Quote Originally Posted by Taog Redloh View Post
Do you all just conveniently forget all the guys that DO play for us as 1st and 2nd year players?

Fletcher Cox
Chad Bumphis
Chris Smith
Gabe Jackson
Johnthan Banks
Chris Jones
Nickoe Whitley
Blaine Clausell
Taveze Calhoun
Bernardrick McKinney

What about all the JUCOs that DID play early, because they were worth a sh*t?

Chris White
Pernell McPhee
Denico Autry
Charles Siddoway

So what if they are conservative? By and large they are making the right decisions. You are cherry-picking and have a short memory. We've also seen that sometimes it's an attitude problem, like Josh Robinson. There's always a reason.
The vast, vast majority of those players were early on in Mullen's career and at positions where we had glaring needs. I think the whole Mullen favors seniors thing is overblown, but we definitely have a problem not getting enough production out of players. Only getting a season of CB play from Slay was really bad. Robinson looked bad, but in hindsight, the coaches probably had good reasons. What we've done at RB this year looks really bad. We clearly didn't have an SEC back ready to play. Unless we find out that Aeris was really screwing up off the field, then not getting him snaps early and having an SEC back for the second half of the season was awful.

We also seemed to spend almost a full year with a player that was never going to have time to be an adequate LT. It really doesn't make sense that we stuck with Warren so long. If you're going to be completely inadequate at a position, be inadequate with a younger player (except for QB and maybe DB, where you can ruin a players confidence).