Fisher did it last year when there was a QB battle. I think it's smart when you have more than 1 option look for someone to separate themselves. Doesn't mean he has to do full contact every scrimmage. I have no problem with this, it also helps our D tackle a person who will actually try to avoid them. There were a hand full of times our D missed on sacks it's different when you have someone really trying to escape instead of just saying oh he got sacked
Yes. Some kids thrive under pressure, some kids fold. We need to see who is who.
Kyle Wright, Robert Marve and Brad Kaaya all performed significantly worse in live ball when pressured. I remember when Jacory just stayed on the ground after a Va Tech sack, like he wasn't able to handle the pounding any more. Meanwhile, we hit Winston and Francois with everything we had, and they shook it off to win the game (with a lot of help from D Cook).
Jesu Christo, I'm the last guy to give the Tally clowns any credit but if Kaaya had shown a percentage of the toughness and ability to rebound and perform that effing Francois showed that game then his current draft stock would be astronomically higher. We smacked the **** out of that kid that day. Thought for sure we were gonna knock his *** out of the game.
When he came back in after Norton sledgehammered him into the ground, I knew FSU had found their QB. Kaaya was a tough **** out there with that tooth. But his rhythm was off at the outset of the game after that first blind-side sack...
The harder our defense pounds the crap out of our 3 contenders, the better. We have no franchise QB to protect, we need a franchise QB to EMERGE. The only way you get that is trial by fire. When Lawrence Taylor is blitzing downhill, do they play like Tony Eason or Steve Grogan?
Saying Kaaya isnt tough? Didn't he just survive three years of one of the worst OLs in recent memory? How many drives did he miss bc of injury?
....and we are really going to compare him to Kyle Wright + Robert Marve?!
If whoever wins the QB job this year has a freshman season like Kaaya's freshman season (or Soph or Junior), then we will be in the conversation for a national title.
Marve and Wright....goodness
@grover, you like the Pats?
@grover, you like the Pats?
Not particularly. I don't really follow a pro team anymore. Stuck living in Boston right now so the Pats are top of mind. I was a huge LT fan growing up, and that Super Bowl always stuck with me on how a defense can unhinge a QB's confidence.
It was a suicide mission for Allison. It's one thing to go live with the first string o line but completely different behind our second string. Our second string d line is light years ahead of our second string o line