Saturday's Srimmage

Here are some thoughts.

Michael Smith needs to get on the field somewhere. For the scrimmage they took off his black jersey and he was very effect. He is just so quick.Hopefully David L can work him into the Wildcat some way.

Jeremy Davis continues to boom the punts – lots of 45 yard plus punts. At one point he boomed a long one that was going to be inside the 10 and Reggie Fish chased it, thought better of it and waived it off. He received the biggest cheer of the scrimmage.

Both Jeremy * Alex T are kicking well. Unless there is some separation I suspect HDN will go with Jeremy until he screws up and will then insert Alex.

Dmac took a few good licks on the shoulders, but not much else for him, Felix, or Peyton. Casey was playing split end in the wildcat – I guess he tried to throw a block. Anyway he was very gimpy getting up. Paper said he got cleated. Never saw his as split end again

Malcom Shepherd is moved to d tackle and it appears he is off sides on every play because gets across so quickly.

Freddie Bledsoe was playing 3rd team and appeared to be dogging it.

QB

Casey threw some good passes, had one dropped but also missed about 5. He was mainly running against the 2nd team D. The pocket broke down on Casey a bunch.

Emert had no chance. He was running the 2nd team and against the first team and he was running for his life the entire time. I would be curious to see him with the 1rst team against the 2nd.

Nathan “Little Dick as opposed to Casey- Big Dick (Some fan said this and it was pretty funny although Nathan might take issue.) Looked very good, but he was in with the 2nd team mainly going against the 2-3rd team. However this said – his arm is the strongest and probably has the most potential. Bryan Reader looked good as did the Shiloh walk on – his passes leave the quickest. Joe Chisson appears to be a wasted scholarship at this point. Definitely will be redshirted probably for the next four years.

I have come to the conclusion it is very hard to criticize the QBs for their passing. The offensive lines spends 75% of their time practicing run blocking (as quoted by a player). As I mentioned earlier Nathan Emert never had a pass where he wasn’t under duress. It was that way for a lot of Casey’s attempts as well. This leads me to surmise.

1) Mike M is a great run blocking coach, but isn’twhen it comes to pass blocking. If we ever want to be a passing team, we probably need a switch here…. But since we know that is not going to happen under Hooten “I play not to lose” Nutt then maybe then….

2) Should not be recruiting drop back passers and get scramblers instead. Think back-Zak Clark was a good throwing QB, but was beat out by Matt because Matt could scramble Zak couldn’t. HDN tried to replace Matt with Sorehan, but again Ryan was ineffective primarily because he was a drop back passer and had no escapability. Both Casey and Mitch same deal. They are pocket passers and not scramblers and if they have to scramble we are in trouble. Nathan Dick – drop back passer. Perhaps we should be going after scramblers like - dare I say it… Kodi Burns (oops no text messages to him).

3) Only other option is to get rid of the ball on passing plays much quicker and keep the defense off balanced. Oops another screw up because that was the point of Gus’ HUNH but JFB said that will never work in the SEC plus our players weren’t smart enough to grasp that – I bet Tulsa’s players will – of course Tulsa is a private school and their athletes are smarter) Sorry the darkside is coming out in me and I should really watch myself because you guys might be members of “The Posse.” I think I see Diana out in the parking lot spying now.

But my argument is sound for our lack of passing.

Oh well. Need to work. I think practices are closed for here on so probably no more reports.