Nuke? Teague?

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rowsdower

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As a Florida fan that was sad to see these two get away last NSD, I was wondering, as I watched, where they were. Nuke returned a few punts but where was he in the offense? Where was Teague? I think the big pull for these players away from Florida was getting on the field early and early playing time. I think they would've seen a good deal more action in the second half of the Florida-Troy game than they did today.

All I saw was Crompton trying to find the same receivers he's been skipping it to the last few years. The TE in triple coverage in the endzone that one play? Why not try the bubble to arguably the fastest guy on your team (Nuke)? It just boggles my mind that these recruits take so much of what these coaches say to hear in their recruitment.

Bash me all you want. I don't care. Call me pissed at losing some good prospects to a team unable or, worse, unwilling to use them. There's just no excuse me thinks.
 
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When you have a qb situation as bad as we do then its easy for those guys to sort of get lost. They clearly went to running the football and tried to take it out of Crompton's hands. Thats why you didn't see much of those guys especially late in the game. The less JC has to think the better apparently. Get used to losing some prospects to us, it'll happen again.
 
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The better question is how do we have a scholly QB that is only good enough to hand the ball off?
 
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Cartervol said:
When you have a qb situation as bad as we do then its easy for those guys to sort of get lost. They clearly went to running the football and tried to take it out of Crompton's hands. Thats why you didn't see much of those guys especially late in the game. The less JC has to think the better apparently. Get used to losing some prospects to us, it'll happen again.
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He attempted 26 passes. I still think there's no excuse.
 
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Teague will eventually become our leading receiver but in order for him to make receptions we have to have someone that can get the ball to him without hitting the ground or the other team.
 
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Teague was out there plenty. What a stupid post. He just never got the ball thrown his way or even close to his way - that's what happens when you don't have someone that can get the ball remotely close to a receiver.
 
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Teague vs. WKU:
6 catches for 86 yards and a touchdown.

Richardson vs. WKU:
3 catches for 30 yards
8 yards on 1 carry.
 
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Teague started the game, but once it became clear that we we were going to have to run the ball all day the staff played bigger receivers for blocking purposes.
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After the 1st offensive play of the second half...it didn't matter which wr's were in the game or on the sidelines. I understand the damage control effort to pound the ball and win the game on the ground (which came up a yard short) but why leave an inept player in the game when he can't perform? The last 2nd and 3rd down of the first offensive drive of the game was costly too but I understand any football team HAS to be able to throw the ball a little bit but JC just can't do it under pressure.

Nuke and Teague are raw talents. I was surprised not to see the Nuke-Gun or any razzle dazzle at all. I believe the plan was set to keep the offense real vanilla and be 2-0 heading into the Swamp and trying to open up the whole playbook next weekend. That plan got stopped a couple yards short.
 
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Baulder said:
Teague will eventually become our leading receiver but in order for him to make receptions we have to have someone that can get the ball to him without hitting the ground or the other team
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if Jones stays healthy there is no way teague is this teams leading receiver.
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rowsdower said:
He attempted 26 passes. I still think there's no excuse.
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Unless they were going to play QB they wouldn't be able to help much. Maybe if they could leap ten feet in the air to get those overthrows or scoop up some of those wormburners they might have helped. What's your point?
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
Teague was out there plenty. What a stupid post. He just never got the ball thrown his way or even close to his way - that's what happens when you don't have someone that can get the ball remotely close to a receiver.
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So much for tactful conversation, huh? Box has him with 0 receptions. I think it's a valid argument, coming from my angle, knowing that the coaching staff hyped these guys up with the promise of playing early and making a difference early. I'm still wondering, given the sorry crop of receivers that were there last year and are still there this year, why there hasn't been an attempt to get the ball in their hands. Apparently, Nuke is good enough to have the coaches excited about making something big happen on punt returns but he can't get a ball thrown to him in the offense?

Yeah, I'm the stupid one. Pot meet kettle.
 
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holdemvol said:
if Jones stays healthy there is no way teague is this teams leading receiver.
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I don't know what you see, but to me gerald jones is liken to JC. Apparently he wins practice too because it doesn't seem too translate to saturdays. So far Jones has been far too much hype and no payoff.
 
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Even though I disagree with the OP's mustache, I agree somewhat on his post.

When it became obvious that Crompton 2008 had returned, and we knew we had to run to win, why not run an end around or reverse with Nu'Keese?

The play we scored on at Miami, the end around to Tinsley, something like that.

If we did try to play vanilla to save the whole playbook for UF, which I doubt, then that's dumb. Why go down with bullets left in the chamber?
 
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rowsdower said:
So much for tactful conversation, huh? Box has him with 0 receptions. I think it's a valid argument, coming from my angle, knowing that the coaching staff hyped these guys up with the promise of playing early and making a difference early. I'm still wondering, given the sorry crop of receivers that were there last year and are still there this year, why there hasn't been an attempt to get the ball in their hands. Apparently, Nuke is good enough to have the coaches excited about making something big happen on punt returns but he can't get a ball thrown to him in the offense?

Yeah, I'm the stupid one. Pot meet kettle.
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Teague was on the field PLENTY. Crompton couldn't complete a pass to anyone. So no - it's not a valid argument - it's a retarded argument.

And as "sorry" as those receivers are - Nuke and Teague still aren't the best 2 available. Gerald Jones when healthy is considerably better than those two at this point and Hancock is better as well. And of course those receivers seem "sorry" last year considering our offense. What receivers wouldn't?
 
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Teague got a good amount of reps.

Nuke didn't get on the field as a WR because he can't catch the ball and he has fumbling issues when he does catch it. He's been that way ever since his first practice basically.
 
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Gerald has not had a qb to throw him the ball since his freshman year and he didn't play against western. He is the most complete receiver on the team and its not close. Teague will be a great one and may end up better than Jones but it won't be this year.
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holdemvol said:
Gerald has not had a qb to throw him the ball since his freshman year and he didn't play against western. He is the most complete receiver on the team and its not close. Teague will be a great one and may end up better than Jones but it won't be this year.
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I understand the reason for looking GJ's way. He's been there longer and has more experience. He looked the opposite of that yesterday. I also understand that UT wanted bigger guys in there to help block since the gameplan looked to be run, run and run some more. I'm just surprised that the offense didn't try to get them into the game more. I think both have more homerun capability than any other receivers and, as someone said, a few end arounds, direct snaps, bubble screens, could've been the yard or two difference that turns that L into a W.
 
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rowsdower said:
As a Florida fan that was sad to see these two get away last NSD, I was wondering, as I watched, where they were. Nuke returned a few punts but where was he in the offense? Where was Teague? I think the big pull for these players away from Florida was getting on the field early and early playing time. I think they would've seen a good deal more action in the second half of the Florida-Troy game than they did today.

All I saw was Crompton trying to find the same receivers he's been skipping it to the last few years. The TE in triple coverage in the endzone that one play? Why not try the bubble to arguably the fastest guy on your team (Nuke)? It just boggles my mind that these recruits take so much of what these coaches say to hear in their recruitment.

Bash me all you want. I don't care. Call me pissed at losing some good prospects to a team unable or, worse, unwilling to use them. There's just no excuse me thinks.
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Coach Wilson, the receivers coach, said on the CLK show that they pulled both freshman receivers because they needed the extra size the other receivers had in order to run the ball and to better pass block. Not because they were unproductive. Obviously, the UCLA rushers were getting too much penetration.
 
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We could have had Willie Gault, Peerless Price, Kelly Washington, and me on the field and it would make no difference if the dude with the ball can't find you when you are open and not when you are blanketed by defenders.
 
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