Smitty's pre-draft analysis of Nalo

[kungfoodude]

3 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

As I said in another thread, the majority of his "work ethic issues" stem from that McShay report, that is pretty widely assumed/known in the Arizona community that it was our POS old coach who was throwing shade because he was upset that T-Mac and Fifita didn't follow him to Washington.

In 3 years at Arizona, there was never a single shred of evidence or mention that he had work ethic issues.

Good to hear. Hopefully it just provides more fuel to his fire.

[tukafan21]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Smitty's response is exactly the problem a lot of people have with Smitty. A college position coach is just sticking up for his kid and Smitty immediately takes it personally and just outright attacks him. At least he's doing it on YouTube now instead of breaking noses but it just shows that Smitty hasn't grown in that regard.

And it's not just his college position coach, but it's the person who's school receiving yards record T-Mac broke, while he was coaching him.

We hired Wade going into this season and apparently the first thing T-Mac said to him was that he was going to break his record this year, and then he did it, freaking LOVE it.

You'd think there could be some sour grapes when you lose your longstanding record, but all year long, all Wade did was talk about how excited he was to see T-Mac break it and that he was going to help him do it. 

[tukafan21]

9 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Good to hear. Hopefully it just provides more fuel to his fire.

Honestly, I'm not sure it will, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

T-Mac never struck me as the Smitty type, that takes that stuff in and uses it as fuel.  He's the type that just flat out doesn't care about it, he's himself and just goes out there and does him.

I think he's more the type to laugh something like that off than use it as anger fuel, which I don't think is a bad thing either, it shows confidence in yourself and a strong mentality that you don't let others opinions affect yourself.

[TD alt]

14 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I have seen some suggestion that T-Mac has issues with work ethic. I hope those reach his ears and he takes that as motivation to work extremely hard to be dominant. 

Not saying that you're saying that Smitty was questioning his work ethic per se, but let me say that I don't think Smitty is questioning his work ethic as much as he is saying that T-Mac was inconsistent and, "Why?" Smitty did talk to nine different people. I don't know why Wildcats fans would be so upset, because at least he said that T-Mac has a relatively high floor and is bust-proof in so many words. Fans gonna be fans though, and being butt-hurt is a part of it.

[Panthers Rhule]

1 minute ago, tukafan21 said:

Honestly, I'm not sure it will, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

T-Mac never struck me as the Smitty type, that takes that stuff in and uses it as fuel.  He's the type that just flat out doesn't care about it, he's himself and just goes out there and does him.

I think he's more the type to laugh something like that off than use it as anger fuel, which I don't think is a bad thing either, it shows confidence in yourself and a strong mentality that you don't let others opinions affect yourself.

I think we valued a true X receiver and they think they found him. If he works out this may be one of our best picks in a long time. I'm excited to see what he brings to our offense. If Bryce can start this season like he finished last year's then I expect to see this young group take a step up.. I like the rb pick too. We need someone behind Chuba and someone similar is smart I think. ST ability definitely adds value. 

35 minutes ago, Jackofalltrades said:

Most propositions here on the Huddle become "all or nothing." It's a constant swinging from one extreme to the other with very little tolerance of anything in the middle. It's sad.

I didn't want TMac, but I'm a fan now and hope he has a lot of success regardless of my pre-draft biases.

I was so sure we were going defense and at the end maybe a tackle but WR surprised me but I get it. After he was picked and started paying attention to him and now I really get. They think they may finally have a true X receiver with him and they're going for it. I'm cool with that. Play to win or stay home. That starts at the top and I'm not crowning them yet but I'm happy as heck that I can see they're trying and have a plan. That alone has me excited. I think they can turn this team around now. 

[tukafan21]

3 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Not saying that you're saying that Smitty was questioning his work ethic per se, but let me say that I don't think Smitty is questioning his work ethic as much as he is saying that T-Mac was inconsistent and, "Why?" Smitty did talk to nine different people. I don't know why Wildcats fans would be so upset, because at least he said that T-Mac has a relatively high floor and is bust-proof in so many words. Fans gonna be fans though, and being butt-hurt is a part of it.

The questioning of his work ethic isn't from Smitty, it's from the McShay report that in 2023 when Jedd Fisch was there to "put his foot on T-Mac's throat" he was great.  But now that he left there was nobody there to do it this past year and his effort suffered.

Which is complete bullshit

It's Fisch out there trying to take credit for T-Mac's success while trying to also talk himself and his coaching ability up, and it all stemmed from the sour grapes from Fisch of T-Mac and Fifita not following him to Washington last year.

[Stuart Smith]

36 minutes ago, Swaggasaurus said:

I’m pretty much fuging over this guy. He’s got himself on wayyy to high a pedestal. Also…see Jonathan Mingo.

Truth! 

[TD alt]

4 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The questioning of his work ethic isn't from Smitty, it's from the McShay report that in 2023 when Jedd Fisch was there to "put his foot on T-Mac's throat" he was great.  But now that he left there was nobody there to do it this past year and his effort suffered.

Which is complete bullshit

It's Fisch out there trying to take credit for T-Mac's success while trying to also talk himself and his coaching ability up, and it all stemmed from the sour grapes from Fisch of T-Mac and Fifita not following him to Washington last year.

But do Wildcats hate Smitty though?

Edited 7 hours ago by TD alt

[tukafan21]

Just now, TD alt said:

But do wildcats hate Smitty though?

"hate" is the wrong word, but yea, they kinda hate him right now (this might legit be the first and only time I've ever referred to Wildcat fans as "they" and not "we" because of course I can't hate Smitty, LOLOL)

You have to remember, T-Mac is basically our best player in school history, at least offensively.  

We've had a lot of great defenders, mainly back in the 90's, and we had Gronk who while great for us, more made his mark in the NFL of course as he only played his freshman and sophomore year for us (had he not been injured and missed his whole junior season, he might own that distinction over T-Mac).

When anyone talks down your best player in school history, the fans aren't going to take kindly to it.  Add in the irony of T-Mac then getting drafted by the team who's receiving records are all owned by said person talking down their guy, and yea, the fan base is going to have a field day with that one, haha.

[tukafan21]

^^^

For whatever it's worth, the fan base is far more angry with McShay (and Fisch since we "know" it was him feeding that to him) and the bullshit he spewed out there than Smitty.

There's a thread on our board right now asking which was worse, the McShay/T-Mac stuff or Kiper's handling of Shedeur stuff... that's how angry the fan base is with that "reporting" by McShay, lol

Edited 7 hours ago by tukafan21

[LinvilleGorge]

20 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

^^^

For whatever it's worth, the fan base is far more angry with McShay (and Fisch since we "know" it was him feeding that to him) and the bullshit he spewed out there than Smitty.

There's a thread on our board right now asking which was worse, the McShay/T-Mac stuff or Kiper's handling of Shedeur stuff... that's how angry the fan base is with that "reporting" by McShay, lol

Kiper's meltdown over Shedeur and the rest of the ESPN table basically just having to tell him to STFU was an all-time draft clown show moment. LOL 

[tukafan21]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Kiper's meltdown over Shedeur and the rest of the ESPN table basically just having to tell him to STFU was an all-time draft clown show moment. LOL 

100%

But the fact that there is even a thread comparing them on our boards shows you how our fans are feeling about that McShay report.  Sure, there is a thread about the Smitty stuff too, but to even put McShay/T-Mac in the same breath as the Kiper/Shedeur stuff puts the two T-Mac things in perspective lol

[332nd]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Kiper's meltdown over Shedeur and the rest of the ESPN table basically just having to tell him to STFU was an all-time draft clown show moment. LOL 

The crazy thing is, if he turns out to be right, We'll never be rid of him.

I honestly think he made a bet with some higher up that he has to be on at least every draft panel for the next 30 years if Leaf was a bust.

[jfra78]

1 minute ago, 332nd said:

The crazy thing is, if he turns out to be right, We'll never be rid of him.

I honestly think he made a bet with some higher up that he has to be on at least every draft panel for the next 30 years if Leaf was a bust.

We won't be rid of him anyway