A.J. Suggs details QB battle and Harrison Bailey

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Dude...you gotta get better "sources" for your "interviews"...
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A.J. Suggs discusses Tennessee's quarterback battle and why it is time to play Harrison Bailey.

A.J. Suggs discusses Tennessee football, Vols' quarterback battle
He's right about maximizing reps.

Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps. You're worrying about making the perfect play every down. Not a competitive environment. You would think so but it actually isn't. It creates the exact opposite.

Not surprised he backs HB. Both Atlanta area QBs. Suggs didn't really get a fair shake either.
 
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He's right about maximizing reps.

Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps. You're worrying about making the perfect play every down. Not a competitive environment. You would think so but it actually isn't. It creates the exact opposite.

Not surprised he backs HB. Both Atlanta area QBs. Suggs didn't really get a fair shake either.

I agree, it isn't. That aspect is easily about having too many cooks in the kitchen (it's not a competition if there are 10 people in there, where you have to limit snaps, and yeah I'm exaggerating on purpose) and are maybe giving too much emphasis to reps on air. Evidently. JG is good in practice, which makes him THE most dangerous competitor of the bunch. Let's face it, it's not often you win such competitions and be an abosoute failure. My wonder is how he does in as-real-life scrimmages? Here is the real separator. JG has issues showing up in football on game day. Period. You can drag out every stat you got.....don't matter......what do you do on Saturdays? Hell he can't even do it with 25% attendance, something I thought would lessen the pressure. That said he may still be the extreme exception, and not the rule. It isn't an indictment on him personally, it's just what is is.

I can't speak to coaches, but I've held a couple of "political" positions in my career. That said it's sports.....if you've played "major" sports, baseball, softball, football, basketball, soccer, you know there are participants who have little talent for a given sport, those who physically look good (Tarzan vs Jane), those who never achieve their potential, and those who come out of no where. And then there are the coaches. You scratch your head with them as they have been playing/coaching for years....but don't grasp this? At this point? A lot here doesn't make sense. GBO this weekend.....but more so for the rest of the year.
 
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He's right about maximizing reps.

Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps. You're worrying about making the perfect play every down. Not a competitive environment. You would think so but it actually isn't. It creates the exact opposite.

Not surprised he backs HB. Both Atlanta area QBs. Suggs didn't really get a fair shake either.

“Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps.”

Now imagine how hard it would be if you hadn’t had a spring practice, had not worked out with your receivers in June and July, and missed ALL of preseason with Covid issues and NEVER got a scrimmage playing with the ones.
Imagine how hard it would be if you only have a true working grasp of maybe 30% of the offense.
Imagine how hard it would be if every game was against a SEC Defense.
 
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I agree, it isn't. That aspect is easily about having too many cooks in the kitchen (it's not a competition if there are 10 people in there, where you have to limit snaps, and yeah I'm exaggerating on purpose) and are maybe giving too much emphasis to reps on air. Evidently. JG is good in practice, which makes him THE most dangerous competitor of the bunch. Let's face it, it's not often you win such competitions and be an abosoute failure. My wonder is how he does in as-real-life scrimmages? Here is the real separator. JG has issues showing up in football on game day. Period. You can drag out every stat you got.....don't matter......what do you do on Saturdays? Hell he can't even do it with 25% attendance, something I thought would lessen the pressure. That said he may still be the extreme exception, and not the rule. It isn't an indictment on him personally, it's just what is is.

I can't speak to coaches, but I've held a couple of "political" positions in my career. That said it's sports.....if you've played "major" sports, baseball, softball, football, basketball, soccer, you know there are participants who have little talent for a given sport, those who physically look good (Tarzan vs Jane), those who never achieve their potential, and those who come out of no where. And then there are the coaches. You scratch your head with them as they have been playing/coaching for years....but don't grasp this? At this point? A lot here doesn't make sense. GBO this weekend.....but more so for the rest of the year.

I get what you’re saying, but this is almost exact opposite. There was no competition. Bailey missed ALL of Fall Camp, Maurer missed all of Fall camp and the first 3 game weeks as well, Shrout couldn’t pass JG and that should tell you something about him!
Unfortunately JG was the only option
 
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I get what you’re saying, but this is almost exact opposite. There was no competition. Bailey missed ALL of Fall Camp, Maurer missed all of Fall camp and the first 3 game weeks as well, Shrout couldn’t pass JG and that should tell you something about him!
Unfortunately JG was the only option

So you are saying, after three years, we have no SEC-quality quarterbacks. At all.

The alternative explanation is that the coaching staff cannot competently evaluate quarterbacks.
 
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So you are saying, after three years, we have no SEC-quality quarterbacks. At all.

The alternative explanation is that the coaching staff cannot competently evaluate quarterbacks.
It's a bad look either way and warrants no defense.
 
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He's right about maximizing reps.

Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps. You're worrying about making the perfect play every down. Not a competitive environment. You would think so but it actually isn't. It creates the exact opposite.
Good thoughts.

Not surprised he backs HB. Both Atlanta area QBs. Suggs didn't really get a fair shake either.
What do you mean? I thought Suggs got his shot and simply got beaten out. I'm not sure what a fair shake for HB would be at this point.
 
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So you are saying, after three years, we have no SEC-quality quarterbacks. At all.

The alternative explanation is that the coaching staff cannot competently evaluate quarterbacks.

Not at all. I’m saying that there is at least 1 maybe 2 that could be much better, BUT, they haven’t been able to practice or improve this offseason at no fault of their own or the coaches.. neither Maurer or Bailey have been able to practice, they should both be a spring practice, a summer program, and a fall camp better and they haven’t had that.
 
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He's right about maximizing reps.

Now imagine how hard it is for the backups when they're only getting a small percentage of reps. You're worrying about making the perfect play every down. Not a competitive environment. You would think so but it actually isn't. It creates the exact opposite.

Not surprised he backs HB. Both Atlanta area QBs. Suggs didn't really get a fair shake either.
I agree with most of your post but Suggs did get a fair shake. He wasn’t as good as Clausen
 
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He’s saying what many on here have said - get past Bama and then start getting Bailey meaningful snaps...I haven’t seen anyone suggest we just stay with JG for the roast of the season...
 
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I agree, it isn't. That aspect is easily about having too many cooks in the kitchen (it's not a competition if there are 10 people in there, where you have to limit snaps, and yeah I'm exaggerating on purpose) and are maybe giving too much emphasis to reps on air. Evidently. JG is good in practice, which makes him THE most dangerous competitor of the bunch. Let's face it, it's not often you win such competitions and be an abosoute failure. My wonder is how he does in as-real-life scrimmages? Here is the real separator. JG has issues showing up in football on game day. Period. You can drag out every stat you got.....don't matter......what do you do on Saturdays? Hell he can't even do it with 25% attendance, something I thought would lessen the pressure. That said he may still be the extreme exception, and not the rule. It isn't an indictment on him personally, it's just what is is.

I can't speak to coaches, but I've held a couple of "political" positions in my career. That said it's sports.....if you've played "major" sports, baseball, softball, football, basketball, soccer, you know there are participants who have little talent for a given sport, those who physically look good (Tarzan vs Jane), those who never achieve their potential, and those who come out of no where. And then there are the coaches. You scratch your head with them as they have been playing/coaching for years....but don't grasp this? At this point? A lot here doesn't make sense. GBO this weekend.....but more so for the rest of the year.
Didn't Coach Ditka say Heath Shuler was the greatest QB he had ever seen, in practice? He kept winning the job week after week, Monday-Friday, and failing each Sunday.
 
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I agree with most of your post but Suggs did get a fair shake. He wasn’t as good as Clausen
Not even close. And everybody knew that Clausen was probably getting the job once his shoulder calmed down.
 
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I get what you’re saying, but this is almost exact opposite. There was no competition. Bailey missed ALL of Fall Camp, Maurer missed all of Fall camp and the first 3 game weeks as well, Shrout couldn’t pass JG and that should tell you something about him!
Unfortunately JG was the only option

Quite possible, in that it was JG by default. No spring, injuries and the COVID impact. However, not much of that changes the story where JG is concerned. He's already shown you what it is.....he just put an exclamation point on it with the past two games. He isn't capable of winning you a game, on the whole, but he darn sure can be the reason you loose them.

Anyway, here comes JG Saturday....by default, again.
 
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So you are saying, after three years, we have no SEC-quality quarterbacks. At all.

The alternative explanation is that the coaching staff cannot competently evaluate quarterbacks.

He is saying because we have an idiotic university that lost its mind over this flu, it set all our backup QBs back. I believe if it was a normal year, either Maurer or Shrout would be the starter.
 
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Didn't Coach Ditka say Heath Shuler was the greatest QB he had ever seen, in practice? He kept winning the job week after week, Monday-Friday, and failing each Sunday.

I lost track of Heath after he showed his hand with Washington. Those wheels came of faster than RGIII. He wasn't bad in college......but he sure didn't transition well. Regardless, he is certainly an example of this....just at the college-NFL transition level.
 
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Good thoughts.


What do you mean? I thought Suggs got his shot and simply got beaten out. I'm not sure what a fair shake for HB would be at this point.
Suggs made that one start and then got pulled if I remember. Went on to play at Ga Tech who was a decent ACC program at the time. It may have been fair, I just remember not ever seeing him after that season opener
 
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Our season looks pretty bleak right now. Why not throw caution to the wind? Put JG on the bench and finish the rest of the season with anyone but him. Win, lose or draw lets see which one of these guys can take over leadership of this offense and set ourselves up for the 2021 season. Why not? We have nothing to lose in that scenario.
 
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