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Cam Ward talks offense: "JoJo Trader is elite"

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canes_aaron said:
cause sam brown was getting paid a lot of money probably
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This is the stupidest take. It benefits a team nothing to play a guy just because he’s getting paid. It’s not the NFL where coaches/GMs have to justify drafting guys or paying free agents. If Sam Brown got benched for JoJo Trader, nobody would care. We were trying to make the playoff and the coaches trusted our veteran receivers (who had the most productive season in school history) to get a majority of the snaps. They obviously had no issue with Horton getting more targets than anyone besides X.
 

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DrNovaCane said:
I know we're looking to add another WR during the Spring portal window...I for one believe that the young guns we have at WR is going to be a pleasant surprise this year.
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I agree and they need to be! Would be nice not to have to rely on more portal additions and have our recruited members shine.
 
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DTP said:
This is the stupidest take. It benefits a team nothing to play a guy just because he’s getting paid. It’s not the NFL where coaches/GMs have to justify drafting guys or paying free agents. If Sam Brown got benched for JoJo Trader, nobody would care. We were trying to make the playoff and the coaches trusted our veteran receivers (who had the most productive season in school history) to get a majority of the snaps. They obviously had no issue with Horton getting more targets than anyone besides X.
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I know many were down on Sam but he still got us 500 yards and he did have a couple big plays. I am a big fan of JoJo but there’s no reason to get weird about his playing time as a true freshman
 
DTP said:
This is the stupidest take. It benefits a team nothing to play a guy just because he’s getting paid. It’s not the NFL where coaches/GMs have to justify drafting guys or paying free agents. If Sam Brown got benched for JoJo Trader, nobody would care. We were trying to make the playoff and the coaches trusted our veteran receivers (who had the most productive season in school history) to get a majority of the snaps. They obviously had no issue with Horton getting more targets than anyone besides X.
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I'm sorry. I tend to agree with OP. If two players are similar, the player that's commanding a lot of NIL is going to get most of the snaps. The player behind them has to perform significantly better to take more snaps away.

Trader was injured a lot of the season, which slowed his development. He's probably not a good test case. Tyler Baron on the other hand was a head scratcher. He did little to nothing from about game 3 thru the end of the season. He should have been benched. He added very little productivity to the DL room.
 
Sandman211 said:
Exactly. He hustled this year! Even when he didn't get the ball he was hustling.
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Number1CanesFan said:
I'm sorry. I tend to agree with OP. If two players are similar, the player that's commanding a lot of NIL is going to get most of the snaps. The player behind them has to perform significantly better to take more snaps away.
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Why? Why would coaches purposely play the worse player? They’re not obligated to play the guys with the biggest NIL deals otherwise Sampson wouldn’t have been riding the bench for two years. If Trader was better than Brown, he wouldn’t have played more. Now, here’s the thing. One guy is inexperienced and coming off an injury. If that’s the case you go with health and experience. Provided they’re playing at roughly the same level. But the idea that the coaches purposely played worse players just because they had NIL deals (Jojo was a borderline five star, he’s getting paid) makes zero sense.
 
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