Stone was holding the ball wrong last year. That had to be changed. My guess is they thought they might as well go ahead and switch hands if they were going to make a change that drastic. It sure as hell hasn't worked, though.
Maybe it was a personnel issue, but I've heard Wilcox specifically say that this year would be different because he now has the players he needs. I think our linebackers are athletic enough to stop South Carolina's ninth string tailback from running the same play over and over or Connor Shaw running free like Cam Newton.
Worley shouldn't have been needed to win the game. Chaney needs to realize what players he has and call plays for them. i.e. running tosses with our slow RB. Not calling quick passes for a freshman QB. Pulling guards at the 2 yard line when SC has 10 stacking the line. Chaney isn't helping anything.
He looked like a freshman playing against a quality defense. I hope we stick with him for MTSU/Arky. Worley's mistakes were very bad, but Simms was Simms once he got in.
Don't know why we are complaining about a defense that surrendered exactly 2 scores and created a turnover that gave us the ball at the 3. Basically, they gave up a net-touchdown. Sounds like they did their job. Our offense has been killing our defense all year.
When our defense and special teams give our offense the ball in the redzone going in 3 times and we can only manage 3 points, something is terribly wrong, at the very least we should manage 9 points there which still wouldnt have won the game, but it would have changed a lot as far as MO and our confidence during the rest of the game.
It isn't the way they have coached him this year, right handed. At any rate, if that is true, then it again goes back to the point. Stone has potential. Let's try him at center. He can't snap, so let's give him a weird technique. That's a problem, let's change hands. Doesn't work, move him to guard. We lost, try somebody else. That's guessing, not coaching.
Now that the booze is out of my system and i've had some time to think about it Worley performed about as well as a true freshman called up to play could. could he have played better? Absolutely, but there were a couple of situations where the receivers could have stepped up and made the play. He obviously is not like Bray in the sense that he was nervous. You could tell the game was moving pretty fast for him. South Carolina was getting pressure most of the night too. Someone said that Dooley hit the panic button and pulled him, which on one hand I think is true but another part of me thinks Dooley was trying to do anything he could to spark the offense and felt as though Worley simply didn't have the confidence at that point.
Midway through the third Worley was totally lost and scared to death. I rarely agree with commentators, but the ESPN pointed out it was in an effort to not completely lose Dooley's true freshmen qb and I think that was spot on. I think there was a very good chance that leaving Worley in would have done far more damage than leaving him in.
Well, one will at least be a potential starter down the road where this experience will matter. The other is on his last year of eligibility.
No one postion or player is going to win us games. No coach can take raw players who might not be good enough for any sec team and make them sec champs. Its way to early to start wanting a new coach, coaching staff, and wishing for some miracle to just appear isnt going to happen either. we are what we are, and we will be tougher because of it.
Ive been critical of Chaney going back to last year.....this isnt a knee jerk reaction from me, I just think the guy is a terrible play caller.
Bearcat has been [itch bay]ing about Chaney since Kiffin was here. That's his consistent and well-defended opinion.
