If Jones is out for 6 weeks...

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Does that affect your prediction for wins this season?
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I thought it was not as bad as they reported??

But I think Warren and Hancock will be fine...I really dont think our Wideouts were going to make or break the season anyway. I think all of them have potential but I believe we will be running the ball a lot as well as running a lot of screen and bubble plays...
I think if Jones can get back in time for Florida or after the Ohio game we should be fine without him for the first little bit.
 
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Not really. I see us running a lot more early in the season. I think we can still handle UCLA. It doesn't really matter too much whether or not he is ready for the Florida game as far as I can tell!
 
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A buddy of mine was at practice today, Gerald Jones was seen on crutches and in a walking boot. Also, Rod Wilks has been moved from defense to offense. Just thought I would pass that along.
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I just added a few wins to my prediction.
 
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Gerald is a great player and my favorite on the team, but we're going to be such a run first team that losing Bryce Brown would be a bigger blow than losing Gerald
 
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My gut says it doesn't change much. But, when I think about it, I lean toward yes. I do not think that our defense is going to be where we need it to be to allow us to rely solely on our running game. We will need the ability to score in short drives in the second half by the time we get to the middle of our schedule and the late-game, mid-season blues hit our lack of defensive depth.

We only have 1 (legitimate) WR who has learned the offense as a WR since the new offense was installed - and that is Hancock. Warren was moved later and AR, Jones, and Moore will be unavailable, presumably. The freshman will have to keep it pretty vanilla, we won't be able to put them in too much motion or do too many special things with them, placing a reasonably significant limitation on the offense's ability to drive the field in time-critical situations.

I don't place a lot of faith in our offense's ability to win game for us when they have to score some points - but if Jone is gone for 6 weeks, it certainly doesn't help. I just don't have a good feeling about our defense (the staff is great, but the lack of depth and question marks at linebacker make me wonder how much they are going to be able to do), which doesn't make me feel good at all about our offense - we need to be able to run the ball a lot....and I'm not sure our defense will give us that ability as often as we would like.
 
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Is Todd Campbell just not that good that he can't emerge as a Wideout when we dont have any depth at all???
 
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m37bruno said:
Is Todd Campbell just not that good that he can't emerge as a Wideout when we dont have any depth at all???
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I've seen Cambell get quite a few reps in the scrimmages but it certainly appears that guys like Teague and Richardson are ahead of him.
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m37bruno said:
Is Todd Campbell just not that good that he can't emerge as a Wideout when we dont have any depth at all???
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I don't mean to be harsh, but that's why I said legitimate returner in my post. He doesn't seem to be able to even slightly stand out over some very fresh freshmen, if you will, which doesn't give me any confidence that he'll be able to contribute this year. If he does it will be in one or two games because he was in the right place at the right time, IMO.

I don't want to dig at the kid. With the new scheme, it puts the freshmen on a more equal playing field than normal, but still...you would think he could get in there now if he were ever going to....
 
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vol_freak said:
I've seen Cambell get quite a few reps in the scrimmages but it certainly appears that guys like Teague and Richardson are ahead of him.
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Does he look out of place or are Teague and Richardson just that much faster then he is??
 
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m37bruno said:
Does he look out of place or are Teague and Richardson just that much faster then he is??
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I wouldn't say he looks out of place. I just don't believe he's done anything to earn playing time... that I've noticed.
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vol_freak said:
I wouldn't say he looks out of place. I just don't believe he's done anything to earn playing time... that I've noticed.
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when Coleman went to UTC, there was talk that Campbell was going to go with him. If he wanted playing time, it looks like he should have followed BJ
 
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sickemsmokey10 said:
no

but I've heard the ESPN report was wrong and the hope to have him back by the UCLA game
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I heard Brent Hubbs and Chris Low talking about it on WBIR Sunday Sports Extra last night and they said they expect him back before the UCLA, but from the gist of what I got, they really don't know if its bad or not, that its on a kind of wait and see basis
 
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sickemsmokey10 said:
no

but I've heard the ESPN report was wrong and the hope to have him back by the UCLA game
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Here's the weird thing. I'm watching an old UT game on CBS sports. The information that scrolls on the bottom of the screen reads: "Tenn JR WR Gerald Jones (high ankle sprain) will reportedly miss four to". That's it. The sentence ends at four to. Four to what?:unsure:
 
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vol_freak said:
Does that affect your prediction for wins this season?
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No, I think it's of no consequence. UNLESS, the injuries keep piling up. Then it makes more of a difference...


Do you keep starting these topic specific threads to try and give me enough rope to hang myself with ???
It's not gonna happen.

I'm on to you, Mr. Freak...
 
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Even if Gerald Jones is back by the UCLA game he won't be 100%. He's clearly injury prone and nagging injuries stick around so I'm sure this will bother him for 2 months, even if he plays.

It's a hit to the depth of the receiving corps and obviously the experience, but I think it might end up working out well if you look at the schedule.

WKU = win without him
UCLA = could use him, but I think we'll win this game without him
Florida = won't matter if there were 5 of him out there
Ohio = win without him

That takes us to October 3rd against Auburn when we'll really need him and we'll get to the meat of our schedule. That also gives him the 6 weeks it could take to fully recover.

Why bother rushing him back just to have him when we should be able to run our way to victory and get the other receivers up to speed while having two likely automatic wins, a probable loss and a toss up game in the first 4 weeks?

Keep him on the shelf until he's healthy and have him back for the stretch run.
 
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I can understand a little bit of the calling him injury prone and everything...


But dude can't help it he was wrapped up and got folded over. I knew it was an ankle as soon as it happened...
He has played with injuries and he will be back before he's 100% from this one,(if they let him)...
 
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I agree. We will not need him for the Western or Ohio game. The Florida game does not matter unless someone else suits up at QB. It may be a good thing that we are forced to play Warren, Hancock, and the Freshman.
 
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C. Low was just on 104.5 with George Plaster and he said that the high ankle sprain can be a real nagging injury...He said it can be up to six weeks to heal.

So say we lose him for the first two games....Our depth at some positions is getting scary thin. Expect to see a lot of freshmen playing this year....I want to see these guys but that is, to me, bad signs when they play early....

But it may not matter who is at WR with the way out QBs play...
 
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mtvols said:
I agree. We will not need him for the Western or Ohio game. The Florida game does not matter unless someone else suits up at QB. It may be a good thing that we are forced to play Warren, Hancock, and the Freshman.
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Agree. I also think we will be throwing to running backs and TE's a lot this year.
 
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after being there sat....i feel decently comfortable with the ball going to either teague or keese.


i will also agree QH will be the go to guy at the beginning....after our entire backfield of course.
 
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