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QBS in the Portal as of 11/28

rascon said:
Yes, but we play in the ACC, even if our out of conference schedule is a bit stronger than in years past.

If Lyle is who we think he can be and we feature a lot of Lofton and the defense goes from catastrophic to average or even above average, than we could have a chance at 10 wins
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That's a lot of ifs, and even assuming the best outcome for all those conditionals our RB room would pale in comparison to UGA's in Fromm's true frosh year, which was one of the best in recent college football history.

If our coaches are considering rolling with Nickel, the offensive portal class doesn't make sense. The only way it could possibly work would be for Nickel to be the second coming of frosh Trevor Lawrence with an average to below-average group of WRs (extremely unlikely) or to do what UGA did that year and have ~3100 rushing yards between 3 NFL backs and an elite defense. We weren't in on any of the top portal backs to replace Martinez, we got a C who is a great pass blocker but a middling at best run blocker, and TE who can run and catch but also isn't much of a run blocker.

I think it's a really bad idea to start Nickel as a true frosh next year with what we have on offense.
 
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407cane said:
a bit of optimism

bama is in same boat as us, same with michigan

their freshmen qb's are ranked higher but I guess If staff believes that strongly in nickel then they wouldn't be the only ones
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Michigan brought in Mikey Keene at least for reassurance. And they brought in portal DBs. They're gonna do what they do. Lean on the run and defense, if Underwood hits the ground running, awesome. If not, Keene starts and they're still an 8-9 win team
 
Hurracanes said:
At the moment, there is no evidence to suggest we will. We have no QB. We lost a lot of productivity on offense. The defense roster is mediocre at best. We are striking out on DC’s. Until these things change, it’s unlikely I change my position.

But I can predict you’ll continue stalking me. The ignore button is at your service if you don’t like my takes.
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I don't ignore anyone anyone, nor do I stalk anyone. I read the board and reply/comment as I like lol..

Qb performance is critical to next season and every season. I agree if we don't bring in a good Qb its not looking great for our W/L probabilities. However There is being doom and gloom cause we don't have a Qb, but then there is just ****ting on everything no matter whether they are ACTUALLY good or not. And that is what many here love doing. The additions we have actually made have been objectively good. Like if you are at the point you are ****ting on the actual additions we made and especially our DB additions, you just are in full mope mode. Let me guess you think our DLine sucks too? But surely you didn't think very highly of all the recruits we landed. Similar to LB lol... Like **** on the things that should be, not lumping everything all together imo. Look how much everyone was ****ting on our DB portal moves, and we ended up with probably the best DB portal class we could even hope for - especially if we end up getting Lucas. And for anything we haven't improved enough there is always Spring portal which for some reason people are pretending doesn't exist (I'm not saying we get a spring portal qb lol, that's a no for me)...

Like everyone is making out Dennis Smith into the antichrist, maybe he is THAT bad, but it appears we have hired someone that is thought pretty well of to be above him, so that is another good move made...
Who we hire at DC will be very important, but just cause we didn't hire Banks is not a reason to panic imo. What if we hire a good DC? Like everyone is so negative, meanwhile if you just looked at this without so much negativity, apart from the QB decision, most things have gone extremely well thus far.... except WR2 addition, which has been a flop thus far...

But I still don't think yall will think we are winning if we brought in Ewers/Milroe/Beck/Nuss/etc tbh.
 
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Manfred_Cane said:
Michigan brought in Mikey Keene at least for reassurance. And they brought in portal DBs. They're gonna do what they do. Lean on the run and defense, if Underwood hits the ground running, awesome. If not, Keene starts and they're still an 8-9 win team
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I agree, also did not see the keene transfer

although I will say, maybe that's what Mario's trying to emulate here, nickel / emory + good DC + the portal db's we got might be 8/9 wins leading into 2026 with a more experienced nickel
 
407cane said:
I agree, also did not see the keene transfer

although I will say, maybe that's what Mario's trying to emulate here, nickel / emory + good DC + the portal db's we got might be 8/9 wins leading into 2026 with a more experienced nickel
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Well, Emory is ******* dog****. Keene is better than him so I hope that's not what he's trying to do. If that's his goal, he should've got a more veteran QB or Chandler Rogers to show Nickel the ropes. Not ****head Emory
 
Manfred_Cane said:
Well, Emory is ******* dog****. Keene is better than him so I hope that's not what he's trying to do. If that's his goal, he should've got a more veteran QB or Chandler Rogers to show Nickel the ropes. Not ****head Emory
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I didn't say it was smart 'I'm just saying could be what we're trying to emulate

our qb situation is worse but our run game is better, defense we'll have to wait and see
 
Calinative said:
Idk to me it seems like Beck is probably the best we could "hope" for at this point. Hopefullly dude has some *** NFL grades which I suspect he does after this season. But he's got talent. I'd just hope he doesn't cost hella money. If we got him for $2.5M, it'd be good. Would have still prefered Mendoza for cheaper, but getting Beck would be a pretty good end result all things considered lol.
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you're betting on a kid who currently has one functioning arm.

There are other QBs that can come in and at least provide competition. They may not be ideal in another situation but right now, a decent body is needed.
 
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JayCane20 said:
Pretty obvious this is their plan. Same exact thing Ward did last year and there hasn’t been a single peep about any interest in a QB actually in the portal since Mateer. Haven’t had a single QB on campus.

He needs to enter the portal, visit, and start negotiating. That’s the hold up. Basically, it happens this week or it’s over.
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Week and a half I'd say....
Though I think technically he gets till what the 25th or something like that to REMOVE his name from the NFL Draft list. I think he has till the 15th to add his name, but since his team is playing still he gets the extension to remove his name if he'd like.... May not be 100% on that, but its close enough. It definitely seems like the most likely plan to me too, and it seems like our best option. Honestly at the end of the day when it's all said and done if we do get Beck it's probably the 2nd best QB addition in CFB after Mateer (idk if you'd agree?) Hopefully it happens and isn't crazy expensive....
 
CanesNation26 said:
Nickel is not going to be good as a true freshman, and I highly doubt he beats out Emory.
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which version of Emory? GreenTree or actual game time Emory? They clearly must be different or there have been some real tall tales told.... (taller than we already know)

I think the staff has to step back and reevaluate what they have in Emory.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
you're betting on a kid who currently has one functioning arm.

There are other QBs that can come in and at least provide competition. They may not be ideal in another situation but right now, a decent body is needed.
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I mean the injury is just something that is approved or not by the doctors. Its a risk, but given whats in the portal clearly worth taking.

I'd rather pay to lure someone else into portal I think than get that dude though is really my point. Like why not try to get Sayin to enter instead of him? Why not try to pay for a low level guy to move up like Poff did? That's where I'm at. That dude has done literally nothing in 3yrs. Hey I won't really be against bringing him in to be a backup just in case, but it doesn't change anything at all for me.
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
you're betting on a kid who currently has one functioning arm.

There are other QBs that can come in and at least provide competition. They may not be ideal in another situation but right now, a decent body is needed.
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Last offseason, Mother****ers in here were willing to bet on Emory after his arm was ripped off vs FSU cause they didn't want to wait for Cam and pay him the $.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
which version of Emory? GreenTree or actual game time Emory? They clearly must be different or there have been some real tall tales told.... (taller than we already know)

I think the staff has to step back and reevaluate what they have in Emory.
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I think it's likely clear that Emory is a smart dude who likely is a film junky and those kind of dudes always gain coaches respect and trust because they can be counted on in one manner.

And in practice (against our **** LB/Secondary, and our pretty elite weapons) I don't doubt he passed the ball well more often than not... But just like some Qbs can be gamers, I don't find it surprising when far more are the opposite....
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
which version of Emory? GreenTree or actual game time Emory? They clearly must be different or there have been some real tall tales told.... (taller than we already know)

I think the staff has to step back and reevaluate what they have in Emory.
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Do you know why they only played him in 1 game? I'll assume the reports that he was good in practice this year are true. He wasn't good in the games he started last year. If there was such a difference between his practice performance this year and what he showed in games last year, why not test him more in game action?

Emory could have played a series or two at the end of the UF/USF/FSU/WF games. I don't get it.
 
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