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Maybe he has some eligibility left…

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For all the MDs on the board (actual or wannabe), how exactly is a doctor in LA making weekly assessments of Cam’s readiness to play? Seems like from one week to the next he would have almost no new information w/o some kind of examination and would be completely dependent on what Cam reports. Unless they’re doing weekly MRIs and sending him the results or something. Just sounds a little weird to me.

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Also, when they have called runs for NJ, they have been the most ridiculous calls. Hey Nate, you’re super fast right? So just snap the ball, pause for a second, then run straight at the line and we’ll hope for the best! They’ve done a terrible job with the play calling with designed runs and have set him up for failure 100% (not saying they’re doing it on purpose to make him fail, just that the playcalling has been atrocious for his designed runs).

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Problem I have with this take is that, as we had demonstrated again last night, it turns out the QB position is pretty important in football (whodathunk, right?) and while we’ve definitely been bitten by the injury bug, we *knew* Cam was injured and might not be back in time (or at all). And the “Plan B” the coaches had prepared has been demonstrated to be woefully inadequate. So the coaches either can’t evaluate QB talent or can’t attract quality QBs which is why it’s perfectly fair to criticize the coaches. I personally don’t want Whitt to step down or be fired (realistically, who do we think we’d get who would be much better), but bringing in someone who has legitimate cred recruiting and training a QB would be a good step imo.

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I also think it wasn’t PI. Battle had his head turned looking at the ball the entire time. Was their contact? Yes, absolutely, but he is allowed to make a play for the ball just as well as the receiver is.

Also, I was sitting right behind Battle’s parents. They were pretty relieved about the no-call after he let the previous one over his head (as I would have been). Super nice people from the Houston area, had a bunch of people out to watch him play. Said he really likes it at Utah (transferred from Ole Miss).

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another vote for the old threaded view. But I’ll survive with the current way as well 🙂

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Not responding to your main point but it’s pretty easy to get FOX over the air with an antenna if you live close to a broadcast location :).  That’s how I’ve watched the last two games.

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I was going to write something similar, you said it better than I would have though.  

I was essentially going to say that analytics/probabilty can tell you that, in general, in a certain situation, what is more likely to happen.  But as you point out, every specific situation needs to be judged on its own merits.  Personally, I still like the decision to go for it.  I think scoring there would have been a huge momentum shift.  But the play call was atrocious.  The specifics of the situation called for a different response.  We couldn’t do something similar against Weber St., the offensive line showed no sign of dominance.  Relying purely on power football in that situation (then inexplicably using the shotgun), made no sense at all.  Whitt’s excuse of “someone missed an assignment” was also a ridiculous excuse because as all data pointed to up to that point, the probability of someone missing an assignment was pretty high.  

I like some of what analytics has done to the game because it challenges long held beliefs that aren’t backed up by actual data.  But it does really sounds like Whitt doesn’t understand the limitations of analytics and hiding behind them when he fails is disappointing.

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I agree with you. Cam has been a great QB for us but it’s definitely time to s**t or get off the pot. And it’s definitely on the coaches for not having a better Plan B when it was always iffy that Cam would be ready to play, even if he wanted to. Which is really too bad because we have so many other pieces this year that we haven’t in the past.

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I’m way late replying, but I vote for how you’ve had it for years. I really like seeing all the posts w/o having to click on individual thread topics, even if the full thread do load slower. Thanks for all your work!