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re: Matt Jones in a spread offense would have won a MNC.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 12:56 pm to OmegaMan
Posted on 5/20/20 at 12:56 pm to OmegaMan
He was better than cam, if he didn't injure his throwing shoulder in high school and with a different coach then he might have been one of the best quarterbacks in SEC history. But he had a shitty work ethic and that wasn't going to change.
If it wasn't for Matt Jones in 2001, Nutt would have been fired much earlier.
If it wasn't for Matt Jones in 2001, Nutt would have been fired much earlier.
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Posted on 5/20/20 at 12:57 pm to OmegaMan
Matt Jones was a freak athlete!
Posted on 5/20/20 at 12:58 pm to OmegaMan
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If MJ would have played a few years later
Just one year later and he would have been in the same backfield as Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hillis
Nutt knew how to find some really good players but he didn't always play them in the right positions. He worked Ryan Mallett out at TE during a camp and that's one reason he didn't come here out of high school. Jones might have gone to OU if he wasn't promised a shot at QB here but I often wonder what it would have been like with him at WR and Tarvaris Jackson at QB. Jackson wasn't that good here but he only had around 50 attempts in two years. Obviously he was good enough to hang around in the NFL for a while.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 12:59 pm to OmegaMan
frick Matt Jones. Such a goddamn bust in the NFL
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:02 pm to LesnarF5
Pretty sure Nutt had Arky at #3 in the country try at one time.
He sure ripped out our hearts for a few thanksgivings.
He sure ripped out our hearts for a few thanksgivings.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:05 pm to GatorsGators
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frick Matt Jones. Such a goddamn bust in the NFL
He had 2100 yards and 15 td's in 4 years, i mean he wasnt lighting the world on fire but he seemed to be figuring it out. In his last year he had 760 yards. The titans have signed almost exclusively receivers in the first round that never reached that production without a drug problem.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:09 pm to themicah85
Being mediocre as a player and then getting shunned from the league for drug problems definitely constitutes a bust
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:09 pm to dstone12
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Pretty sure Nutt had Arky at #3 in the country try at one time.
He sure ripped out our hearts for a few thanksgivings.
Petrino did, but I don't recall Nutt ever getting us up that high.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:16 pm to HogX
We were #5 in the AP and #6 in the BCS going in to the LSU game in 2006.
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 5/20/20 at 1:20 pm to CapstoneGrad06
quote:Don't forget that Nutt wanted Ryan Mallett to play tight end which led to Ryan going to Michigan. He did get Mustain to sign but let's not delve into that cluster of a situation.
Houston managed to coach a QB that went first round as a WR. And a TE that ended up as a 10 year All-pro and likely NFL hall of fame. At OL. Giggity.
Or how about the time he played a QB from the intramural field (John Rutledge). It really says something when one of the most tenured NFL QBs who played under Nutt was Tarvaris Jackson and he had to transfer to Alabama State to get decent coaching.
Houston Nutt is a wannabe QB that thought he was better than he truly was. Quit the Razorbacks and transferred to Oklahoma State where he would ride the pine there. Nutt is and will always will be a cowpoke not a Razorback.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:01 pm to OmegaMan
Dude ran like a giraffe on cocaine.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:33 pm to OmegaMan
Matt Jones was not coachable and it's an insult to hard working committed players to hero worship that guy
He refused to learn proper passing progression over the course of four years
I'm no Nutt fan, so no ulterior motives for my opinion of Jones
He refused to learn proper passing progression over the course of four years
I'm no Nutt fan, so no ulterior motives for my opinion of Jones
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:36 pm to OmegaMan
Matt Jones came around about 10 years too early. His talent would be special in a modern spread offense. What he did to Texas in 2003 was incredible.
Similar to what it would be like if Vick came into the NFL now instead of in 2001.
Similar to what it would be like if Vick came into the NFL now instead of in 2001.
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:43 pm to VADawg
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:48 pm to OmegaMan
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Only Houston Nut could ruin a talent like that
So he wasn't all that great at heppin'?
Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:55 pm to bigDgator
Matt Jones
Watch the above. He ran wild running the option out of the gun.
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Not so sure he had the quicks to be as effective running the option. Would be interesting though.
Watch the above. He ran wild running the option out of the gun.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 3:22 pm to TheCheshireHog
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Yeah that’s the last year we won the SEC West. Reggie nepotism Fish fumbling the damn punt in the SECCG cost us our best shot at an SEC title.
2006 Hogs would have beat any of the Petrino teams. They had such a great defensive line. Dominated a very good Auburn team and beat the piss out of a pretty good Tennessee team.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 4:07 pm to Team Vote
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2006 Hogs would have beat any of the Petrino teams. They had such a great defensive line. Dominated a very good Auburn team and beat the piss out of a pretty good Tennessee team.
That was a weird year. We lost the opener to USC 50-14 and then won 10 straight games and a lot of them we dominated. Ended up losing 3 straight to LSU, Florida and Wisconsin (ironically coached by Bret Bielema) to end the year. Pretty sure we held Wisconsin RB PJ Hill to -3 yards rushing and still lost.
Not sure if they would beat the 2010 Petrino team but think they could take 2011. The 2006 game vs. Tennessee with College Gameday in attendance is one of my favorite games ever. Fulmer just had no answers for our run game.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 4:24 pm to Gcockboi
quote:wrong, einstein. It takes more than a couple of great players to win a championship. Arkansas was 10 players away from winning a championship, not a theoretical coach. you'll be old enough to understand one day.
. If someone like Malzahn was Arkansas coach back in the early 2000s and ran a modern no huddle spread offense, Ark would have easily won a national championship. Matt Jones was that special.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 4:46 pm to OmegaMan
No.
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