I thought it has been reported in one of these threads that taj and porter got benched for dropping the ball in practice. Something about cumbie and/or dykes teaching drops in practice = drops in games
Everyone is acting like he dropped a perfect pass that he had two hands on. The kid was running full speed, had to extend with one hand, and worry about keeping his feet in bounds after he secured the ball.
It wasn't an easy catch at all. I for one am more worried about Taj and Porter than I am about Reagor.
I didn't think it was showboating, either. Just a freshman in the process of adjusting to the college game. We won; he'll be a fine player. Not a big deal.
In the OBJ era...these guys practice 1 hand grabs so regularly and have gotten so good at it that they almost instinctively go up with 1 hand now on those types of plays.
From my perspective at the game, and it happened right in front of us, Reagor just did what he could with a ball that may have gotten on him faster than he thought it would. I have looked at the replay a couple of times and I stand by that opinion. I do not think there was any intent to showboat.
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That's pretty much the opinion I expressed in the game thread and have stuck with that opinion. If he had it to do over he would probably take a different approach but I thought it pretty unfair for Gary Danielson to put that label on the effort. If he wasn't such a freak athlete, he wouldn't even have been in position to have made a play on the ball in the first place.
GP use confusing wording? Naaaaaaaah.“It’s dangerous if you don’t throw the post,” he said. “We had a couple of times we needed to do that. We probably needed to back them up a little bit more."
What is Patterson saying here? Is he saying that if you don't throw the post it's dangerous because the defense will start cheating up? His wording confused me.