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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby highlander » Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:01 pm

Is it me or was TM better than PS?
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Finally » Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:38 am

highlander wrote:Is it me or was TM better than PS?


Maybe stone has better upside, but mordecai was certainly more effective. Stone just can’t get over the backyard football mindset of playing Qb.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Glenn Sosbee » Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:32 pm

Is there some sort of undisclosed lingering health issue with Preston Stone?
If not, I got a real big problem with RL and his manufactured QB controversy.
He’s starting to look like a tcu plant like traitor Sonny was.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Dukie » Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:58 am

Glenn Sosbee wrote:Is there some sort of undisclosed lingering health issue with Preston Stone?
If not, I got a real big problem with RL and his manufactured QB controversy.
He’s starting to look like a tcu plant like traitor Sonny was.

Wut? SMU is fortunate to have two high-quality potential starters who have both proven themselves as such. Coming into the season, prior performance plus the Navy injury meant Stone was 1 to Jennings' 1A. But the combo of OL issues and Stone not checking down means the situation is entirely different after BYU. How in the world did Lashlee "manufacture" this?
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby highlander » Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:18 am

Glenn Sosbee wrote:Is there some sort of undisclosed lingering health issue with Preston Stone?
If not, I got a real big problem with RL and his manufactured QB controversy.
He’s starting to look like a tcu plant like traitor Sonny was.


How would manufacturing a controversy benefit the head coach? I am not a head coach of anything, but I imagine that a D1 HC would always have plenty on his plate already and wouldn't need to create a reason to be second-guessed.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby GHammond » Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:30 am

Insiders share that Dillion Gabriel was interested in finishing out at a handful of schools to include SMU - evidently, RL not interested as he wanted to stick with Stone & Jennings. That didn’t last long…
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Arkpony » Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:59 am

In the 3 games Jennings has started as, or principally plays as QB SMU has scored a total of four TDs, losing 2 of the games..
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Dukie » Thu Sep 12, 2024 12:32 pm

Arkpony wrote:In the 3 games Jennings has started as, or principally plays as QB SMU has scored a total of four TDs, losing 2 of the games..


Boy, that’s some cherry-picking, with a kernel of truth. The cherry-picking is the quality of opponent, opponent’s defense, and the conditions (on the road for a conference championship, on the road against a P5 team in a bowl in crap conditions). How many TDs and INTs did Stone have at TCU & OU? (I’ll save you the look: 1, and 3.)

I say this not to run down Stone, who I really like and who has a ton of heart, but to push back on you running down Jennings.

Back to the kernel: yeah, in his starts and against BYU Jennings moved the ball between the 20s but not in the red zone. To complete the comparison, Stone didn’t move the ball (well, move it *forward*) against BYU at all.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Arkpony » Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:17 pm

Dukie wrote:
Arkpony wrote:In the 3 games Jennings has started as, or principally plays as QB SMU has scored a total of four TDs, losing 2 of the games..


Boy, that’s some cherry-picking, with a kernel of truth. The cherry-picking is the quality of opponent, opponent’s defense, and the conditions (on the road for a conference championship, on the road against a P5 team in a bowl in crap conditions). How many TDs and INTs did Stone have at TCU & OU? (I’ll save you the look: 1, and 3.)

I say this not to run down Stone, who I really like and who has a ton of heart, but to push back on you running down Jennings.

Back to the kernel: yeah, in his starts and against BYU Jennings moved the ball between the 20s but not in the red zone. To complete the comparison, Stone didn’t move the ball (well, move it *forward*) against BYU at all.

I wasn’t championing one QB over the other. Just pointing out our new starting QB ( At least when PS is healthy) has not done well producing TDs in the roll.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby EastStang » Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:36 pm

RL has to have better play calls in the red zone. 5 field goals ain't gonna do it. 5 TD's will. I think given our line issues, KL makes more sense if we want to win this year. You know every coach will dial up the BYU defense until we prove we can give PS time to throw. Now, they have to be a little more concerned about options.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Dukie » Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:59 pm

Arkpony wrote:
Dukie wrote:
Arkpony wrote:In the 3 games Jennings has started as, or principally plays as QB SMU has scored a total of four TDs, losing 2 of the games..


Boy, that’s some cherry-picking, with a kernel of truth. The cherry-picking is the quality of opponent, opponent’s defense, and the conditions (on the road for a conference championship, on the road against a P5 team in a bowl in crap conditions). How many TDs and INTs did Stone have at TCU & OU? (I’ll save you the look: 1, and 3.)

I say this not to run down Stone, who I really like and who has a ton of heart, but to push back on you running down Jennings.

Back to the kernel: yeah, in his starts and against BYU Jennings moved the ball between the 20s but not in the red zone. To complete the comparison, Stone didn’t move the ball (well, move it *forward*) against BYU at all.

I wasn’t championing one QB over the other. Just pointing out our new starting QB ( At least when PS is healthy) has not done well producing TDs in the roll.

Yeah, you didn't say a single word about Stone. What I said you were doing--because you were--was running down Jennings.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Arkpony » Thu Sep 12, 2024 10:32 pm

Regardless of Jennings past performance, I hope he lights it up with TDs against the Frogs and has a remarkable year.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby highlander » Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:26 pm

From RL's press conf, I can't shake the feeling that he's done with PS and is fine with him transferring out. I sure hope he knows what he's doing. I would hate to see PS "figure it out" somewhere else next year and carve up whatever conference he's in.
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby smubrooks » Sat Sep 14, 2024 5:43 am

highlander wrote:I would hate to see PS "figure it out" somewhere else next year and carve up whatever conference he's in.


This is exactly what will happen.

I’m not sold on Jennings yet. Maybe that 5 star stud we lost to Bama will flip back!
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Re: Who starts at QB?

Postby Charleston Pony » Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:38 am

smubrooks wrote:
highlander wrote:I would hate to see PS "figure it out" somewhere else next year and carve up whatever conference he's in.


This is exactly what will happen.

I’m not sold on Jennings yet. Maybe that 5 star stud we lost to Bama will flip back!


More likely that Keelon will transfer back to SMU is he goes to Bama and sits for a couple of years after being recruited over
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