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demoncore1031
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I know Snyder was banged up this year, but what was the deal with Jones? Was he hurt too? Seems like he wasn't on the field as much this year.
He was way under sized. Nobody should have had too high of expectations for him.
Big citrus was playing a lot of end with JR in the middle. That hurt his reps.
I would like to know details of LB injuries. There were so many. Upper body or lower body? Occurring in practices, scrimmages, or games? Occurring in defense or in special teams? If you watch old ISU film from the 90's - there were alot bigger shoulder pads used on LBs and more knee braces on linemen. Are game pads the same as practice pads? How many practices are actually full-contact? Where are surgeries performed? Does conditioning or technique reduce injury occurrences?
Yeah, but what about next year after a year of experience at this level, conditioning, strength training, nutrition, and improving?
Anyway, his decision, he made his judgment. Wish him the best, I do.
Sure. But, maybe, coincidence? If something happens to one group rather than all groups, or several groups, I don't know.
Life. Strange stuff happens. Analyze the best we can, but sometimes **** happens. Myself, I hate jumping to conclusions.
I think it’s more about the players than our scheme.
There's nothing wrong with the 12 personnel or 3-3-5. And to some degree, saying what the NFL does or this college does or whatever is irrelevant... cause the NFL can put too-toos on a farting hippo with a sun visor and it would work cause that's who they are working with.
The 3-3-5 and 12 personnel makes us a little unique and gives us an advantage. Its very rarely the scheme as to why you lose a game.
1) You're not prepared
2) You're not good enough / the other team is just better
3) Lots of turnovers / mental errors, either by staff, players or both
4) Injuries
5) Just a bad matchup
There are 99.9 million ways to skin a pig on offense and defense. Almost of all of them work or have worked somewhere or they wouldn't have become a thing.
The first two drives where we featured Hansen, threw to Burkle, etc - we looked great. So its not the scheme.
Defensively, we had really good games at times, limited K State, pretty decent team. So its not the scheme per say.
The 3-3-5 and 12 personnel makes us a little unique and gives us an advantage. Its very rarely the scheme as to why you lose a game.
1) You're not prepared
2) You're not good enough / the other team is just better
3) Lots of turnovers / mental errors, either by staff, players or both
4) Injuries
5) Just a bad matchup
There are 99.9 million ways to skin a pig on offense and defense. Almost of all of them work or have worked somewhere or they wouldn't have become a thing.
The first two drives where we featured Hansen, threw to Burkle, etc - we looked great. So its not the scheme.
Defensively, we had really good games at times, limited K State, pretty decent team. So its not the scheme per say.
Oh, by the gods, thank you for not saying ways to skin a cat. My best buddies are my two feline dudes.
But, then, pigs, they're considered really smart animals, too. I gotta go vegetarian.
It really was due to LB play. There were just too many guys that had to play major reps that just didn't have enough experience or were so deep down the chart that they were physically overwhelmed.
One common theme on most of the big yardage runs against us was LB's way out of position or committing way too early and getting sucked in.
The silver lining IMO is a lot of young guys got reps at LB, and I think that'll pay off next season. We don't all agree on this, but I personally think we have a lot of young talent in the LB room (Brezina, Goodwin, Ebel to name a few). And even Bacon can be considered somewhat young.
At least Latrell made a season changing play
