Time to Revisit a Conversation Fellas

[BeastMan]

I made this post on 8/5:

First off, I would like to say that I love all of our players and have to look strictly at statistical production to have a fair and balanced view. There are 2 guys in particular I want yall's opinion on.

1) Denico Autry- we all like to think that he is an elite pass rusher (5*). Last year he only had 4 sacks. I'll admit that he looked better at the end of the year. Buy or sell that if he has 0 sacks through our first 4 games, (all passing teams) we need to start Chris Jones at SDE. I say play CJ in very heavy doses at the minimum if Autry's production doesn't match our expectations for him.

2) Kaleb Eulls- For the love of everything holy, he saved a girl from a gun on a school bus; great guy. Last year he had 0 sacks & 1 TFL (year before he had 1 sack & 3 TFL). Buy or sell that if he has 0 TFL in our first 4 games, we need to start Quay Evans.



This is such an interesting topic to me. We have a want for our guys to produce like none other. If you were to show those stat lines to a fan of another school, it would be a no brainer b/c they don't have the passion that we do for these guys to succeed as individual players. When for these 2 is production a must? Where is their mendoza lines? Personally I would give Autry more leeway but goodness, he's a SR. I feel like its time to show me something or we should go to CJ.

Link> http://www.elitedawgs.com/showthread...t=denico+autry

Now that we have played 5 games its time to look at this again. I will modify slightly to say that I like Chris Jones inside and I'd like to see more Ryan Brown and AJ Jefferson in place of Autry. Unless he does something drastic, his production is starting to suggest bust. In regard to Eulls, you could make the argument that he is the most unproductive player in MSU history and it probably wouldn't be far off. Neither have a sack. Autry has 1 TFL. I tried to tell yall all spring and summer that Preston Smith was our best DE... Eulls has 1 TFL in has last 20 starts, 0 this year.

Go back and see what you said in July. What say ye now?

I want to be clear that this post could make me sound kind of harsh but this is SEC ball. It's not about playing good guys who work hard and are great MSU ambassadors. Its about playing the guys that will help you win period.