same here - the defensive side of the ball overall is a huge problem - there are individual players and moments where the defense flashes - but unless turnovers come our way - we can't get off the field - that's a big deficiency with the teams we have left to play -

Rattler threw 2 incompletions last night (1 should've been a DPI) with 3 TD and we won by a single touchdown against a team that lost 41-14 at home the week prior - the offense has to be damn near perfect and score every possession - that's not feasible with where the 3 road games remaining are and UF/UK/CU coming to W-B -

this staff has moments where it wants to show everyone its the smartest staff across football too - see the failed 2PAT attempt - for no logical reason -

until the defense can collective start getting off the field it's gonna be a struggle to win any of the road games and the home games not against Jax State -

Rattler is the best pure passing arm we've ever had at Carolina - Taneyhill & Bobby Fuller probably next - and this staff needs to find a way to get the defense somewhat serviceable to not waste Spencer's talent over his final 8 regular seasons games in a Gamecock jersey -

also Leggette is better than Wells and both together on the field (healthy) would take a back seat to no other WR tandem in the SEC this fall -

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Posted by scrooster

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Posted on 9/24/23 at 9:47 pm to 1801

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Rattler is the best pure passing arm we've ever had at Carolina - Taneyhill & Bobby Fuller probably next

I dunno .... Anthony Wright was probably the best pure passing arm we've ever had it's just that he was poorly coached and he had no support whatsoever. He also had some off field issues but he was a good kid under bad leadership (fat bradstard scott). Crazy thing was Brad Scott was supposed-to-be a QB guru after coaching Charlie Ward to a Heisman at FSU.

Wright spent a number of years, as a journeyman QB, in the NFL.

Trivia of the day. Last night they mentioned Rattler was on pace to break Connor Shaw's 20 consecutive completions mark and maybe even Tee Martin's 27 game completion mark which is the SEC record.

What they didn't mention was that Martin set the record against us in 1998 in Williams-Brice. I was there, not sitting in the press box for that one but rather in the stands with my Dad. Anthony Wright was QBing for us and he got caught on camera laughing and joking around on the sidelines while we were taking an arse beating .... which led to Phil Petty starting much of the rest of the season. Tennessee went on to win the MNC that year by beating FSU.

I remember speaking to Spurrier after the Shrine Bowl game Wright's senior HS season and Spurrier wanted Wright at UF but Wright (a NC Native) was recruited by Scott, first at FSU and then to SC when he got the job here.

Six degress of separation fwiw.

Wright threw the most perfect spirals, next to my Dad's, that I have ever seen. What an arm Wright had.

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