re: The most important position on the field

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Off the field it seems we are on schedule building a program the way Hugh wants to build it. It seems the recruits are bought into this and the players are still playing hard.

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It seems. For now. Things will worsen. The team cannot be taking the loss today very well. I think we may look really bad at KY next week.

I’m seeing around the corners and I see nothing but despair.

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I just dont believe that the offense has been good all year. I cant believe that when you are turning the ball over every other time you have it

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that's independent of the gameplan and the play calls. It just is. It's up to Payton to not turn the ball over and I promise you he's being coached not to. It's ignorant to think he's not.

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Yea you can hit a few big plays against cupcakes but not controling the ball is bad offense.

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We were hitting chunk plays against everybody. The ball control conversation is incredibly nuanced and nowhere near binary. I like ball control offenses, they're good, but teams lose the top battle and win the game all the time.

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I have never personally liked Hugh. He is just one of those slimy fake christian dudes that I dont care for. He made is very easy for me to dislike him more when he showed that he cant coach on gameday

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Exactly it's personal, and you're looking for shite to hate and this season is a confirmation bias seafood buffet for you.

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Has nothing to do with you. Its just your constant opinion that more talent is going to make Hugh a better coach. It isnt.

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Sure helped Kirby and saban. Every coach gets accused of not being a good gameday coach bc football is fricking hard and the elites aren't perfect.

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Our 5*, best ever receiver is lazy and only shows up 1 play out of 20. That is coaching.

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Making the same mistake twice is a bad look no doubt. Marcus Davis might not be up to snuff. Unfortunately if we keep the same gameplan from today going forward we prob won't get to see if they're getting anything together.

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Someone said it pretty good earlier. WE are TAM with Jimbo, 2.0. Except I honestly think Jimbo was a better game day coach

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way too early to say this. The big class ain't even on campus yet.

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I just cant understand this thought process

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i cant understand how yall can't fathom that cal, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and this game are all dubs if we have a legitimate qb that Hugh can trust. It's not hard to see. And we weren't waaaayyyyy more talented than any of those teams.

Idk how nmsu and last years iron bowl made the offense turn the ball over and PT crumble under pressure.

His scheme on offense and durkins on defense combined with talent is plenty enough to compete. It's not even hard to see.

Talent is a major part of the equation. Scheme is another. If the class stays together we'll have both. Does he have that intangible ingredient Kirby and saban did? Idk. But this season DOES NOT prove that he doesn't in anyway. Only thing that has been proven is trying to compete with PT was a mistake. We needed a portal quarterback. He'll have a chance to redeem himself on that this offseason.

Saban and Kirby either inherited rosters with way more talent than we had or they entered into a different era. Rolando McClain committed to Shula . Even when they were nothing, they still had something on the field. They had a 5* OT in Andre Smith. Bama is generally a high floor program. The SEC also had zero parity then.

Georgia has had talent on the field since I was 11 years old, so 24 years ago.

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We needed a portal quarterback. He'll have a chance to redeem himself on that this offseason.

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My question is does Hugh attract a top QB knowing Hugh's necessitation to RPO the offense. I dont think so. The RPO is a very difficult ask to a QB and Hugh lives by it and throws his QBs under the bus when the QB errors. A QB has to be aware of a lot and then has to be able to make lightning-quick reads.

Secondly, can a first year QB give Hugh enough a splash to make Freeze breathe easier.

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I like and agree with most of your posts dude but I dont here. There is no, 4 year rebuilds in college football these days. And there shouldnt be with the portal and transfer system. A program like Auburn that has the resources we have should be way better in year 2 than we are right now.

More years and more talent is not going to get us there with this staff

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NIL and the transfer portal rules are still in it's infancy. If a QB is looking to transfer in the NIL era, he's either unproven or underpaid. Meanwhile, if a guy that is worth a damn, is targeted, you can bet your arse that other schools want him too. Just because the portal exists now, doesn't mean we can just go out and grab the next Cam Newton.

Here's the reality. Freeze walked into a program that was decimated in terms of OVERALL talent. His recruits on the team, are all true freshmen. He's righted the recruiting ship, but it's going to take some time to show those results. Think about it... our starting QB is a transfer. Our next best guy was not offered by anyone of consequence. Our LT probably wouldn't start on any other SEC team, and he is apparently the best we've got. Our secondary is fricking atrocious. Young talent that hasn't adjusted to the speed of the game, sprinkled in with guys that wouldn't sniff the field on any other SEC team.

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A QB has to be aware of a lot and then has to be able to make lightning-quick reads

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That's kinda their whole thing lol. You're overthinking it.

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You dont get to say regardless of talent when that is literally my argument. That is like sticking your head under the sand.

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We are 2-5 and only one of those losses was due to talent (UGA).

We had both OU and Missouri beat but flat out blew it. OU is trash and that trash QB they ran out against us got his arse benched today. They were NOT "more talented". Same exact case for Missouri. The game was won and Brady Cook didn't even play well, on top of being out for half the game. We blew it again.

So your talent argument is pointless. Cal does not have "more talent" than us. Even that dipshit at FSU beat Cal.