Juanyeh Thomas

18in32 said:
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IIRC he canceled Hulu earlier this season following a post-loss melt
 
JacketForLife said:
What'd you expect? You're seeing a bunch of guys that haven't had anyone teaching them football except for the previous 11 months.
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Your butthurt level is insane. It’s a fact that many players played extremely well under PJ. A few (even some linemen!) learned enough to start earning a paycheck on Sundays.

If you feel like you didn’t learn anything playing under PJ, I’m not saying you’re wrong. However, if that’s true, given the other facts, one really can’t come to any other conclusion than _you_ were the problem, not the coaches.
 
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Ultimately the play didn’t matter. IIRC, if Juanyeh didn’t fair catch it, one of the UVA players would have almost assuredly covered it. I saw the back and forth with CGC and JT and Collins clearly took responsibility. At any rate, it really didn’t impact the game, and isn’t even close to the worst thing we saw on ST yesterday.
 
EffinDane said:
Your butthurt level is insane. It’s a fact that many players played extremely well under PJ. A few (even some linemen!) learned enough to start earning a paycheck on Sundays.

If you feel like you didn’t learn anything playing under PJ, I’m not saying you’re wrong. However, if that’s true, given the other facts, one really can’t come to any other conclusion that _you_ were the problem, not the coaches.
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Buddy, you can play well without having learned a thing about football from a coach that never put his hand in the dirt.

Quite a few assumptions to make on your other parts that really don't jive with the truth. I don't see what's so hard about taking what I say at face value unless you're a troll or maybe a sycophant. I'm not lying or embellishing any of it.
 
JacketForLife said:
Buddy, you can play well without having learned a thing from a coach that never put his hand in the dirt.

Quite a few assumptions to make on your other parts that really don't jive with the truth. I don't see what's so hard about taking what I say at face value unless you're a troll or maybe a sycophant. I'm not lying or embellishing any of it.
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JacketForLife said:
What'd you expect? You're seeing a bunch of guys that haven't had anyone teaching them football except for the previous 11 months.
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Breh
 
18in32 said:
I saw that too. CGC specifically told Juanyeh when he came off the field, "That was my fault."
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Not sure how it was his fault other than not reminding him on what to do. I was wondering if he was mistaken by thinking it was a kickoff, and calling the fair catch there gets the ball placed on the 25? Hasn't he been on most of the kickoff return teams?
 
SMoney said:
Not sure how it was his fault other than not reminding him on what to do. I was wondering if he was mistaken by thinking it was a kickoff, and calling the fair catch there gets the ball placed on the 25? Hasn't he been on most of the kickoff return teams?
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Could be. It wasn't the biggest error of the ballgame, certainly
 
SMoney said:
Not sure how it was his fault other than not reminding him on what to do. I was wondering if he was mistaken by thinking it was a kickoff, and calling the fair catch there gets the ball placed on the 25? Hasn't he been on most of the kickoff return teams?
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I'm not sure either but CGC clearly said it. I assume it was CGC trying to encourage a player... and correct through kindness rather than anger
 
18in32 said:
I'm not sure either but CGC clearly said it. I assume it was CGC trying to encourage a player... and correct through kindness rather than anger
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Perhaps, but that seems like a weird thing to take blame for. Telling your players it's okay and you forgive them is not the same as actually saying it's your fault.

As a coach, I've certainly taken blame when something like that happened, but I can only thing of two reasons why:

1) We didn't anticipate or practice for this scenario, so the player was unprepared. My fault.

2) I told the player to do something that ended up being the wrong decision.


I have a hard time believing either was the case on the fair catch punt.
 
Yeah, seems there should be a followup question to Collins on what he meant because I can't quite figure it out.

I wondered if he meant that Thomas shouldn't have been in there for that situation: Brown or Blancato should have been in there for a sure hands type situation. Thomas should be in when there only when a return chance is likely. Thomas hasn't been returning a lot of kicks so maybe Collins meant he put Thomas in a situation that he wasn't prepared for. Just spit balling.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
We've literally not HAD a ST coach before this year. thankfully, we finally are seeing some actual attention to D & ST. It'll pay dividends down the road.
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Wut? We still don’t have a designated special teams coach.

And what makes you say special teams is getting more attention.

The fact that after every game that special teams sucks ass CGC reminds us the punt team eats first?
 
johncu said:
Perhaps, but that seems like a weird thing to take blame for. Telling your players it's okay and you forgive them is not the same as actually saying it's your fault.

As a coach, I've certainly taken blame when something like that happened, but I can only thing of two reasons why:

1) We didn't anticipate or practice for this scenario, so the player was unprepared. My fault.

2) I told the player to do something that ended up being the wrong decision.


I have a hard time believing either was the case on the fair catch punt.
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Agreed, but you could see what CGC was saying very clearly. (It's at 2:07:30 on the YouTube TV recording. CGC says "It's not your fault. Shut up, shut up. It's my fault.") He definitely errs on the side of being a "player's coach," so who knows.
 
18in32 said:
Agreed, but you could see what CGC was saying very clearly. (It's at 2:07:30 on the YouTube TV recording. CGC says "It's not your fault. Shut up, shut up. It's my fault.") He definitely errs on the side of being a "player's coach," so who knows.
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Yep, I saw the same thing. I guess I'll never know why.
 
Maybe he told Juanyeh to make sure to secure the catch and not worry about a return.

This is possible since Juanyeh flubbed the catch against Clemson.
 
johncu said:
Perhaps, but that seems like a weird thing to take blame for. Telling your players it's okay and you forgive them is not the same as actually saying it's your fault.

As a coach, I've certainly taken blame when something like that happened, but I can only thing of two reasons why:

1) We didn't anticipate or practice for this scenario, so the player was unprepared. My fault.

2) I told the player to do something that ended up being the wrong decision.


I have a hard time believing either was the case on the fair catch punt.
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My guess is maybe Juanyeh hasn't been getting many reps there at practice (he just started returning KO's again last week since his hand/wrist has healed). Coach may have run him out there on a whim just to try to create a spark instead of his current #1 punt returner without giving him any reminders/coaching. Then when that happend, coach realized maybe that was a bad call for me to put you there because you haven't been practicing there lately. I have no idea just spitballing.
 
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