Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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Visidog said:
Fair—and I agree about UGA—but I think the playoff isn’t about the best teams. It’s about the good teams that are deep enough to win a bunch of hard games in a row at the end of the season.
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That's funny you say that because neither Alabama nor Goergia's rosters are all that deep. IMO ours is deeper. Ole Miss is probably deeper. I mean, and just to give it perspective, Arkansas has a better offense than either and ours is better than theirs. It's all media narrative driving this.
 
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This is from McCoy's coach. None of this sounds like he'll be playing. Whenever you read he's preparing, just insert "for the league" and move on.

“Yeah, I mean, again, that’s not a hard question to ask. Mod is the same dude that he is when he walked in this, when he came in on campus, he works every day. He’s preparing every day to play. And he’s on course to whatever that is. He’s engaged every single day in our meetings. There’s nothing really different other than him not playing on game day. He’s doing a great job. He’s obviously grown a lot from a standpoint in our package, knowing our defense. He’s involved each and every day, whether it’s Ty Redmond, whether it’s any one of those young guys or even Colton, who’s in his first year. So he’s doing well.”

 
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DD4ME said:
This is from McCoy's coach. None of this sounds like he'll be playing. Whenever you read he's preparing, just insert "for the league" and move on.

“Yeah, I mean, again, that’s not a hard question to ask. Mod is the same dude that he is when he walked in this, when he came in on campus, he works every day. He’s preparing every day to play. And he’s on course to whatever that is. He’s engaged every single day in our meetings. There’s nothing really different other than him not playing on game day. He’s doing a great job. He’s obviously grown a lot from a standpoint in our package, knowing our defense. He’s involved each and every day, whether it’s Ty Redmond, whether it’s any one of those young guys or even Colton, who’s in his first year. So he’s doing well.”

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Listening to AP on Swain just now and this was the first question they asked. He said he’s not playing, in so many words. If he’s not playing this week, he might as well sit the whole season or come back if we were to make the playoffs.
 
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berryvol said:
Listening to AP on Swain just now and this was the first question they asked. He said he’s not playing, in so many words. If he’s not playing this week, he might as well sit the whole season or come back if we were to make the playoffs.
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Lots of pods are saying it if you listen. AP said it straight up in that press desk pod they do where they dress up.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Omarr Norman-Lott
Jayson Jenkins
Christian Harrison
Christian Charles
Jordan Matthews

We lost a lot off what's arguably been the best defensive year we've seen.
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Three of those names are nothing burgers.

ONL, like most early round picks, is missed, while Jenkins would have been some much needed depth on the interior DL.
 
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MockingVol said:
Three of those names are nothing burgers.

ONL, like most early round picks, is missed, while Jenkins would have been some much needed depth on the interior DL.
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Harrison and Charles weren’t world beaters by any means, but we miss both of them dearly with the injuries we’ve sustained in the defensive backfield. They got snaps last season on a MUCH better defense that was fully healthy in the back end.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
His initial preseason playoff picks were so embarrassing. Had Florida, Boise, Nebraska, ASU, Penn St, Clemson. Has Nebraska back on now too. These guys are so bad. All just ride the same narrative that get created from air with no real logic.

This revised list is exactly what id expect of a shill
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They were wrong on purpose to favor the teams whose fan bases needed fluffing up the most to build hype for the season. It's backfired in many cases, but they can't have expected it to have gone any different. Finebaum called Arch the best QB since Tim Tebow (who was also a product of media hype) based on a brief appearance to relieve the guy (who was clearly the better QB) last year.

It's so much about narrative and once you realize it you see through the facade.
 
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peaygolf said:
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It's really weird to me that more of these authors don't get called out for how twisted and perverted they are. I read 'It' by Stephen King as a Freshman in HS. That book is the grossest most pedophilic piece of Literature I've ever read. I didn't know what to think. But you never hear anyone even discuss that part of the book! It's not in any of the films/series!
 
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jave36 said:
Ya I don't think Harrison was an impact player. Maybe I'm misremembering
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The only one worth missing from that group is ONL. Harrison is putting up the best year of those transfers and he's in a spot that fits his ability imo. The big miss is letting Thomas walk. Safety play is down right abysmal.
 
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MockingVol said:
Three of those names are nothing burgers.

ONL, like most early round picks, is missed, while Jenkins would have been some much needed depth on the interior DL.
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Harrison would've been in his 4th year here, no one even knew Will Brooks existed until year 4. And he's put up good numbers at Cincinnati where he's now starting. We could have absolutely used him this year and he would've been as productive here as he has been there.

Charles in the 2 years he needed to start and play more put up solid numbers, he would've been in his 5th season and could have also been a good depth piece if not starter.

Matthews I'll give you...no production here, went to Vandy and no production there.

But because those guys left we've had to rely on far less experienced players in Farooq, Redmond, Beasley, Poteat, Walton etc. hell there's a chance Harrison or Charles could have beaten out Turrentine to start even it was kind of trending that way last year.
 
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volinbama256 said:
defense is completely different and mid without Gibson and McCoy... we didn't know what we had and how it allowed us to do more on defense...

Heup has lost his spark and guts... plays not to lose... disappointing-- really like how they came in and pushed the up tempo, going for it on 4th, foot on your throat... not now... he's lost something...3yrs ago if we were up like we were in the second half, he'd still be popping long TD's... instead we try to run it up the middle and run down the clock...

Will be interesting to see who is really hurt and who's dinged up... may have some more starters out for the gumps... I think McCoy plays.

if things don't change on both sides of the ball this week, we drop games to gumps, oky, fl, and maybe candy if we are beat down at the end of the season...

lot of young talent playing now and more talent on the way next season... we have to figure out how to carve out some wins against those I listed as L's to keep recruiting and our moment going.
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RandomUTfan said:
That's funny you say that because neither Alabama nor Goergia's rosters are all that deep. IMO ours is deeper. Ole Miss is probably deeper. I mean, and just to give it perspective, Arkansas has a better offense than either and ours is better than theirs. It's all media narrative driving this.
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No teams are as deep as they used to be, but Bama and UGA have as much stockpiled talent as anybody. If teams were forced to sit all their starters, whose second string do you think has more talent than Bama or UGA?
 
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