Unconquered

All we heard was how big of a season he would have.

Natediggy and I were completely blasted for saying that he's not there yet. He's athletic, he's big, he's fast, but he is NOT a complete football player yet.

Bjoern Werner is a football player. Rashaad Greene is a football player. Kelvin Benjamin is not yet a football player.

He has no clue how to high point a football.

I don't want to hear any more excuses about this kid (or this team). Is he athletic? Is he really? He has no instincts whatsoever and you can't teach that.

He's not young... He had to sit out part of his HS SR year cause he was too old

He is a freshman. You can tell most folks on here have never been an athlete. My freshman year I made lots of mistakes, but learned and became better as time went on. And football is even more unforgiving to those that lack experience than my sport. Now EJ you can go off on and I would agree with you. He has not lived up to his potential.

I don't know about that. I think there's just a very wide gulf between what we've seen of him and what we've heard about him.

In fact, that's the case with several players on this team. Fahrenkrug and O'Leary come to mind. Not saying any of these guys are bad players, but we've heard about sure-fire greatness in each case.

I know he's old for his age. I meant that he's still a redshirt freshman. We've only been coaching him for two years. This is a kid who I think needs more time before we see more consistency.

I'm sure when he reviews the tape of that last play tonight, he will clearly know what he did wrong. But there's a difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. We're definitely till working on that. Experience comes with repetition. He needs more time.

I think O'Leary has been underutilized in our offense. We seem to work towards him in the first few drives and then forget about him completely. Instead of so many damn bubble screens and stuff, we should have him working underneath on some passing plays as a safety blanket for EJ. And that will obviously help set up some seams and stuff where defenses might jump the shorter route.

It's shocking to me how much he's had to block.

I literally lol'd at that play, he was way too late making a play on the ball and when he did actually leave his feet he dove laterally rather than jumping.