullshit comparison of like Taylor Martinez or whoever from Nebraska. Jerrod Heard looked SPECIAL running the ball. And let's not forget that VY had NO passing TDs in the MNC AND DON'T GIVE ME "BUT THEN THEY WATCHED TAPE AND STOPPED HIM" OUR FUCKING COACHES WERE A JOKE. HE WAS YANKED FOR SWOOPES EVERY OTHER PLAY WHEN HE DID START. HIS TEAMMATES WERE MOSTLY USELESS. HORRID O LINE. JOKE DEFENSE. NO WRS. HAD TO TURN DAJE INTO A WR -- WHO WAS EASILY MOST EFFECTIVE AS WR WHEN HEARD WAS AT QB (watch the fucking highlights) But I will say, WTF HEARD why didn't you say seeya losers and transfer? No, I'm not an aggy troll. we have just been losers. this is fact.

I hate that people like you and tjhooker, who have the stupidity and nerve to say Heard sucked (when he broke a fucking VY record), are even allowed to watch football and comment on it. Seriously I can't fathom the limited capacity of your brain. It's sad to think about, really. You are a sheep.

He played what, 200 snaps maybe at QB? While being toggled with Swoopes.

He is 100x the passer Sam is. Fact. I put together the time clips of over 30 great touch/deep passes he made in his LIMITED time. I won't do it again, because fuck all of you idiots. But yeah, the footage exists. Fuck you one more time idiot.

You've just outed yourself as his equal. Incredibly narrow minded clueless football fan.

Thank you for showing up. Seriously. So refreshing to know I'm not just nuts over here.

Seriously THIS. Try having a good game when you are getting yanked every other fucking play for a bulldozer. Some of you are seriously brain dead.

No shit. But he's also not Sam. It's an insult to really even have him on the team anymore behind guys he is clearly more talented than.

Hahahaha this is the dumbest sports related post I've ever read on the internet or heard period!

So, to be clear, it was all because of the Iowa State game? Which, again, is not even half as bad as ANY of the games Sam has literally thrown away. So fucking pathetically narrow minded.

Why? Can someone outline in detail for me exactly why he was ever benched and try to justify it alongside the countless WORSE performances we've seen from other QBs since? Again, fuck so many of you who have been toting the "Give Sam some time" line for almost a year now. At least I don't ever have to read that shit anymore, regardless of what you think of my take on Heard's wasted talent. One more time: Fuck you if you ever said it, and you are part of the biggest problem at UT which is lack of a good QB (quite obv most important position in ALL of sports).

Sick thing is, people will blame Herman, and they should but so many idiots here agreed with him that Sam was the best option. Heard has always been 10x the option Sam or really Shane too is.