Freakish Australian rugby guy…

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- 07/02/2018 at 4:30 PM #60539
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  PlainsUte
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  OK, tell me about Thomas Yassmin.
- 07/02/2018 at 5:49 PM #60541
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  gUrthBrooks
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  @hammer
  
  He once stared down Chuck Norris and lived to tell about it.
- 07/02/2018 at 7:55 PM #60544
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  Utah
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  Huge, freak athlete, don’t know jack about football.
  
  He could be an incredible TE or DE 2-3 years down the road.
- 07/03/2018 at 10:26 AM #60550
  
  PlainsUte
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  I am going to answer my own question here and get excited when he says he has “great hands” and was playing wing because of his speed rather than inside as guys his size normally do. I hope he finds catching a ball thrown in a spiral with a point at the end just as easy as a rugby ball tossed caddywampus.
  
  Thomas Yassim interview
  
  Someone should tell him he doesn’t have to touch the ball down in the end zone to score a touchdown.
  - 07/03/2018 at 2:25 PM #60562
    
    PlainsUte
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    Also I could see him as a punt returner.
  - 07/03/2018 at 2:42 PM #60563
    
    eyesonU
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    Another write up:
    
    Fox Sports
    - 07/04/2018 at 8:16 AM #60590
      
      PlainsUte
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      Apparently he knows something about stadium expansion that hasn’t been made public… “You’re playing in front of 55,000 people. They’ve had, I think, 52 straight sellouts.”
  - 07/03/2018 at 6:50 PM #60581
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    EagleMountainUte
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    Thretton Palamo never picked up the game. He became pretty serviceable and very athletically gifted. That is usually what comes to mind with Rugby players. Great Special Teams guys but skill positions and stuff just don’t translate.
    
    He is a year away from contributing.
    - 07/04/2018 at 10:15 AM #60591
      
      PlainsUte
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      The more I read and think about him, the more concerned I am about him picking up blocking technique, blocking schemes, routes, play calls, even snap count. Special teams might work best for him at first. Maybe a short yardage or goal line situational option. Run downfield, <Huntley drawing with finger on turf> ball is coming to you after 5 yards, er uh, meters. Catch it and take into end zone!
      - 07/04/2018 at 11:08 AM #60594
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        Utah
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        I find this response interesting. Here, on the one hand, Utah fan says he doesn’t know if Yassmin will ever be able to learn how to block.
        
        But then above, we have a TE who can’t block, and Utah fans arguing he’d be a starter for us and better than Harrison Handley and Fakailoatonga, two SR’s, last year.
        
        Why do we so completely over-rate BYU players and devalue ours so much?
        
        You have two players: Bushman and Yassmin. Both would be freshmen this fall at any P5 school (because Bushman would have RS’ed last year).
        
        Bushman’s best offer was Colorado. Yassmin’s was UCLA.
        
        Football people like Yassmin more than Bushman. Yet, here we are fawning over Bushman? SMH.
        
        07/04/2018 at 2:30 PM #60606
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        jrj84105
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        I want to see us develop our TE roles into separate positions. We line the TE as an H-Back, as a standard in-line TE, and flexed wide as a receiver. We ask them to do different things from those different alignments. I wish we would allow for some specialization.
        
        H-back should be a cross between a FB and a TE. He needs to be able to lead block on runs, pass block, and catch an occasional screen or shovel pass. He doesn’t need to be able to run routes. I like the Kuithe kid, Yassmin, and the Stanford transfer Simone Lund here.
        
        In line TE: this is where our standard TE should be. Has to be able to block and run routes reasonably well
        
        Flex TE: this guy should be a hybrid TE/WR. If Caleb Repp were still on offense, I’d want him here. Also, from the recent past an Anthony Denham type player.