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Coach Speak: Hartley talks Irvin II injury, Baxa; Dugans will continue deep WR rotation

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Y: Thomas / Harley / Ezzard

Z: Cager / Pope / Hightower

X: Richards / Langham / Wiggins / Njoku

Is this right?
 
kgranger17 said:
Me too! He reminds me of AB in that he runs like he has a plan. He literally runs and looks like he's thinking the entire time, and then BAM! a sudden, nifty move.
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Noodles gone where that #6 well. I see some Santana Moss flash-mocoming (at receiver and at punt return)
 
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So is Brian Polendey not an option? I don't know much about him.


I also wonder about the viability of using Daryl Langham at tight end.
 
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If anyone thinks that Richards isn’t a GUARANTEED starter if he’s fully healthy, is completely dumb. Dugans describing Richards’ catch in detail against a top 5 corner in football, says it all..
 
Liberty City El said:
You gotta understand as it pertains to rotations, it's something that you'll see a lot more throughout college football because players can now transfer without having to sitting out a year.

Which means, if you don't keep guys engaged, they'll have one foot out the door. Get out of that 90's mentality, sitting on the bench for 3 years ain't cutting it anymore. You have to integrate all your players in the gameplan & make them feel apart of it if you want to keep them.

Also, when you have as much talent as we have, can't just stick with 3 guys. Obviously, the rotation might not be 8-9 deep once we hit the bulk of the ACC schedule, but early on there's nothing wrong with letting everybody get some action out there.

The players will separate themselves with their play, it'll work itself out like it always does. But no one should be surprised, you guys want us to recruit at a high level, this is the results. You get a stacked position group filled with 4-star guys who could be potential starters anywhere else.

If guys like Cager, Langham, Harley don't step up & play their *** off, then there's a hungry wolf in the pack waiting to take their spot. Exactly how it should be. Play them all & see what they got.
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And just to add to this, I also think having a solid rotation helps in other ways. Everybody has this idea that a guy like Richards, when he's at 100% you don't take him out of the game. But the reality of it is that the first play of the game is the only time he's going to be 100%. Then the question becomes, is 95% Richards better than a 100% Pope or Hightower? What about the first time Ahmmon makes a tough grab in traffic and takes a lick? Which would you prefer? 80% Ahmmon limping back to the huddle trying to catch his wind before the next play, or taking a few plays off to do that while a guy like Noodles gets a few reps?

Also, depth is really meaningless outside of practice if that depth isn't up to the task of stepping in and filling a role with little to no drop off from the first stringers, and the only true way to get them ready to step up and keep them ready is to rotate them in and out and finding personnel packages in which they excel will expand the offense and give defenses more that they have to prepare for.
 
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