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What are your expectations for Eason and Ahmed?
Gladstone
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I think team goals we all expect to -- at a minimum -- win the north and make a NY6. Especially so with how favorable the schedule looks. So dropping team expectations for a second, what about looking individually at Eason and Ahmed?
- Is it reasonable to expect #s for Eason somewhere between Browning 2017-18 and Browning 2016?
- What do you think a fair expectation is for his td/int ratio?
- Will Ahmed get a similar amount of workhorse carries to Gaskin? Is that a good thing?
- Will Eason be given complete carte blanche to change plays at the LOS? (PTSD from Stanford 2017 as Browning repeatedly took the ball out of MMFG's hands, who was steamrolling them, to throw deep OOB passes to Pettis in double coverage...)
- Eason has more attitude/flair/shit talking to him than Browning ever did, will Pete rein that in?
These are two low floor/super high ceiling players we will need to step up in a huge way. How optimistic are you?
- Is it reasonable to expect #s for Eason somewhere between Browning 2017-18 and Browning 2016?
- What do you think a fair expectation is for his td/int ratio?
- Will Ahmed get a similar amount of workhorse carries to Gaskin? Is that a good thing?
- Will Eason be given complete carte blanche to change plays at the LOS? (PTSD from Stanford 2017 as Browning repeatedly took the ball out of MMFG's hands, who was steamrolling them, to throw deep OOB passes to Pettis in double coverage...)
- Eason has more attitude/flair/shit talking to him than Browning ever did, will Pete rein that in?
These are two low floor/super high ceiling players we will need to step up in a huge way. How optimistic are you?
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I don't expect much from Ahmed. I still don't think he's capable of being more than a change of pace back. I expect someone to emerge from McGrew/Pleasant/Dick who can actually run between the tackles and assert themselves as an every down back.
I expect the offense to be leagues better than last year's piss stain. If it's not we're in trouble.
Ahmed: 5+ yards per carry
Ahmed, 1000ish yards & 8 TDs. He’ll get the bulk of his yards outside the tackles and I pray one of the other backs can pick up the slack between the tackles.
Eason gets around 30 tds and 10 ints
Ahmed figures out how to run between the tackles and goes for 1400 yards
Worst case:
Pete picks Haener to start
Ahmed tries to bounce every run outside
My guess:
Eason goes for about 25 tds and 12 ints, with a fair share of jaw dropping plays to win games and some boneheaded mistakes to lose them. Our passing game overall is vastly improved.
Ahmed runs for about 800 yards, Pleasant becomes this year's Lavon Coleman and runs for 500 yards, and Cam Davis becomes Ahmed circa 2017 with 350 yards and a couple big plays late in the year. Running game is slightly worse, and would be way worse if not for our good Oline.
While researching this I found an engagement photo of @Swaye 's bride to be
Eason 3,700 w/ 37 td's and 12 int's.