McLoofus 35,182 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Y'all remember Eli Stove? I feel like people forget about him. I'm not gonna lie. I remembered there were NCM, Davis, another guy who was almost on their level in terms of recruiting rankings, and then the big kid, McClain. So it's very true and kinda strange that I forgot Stove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autan 737 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 It's pretty clear the offense regressed last year...was it due to QB play, Gus being stubborn, Rhett being dead weight, youth, inexperience, talent, play calling, Martians, the Saban effect, the Aubietron, JayJacobs, other coaches figuring Gus out, or the decision to continue making twinkles. If the QB play gets better - then the play calling and offensive production gets better....we may not find this out until September when Dabo comes to town. The play calling last year with the exception the A&M game was horrendous. That disappointed me as much as much as our quarterback play A coach can only call plays that his players are capable of executing. With severely limited capability at QB, the plays that could be called were severely limited. I was more disappointed at the play calling with SW in the game. I think we all agree he can throw, seems like they would let him throw to the middle of the field more, take a couple more deep shots to loosen up the field besides the fake end around (really doesn't matter if we connect it or not) and give him some more options besides a wheel route and a 6 yd curl....also the stopping of running the ball and the player substitutions were horrible as far as the hb's. People can save me the pass blocking thing hundreds of coaches work around that problem, even if barber was better Robinson wasn't completely inept that he couldn't be on the field at all, and the game was close and there was no need to go to air attacks every down a couple of the games I.e. Georgia Couldn't agree more Cole. He was put in far too many third and very long situations due to just pure stubbornness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU80cruiser 1,102 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Y'all remember Eli Stove? I feel like people forget about him. I have not but I think Marcus and Ryan Davis will have the edge on him with their time in the system. I look for him to get on the field in some capacity this year though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle 9,064 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle 9,064 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Y'all remember Eli Stove? I feel like people forget about him. Good point. I do tend to forget about him. I'm also not as high on Kyle Davis as most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Plainsman 948 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. WOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle 9,064 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. WOW. Disclaimer: Mine is a lay person's opinion and likely to be inflated, unrealistic and patently wrong. Meyers is special though, and the opportunity is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
au_bsci_04 407 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. NCM was #1 overall at one point before his injury. If he recovers fully without issue, it wouldn't be a shock for him to be the best of the bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,093 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. Not in the final rankings. KD dropped some because he had a good but not great senior year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnacle 9,064 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. Not in the final rankings. KD dropped some because he had a good but not great senior year. Interesting. Thanks for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,093 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I hope I don't have unreasonably high expectations for him. Probably not compared to me. I think he will be the best WR on the team & starting before the season is over. That's exactly what I think. I know Davis was rated more highly but I can see Craig doing for us what Sammie Watkins did his freshman year at Clemson. Not in the final rankings. KD dropped some because he had a good but not great senior year. Interesting. Thanks for the correction. All the big 3 dropped at least a bit on almost all 4 sites.Where they finished: Nate Rivals- 35 (was once #1 in nation) ESPN- 37 (was as high as 10) Scout- 52 (was in top 15) 247- 117 (was as high as 10 5*) Composite- 43 (was in top 15 5* at one point) Kyle Rivals- 130 (was once a 5* in top 30) ESPN- 54 (was in top 35 at 1 point) Scout- 133 (was in top 20 5*) 247- 54 (was as high as 15 5*) Composite- 72 (was in top 25 5* at one point) Eli Rivals- 56 (at or near his high for that site) ESPN- 113 (was in 60s at 1 point) Scout- 195 (was in top 100) 247- 285 (was in the 50s at one point) Composite- 121 (was in the 50s at one point) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFDTiger80 790 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 We had a great year recruiting receivers last year. I am concerned our offense is not very sophisticated when it comes to passing the ball. I wish I had more confidence that CGM would have our receivers running routes that take advantage of our talent at WR and whichever QB wins the job. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey 16,589 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 We had a great year recruiting receivers last year. I am concerned our offense is not very sophisticated when it comes to passing the ball. I wish I had more confidence that CGM would have our receivers running routes that take advantage of our talent at WR and whichever QB wins the job. Thoughts? In all his years of college coaching, Gus has had one bad and one ordinary season of offense. The rest have been top 5, record setters, etc. Why the lack of confidence? If our QB can pass, we'll get the ball to them. If we have to settle for a running QB whose passing game is questionable to weak then the passing stats won't look so hot, though we'll probably still score points in bunches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellitor 33,093 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 We had a great year recruiting receivers last year. I am concerned our offense is not very sophisticated when it comes to passing the ball. I wish I had more confidence that CGM would have our receivers running routes that take advantage of our talent at WR and whichever QB wins the job. Thoughts? Our offense is not sophisticated with passing the ball but it does not have to be. WRs were open a lot of last year. The issues were they either dropped the ball, were not thrown to because of incorrect reads or staring down other WRs, & the staff shrunk the the target areas as they lost trust in JJ & were trying to build it w/ Sean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
au701948 998 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I am just hoping against hope that we use and play our newly recruited receivers like other schools (Clemson, Ala and many others) that seem to find ways to make their newly found talent immediate starters and impact players..not wait and "develop" them until they are Juniors and well forgotten commodities. Regardless of the QB, these players have to be given the chance to make the field in game one while no one is expecting us to have new found firepower. CGM has to make it happen regardless JMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AUBwins 10,075 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 On 12/19/2018 at 9:22 AM, weathergeakal said: Lol, I think they actually found every highlight he had with us, all 5-6 of them. So underutilized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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