Lingard in the Portal

lol how the **** is Richt not playing Lingard all you need to know when he got injured in the middle of his freshman year but was ahead of Cam before the injury??
If he was the talent people on here are making him out to beat he would have played. Dallas and Homer and late round pick running backs and he couldnt take snaps from them. Robert Burns is *** and he didnt beat him out. Its obviously more than "coaches dont like him".
 
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Then why not do it? I haven't heard any good explanation. Manny played every other skill guy on the roster, including guys with major off-field issues.

To me, the most reasonable explanation is that Lingard was still hurt. He was favoring his leg in camp. My guess is that the other guys were running better in practice due in large part to Lingard's injury.
I've asked the question over several months and 3 or 4 different threads "Give me one reason other than "the corches suck!" as to why the staff who are the ones who have their jobs on the line would elect not to play Lo if 1) he is healthy, 2) he is ready, 3) he would benefit the team from being out there?" and not one person was ever able to offer a single answer. It just makes no logical sense. There unquestionably was more going on. I don't think we'll ever find out the truth though; we'll just get each camp's version of the story.
 
You saw him at practice? i don’t want to beat a dead horse but if we had top flight RBs after Dee Jay went down then you can make a strong argument not to replace them. Instead, we had poor performance from our RBs especially when we need to run the ball because our QB was playing poorly. Yet we didn’t try someone else. We were so desperate at QB we played Tate that went awol for several weeks? Why give Lingard an opportunity especially since he’s been grinding and doing everything right! Seems to me you cherry pick a position to go after Lingard but ignore players (Williams, Tate, Hillary, Herbert to name a few) who disprove the notion that practice is the sole determination of playing time not game performance.
Then, assuming everything you said is true, what is YOUR rational explanation for why they didn't play him?
 
If he was the talent people on here are making him out to beat he would have played. Dallas and Homer and late round pick running backs and he couldnt take snaps from them. Robert Burns is *** and he didnt beat him out. Its obviously more than "coaches dont like him".
That or he’s just not the same after injury. If this is the case, then not playing him makes a bit of sense, if he in fact was fully recovered. Some other team would def take a chance based on his potential. Also, not getting him hurt again is another reason if he had intensions of transferring. Coaches look after players in his position. I would assume that is the case here.
 
Then why not do it? I haven't heard any good explanation. Manny played every other skill guy on the roster, including guys with major off-field issues.

To me, the most reasonable explanation is that Lingard was still hurt. He was favoring his leg in camp. My guess is that the other guys were running better in practice due in large part to Lingard's injury.
I respect your opinion but there’s nothing Manny has done this year especially on offense that makes me trust his judgement. I think Manny has become a used car salesman and I grade him on his team and player‘s performance not what he says. A good AD would have fired him this year. He has no credibility that he has done the right thing With anyone. In fact he has handles many things wrong. Since your speculating that he was still injured as the reason not to play, I will speculate also and submit coaches knew he was going to transfer and decided to punish him and reward players who were staying.
 
Thats what it is huh. So u the one giving out all these nonsense warnings but that's all u got to say now? Lmfao guess its personal issue with that topic in general.


/Cue the Allen Iverson voice:

"You talking 'bout a warning man. A warning. Not a ban. Not a ban. You talking 'bout a warning man. I know we're supposed to take warnings seriously but c'mon, man. You talking 'bout a warning man. A warning?"
 
It's not just a talent thing. Coaches can play favorites, or favor older players, or just flat out get the depth chart wrong.

Damien Berry got more carries than Lamar Miller
Mike James got more carries than Duke Johnson
Mark Walton basically buried Gus Edwards & Travis Homer on the depth chart

I can see the coaches feeling Dallas & Cam were better. If the coaches felt they felt Burns & Murphy were better than Lingard - then the coaches are worse than we think they are.

It was always a weird situation surrounding Lingard, so I can't see any way this was strictly a talent thing.
 
I respect your opinion but there’s nothing Manny has done this year especially on offense that makes me trust his judgement. I think Manny has become a used car salesman and I grade him on his team and player‘s performance not what he says. A good AD would have fired him this year. He has no credibility that he has done the right thing With anyone. In fact he has handles many things wrong. Since your speculating that he was still injured as the reason not to play, I will speculate also and submit coaches knew he was going to transfer and decided to punish him and reward players who were staying.

I respect your opinion as well and agree on Manny. He's lucky to still have the job.

As far as the bolded theory, I don't see it. Mark Pope has been on the edge of Portal all season and he's still getting reps.
 
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I respect your opinion but there’s nothing Manny has done this year especially on offense that makes me trust his judgement. I think Manny has become a used car salesman and I grade him on his team and player‘s performance not what he says. A good AD would have fired him this year. He has no credibility that he has done the right thing With anyone. In fact he has handles many things wrong. Since your speculating that he was still injured as the reason not to play, I will speculate also and submit coaches knew he was going to transfer and decided to punish him and reward players who were staying.

lol coaches played JW who threatened to leave in season. i doubt it was that but who knows.
 
Harris and Burns’ stats and game performance after Dee Jay went down were unimpressive and pedestrian. Someone else deserved an opportunity. How did Manny know Lingard couldn’t have helped if he didn’t play? The right thing to have done is play him some then make a determination. Compared to the way our RBs were performing, Manny had everything to gain and nothing to loose by putting him in. Besides, Manny and Enos made so many mistakes on offense regarding personnel and scheme that I don’t trust their judgement on how a player might perform. I only trust what I see in the field. Hilliard and Herbert couldn’t start on most P5 teams yet they were given an opportunity? Why not Lingard?

We rushed AR15 back and see how that worked out....
 
It's not just a talent thing. Coaches can play favorites, or favor older players, or just flat out get the depth chart wrong.

Damien Berry got more carries than Lamar Miller
Mike James got more carries than Duke Johnson
Mark Walton basically buried Gus Edwards & Travis Homer on the depth chart

I can see the coaches feeling Dallas & Cam were better. If the coaches felt they felt Burns & Murphy were better than Lingard - then the coaches are worse than we think they are.

It was always a weird situation surrounding Lingard, so I can't see any way this was strictly a talent thing.

How many carries did Murphy get?
 
He got hurt in late October and never played before that. They wanted to give him more carries and see what they had, which is why the timing of the injury was unfortunate, but he never moved past Deejay on the field. Didn't have his wiggle, balance or receiving ability.

Agree the injury was unfortunate, but pretty sure it’s been dug up multiple times that he moved up to
Then why not do it? I haven't heard any good explanation. Manny played every other skill guy on the roster, including guys with major off-field issues.

To me, the most reasonable explanation is that Lingard was still hurt. He was favoring his leg in camp. My guess is that the other guys were running better in practice due in large part to Lingard's injury.

Avoratism-fay

did I do that right dsddcane?
 
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I didn't say he'd "never be good." I think his speed gives him a chance in the right role. I'm trying to tell you why he hasn't played under either staff.

Manny isn't the type of guy who is stubborn with talented players. He brought Jeff back after quitting the team. He started Jarren after he quit on the team. He plays talent to a fault. If he thought post-injury Lingard could help, he would've played him.
Manny had zero to do with who played on offence...
 
They knew he was unhappy and wanting to transfer so he was punished. Also, these coaches proved time and time again this year they don’t know what their doing. Simple as that.
If they knew he was transferring, then I don't have any issue with them keeping him off the field vs LaTech. But that's kind of a cart before the horse answer to my question. They wouldn't have known he was transferring until he was unhappy. So what lead to him getting unhappy; i.e. why was he not playing before which lead to him wanting out? That's where the whole conspiracy shtick has come from. The narrative being pushed is that Lo was healthy, ready and would have benefited the team being out there, but the coaches knowing that elected not to play him anyhow. I've yet to hear a single answer to why they'd do that which holds water. D's comments make a lot more sense logically.
 
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