Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
I think it shows how inflexible Dan was last year.

1. Green at DE/OLB/MLB? Would have been nice last year. Would have been nice to have done that with McKinney as well.

2. Of course it's going to be Holloway and Shumpert at RB/FB. I can live with it IF we use Holloway like we did last year and NOT like we used Perkins. Good to see Shumpert moved to FB. Would have helped last year probably. Holloway I think will be the main guy and Aeris will get about 1/3 of the snaps if I had to guess. Lee will probably sit because he can't do anything right.

3. Dan would be insane to give him #36 after the media backlash that has already ensued.

4. Really like Todd. And not just because he has an awesome name. Moving Peters to offense would have been a terrible idea because we would have moved him BACK to defense where he belongs and basically cost him a year of experience playing safety because no one looked at the depth chart and realized that we didn't have anyone over 6'2" at WR until the spring apparently.

5. This pisses me off. Especially given how bad our o-line was. Basically he's saying we decided to play Warren because he's a senior and I'm not creative enough to find a way to make Warren productive as the third tackle and blocking TE on goal line situations. As bad as our o-line was last season there was ZERO reason to hold anyone capable back. Especially during the senior year of our best player in school history.

6. I like Mixon a lot. He will replace Holloway as the scatback/WR and I think he will be even better than Holloway.

7. Again, would have been nice last year. It's not like Dear didn't play RB some in high school. I get that he was a freshman but how hard is it to learn run a draw play or and outside running play of some kind? Dan needs to stop thinking of Dear as a slot guy and more of a Percy Harvin guy. Looks like he is coming around on that.

8. Expected so that we can get Ross, Gray- who should be in the slot, and Myles on the field at the same time.

Dan needs to stop being so inflexible with our team and be more creative and move people around to different positions in season rather than just stick with whatever position a player started with at the beginning of the year and rolling with it come hell or high water. His rigidity hampers our team a good bit- and the changes are things that are pretty obvious to casual football fans.
2. I expect Shump to be a great special teams guy & get very few carries & lead block on occasion. Again I expect Aeris to be the guy.

5. Rankin wasn't ready in September but by November he was but didn't want to waste a year on 4 games.

7. Dear played like Akers in HS. He rarely played at RB. He played mostly Wildcat QB & in the Slot. Don't expect much if any Dear playing RB. He'll still get those jet sweeps but he's going to make more plays downfield this year like our slots in the past (Bump & Tubby)

8. Gray is, has been, & will always be an outside WR. We have to stop looking at his height & look at his skill. He's never played Slot he's always been outside & will show why this year. He's the starter at X & will show out.