BillySee58

Fonzale Davis will play immediately next year.

Exactly, unfortunately. And as Army of Dad said, we have enough problems getting guys to return from their injuries on time anyways. Big opportunity for Coleman to step up, especially if he really is a big east caliber big man.

It's one thing to have quantity, but we need quality as well. We've seen 6 lineman get significant snaps this year. 1 of those lineman is a senior and 4 of them are juniors. We have 8 other scholarship lineman, but who knows if they will be adequate replacements once guys like Johnson, Lemon, and Y'Barbo leave after next year. I think Beard would have a really good chance to come in, redshirt, and take one of the potentially 4 starting positions that will open after Mckinney and the three 4-year starters leave after the 2014 season.

Received his sixth offer today from Toledo, per his twitter.

And we were thinking we might've had a chance since he goes to the same school Chris Jones went to.

Fonzale Davis is electric and will be fun to watch next year as well.

It is a pistol because there is a deep back behind DT. I agree with Harry. I didn't like it last year for that reason that you mentioned. They know we're running the ball and who it's going to (the deep back). It seems like we haven't run much zone read since DT ran the ball into our bench and scared us half to death that he might've broken his throwing hand against Ball St. DT has had a semi-injury plagued career but nothing out of the ordinary for a qb who has played five years of D1 ball. Our best rushing performances have been Ball St and Idaho where DT's zone read keeps were making the defense have to account for more options. We need to do more of that, whether it's DT doing it or Berglund and Mcnulty coming in for a few plays here and there to do it. Except for teams that run the veer (triple-option) offense and pro-style teams with pro talent like Alabame, the best rushing attacks in the country are zone-read based offenses that at least attempt to use their qb to keep the defense guessing. We don't have Marcus Mariota at qb, but DT has been effective when called upon.

It's not worth the "I told you so." It would serve them right, but I'd much rather have Dajon for that extra year. If Brock and Mcnulty can handle the starter and backup duties next year then we could redshirt Williams next year. I'm not sure how much Connor means would like that, but he'd just have to deal with it.

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Great post. When we ran nickel last year buyers was the guy. We ran it more than Mac let off from what I remember. But Mac loves playing his experienced guys, upperclassmen, and returning starters. That makes it hard to know what we have on the bench. It also gives hope to freshman and sophomores on this roster who aren't getting much playing time.

Mac is setting up Dajon for a redshirt according to his presser today. He said he's been in and out of practice. Whether it's a legitimate injury or not, it seems as though the plan is for Dajon to get a redshirt. He also didn't travel with the team this last weekend. Not sure about Berglund though. A package for him would be nice, but I wouldn't expect it.

DT has the same baseball-pitcher-esque long wind up that Tim Tebow was highly criticized for entering his nfl draft. Tim Tebow was also a Heisman trophy winner.

Derek Thompson was a sophomore two years in a row. He applied for his waiver the year after he broke his leg against army and got it.

Why he played in the first place is still beyond me. But as long as he gets the redshirt it'll be fine with me. It was cool to see how well Dajon did end up doing fwiw at this point.

Lincoln played a great game.

Side note, it appears Reinhardt is redshirting this year to cut weight and have him at a good weight for a tight end. He said on his twitter that he came in at 285 and he has gotten down to somewhere in the low 260s iirc with a goal of getting down to 250. I thought we'd see him moved to defensive tackle with our lack of size and depth at that position, not to mention Boutwell and Abbe graduating after this year. The coaching staff liked him at tight end enough to recruit him there and they still do. He could be quite the force wherever he ends up.

This is what I was saying. Not quite the belldozer, but just a package. Not necessarily for short yardage, but just have a package for BB where we can give a new wrinkle to our stagnant running game. But yes Stan, it seems that good new ideas seem out of the question with our coaching staff. Coaches being stubborn has been the downfall of many coaches. Hope it isn't D-Mac downfall.

Isn't Tulane supposed to have calls go against them since they are leaving CUSA?

Jones has been solid all year. He is our best cover corner. Also, sweet pickup by Pegram at 1:18 and good pass pro overall. We're giving DT the time, we should be throwing deep more. Also, the sack by LaFrance looks like the lineman were in slide protection and were leaving LaFrance to get picked up by a running back. If not either the center or the guard should've peeled back and picked him up when they saw they had no one to block on their slide side.

Good point. And I absolutely agree that we should throw more. Teams are running 8 in the box all the time, might as well make them pay. I'm as big a DT critic as there is, but I think we have a better chance if he is slinging it downfield.

I wasn't being anti-Derek in my thread about using a running qb for the record. I know that isn't the only anti-DT talk you are referring to, just wanted to clear that up. I was proposing that we use some zone read to mix things up and add misdirection to our running game since running right at people isn't working. We should do more of that with DT, but I would like to see us out our running qbs in there to do that as well as make a throw to keep defenses honest against that wildcat. GOMG2013 is right. Dinking and dunking is helping our passing stats since DT is getting yards and completions from them, but they aren't helping our team a whole lot. Our scoring has not improved dramatically from last year, except for the Idaho and Ball St game. Defenses will stack the box unless we show that we can complete a pass 15+ yards down the field effectively. We have to throw more of those passes. If DT can't complete them so be it.

It's sports. Everyone whose kids aren't playing are pissed. No one is happy to see their kids riding the bench. Although I would like to see them give Berglund a chance to make a play with his feet every once in a while.

Congrats on his touchdown today!

An effective zone read can be pulled off even if the blocking isn't great, sometimes. Misdirection as opposed to running it right at them

If they move up then you make the throw. That's the difference between having a fast qb back there instead of a guy like Brelan who is either going to hand it off or run it himself.