J. Thomas
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Jay Thomas is a player. No doubt about it. Wish he got some looks in the backfield. But give credit to him, his career probably hasn't gone as he envisioned, but he has stuck it out ,worked extremely hard, and as far as I know, is on track to earn a degree.
Hats off to Jay!
Hats off to Jay!
yea and Thomas was the one that completely screwed up his lane assignment on the long Syracuse return. He essentially took himself out of the play by trying to go outside the block and nearly out of bounds. The returner was able to go straight down the sideline with 0 resistance since Thomas didn't even attempt to turn him inside. Horrible, horrible play by a normally solid player
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take the good with the bad, and now he knows. +2...
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Stoudimire and Thomas in a shotgun set with Weber would be dangerous
This is probably not even in the play book but you know the Spread two back look that Northwestern runs, sometimes they flank the QB with both backs, sometimes they split one out wide and then motion him back to the backfield, from either side, the QB always sells an inside handoff either with a head fake or ball fake and either hands it off to the reverse motion back, or the inside handoff to the dive or counter, now that would be an ideal set for Jay Thomas and Troy Stoudimire flanking Weber even a Marquies Gray now your talking dangerous because which one of the triple threat do you defense? You can hand it off, you can fake the hand off and have everyone chase the backs and then have the QB take off up the field on a designed draw, you can fake the draw with play action and then throw back to the tailback out of the backfield on a inside bubble, you can throw the wheel route, you can flip pitch it to the motion guy. You can fake a counter and then throw a screen to a tight end on the back side and bang you have 15-20 yards.
With Stoudimire and Thomas speed off the edge and with both having the ability to seal block or crack back, I can imagine some explosive plays with those two burners pulling this off. Imagine them trying to catch Gray and then he pulls it down and throws a bomb to a wide open tight end or Decker. Catch the defense off balance and you even open Weber up for some open field runs. Doubtfull that we will ever see it, but I think it would be fun to catch a Big 10 team off balance with this look, it's not something we have shown before and it would catch a lot of defenses off guard. With our line I think you would be able to pull off some big plays with a triple threat look out of the gun.
This will never happen as I doubt we will ever see Thomas in the backfield all season. Might be to predictable if it is always Thomas and Stoudimire. Maybe I can draw it up on NCAA 2010 and have my fun.
This is probably not even in the play book but you know the Spread two back look that Northwestern runs, sometimes they flank the QB with both backs, sometimes they split one out wide and then motion him back to the backfield, from either side, the QB always sells an inside handoff either with a head fake or ball fake and either hands it off to the reverse motion back, or the inside handoff to the dive or counter, now that would be an ideal set for Jay Thomas and Troy Stoudimire flanking Weber even a Marquies Gray now your talking dangerous because which one of the triple threat do you defense? You can hand it off, you can fake the hand off and have everyone chase the backs and then have the QB take off up the field on a designed draw, you can fake the draw with play action and then throw back to the tailback out of the backfield on a inside bubble, you can throw the wheel route, you can flip pitch it to the motion guy. You can fake a counter and then throw a screen to a tight end on the back side and bang you have 15-20 yards.
With Stoudimire and Thomas speed off the edge and with both having the ability to seal block or crack back, I can imagine some explosive plays with those two burners pulling this off. Imagine them trying to catch Gray and then he pulls it down and throws a bomb to a wide open tight end or Decker. Catch the defense off balance and you even open Weber up for some open field runs. Doubtfull that we will ever see it, but I think it would be fun to catch a Big 10 team off balance with this look, it's not something we have shown before and it would catch a lot of defenses off guard. With our line I think you would be able to pull off some big plays with a triple threat look out of the gun.
This will never happen as I doubt we will ever see Thomas in the backfield all season. Might be to predictable if it is always Thomas and Stoudimire. Maybe I can draw it up on NCAA 2010 and have my fun.