Warrior and Kongbo

#52
#52
With this team, a 3-4 defense is gonna get boat ra ed in the SEC. there is nowhere near enough speed on the outside, and not enough power in the middle. What we could do otherwise I have no clue, but this season is going to be long unless one of those things changes and soon.
 
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#60
LoudOrange said:
Coaching malpractice still happening in the secondary.
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After as many secondary coaches we've had the last few years I think it's about time we put the blame else where like on the players. Abernathy played horrible and he's a guy that's been here awhile he can't cover anybody, can't tackle and is too slow. As far as the rest on defense about the same
 
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IPleadInsanity said:
It seemed like we had no secondary. Every time he threw our guy was always playing catch up with his back turned. Lucky they did not score 60 points.
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Exactly also offenses will have tape on us,so we got 2 games to try to fix the issues.You would hope by Florida u start seeing sum progress all around.
 
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#65
WestGaVol said:
It’s all of them not just those 2! Sapp Kongbo K Phillips Tuttle Bituli Taylor entire secondary. I understand new scheme but how were these guys ranked so high? We’ve had enough time for them to atleast be serviceable players and that’s just not happened. Very disappointing that after 3-4yrs in a D1 program they can’t tackle, shed any blocks or cover anyone. Warrior I thought would be a great player but he has no business playing D1 either. Just makes no sense
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You can't fix years of soft coaching and juice bar workout rooms with one off season. These guys haven't had a leader or direction until recently. But what you do see on the field right now is a direct indictment of one of 2 things:
1. Butch's recruiting, or
2. his and his staff's coaching and development.

I personally am tired of all the talk of how much talent we have/had on these teams. Nothing from Butch's years, recruits, game plan, or dicipline ever translated to great success on the field. The closest we came was 2016, and with all that talent the end result was not being able to close out the season against vandy or ky... And miss a shot at a big boy bowl game.

It's going to take a while to get rid of the mindset these players had under Butch. It's going to take a bit of time to get comfortable with the new schemes. It's going to take some time to develop players who weren't developed. Pruitt is playing with the hand someone else dealt him. All we can hope for this season is to see improvement overall. But what most people are forgetting is, this is the 2nd string and what's left of the 1st string of a team that went 4-8 last year.... Where all these expectations of some great turnaround team came from I have no idea.
 
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It is funny... I was sitting right behind the end zone. Whenever WVU had the ball at their own 2, I was looking at Kongbo and they dude looks like an absolutely monster.... But then nothing happens when they ball is snapped. I can't figure it out
 
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#68
How much of a player's passivity might be a case of his saving himself for the NFL. If I were a college player and I thought I could make that work, damned if I'd put out for a moribund program that had no chance of relevance, that is unless I were being compensated financially.
 
#69
#69
Kongbo is irrelevant. Warrior is not. Pruitt will eventually recognize Kongbo's dominate physique is a false veneer. Kongbo has no idea what he is doing on the field. Kongbo has no impact on the field, despite his physical appearance. Kongbo is a big, stong body with no understanding of how to shed blockers or impact a play. He treats each play as a wrestling contest, with no ideta of what matters or what is going on around him. He locks up with his man and wrestles with him as the play passes him by. He seems to have no idea of the main objectives of his position. He is a great physique with no impact.
 
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tinman23 said:
It is funny... I was sitting right behind the end zone. Whenever WVU had the ball at their own 2, I was looking at Kongbo and they dude looks like an absolutely monster.... But then nothing happens when they ball is snapped. I can't figure it out
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There are thousands of “monsters” in weight rooms all over the country. Most of them stopped playing in high school. It’s talent, and Kongbo doesn’t have it. He’ll be a great slow pitch softball player some day.
 
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#71
Old Geezer said:
Kongbo is irrelevant. Warrior is not. Pruitt will eventually recognize Kongbo's dominate physique is a false veneer. Kongbo has no idea what he is doing on the field. Kongbo has no impact on the field, despite his physical appearance. Kongbo is a big, stong body with no understanding of how to shed blockers or impact a play. He treats each play as a wrestling contest, with no ideta of what matters or what is going on around him. He locks up with his man and wrestles with him as the play passes him by. He seems to have no idea of the main objectives of his position. He is a great physique with no impact.
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CJP knows what he’s got with Kongbo, and also the rest of his players. He’ll have to recruit his way out of this mess. Meanwhile he’ll have to play the players he’s got and do his best coaching them up.
 
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GBOTango said:
CJP knows what he’s got with Kongbo, and also the rest of his players. He’ll have to recruit his way out of this mess. Meanwhile he’ll have to play the players he’s got and do his best coaching them up.
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Preferably, he'll start playing and coaching the players he recruited a lot more. If yesterday was representative of what's left from the Jones' era, then we might as well see what we've got with the younger guys and get them ready.
 
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