This is an excellent idea.
Everyone should preface their post with amount of beverages they’ve had. Kinda like on Dan Patrick, when the callers give their height and weight.
Agree on how often players look at the board. It’s why I try to not name people individually. It’s one thing to critique a position, it’s another thing to post a kid’s name in a subject line and rip him.
It's been an ongoing concern with Levi. I know while he was talking about his improvement in fall camp, I had seen him throw at several practices and knew he was not throwing well on the deep routes. We've all seen vast improvements in his decision making and execution, but in my opinion going forward the offense will have to hit a few of those passes against the better defenses like App State, Troy and Ark State for us to have a chance at getting a win.
The reactions in a game thread are spontaneous responses (ususally) to plays that have just taken place. I know for me, it's like you see a play happen, you react, sometimes good, sometimes bad, depends on the play, no different than if you sitting in the stands, turn to your wife, girlfriend, buddy, etc.. and you describe what you just saw. It's not meant to be some analysis and breakdown of a play with the background of the player, and what type of person they are all mixed into the comment. If you read the thread later, it can be taken out of context, because you are not seeing the play that goes with the comment. jmo.
Napier has tried to make Lewis a pocket passer the last two games in the 1st half with minimal sucess. Hopefully, he learned that it's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and plays to Lewis strength . The only way lewis can be successful is to use his legs or roll out of the pocket.
Personally I think its important for players to get thick skin and I couldn’t care less if they read the board as long as they know we are all a bunch of amateur couch quarterbacks.
Was watching a good short documentary that the athletic did on Nick Saban and something he said really stuck with me. How players need to know their mistakes and weaknesses otherwise they cannot improve. Never let a mistake or error not be a lesson. The best players always want to know how they did on every play, good or bad.
With that said it is still scary that they would read this board with all the negativity.
Levi's faults won't really show much as long as we can run the ball effectively and our defense, which does look improved, plays well. Passes will be more of a nuance in the game plan. Most teams we play, we should be ok, since we should be able to have success running the ball. If we get into a game where we are not moving the ball with the run game, then our passing game with Levi will be put to the test and based on what I've seen so far, we are in for some disappointment. It will eventually happen, but not this weekend.
While what you say is true, there will be a few games that LL can win for us with his arm. Ohio, stAte, App St, Troy and GaSo will all be toss up games and LL connecting on a few deep balls that he hasn’t seemed to connect on yet will be the difference between a W and a L.
I’m not talking about jump balls either. I mean passes like the one he miss Bradley on in the 2nd quarter against Liberty. Bradley had 3 yards of separation on their DB and the ball was 3 yards overthrown. We need to hit on plays like that.
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