BS! Smith is chickenshit! Period.
Do you think Sean Payton wants to see Drew Brees tucking the ball and running for a 1st down, and then diving headfirst to get it!? No way! I'm sure Payton's heart was in his throat. And Brees is by design, NOT a running QB. But, since he is a REAL QB, and REAL competitor, and a REAL team guy...he does whatever it takes to win games. Do any of you fools think J'Mar Smith is somehow so superior to Brees that he shouldn't risk an injury? It's okay for Brees to run....but not the rock star J'Mar Smith, eh!
Motives to actions? That's an easy one. Smith is all about self-preservation and the good of the team be damned!
He's had good games and he's had bad games.
Obviously, if we were ever going to beat LSU or MSU (or win the whole conference) we were going to need our QB to almost always be amazing. He's not that.
But if you had to guess, of course a QB is going to look better against Rice (as I predict he will this week) than MSU or LSU this season. UAB felt bad in the moment, but they've turned out to be pretty good. We're still in good shape to win 8-10 games this season.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...ith-1/gamelog/
J'Mar is probably a fine young man, but he sucks as a college QB. Not a character assassination, just a talent assassination.
Yay, he can win a game VS CUSA folk.......big freaking deal
It makes ZERO sense why other kids are not getting some real game time experience.
We still have 3 conference games left. All except USM should be easy wins. That being said, why do I have this eerie feeling about playing Rice and WKU? I will answer my own rhetorical question: I have no confidence in either our qb or our head coach. We could be looking at 2 WTF games and a seemingly impossible-to-beat rival ahead. The title of this thread is only assumed. We are at 6-3 with 4 games left. Two are easily winnable and two are going to be tough. I don't even know who #13 (bowl game) is, but the law of averages is bound to catch us at some point.
Pessimistic? You bet, but more like pragmatic. Two of our 3 losses are horrible. 3 of our 6 wins are ones that we could have easily lost all three. We could be looking at 3-6 just as easily as 6-3 right now. These last 4 games will probably define us for quite a time to come.
As the father of a son who is attempting to play quarterback at the high school level for a traditional powerhouse program - I've been a little less critical of J'mar than I would of in the past...
I've seen the pressure he has faced since stepping off the field after the final snap of Jr High ball -
Don't get me wrong, he loves it and eats it up - but it's still pressure even when you are a freshman and are still learning the ropes and getting mop up duties
I can only imagine the pressure at the next level, especially at the place where the qb position is so visible and prominent
That said - Skip has been horrible the last year and half managing J'mar and having an adequate backup sepecialy considering his success with Sokol. Driscol and Higgins
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In the radio show with Teddy tonight, HCSH mentioned that Tech team is 100% academically eligible. He also mentioned that this Fall quarter the team set a new high mark for team GPA. This is something all of us can be proud of, even though it is off the field. He also mentioned that Tech football does not have the reputation like some of these other schools with off the field player problems. As someone who lives in FSU Seminole (there's another name they are known by) country I can appreciate that Tech's program IS well respected outside of Louisiana.
Coaching question: SH also mentioned that his wife stays on him as to why we dont employ a tight end in our game plan. (Go Mrs. Holtz, haha!) He said we don't use one. Why DONT we use a tight end? Seems like we could sneak that in from time to time for a sure gain.