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Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. Also no live plays on punt returns????????What the hell. We need all the work on them we can get. Kickoff returns are live however. U figure it out.

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. U figure it out.
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A lot of places don't allow the QB's to get hit during the spring games. The Miss. St game that was on ESPN2 was two hand touch on the QB. I don't see anything wrong with not going live on the punt returns. Maybe they should find a returner first.

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. Also no live plays on punt returns????????What the hell. We need all the work on them we can get. Kickoff returns are live however. U figure it out.
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Seems pretty logical, really. In the practices and other scrimmages, you’re still talking about a more highly controlled situation than a spring game. In the spring game, you’re that much closer to game situations – particularly with 50,000+ fans on hand. The adrenalin level goes up, the effort goes up, the speed goes up – the chance of injury goes up. That’s particularly the case if the spring game permits the defense to blitz – all of a sudden, the line and backs are having to pick up players that they weren’t expecting. Since this is an evaluation time, the green shirt allows the coaches to evaluate how everyone is doing on the blitz packages while still preserving the quarterback’s life.

As for punt returns verses kickoffs, that one’s even more logical. On kickoffs, the blocking scheme is paramount – defenders filling their lanes and the offense ensuring that the wedge is set up properly. That’s missing on punts – once the punt is off, it’s more effort than execution. The blocking is not as structured or as organized – there’s less to evaluate; mostly, the effort. I would venture to guess that, statistically, there is a far higher probability of injury in punt situations as opposed to kickoffs.

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. Also no live plays on punt returns????????What the hell. We need all the work on them we can get. Kickoff returns are live however. U figure it out.
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Punt returns always put the returner in a vulnerable position. Although I see your point and would have liked to see this live. :thumbs

As for the QB's, I think there was only one time, maybe two where the QB's were completely live. Most of times, the defensive breaks through and just runs by the QB and let him continue the play.

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's.  Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. U figure it out.
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A lot of places don't allow the QB's to get hit during the spring games. The Miss. St game that was on ESPN2 was two hand touch on the QB. I don't see anything wrong with not going live on the punt returns. Maybe they should find a returner first.
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Maybe they aren't going live on punt returns because panico won't be playing.

 
Seems pretty logical, really. In the practices and other scrimmages, you’re still talking about a more highly controlled situation than a spring game. In the spring game, you’re that much closer to game situations – particularly with 50,000+ fans on hand. The adrenalin level goes up, the effort goes up, the speed goes up – the chance of injury goes up. That’s particularly the case if the spring game permits the defense to blitz – all of a sudden, the line and backs are having to pick up players that they weren’t expecting. Since this is an evaluation time, the green shirt allows the coaches to evaluate how everyone is doing on the blitz packages while still preserving the quarterback’s life.

As for punt returns verses kickoffs, that one’s even more logical. On kickoffs, the blocking scheme is paramount – defenders filling their lanes and the offense ensuring that the wedge is set up properly. That’s missing on punts – once the punt is off, it’s more effort than execution. The blocking is not as structured or as organized – there’s less to evaluate; mostly, the effort. I would venture to guess that, statistically, there is a far higher probability of injury in punt situations as opposed to kickoffs.
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Well put AR. Keeping players healthy so we do have a punt returner come fall is important. Also not getting anymore guys seriously injured. And what is the deal with Panico? Did he get in some serious trouble or something?

 
Does it really matter? The team is missing a few cogs that wont arrive until fall

so I dont think we will be seeing the team that will be on the field starting against

MAINE?

missing in action

1 Bowman

2 Wilson

3 Tomerlin

4 Congdon

5 Pasteur

also there will be some back-ups that wont arrive till late

1 Lucky

2 Turner

3 Hardy ( is he in lincoln now?)

4 Brooks

5 Suh

6 Picou/Picou

7 Jackson

8 Dillard

9 Roark

and last but not least

10 Beck

So just go enjoy the game for what it is worth ENTERTAINMENT

:cheers

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. Also no live plays on punt returns????????What the hell. We need all the work on them we can get. Kickoff returns are live however. U figure it out.
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So take the green jersey away, and when a QB gets hurt in live contact (like we can really afford to lose Taylor at this point) then you'll just call for Callahan's head for making it live contact!? Damned if you do and damned if you don't!

As far as punt returns, Ross was our best last year but was too valuable. Bullocks was high up but was too valuable to the D. The other guys like B-Jax kept dropping punts in practice. And Callahan knew the coverage wasn't good enough to put someone important in, so he put sure-hands Santino in. I don't think he ever caught a punt w/running room last year did he?

 
i will say it again...the 2 areas that better improve a whole lot are punt returns and kickoff coverage. these are special team roles and there better be some damn big improvement in the special teams coaching arena, period!

hunter

 
Callahan puts green jerseys on qb's. Makes no sense to have all practices and other scrimmages go live but the spring game to put jerseys on them. Also no live plays on punt returns????????What the hell. We need all the work on them we can get. Kickoff returns are live however. U figure it out.
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And how about not putting the 1s vs 1s, as TO and FS did? No wonder why they were so 'niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice" looking in the spring game last year, and so soft when they played anyone.

Great practice planning. Oh well, at least now we have the Oklahoma drill. At least the staff graduated to high school level coaching, so we should see a huge improvement :thumbs

 
At least the staff graduated to high school level coaching, so we should see a huge improvement :thumbs

What level of coacing are you at? Pee-Wee football doesn't count. If Callahan does ever getf ired hop in the old car and drive down to Lincoln and throw your hat in the mix. State job dude go apply.

 
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