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Good luck, gents. Let's hope for no injuries!

As stated before, your coach is overstating it.  You'll probably get between 10 and 12 possessions.   

23 minutes ago, Tampabuzz said:

Typically the quarterback (Taquon Marshall) and the B-back (Benson/Mason) rack up the most yards due to getting most carries.  But don't sleep on the A-backs - they don't touch the ball near as often, but often record long runs.  If I remember correctly, last week the A-backs carried the ball eight times and three of those runs went for more than 25 yards.

Bingo. While personnel certainly matters,  it's probably  more useful to think in terms of positions, where each of the three positions probably should equal ~1/3 of the yards (dependent, of course, on what the defense decides).

44 minutes ago, GTFAN1 said:

Maybe, maybe not. Even not getting turned around he got his hand in there which is what you are suppose to do. The safety coming over misread the ball as well, he’s the one I think could have picked it off. 

That's a fact. The Safety just completely airballed the play, and that's the difference between winning and losing.

Hopefully we get those inches this year.

9 hours ago, GT FAN said:

Not true, Stephen Hill, Darren Waller, DeAndre Smelter, Demaryius Thomas. All guys who could stretch the field and did really well at GT. None of these guys were TE type guys. 

Dude, Darren Waller is a TE in the NFL.

7 hours ago, GT FAN said:

Might want to go back and read my post in the context it was written. I said you probably won’t see many of the guys we played Saturday unless we are blowing y’all out. It was an example and an explanation that we played a bunch of guys in the first game to get a feel for them. At no time did I say we would or predict that we would blow y’all out. Also Id bet if we had y’all schedule we would have won 10 games as well......no offense but we play Miami, VT, Clemson, and UGA every year. We also lost 3 games that should have never been lost, however an L is an L. 

I'm not sure I agree with this. The new defensive coordinator has said he wants to play a butt ton of guys.  He likes to rotate a lot everyone can stay fresh and play like their hair is on fire.

now, it's entirely possible that you're right, and some of those guys wouldn't play against teams not named Alcorn State, but I just don't think we have a long enough track record to say one way or the other.

1 hour ago, Apis Bull said:

It doesn't matter. Unless USF and GT agreed to it before the start of the season, we have to wear dark at home and they get to wear white.  I dlon't think they would agree, they like their white jerseys better.

GT wears white home and away, actually

6 minutes ago, ForestBull said:

What are y'alls score predictions?

Maaaaannnnnn. With our defense still being so new it's really hard to say. The defense played pretty lights out in week 1 (we're currently sitting at like #4 nationally in defensive yards per play), but...it's one game....against Alcorn State, you know?

Offensively, I think we're going to get ours. Our QB isn't as good as we've had in recent years, but he's not awful, and we've got a lot of talent at RB and OL. 

I just have no idea whether we're actually pretty good on D now, or if we just looked great against scrubs, and you guys are going to waltz in and hang 45 on us. I like our chances better against a stationary target than against a runner at QB, but maybe he picks us apart.

I'm gonna be optimistic and say GT 28-24, but I fully admit this is probably more of a heart pick than a head pick.

9 minutes ago, George Jenkins said:

I wouldn't call any of our LBs super athletic, maybe Andre Polk, but he seems to be perpetually injured. Most of our speedy LBs are young or inexperienced. We run a base nickel defense, so theres usually only 2 linebackers on the field. I assume the safeties and nickel back (Hoggins) will play a big role here.

That said, you want to beat this team, just line it up and run it up the middle. No option shenanigans needed. That has always been USF's weakness.

Weirdly enough, for a team like GT that butters its bread with the run game, that hasn't always been our strength. Gt tends to prefer smaller, more athletic linemen over big bruisers (better for diving at knees, you know ;))

4 minutes ago, ForestBull said:

My spidey senses are telling me this is a GT fan

FWIW, stingtalk is the foxnewsiest of our message boards. If you want more of what I consider to be rational conversation, i'd suggest gtswarm

FWIW, longestdays is probably one of our best 1 or 2 x's and o's guys, so feel free to ask him pretty detailed questions about our scheme (particularly on offense). 

He's exactly right, though, that super athletic linebackers (or walked up safeties, **** dook) have been known to give us fits by simply beating our blockers to the spot.

Miami has had success lining up one of their endless litany of LB's who can run a 4.4. 40 9 yards deep, and mirroring the play using their speed and quickness.

I would ask you guys the ssame question. What, historically, has given your offense problems? I know you guys run the Briles, so in the grand scheme of things, the answer is "not much", but do you guys have any think that we as outside fans could watch for that would giev us some insight?