Yeah, I read that last night, too. Don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but it’s certainly not good that players felt the need to do this going into the season. It was organized, and the players are maintaining positive sentiments, so hopefully this ends up a good thing, but the need for it concerns me personally.
My experience is that it's a very good thing. Yes players want to play to win for their parents and friends. They want to play hard for their coach, fans and the school and their state. However they mostly want to win for their own pride and for their brothers i.e. their team. Its a bond also found in the military. Each individual game is like a one battle in a war. In the military you don't want to let you brother down. Like war yes you need a general such as a Patton or Eisenhower but you also need platoon and squad leaders i.e. a Devin White a Foster Moreau. I am impressed the players did this and especially before the season.
Doom and gloom? I think that phrase is reserved for you. Don't know what you read but I read there were many dropped passes. Tell me how Jeaux and Brennan can look good with that happening? I read O said passes were mostly on the money and the most importantly the QB's made good decisions. Correcting pass catching is much easier to fix than QB's making bad decisions. Sounds to me like the QB's had a good day the recievers did not. You are worried about the wrong problem Don Corleone.
At what point do we name a starter and start giving him all the 1st team reps? It’s damn near game week
Dont you think O and E know? I would think they want both ready to go should one of the 2 falter. They kinda know what Brennan can do in a real game in Tiger Stadium they haven't seen Jeaux in the same setting. Besides might be good to keep Miami guessing.
I hope they know. Its never a bad thing to have two "ready" QB's....but its never a good thing for the team to head into a big week 1 game playing musical QB. As for keeping Miami guessing, its hit and miss. Miami has zero idea what our offense will look like, has virtually no film on either QB, but both QB's seem to be similar in style. So I am sure they're preparing for a pro style attack. It would be much more difficult in terms of preparation if we had a true dual threat QB in the mix and Miami had to prepare to 2 different offensive attacks.
Agree with you but although Jeaux is not a classic dual threat he is a dual threat. I also believe we will run some wildcat with whom I do not know yet and we will run option with both our QB's. Brennan is not without some running skills himself.
I hope we run multiple packages but hang our hat on what's working. We just don't yet know "what's working". I saw that Joe was dual threat coming out of HS and watching his film he isn't stone legs back there, so that's a plus. As for Brennan, him running the option could end up looking the Michigan Towel boy in The Water Boy.
