re: Does Kirby work in JT Daniels against UK in two weeks?

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And why did he lose his spot

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I am not fully clear as to why. The assumption I made based on what I read was the back up came in and did a good enough job to make him think he would not get it back. Or there were other issues. Total speculation. Maybe his girlfriend dumped him and he hated California. It could be something totally benign or something bigger. You can speculate based on the fact he isn’t playing and he is a proven D1 kid and a 5 Star QB. There is a reason. I don’t think it is because Kirbs wants to play an inferior player as part of his conspiracy to lose.

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He lost his spot because he fricked his knee up. There’s not much more of an explanation. He may still be having problems, but it wasn’t due to being passed organically by sucking

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That is why he lost it. If he assumed he was getting it back when he was better, you would think he would have stayed. Like I said, maybe he had other reasons. Maybe the coaches didn’t like his attitude. Maybe his girlfriend got herpes from the Flea. Did I miss any comments by him or the USC Coaches specific as to why he left? I honestly have not seen them.

No doubt... all we can do is speculate.

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. I may be wrong, but I think Mathis brain surgery is going to always be a limiting factor for him psychologically

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Mathis looked no more rattled than Bennett did in the second half yesterday. Yes, it was Bama, but that was Mathis' first 4 drives in CFB.

I'll continue to maintain he'll end up a better player than Bennett within his first handful of starts - wherever they happen to come.

Frankly, I do not think we are playing to Bennett’s strengths as much as we could. I think Bennett can win games for us. It will be harder for him to do it with a 5 and 7 step drop. The pass rushers were taking up passing lanes as much as they were putting pressure on. The way to counter that is with roll outs, misdirection, play action, and blocking techniques that make it harder for them to get paws up. Then the defense will have to adjust to that. I’d also like to see him keep it more on the RO and have some run pass options with that aspect of the game. I think we have them in the book, but we seem to not be using them enough. We actually did it on the first play of the game and got positive yards. Those work better in the 2nd half when the Defense is tired and has been hammered in the A gap like we were doing pretty well.

There could be reasons why we don’t do this that we are not aware of that make perfect sense. With that said, I don’t think we started out this season thinking Bennett would be the guy. Hopefully the off week will give them some time of put in some more wrinkles that worrk with his skill sett

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There could be reasons why we don’t do this that we are not aware of that make perfect sense.

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I would think the OL needs to play with alot more assignment discipline for those types of plays, they can get blown up more easily... and also would wear OL out a little more too.

LSU had a number of roll out plays that catered to Burrow’s athleticism . He also certainly was a very difficult dude to sack. Give his Oline credit though. He had a lot of time on a lot of plays.

Roll out

Conns:
limit area you can safely throw
Corner blitz can eat it up

Pros:
Easier throwing lanes
Run option in play
Wear out Defensive line


There is risk reward with whatever you do, but you need to play to your strengths

How many designed rollouts would you like to see per game?

The fact that rollouts are even being discussed is comical. Did you see how atrocious Stet was throwing on the run Saturday?

He makes good decisions over the course of a game but, the fact of the matter is he is a dwarf and the ball floats to our receivers. He just doesn’t have the physical tools to beat Bama or Clemson.