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Not gonna pretend like we played great but I'll take a win over UK in Rupp short a key upperclassmen starter all day everyday.

I hope Wallace can develop but he's a liability as a starting LB at this point. He didn't take the rookie to sophomore leap I was hoping he would.

I'm glad Dookie V beat cancer but holy fug I wish he'd retire. The guy has been insufferable for decades. Just go away.

I should add though that sometimes it's the guy who people thought was the lesser of the two that ends up being the one that was being carried. Courtney Brown and Lavar Arrington at PSU comes to mind immediately. Everyone thought Brown was Julius Peppers but I told my college buddy who was a big LSU fan that it was very obvious to me that Lavar was the player. He was insistent that Brown was the actual stud and I'm like yeah man, I'm just not seeing it. That Lavar guy is the one that's jumping out to me.

Formation has always been a big indicator. Shotgun used to be a big indicator of pass and now under center is a big indicator of run. It's just that the "normal" formation flip flopped.

It's not college coaches' job to develop NFL QBs. It's NFL coaches' jobs to turn college players into NFL players. I'm not sure it's not due to preference. There's more and more focus on trying to get the ball out fast and that's easier to do out if shotgun. That the NFL is running the ball at a near 70% clip from under center tells you a lot. The dichotomy has flipped. Shotgun used to be a largely passing down formation with under center being the norm while now under center has largely become a running down formation with shotgun being the norm.

Where are you finding these under center QBs in the college game? The college game is almost exclusively shotgun. It's not just the QBs being drafted, it's the college game period and honestly in recent decades the college game has been driving the NFL game more so than vice versa. Shotgun used to be a small percentage of NFL snaps, basically just obvious passing downs and stuff like the read option, RPOs, "mobile" QBs, etc. were just scoffed at by the NFL. All of these things are staples of a modern NFL offense.

Finding a college QB that has experience working from under center is basically impossible to find at this point. Hell, even the NFL has become heavy shotgun. Almost two thirds of NFL offensive snaps are out of the shotgun and nearly 70% of from under center snaps are running plays. There are only four teams in the league this year who have ran more offensive snaps from under center than out of shotgun. The Vikings are heaviest in the league from under center at 70%. The Ravens are heaviest in the league out of shotgun at a whopping 96%.

I'm very suspicious when there's two guys considered elite NFL prospects in the same college unit. The way it usually plays out is one of them was being carried by the other one and only one of them pans out to be a legit top tier NFL player. Not always, but usually.

I like Mendoza but I'm honestly not sure he's much more than a high level game manager at the NFL level. A bit more raw talented version of Purdy if you will. I haven't seen enough of the Oregon guy to have much of an opinion. Looking forward to seeing him in the playoffs. Everyone else? I have significant questions about any of them being 1st round worthy.

With the way the season has played out so far... When i realize that might make Tepper prone to do something really stupid like give Bryce a franchise QB extension...

Wow. This Vandy season might not be a fluke.

Honestly, it's up there. Given our injuries going into the game and how the Rams had been playing I think virtually everyone being honest with themselves thought we were gonna get throttled. Going into that game I think the vast majority of Panthers fans would've been perfectly willing to accept a competitive loss fully expecting another ass whooping along the lines of the Pats or Bills game.

It's not rookie Chase or Jefferson numbers but it's typical best rookie WR numbers.