Anyone got info from our second scrimmage today?
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Anyone got info from our second scrimmage today?
I went. But shotgun would complain if I told you what I saw no matter what so there's that.
Did it resemble this?**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc1...nnel=willty834
Here's Leach's take on the scrimmage:
https://youtu.be/eZgUvE0A8kA
Does anyone else crack up at his weekly deadpan plugs for Coke? They get me every time.
ETA: Of yeah, substance. Most notable things to me: (1) Shader's move sounds permanent. And dude apparently looks solid at WR. (2) Osiris Mitchell, despite being the leading returning WR, has work to do. I've heard Leach discuss several other receivers recently in more positive terms than he did Osiris today. (3) Austin Williams, the practice legend, is apparently running with the starters for real.
I like the fact that he keeps it real without running down anyone. I also like the fact that he seems to make it a priority to get the best players on the field. I don't feel like Dan or Joe always did that and it hurt us at times and limited our ceiling. Dan treated us like a high school team as far as the depth chart goes where the seniors played over the underclassmen most of the time because they had been here longer. And then Dan's arrogant "Holloway blocks better than Aeris and knows the playbook better" was just outright disrespectful to our fan's intelligence. Joe's "Top five" was possibly even worse. That's a big reason why I don't think we have seen much of what Austin Williams and to more of an extent JaVonta Payton can do. It used to piss me off watching Guidry drop passes and keep being trotted out there while Payton catches everything and hustles 100% all the time at the WR spot. Osirus just sounds like Osirus to me based on what Leach is saying.
I'm guessing we'll see 8-10 receivers a game catching passes and probably 2-3 running backs used consistently. That's a much better way to use our personnel. And I figure in a couple of years we'll see a better rotation of defensive players once we build depth there. And we're going to see basically two offensive lines a game rather than Hevesy pretending he's in the NFL and only wanting to use eight.
I'm guessing Williams is the kind of dude Leach can utilize better than our previous coaches. Osiris always looked limited but he has size and was good for a play or two down the field. Maybe he doesn't flow in the offense as well.
For WRs, he values consistency over occasional great. Get open, catch the ball over an occasional fantastic catch along with dropping catchable balls.
It was a bad drop but we ran a whole lot more plays than that one in that game and looked terrible in almost all of them. Even if he scores that only gives us 13 points for the game and we still might have lost. So like I said, bad moment but Osirus was just a symptom of way bigger problems.
On the flip side, I soured on him last year when we were running the two minute drill against Kansas State late in the ball game and he was walking back to the line of scrimmage and taking his dear sweet time. I guess you can also say that was a symptom of a bigger culture problem, but it still made me mad.
That being said, I feel almost certain that Leach can get more out of Osirus than Dan and Joe ever did. If not then Leach won’t hesitate to put someone else in, plain and simple.
I do too. Pretty sure it's an Adidas one, but whether it will be available to the public who knows. Adidas' marketing is really weird. Sometimes it's a limited supply , not all sizes available, etc., and they will issue what and when they want to. It doesn't seem like what would be a good seller at the time, doesn't play any role in what they do.
He's Osirus the Virus to me
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130828175202
Is Homedawg ever going to give his run down?
Osiris is one of our best receivers, true fact.
WAS one of our best. Not anymore.
I trust our HC.
The offense is developing some much needed WR depth. Both QB's have been solid & the 1st team OL has been pretty salty. The 1st team defense has flashes but no one is going to confuse us with a top notch SEC defense. Our goal on defense is going to be force a lot of turnovers because we're not just going to shut down teams. I will say this that 2020 recruiting class is going to have a lot of contributors in it.
I thought it was Ray Ray Biviens
Couldn’t catch him inside a phone booth
I will say this, Paul Jones reported our second team line consisted of x (which includes lashley) yesterday .... but Scott lashkey didn't dress so his info isn't very good....
Think about this
The 2017 defense had 2 new major differences than the 2016 defense
Sweat and Coach Grantham
The only other 2 new faces ( I think) were Abram who did break out till the 2018 season and Willie Gay as a true freshman in a very limited role.. the rest of that 2017 defense were all on the 2016 team..
Now not saying we are going to be anywhere near the 2017 team on defense, but it should be much better than the 2016.. if Coach Arnett was the right hire.. he is better than Sirmon I think we all can agree on that
Yes we have a lot of young guys that have to grow up early..but they aren’t 2 stars or Walk ons..
The offense is the least of my worries
Solid QB RB and OL and with CML calling the plays the WR group will be just fine
Why didn't he dress out?
I will say one thing about the 2016 defense is they had Jeffrey Simmons who even at that time was an obvious impact potential first round guy even at that stage and we knew he was only going to get better.
If we can average 24 PPG allowed on defense we will be OK.