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Reese Bennett

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  1. I'm all for more scholarships in the minor and Olympic sports. Let's kick Stanford's ass on a regular basis.
  2. As farewells go, that's a pretty good one. Best of luck to the guy.
  3. Bruce Campbell
  4. Yeah, I'm making some assumptions: 1. All options currently available for LT have significant flaws. 2. Given the flawed options, the one who has a baseline of competence and will make the least mental mistakes is the pick. 3. Connor's both book-smart and football-smart. 4. He's been praised for his versatility and ability to learn both tackle and both guard positions. 5. I think that Flood's coaching and Connor's intelligence will keep him from making cascading errors from overcompensation. 6. You can scheme a little to help with speed rushers. Conclusion: He's the least bad LT option right now and may well be the least bad option for the first part of the season. That seems a perfectly logical position to take. I'm not saying lock him in at LT for the next three years. It'd be great if Banks lives up to the hype and takes the spot by mid-season.
  5. Well, I was hoping we'd get lucky with this guy, but no.
  6. I'm OK with Connor at LT. He'll get beat by speed on occasion, but he's smart enough to keep mental errors at a minimum--and those are what get QBs killed. You can scheme around a guy's physical limitations but it's tough to scheme around stupid. I also think Connor will continue to improve.
  7. Interesting stat from the article above: "...slightly more than one-third of all FBS players in the portal have been walk-ons."
  8. Sweat leaving will cause some heads to explode, but might be the best for all parties. Frees up some space and he can go somewhere where he plays every down and can maybe play himself into shape and a draft pick. Collins would be a blow because potential is always tantalizing. Coburn is a name and a good guy, but if he feels it's best, that's cool. One is no big deal, but I'd certainly hate to lose two or more of those three. A better player or two in the secondary would also be tough but there might be some who fancy themselves CBs but are pulling Safety reps. LBs who aren't starting, well, eh, but I guess you need those types on special teams though. I'm OK with any O-lineman leaving who is not getting first team reps this Spring. If we come out of fall with two centers, three guards, three tackles, and one utility guy who can all play at a basic level, I'll be ecstatic. Might have to be happy with seven instead of nine, at least for the first half of the season. The WR room could still be thinned some. It'd be disappointing to lose any of our RBs, but it is a crowded room and those RB types are not known for patience. Sounds like we have 2 1/2 TEs, but I'd like to see one more blocking specialist step up.
  9. Liberty was dead by then. The reporter Maxwell Scott drops that quote.
  10. I once liked a tweet from a Navajo guy but I never moved to Shiprock.
  11. Kareem weighs in: https://kareem.substack.com/p/winning-time-isnt-just-deliberately?s=r
  12. Yeah, how she fell short with talent that deep is crazy.
  13. I thought Hayden Panettiere, the kid from Remember the Titans, would become a bigger deal after her Heroes role. I also thought Eliza Dushku would do more.
  14. So what's the deal with this kid? Highly rated recruit sure, but only gets in two games prior to the championship game against Georgia where he has 50% of his total catches for the year (2/52 in that game and 2/20 the rest of the season) and then Saban rakes the backup WRs over the coals after the game. Then, he's suspended from Alabama for breaking team rules and hits the portal. Not a great start to his college career. I guess you're betting on potential here, but there do seem to be some watch-out elements in play.
  15. I said in the O-Line thread that I wouldn't be surprised if Connor is our starting LT for the first part of the season. If all your options are flawed, put the guy there who will make the least mental mistakes. You can scheme a bit around physical limitations, but it's tough to make things work when your confused and indecisive LT is grabbing his nuts and watching guys take dead aim at the QB.
  16. I would not be surprised to see Connor start the season at LT. If all of your possibilities have flaws, a good option is to go with the one who will make the fewest mental errors.
  17. It's not just your opinion. Seems obvious that based on the way they recruited that the coaches see it that way too, as does just about everyone who knows a teensy amount about football. Shock and awe and blitzkriegs are cool I guess but if you want to really win a war, you've got to have infantry that do the dirty work.
  18. I guess he writes that because Haskins was not a successful pro player in the NFL and the loss of his life doesn't mean that much because it doesn't affect a great chronicler of the game like Schefter. It's like Haskins got waived and retired--don't have to think about that loser again! I'm sure he's not the only one. (I love football, but it sure produces some weird people with screwed up values.)
  19. Don Knotts did OK. This is Wife #2 of 3.
  20. Thank you. Was just about to post the same.
  21. I don't see how people watch dudes talking when it's just dudes talking and no highlights or video analysis.
  22. Disappointed in #3. His lack of sidearm on that throw is a bad sign. Can't play winning football going over the top like that.
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