Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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19 was getting some love as a draft prospect today.

Saw an article with him as a potential top 100 player if he declared.
 
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WriterVol said:
I consider blind-siding a guy to be a cheap shot and cowardly. It's easy to wreck a guy that isn't looking.

How is that not the prevailing opinion? You want to be a man? Hit 'em when they know you're coming.
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I don’t give a damn about Mays hitting him. Keep your head up. What pisses me off is nobody on the team wants to take up for their teammate who just got leveled. No heart
 
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HankHill said:
I just wonder even though it may have been merited being fired after dobbs senior year... how the job would’ve been perceived nationally? I wonder what our candidate pull would look like. You know the media would’ve spun it like we just fired a reasonably successful coach based on his records.
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2015 was Dobbs’ Jr year. Could have sold it as internal issues with lack of control (Title IX, altercations with players, guys leaving).

The biggest obstacle to firing Butch’s dumbass at that would have been buyout, not national perception. Hart got BS’d into giving Butch an extension at the end of 2014. Total moran move.

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I’m just talking about the role they want to play.

Both are basically the same size with DWA being a little heavier than engram. Some tight ends are more of a receiver than a blocker. Watch Engram play now for the Giants he is nothing more than a chip block and run a route which is essentially watch DWA wants to be here and quite honestly should be. I don’t want a guy as skilled as he is staying back into block. Let Snail pope do that.
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FWIW, DWA is bigger now that’s Engram is. He was 6’3 230 entering the draft and played a lot of his career at Ole Miss aroun 220.

Hard to put too much stock into roster heights and weights, but DWA looks to be easily in the 245-250 range
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Yep - they paid $2.5M because 1) they knew Butch would have to testify and he risked perjuring himself if asked about the Drae Bowles thing and 2) they didn’t want to fire who they thought was a sure fire successful coach.

Priorities were backwards and it cost both Hart and Cheek their jobs.
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Anybody who thought Butch was a surefire successful coach at the end of 2015 doesn’t deserve to be an AD. At best, he looked like a guy who might be able to recruit well enough to be competitive year in year out. He had nothing under his belt at that point to suggest he could maintain success in the SEC.

There were a lot of red flags at that point that he would crash and burn as well. From in game decision making to an inability and/or unwillingness to make the type of staff hires you need to be successful in the SEC.
 
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Tuesday practice nuggets...


Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt and the Vol coaching staff are using the open date week to focus on fundamentals as well as look as some guys at other spots.

On Tuesday, tight end LaTrell Bumphus and h-back Ja'Quain Blakely were both working with Tracy Rocker and the defensive line. Bumphus showed a couple of small flashes of being physical in some run fit drills.

The focus on the defensive line was leverage work under equipment (looks like a trampoline) designed to force better leverage.

For the linebackers, the two periods we watched were all about tackling and finishing tackles better. Pruitt has mentioned multiple times this season that too many ball carriers are falling forward on tackles. JJ Peterson continues to look better and better physically. He's clearly dropping some weight and is moving better in part because of the weight loss and also because he understands what he's doing more so he's moving faster.

In the secondary, there was a lot of ball skill work with the safeties which included Shawn Shamburger. For some of the safeties, ball skills are not their best skills as guys like Nigel Warrior just don't catch the ball very well.

Offensively, Pruitt spent at least one full period with his quarterbacks and receivers this afternoon. The head coach was very hands-on with both groups, even grabbing a ball and throwing it on one occasion to demonstrate where he wanted the pass placed.

As for the wideouts, it looked like Pruitt was trying to give them a glimpse behind enemy lines and tell them exactly how defensive backs were trying to attack them and how to counter it.

The quarterbacks and wideouts worked on nothing but back shoulder fades for an entire eight minute period at one point. That’s not something we’ve seen a lot of out of this offense yet.

On the offensive front there didn’t appear to be any noteworthy changes. Chance Hall looked like he was getting some work at right guard and Kingston Harris continues to work there as well.

Riley Locklear was not on the practice field today after leaving Saturday's game with a knee injury. Locklear left Georgia on crutches. Marquez Callaway (who had his ‘bell rung’ according to Pruitt) was working off to the side on his own as was linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr. and Micah Abernathy. Abernathy was also banged up atGeorgia.​
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- Hubbs
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
It was a chest-to-chest hit. There was no dip in the crown of the helmet. There was no diving. Mays simply came in a touch late (yes, late, I'm admitting that) and put Alexis on his butt.

One of those mind games within the game-- "Don't forget about me at all this game"

My take would be completely different if it were a more dangerous hit.
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Yes, but Alexis is defenseless. If you actually watch it in slow motion, Alexis’s head does move back a bit when hit. That’s what happens when a player at rest gets hit by a player moving at decent speed, especially when hit above the waist.

I’m still not sure I am clear on the NCAA rule, but that is the type of hit that they are trying to clean up. In no way can Alexis brace himself.
 
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