On paper: better or worse now compared to 2016
RB. Better thanks to Saladin Ahmed
TE: Slightly worse
WR: Significantly worse
OL: Slightly worse (no Eldrenkamp + health concerns)
DL: Worse
LB: Significantly worse
DB: Slightly worse
K: Same
P: Slightly better
KR: Worse
PR: Significantly worse
Depth: Better
Coaching; Slightly better with Smith out
Agree? Here's hoping the team surprises again.
Comments
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Kicker worse, Punter significantly better
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this would have made a great poll, Gladdy!
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whyDerekJohnson said:this would have made a great poll, Gladdy!
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I think OL and TE this year could end up being better. Also, 2016 linebackers should be pre and post Azeem injury, pre injury 2016 better, post I think 2018 could be better. I also think 2018 Secondary could potentially challenge 2016 if they stay healthy.
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QB: TBD 2016 Bowning>2017 Browning 2018?
RB: Better: Gaskin is better and Salvon has higher ceiling, but 2016 Coleman was quietly our second most explosive player. If Salvon can put up the 2016 Coleman stat line we're in good shape.
TE: Better if Hunter is back at some point this year. Come championship game/playoff/bowl time it will be much better.
WR: Yikes it's time for the youngins to step up.
OL: You have to say it's better once Trey comes back at full speed. A physical freak like McGary is in his 5th year. Him and Trey are going to be awesome and Nick Harris is no longer out of position.
Return Game: No Ross or Pettis to take it to the house and bail out our over complicated offense is huge. Somebody needs to step up, we have the explosive guys to do it, but so far none of them have shown the innate ability all good returners have of finding the crease and housing it.
K: We fucked
Depth: Much Better
Coaching: Much better
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I agree with this take. No way our OL is worse than 2018 unless Trey isn’t the same.Doogles said:QB: TBD 2016 Bowning>2017 Browning 2018?
RB: Better: Gaskin is better and Salvon has higher ceiling, but 2016 Coleman was quietly our second most explosive player. If Salvon can put up the 2016 Coleman stat line we're in good shape.
TE: Better if Hunter is back at some point this year. Come championship game/playoff/bowl time it will be much better.
WR: Yikes it's time for the youngins to step up.
OL: You have to say it's better once Trey comes back at full speed. A physical freak like McGary is in his 5th year. Him and Trey are going to be awesome and Nick Harris is no longer out of position.
Return Game: No Ross or Pettis to take it to the house and bail out our over complicated offense is huge. Somebody needs to step up, we have the explosive guys to do it, but so far none of them have shown the innate ability all good returners have of finding the crease and housing it.
K: We fucked
Depth: Much Better
Coaching: Much better
I would say the floor is slightly lower but the ceiling is significantly higher at positions like TE, WR and OL.
Other than ST, LB is the only position that really concerns me outside of ATBSJBS. I think we have receivers step up.
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Ceiling is higher this year at WR when in 2016 we had John "fastest player in NCAA history" Ross and Dante "total superstar stud sprinting full speed back towards the LOS to catch Browning noodleball" Pettis?dnc said:
I agree with this take. No way our OL is worse than 2018 unless Trey isn’t the same.Doogles said:QB: TBD 2016 Bowning>2017 Browning 2018?
RB: Better: Gaskin is better and Salvon has higher ceiling, but 2016 Coleman was quietly our second most explosive player. If Salvon can put up the 2016 Coleman stat line we're in good shape.
TE: Better if Hunter is back at some point this year. Come championship game/playoff/bowl time it will be much better.
WR: Yikes it's time for the youngins to step up.
OL: You have to say it's better once Trey comes back at full speed. A physical freak like McGary is in his 5th year. Him and Trey are going to be awesome and Nick Harris is no longer out of position.
Return Game: No Ross or Pettis to take it to the house and bail out our over complicated offense is huge. Somebody needs to step up, we have the explosive guys to do it, but so far none of them have shown the innate ability all good returners have of finding the crease and housing it.
K: We fucked
Depth: Much Better
Coaching: Much better
I would say the floor is slightly lower but the ceiling is significantly higher at positions like TE, WR and OL.
Other than ST, LB is the only position that really concerns me outside of ATBSJBS. I think we have receivers step up.
I think special teams is the difference between us and a perfect season this year.
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Brownsox is still our qb
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If we commit to running the football we will be better. If we dont, who cares TSIO
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Disagree
.Gladstone said:QB. Same
RB. Better thanks to Saladin Ahmed
TE: Slightly worse Better. No way Daniel's is better then Kizer, Otton, Warren, a few games of bryant combined. And sample 2018 > sample 2016.
WR: Significantly worse end of 2016. SLIGHTLY BETTER beginning of 2016. Wide reciever was just as big a question mark as now going into the season. Is john ross going to be healthy enough to make up for our shitty recievers? Is Pettis and lenius going to step up or are they jags?
OL: Slightly worse (no Eldrenkamp + health concerns? eldenkramp and shelton are downgrades probably but the other three positions will be better.
DL: Worse
LB: Significantly worse
DB: Slightly worse
K: Same van winkle was 99% on pat and 80% on fg it we not that good.
P: Slightly better
KR: Worse
PR: Significantly worse
Depth: Better
Coaching; Slightly better with Smith out
Agree? Here's hoping the team surprises again.
Holder: worse. Word from camp is race porter is struggling in way jeff lindquist never did.
