Absolutely nothing about Evers game makes me think of Tua other than they play football and hit their heads which means they're the same as about 200k other football players.
I hear the FAU game is available on replay
Literally just meant sliding late and taking hits to the head. Wasn’t comparing them in any other way. Should have clarified the first sentence was a separate thought from the rest of the post. I would never compare his actual play to Tua. The second part of what I was saying was separate, that he has potential to be a good player, but again, not comparing to Tua.
The defender was well into hitting him low too.
How many offensive lineman, or defenders for that matter, have you seen get hurt lying on the ground? It's dangerous. Sliding is nice in the open field, not so much between the tackles.
only difference is those players can take steps to defend themselves- 2 hands available. ball carrier has no hands and it is open season. If Evers wasn’t so much in the slide - i might say it’s just football - but that one IMO needed a flag and review.
gotta get down. Sliding isn't supposed to be a last minute decision. It's a recognition that there are defenders and I'm getting down for my own protection with 4 or 5 yards of space. He got into the middle of 3 defenders and said "oh **" and tried to drop right then and there and traffic. It's like people who just walk out into a crosswalk with the attitude "I'm the pedestrian, they have to stop, I have the right of way." Well, yes, they are supposed to stop.. but that doesn't mean they're going to and are you really going to brag about how right you were when you're laid up in the hospital in a full body cast?
This is the correct take. Trying to squeeze out an extra 2 feet seems silly. The defenders have to have the ability to tackle. If you start your slide while they're in the process of making a tackle you cannot stop your momentum like that. I actually feel a lot of those penalties are unfair. I was pissed when Kenny Picket faked a slide and the defenders let up and he proceeded to run about 60 yards for a TD.
Mora said he didn't know yet post game; haven't seen/heard a word since. I don't think they can roll him out Saturday though. Bad optics and liability issues prob enough to not play him.
I am guessing Evers will not play this week. Second head related injury in 4 weeks. Bye week coming up. So while I have no information it lines up about as perfectly as it can for that course of action.
This. The sliding rule can only protect you when you’re giving up yardage to protect yourself by sliding before people have already committed to clobbering you. Like NFL QBs routinely do. Throughout college, the slide is being used by QBs after they’ve gained as much yardage as they can to avoid a hit at the last minute. I side with the DBs on most of these.
Fignano = QB1, Evers = backup. Simple.
I’m not familiar with fignano, but the head coach and OC seem to think otherwise.
I tend to agree. I personally feel like Evers > Fagnano, but our running game has been very strong (and even though Fagnano is inconsistent, he does have the ability to hit open players once he gets in rhythm). While I do think it's important for Evers to get more in game snaps, I think it just makes sense right now that Evers gets some extra down time/rest.
My thoughts exactly...
I just want one rule
