The players are soft

[00Burdell]

I guess I missed this post in all the confusion but I agree completely with the posters telling OP to back off criticizing the players.

It is not cool, it is not acceptable and it makes you look petty and small minded. If you really think the players are the problem then you need to take a seat on the bench and stay there.

 

[FlatsLander]

I watched Sims stare down his RB ON A SWING PASS. A safety ran up from 20 yards away and hit the RB right as he caught the ball. Isn't the whole point of a swing pass to sell the deep pass then toss it short to the RB who snuck out of the backfield?

 

[savbandjacket]

 

[GTsapper]

Guys, lay off the players, ok. There's a reason our 4 or 5 best players are obvious to anyone who has played a down. The great recruiting myth is just that, including transfers.

The players get thousands of dollars in NIL deals now. As far as I'm concerned, they're fair game now. But I don't think the players are at fault here.

 

[The Champ]

 

[gtg712x]

Ultimately I blame the coaching for Sims running like late stage Vad Lee.

 

[CiraldoForever]

The players get thousands of dollars in NIL deals now. As far as I'm concerned, they're fair game now. But I don't think the players are at fault here.

I agree with everything you said. Many of them are just professional athletes and have no loyalty to the school that gives them a chance.

"Come to Georgia Tech and audition for Alabama. Play good in the bush leagues in Atlanta, and you, too, can be another Tuscaloosa millionaire in just one miserable season."

You are also right that no player can be fairly judged based on how he performs without the benefit of adequate coaching.

 

[GTsapper]

I agree with everything you said. Many of them are just professional athletes and have no loyalty to the school that gives them a chance.

"Come to Georgia Tech and audition for Alabama. Play good in the bush leagues in Atlanta, and you, too, can be another Tuscaloosa millionaire in just one miserable season."

You are also right that no player can be fairly judged based on how he performs without the benefit of adequate coaching.

You said it much better than I did. Like I always tell the kids that work for me, I'm quite literally the stupidest man to ever graduate from Georgia Tech

 

[yellowbritchies]

It starts with the coaches ends with the coaches the real question has the players give up on the coaches,that is something you would have to ask them but if you keep the coaches till the end to the year, they won't say anything.
The question is why Sims play the whole game this was a game to play the backup in the 4th quarter.

I screamed that same question when Sims came out for the 3rd qtr? As bad as the team was playing any other coach would put in their 2nd best QB. I guess it spoke volumes about the absence of any other QB's we have!!

 

[JJacket]

I watched Sims stare down his RB ON A SWING PASS. A safety ran up from 20 yards away and hit the RB right as he caught the ball. Isn't the whole point of a swing pass to sell the deep pass then toss it short to the RB who snuck out of the backfield?

Funny you should say that. On one of the passes to the left, me and the guy next to me discussed that Sims could have pump faked that throw and thrown to a wide open receiver in the middle.

 

[CiraldoForever]

You said it much better than I did. Like I always tell the kids that work for me, I'm quite literally the stupidest man to ever graduate from Georgia Tech

If you've got kids that work for you, you're a whole lot smarter than I am.

 

[GTsapper]

If you've got kids that work for you, you're a whole lot smarter than I am.

20-something year old women... It's how they keep you in the business hahha

 

[Vespidie]

And frankly the guy who got trucked has stood out to me as one of our better players from both a talent and effort perspective, but by that point in the game all appearances are that he just didn't expect their QB to care that much (some reflection on our mental state, don't you think?). In reality, though, I think the Ole Miss QB, along with the rest of their team, knew our players were soft and wanted to assert their dominance.

Kind of like pouring salt on a slug.

 

[AlaGold]

These players play like a bunch of pussies. Especially Sims. Maybe Smith and King showed some effort today. Everyone else running thru the motions from the first snap. They don't even give enough of a öööö to execute a screen pass.

We haven't seen a REAL game like effort in off-season in 3 yrs.Why would they know how to really hit and play now .

 

[Vespidie]

Remember how pissed Nesbitt looked when he lost his first game at QB 2008 @VT (there was a terrible late-hit call against us btw).

I see NONE of that same fire from Sims. Granted, he’s playing behind a Swiss cheese O-Line that must like seeing him get destroyed back there..

I’m still of the belief that each successive generation that comes along is weaker than the previous. Josh f’n Nesbitt was a winner and wore the öööö on his sleeve. Guys today come up in an environment where they are bombarded with slogans like ‘kindness works’ etc.

 

[RamblinWreck27]

Even in the games we've won since then, the last time I thought we truly physically dominated a non-inferior opponent might be the VT Tobias QB game in 2018. I will never stop bringing it up.

 

[Yukonwreck]

These players play like a bunch of pussies. Especially Sims. Maybe Smith and King showed some effort today. Everyone else running thru the motions from the first snap. They don't even give enough of a öööö to execute a screen pass.

This is what the existence of the portal creates. Once the players recognize that they aren't getting adequate coaching from this staff (and NEVER will), the reaction is to tune out and look for another team. Question: Was Stansbury at UCF at the same time as Scott Frost?

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

This is what the existence of the portal creates. Once the players recognize that they aren't getting adequate coaching from this staff (and NEVER will), the reaction is to tune out and look for another team. Question: Was Stansbury at UCF at the same time as Scott Frost?

He was at ETSU when they shut down their football program.

 

[Beej1953]

You said it much better than I did. Like I always tell the kids that work for me, I'm quite literally the stupidest man to ever graduate from Georgia Tech

But that still puts you well ahead of the smartest person to ever graduate from Ugag.

 

[Yukonwreck]

Remember how pissed Nesbitt looked when he lost his first game at QB 2008 @VT (there was a terrible late-hit call against us btw).

I see NONE of that same fire from Sims. Granted, he’s playing behind a Swiss cheese O-Line that must like seeing him get destroyed back there..

Thank you Brent Key.