WR separation: it’s a craft

Robbie or Geriner?

Hank Brown?

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We have Sunbelt worthy WRs?

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Even those leagues put WRs in the league.

Getting open is more than pure speed. Our guys just don’t seem to create separation or win 50/50 balls much.

Defense looks banged up for coming off a bye week. Playing freshmen at corner against talented guys is goi to be a learning curve

We’re lacking talent. That’s it. We’ve lacked talent for a while, not just this year.

But there’s more to the passing game than receivers knowing how to get open. There’s timing and rhythm between the QB throwing and the routes. That requires protection from the o line, which sets up the QB to make reads within the time frame of the route tree.

Our offense is all around bad right now. Ashford only provides a glimmer of hope because teams have to respect his legs. He’s a 20+ yard run threat at any moment, so IMO, he’s our only hope at opening up the offense.

It doesn't make sense. It has to be 100% coaching/scheme. Compare Vandys passing stats to auburn. They have 2100 and change. Auburn has 980. No one can convince me they are more talented anywhere on the field than auburn. I agree that we are lacking in talent but this is ridiculous. Lack of adjustments either to scheme or personnel is mind boggling

We average 347 passing yards per game?
Those were just passing numbers on the year not total yardage.

I think that's what's killing us is everyone knows there will be no passing. I'm actually surprised we're still averaging that high rushing. Take away the awesome 100 ypg passing, 247 ypg rushing isn't too shabby

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We have Sunbelt worthy WRs?

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That are probably making at least $60,000/year. On top of scholarship money.

If they don't produce. Fire them. They are essentially more employee than student. Get rid of them if they don't play well.

Welcome to the real world. Wanna get paid? Produce. Don't produce? You're gone.

College football is such a shitshow. Wanna be done with this sport so bad.. lol

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I watch other games even random no name guys seem to find space.

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Would be helpful if we had a better wide angle, but in most games this year when I've taken the time to watch replays, we've had guys open.

Combination of the ball coming out late, not finding the open WR, and putting the ball in bad spots (where the WR is going to take contact or can't shield the ball with his body).

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Also 50/50 balls are not 50/50 for our guys.

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Absolutely true. We can't make the "purposely wide and a little underthrown" catch that your playmaker is supposed to adjust to and grab. We can't make contested catches - when most of our throws are a little late so a DB is breaking on the ball.

It's a combination of stuff. With an amazing QB maybe those WRs are able to play above their level a bit. With better WR maybe BT looks a bit better because we're beating contested catches more.

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Take away the awesome 100 ypg passing, 247 ypg rushing isn't too shabby

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It's actually pretty incredible. If we had a reasonable passing attack this could be a formidable offense.

Yea I mean the offense is bad but having a guy like a Keon Coleman or other true top 1/3 of the SEC WR1 and I think things look very very different. We don't really have a WR who is a 1x1 matchup issue or a guy who can make the QB "look good".

WR Didn't really hit on our top transfer targets (Rara and KC) - would have been enormous to get either of those guys... Getting a 6'3" guy with speed and hands... P Thompson probably starts Day 1.

QB People need to remember that Thorne was like a 4-5th option checkdown. We swung and missed on a LOT of people before taking him. Is he set to graduate btw? Will be very awkward if we go out and get other QB(s) in the portal and he's still on the roster.

TE: I can't hate on our tight ends too much honestly all things considered But yea I saw Fairweather miss some blocks and flat out laughed.

RBs are a bright spot for me. I expected JH to be about as good as he is, but Battie has been a big surprise. He is nimble enough to effectively run inside which is crazy at his size.

Oline: At the end of the day I can't hate too much. I knew the cupboard was absolutely bare. OLine would have also been a little bit better if we had 1-2 more guys at the level of our best 4. Think some guys are playing out of position and have nagging injuries etc. Feels like we should just go try to throw money at any all conference underclassmen we can.