Someone please explain why Crompton played

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I thought Crompton's playing days were over. Stephens throws his first interception (partially because of an incredibly lazy route executed by Briscoe) and he's benched. I saw that he had a little life in him on the sidelines, but why would he get benched for that? Could Fulmer have a problem with gingers??
Is there any way that we could get Tahj Boyd in for the last three games? I know it isn't much, but the Music City Bowl would sure be a lot more fun that nothing at all.
 
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there are a few threads about it and an article on govols.com. He was benched for lack of hustle and mouthing off on the sidelines
 
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Stephens got into w/ the receiver who missed the ball on th INT. Clawson put him on the bench to cool off
 
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I don't see why he needed to cool off....Personally i don't really like that type of attitude, but we don't have any fire in us this year, and as far as i'm seeing it, he is the only one that is going to get people pissed off and/or fired up....I think he is doing a little bit of good for the team, the coaches should be the one getting fired up...

Said it in a few different posts, we need Trooper Taylor back, just before games to get us fired up.
 
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he sure did have our receivers playing better football. I'd say that is probably our weakest position on the team right now.

PUT IN MAPLES!!!
 
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It got pretty ugly on the sideline. Stephens thought the receiver just quit running. If you look at the replay, he actually collided w/ the ref. A little miscommunication going on
 
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Josh Briscoe is the worst reciever i have ever seen at UT.. has anyone looked at his highlight tape from high school? Its ridiculous.. it shows him dropping balls and making interceptions at safety on very poorly thrown balls
 
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bigOmuscle said:
It got pretty ugly on the sideline. Stephens thought the receiver just quit running. If you look at the replay, he actually collided w/ the ref. A little miscommunication going on
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That receiver was not even suppose to be an option. If you look at it he was actually going in to "rub" the defender for another receiver.
 
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getyopopcornready said:
Josh Briscoe is the worst reciever i have ever seen at UT.. has anyone looked at his highlight tape from high school? Its ridiculous.. it shows him dropping balls and making interceptions at safety on very poorly thrown balls
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Thats part of the problem, to many josh briscoe's on our team and not enough aj green or julio jones's. Someone said it earlier out of twenty guys we went head to head with against the big teams, florida, georgia, alabama,etc. We got something like three of them. Not a very good ratio. We're not only getting beat on the field, but off the field too.
 
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Jonathan Crompton played because they were hoping to get a spark from the non existent offense that has been going on even with NS playing. Not that going 5 of 8 was overly impressive but how is a kid supposed to be successful after only playing 3 series? Nobody can get into a rhythm that quickly.
 
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BeenThere09 said:
Jonathan Crompton played because they were hoping to get a spark from the non existent offense that has been going on even with NS playing. Not that going 5 of 8 was overly impressive but how is a kid supposed to be successful after only playing 3 series? Nobody can get into a rhythm that quickly.
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Jonathan Crompton=FAIL
 
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Jonathan Crompton is easily the best quarterback. Did his play lead to success? No. Did he play well at all? No. Did he play anywhere close to his potential? No. However, if given the chance next year, JC will be closer to the quarterback that all of the people on VN hoped he would be before the season; when they were all on his bandwagon.
 
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BeenThere09 said:
Jonathan Crompton is easily the best quarterback. Did his play lead to success? No. Did he play well at all? No. Did he play anywhere close to his potential? No. However, if given the chance next year, JC will be closer to the quarterback that all of the people on VN hoped he would be before the season; when they were all on his bandwagon.
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Before there is a chance for this to happen he will need to learn how to read the defense, not stare one receiver down and learn to go through the progressions and find the open man down field.

So far he hasn't shown the ability to do any of these things.
 
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this morning hyams said
that NS threw to briscoe who wasnt actually running a route but rather a pick.
 
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Watch Nick Stephens... how many times do you see him get to his 2nd or 3rd reciever. Hardly ever. Due to a lack of protection, nobody will be able to get through any progressions. Also, believe it or not, JC can read defenses as well as anyone out there. But when not given enough time, this because near impossible. I completely agreed with giving Nick his fair opportunity, however this move amounted to very little. JC easily has the most raw talent of the bunch and if he can become a little more coachable next year, given the chance, there could possibly be a tremendous turn around.
 
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BeenThere09 said:
Watch Nick Stephens... how many times do you see him get to his 2nd or 3rd reciever. Hardly ever. Due to a lack of protection, nobody will be able to get through any progressions. Also, believe it or not, JC can read defenses as well as anyone out there. But when not given enough time, this because near impossible. I completely agreed with giving Nick his fair opportunity, however this move amounted to very little. JC easily has the most raw talent of the bunch and if he can become a little more coachable next year, given the chance, there could possibly be a tremendous turn around.
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I agree that Crompton has more upside, but at the moment Stephens is managing the game better than Crompton (which is a huge indictment against him).
 
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BeenThere09 said:
Jonathan Crompton is easily the best quarterback. Did his play lead to success? No. Did he play well at all? No. Did he play anywhere close to his potential? No. However, if given the chance next year, JC will be closer to the quarterback that all of the people on VN hoped he would be before the season; when they were all on his bandwagon.
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Yeah because a whole offseason and 4 games taking first team snaps is SOOOOO not enough time to work out the kinks. Or all the time behind Ainge, to work on his game.

Yep, he definitely needs more time to get better.
 
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I can agree with that. Thats why i think that next year Crompton runs away with the qb competition ( if there is one), learns from his mistakes from this year, and never looks back.
 
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BeenThere09 said:
Watch Nick Stephens... how many times do you see him get to his 2nd or 3rd reciever. Hardly ever. Due to a lack of protection, nobody will be able to get through any progressions. Also, believe it or not, JC can read defenses as well as anyone out there. But when not given enough time, this because near impossible. I completely agreed with giving Nick his fair opportunity, however this move amounted to very little. JC easily has the most raw talent of the bunch and if he can become a little more coachable next year, given the chance, there could possibly be a tremendous turn around.
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Oh really? And how do you know he can read defenses well? Surely not from game performance. He has had to call a timeout multiple times because he can't correctly audible at the line. And those interceptions, if he can read the defenses so well, those must just be blamed on inability to throw a football?
 
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according to an article stephens was benched beacause after he threw the pick he did not go after the guy. Clawson said that he wanted to show him things dont always go your way but you still have to play hard.
Is this the real reason? I dont know but thats what they are saying.
 
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BearCat204 said:
Jonathan Crompton=FAIL
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joc said:
Where is BJ?
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Vols N Shocks said:
Yeah because a whole offseason and 4 games taking first team snaps is SOOOOO not enough time to work out the kinks. Or all the time behind Ainge, to work on his game.

Yep, he definitely needs more time to get better.
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Whole offseason? Really? this wasnt just any offseason. The entire offense wasnt even installed until into the summer. so once they did learn the offense, that left them little to no time to " get the kinks out" There are MAYBE a handful of qbs that could have come in and been successful in this situation.
 
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I DO KNOW, that JC can read defenses better than any out of the group of qbs at the University of Tennessee.
 
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VolsZealot said:
according to an article stephens was benched beacause after he threw the pick he did not go after the guy. Clawson said that he wanted to show him things dont always go your way but you still have to play hard.
Is this the real reason? I dont know but thats what they are saying.
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Fulmer and Clawson gave different answers to that same question. Just another example of this team not being on the same page.
 
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