'26 NC QB Faizon Brandon (Tennessee commit)

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Jackcrevol said:
Think a lot of folks were/are frustrated at the conservativeness. Perceived as holding reigns back on Milton and Nico. Perhaps coaches disnt trust them? Perhaps it really was Golesh's thumbprint on this offense.
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And to elaborate further, consider how the offense looked in Milton's first season. Golesh was the OC. Joe looked the same, offense was sad. HH took over and it got better and by the following season HH was setting records. HH leaves and Joe looks like Joe again, with and without Golesh.
 
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SSVol said:
And to elaborate further, consider how the offense looked in Milton's first season. Golesh was the OC. Joe looked the same, offense was sad. HH took over and it got better and by the following season HH was setting records. HH leaves and Joe looks like Joe again, with and without Golesh.
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Great point. One I hadn’t thought of. In fact 2023 Joe looked better with Halzle than he did in 2021 with Golesh.
 
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Buzzbait said:
23 of 24 vs. South Carolina
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You taking about that 1-11 South Carolina team? Wow. He got hot for one game on high % throws against one of the worst teams in SEC history.

Now show me his passing stats against teams with a pulse, and tell me which game was an anomaly:

Syracuse
Georgia
Florida
Arkansas

How’d he do on what should have been the final drive against Arkansas before Stoerner bailed him out? And how much faith did Cutcliffe have in him after Stoerner bailed him out to completely take the ball out of his hands?

He was an awful passer. He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of a great statistical game that didn’t require difficult throws against one of the worst SEC teams in history, and the fact that his teammates carried him to a NC.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
You taking about that 1-11 South Carolina team? Wow. He got hot for one game on high % throws against one of the worst teams in SEC history.

Now show me his passing stats against teams with a pulse, and tell me which game was an anomaly:

Syracuse
Georgia
Florida
Arkansas

How’d he do on what should have been the final drive against Arkansas before Stoerner bailed him out? And how much faith did Cutcliffe have in him after Stoerner bailed him out to completely take the ball out of his hands?

He was an awful passer. He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of a great statistical game that didn’t require difficult throws against one of the worst SEC teams in history, and the fact that his teammates carried him to a NC.
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Ok
 
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NighthawkVol said:
You taking about that 1-11 South Carolina team? Wow. He got hot for one game on high % throws against one of the worst teams in SEC history.

Now show me his passing stats against teams with a pulse, and tell me which game was an anomaly:

Syracuse
Georgia
Florida
Arkansas

How’d he do on what should have been the final drive against Arkansas before Stoerner bailed him out? And how much faith did Cutcliffe have in him after Stoerner bailed him out to completely take the ball out of his hands?

He was an awful passer. He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of a great statistical game that didn’t require difficult throws against one of the worst SEC teams in history, and the fact that his teammates carried him to a NC.
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All I'm saying is we play Syracuse, Georgia, Florida and Arkansas, all in the same year, for the first time since......o_Oo_Oo_O
 
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SSVol said:
Context. Always omitted.

Bray was only slightly higher than Tee, but his offenses were quite prolific. He threw downfield. Big chunk plays. Long 3rd down conversions. Helmed some of our best offenses prior to Heupel. On a 59% completion rate. Terrible.

Milton had a decent completion rate because Heupel designed around his weakness. He was fine. I'd gladly take him now. He was nowhere near the level of HH and no amount of scheme will make him that.
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To be fair to Tee Martin, he threw downfield just as much as any QB I can remember. He didn't have the best completion pct, but played hurt his last year following the Fla game. When he was very accurate (as he was post UGA in 1998, he was throwing longer with less attempts since those teams were so stacked at RB. The Kentucky game in 1998 in particular is one I remember where I was blown away by how many deep balls he was completing. Some of them were jaw droppingly good. It helped that our passing game that year was basically Tee throwing it deep and letting Peerless make a play.

One of Fulmer's biggest screwups was not having anyone on roster who could fill Peerless's shoes in 1999. Wilson was a great #2, while David Martin was a TE playing WR and Eric Parker was a punt returner forced into playing because Stallworth had no grasp of the playbook until the last couple of games that year. None of them were game changers like Peerless.
 
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perico said:
To be fair to Tee Martin, he threw downfield just as much as any QB I can remember. He didn't have the best completion pct, but played hurt his last year following the Fla game. When he was very accurate (as he was post UGA in 1998, he was throwing longer with less attempts since those teams were so stacked at RB. The Kentucky game in 1998 in particular is one I remember where I was blown away by how many deep balls he was completing. Some of them were jaw droppingly good. It helped that our passing game that year was basically Tee throwing it deep and letting Peerless make a play.

One of Fulmer's biggest screwups was not having anyone on roster who could fill Peerless's shoes in 1999. Wilson was a great #2, while David Martin was a TE playing WR and Eric Parker was a punt returner forced into playing because Stallworth had no grasp of the playbook until the last couple of games that year. None of them were game changers like Peerless.
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I mean, Peerless is one of the 2 best WRs (along with Pickens) in program history, so it's not exactly a failure not to have another Peerless lined up to succeed him.

The problem was the use/development of Eric Parker. Parker was used as a PR who mostly fair caught or never gained much after catching the punt. But he was a talented WR who was underutilized. He was a multi-year starter in the NFL and in his best season, caught 57 passes for 725 yards (he caught 64 total in his career at UT). Same with David Martin, who should have been a TE, and became one in the NFL. The WRs in 1999 should have been a better developed Parker and Wilson (two future NFL starters), with Martin at TE (a future NFL starter at that position, not WR) and Stallworth (future NFL starter) as the 3rd WR. But remember, Pat Washington was the WR coach, so the development wasn't great. I think Parker was a victim of that.

Fulmer had some weak position coaches, which led to some underdevelopment and underutilization of a lot of players back then. Parker, Martin, and Derrick Tinsley all come to mind.
 
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Orange. said:
I love this photo from last year’s spring game of VFL Trey Smith showing up and letting 5-star Faizon Brandon wear one of his Super Bowl rings.
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Very nice touch.

Even more impressive as Trey and his teams at Tennessee never even came close to a championship. But Tennessee developed Trey.
Fought for his health!

And now that dude is a millionaire.

That speaks to legacy and absolute commitment from a university to a player’s future.
 
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