Wondering about Eric Lair

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I'll let you good folks determine the why but has anyone not noticed the lack of a productive offense let alone a passing game? I think it's absurd to arrive at lair can't play or he has an attitude, seldom do you have good individual player performances on very bad teams.
 

TXGOPHER said:
Thanks Stan. It was very hard to watch. It is time that Coach opens the playbook and allows the few playmakers that we "may" have to make plays. Concealing the playbook until next year is not going to help the cause of the Eric Lair's, Dajon McKnight's, and Duane Bennett's on the team. They are sincerely taking little to no chances on the field, and that is not fun for the players nor the fans to see. Some of these guys from this recruiting class were part of the most recently ranked team at Minnesota.. #17 if my memory serves correctly. Coach Kill can not afford to phase these guys out of the offense. When a scheme does not work, there should be adjustments to the personnel that he has .. It just seems as if these guys are being scrapped, right along with the season, and knowing some of the kids personally, I would be surprised if bad attitudes were the problem although I am certain that there is some frustration. The future of some of these guys is in jeapordy and it seems like a lost cause to them. We had a couple of guys that were on National Preseason, award lists . This has to be a bitter pill to swallow.
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You summed up my feelings pretty well. I'm not a fan of how things are being handled, but I don't know the specifics obviously. Just not my idea of a good way to begin things here.
 

Sportsfan24 said:
I'll let you good folks determine the why but has anyone not noticed the lack of a productive offense let alone a passing game? I think it's absurd to arrive at lair can't play or he has an attitude, seldom do you have good individual player performances on very bad teams.
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If the player was a Brewster recruit most of the knee jerk responses run along the lines of "lazy, not trying, overrated talent, not to smart, not going to class" or "just a bad kid period". Kill hasn't talked like that for two or three weeks now. He's more then willing to say that coaching mistakes have also come into play. It's still pretty fashionable around here though to blame every problem on the "lousy players."

Under no circumstances is one to question how the player is being used. That would be disloyal.
 

Stan The Caddy said:
We get it Rose, you do not like Kill. Fine. Is Eric Lair like Bernard Berrian? He as been open all the time the last 4 years? He is so good, so athletic and created so many mismatches that he was behind Nick Tow-Arnett on the depth chart.
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Brewster did a better job of getting nick yow arnett open and getting lair open than kill has.
Perhaps that's just coincidence.

When you have very few playmakers you might want to try and find a way to take advantage of strengths you do have. Do you disagree? You think we simply shouldn't use lair because his strengths don't fit the schemes?
 



Lair got the start.
Gray is playing well.
Lines are playing okay.

Let's get this done.
 


So, Rose...I am going to watch the game back this week and count the offensive snaps Lair got. When he got a pass thrown to him
today it was a big time drop. Your thoughts?
 



The offense seemed to play pretty well without much contribution from Lair today. But rose doesn't like Kill so he won't care that we won.
 

Bad drop, but they sent Lair right back in there after it.
 

Lair dropped one, but he played a lot. We won. I'm happy.
 

Stan The Caddy said:
So, Rose...I am going to watch the game back this week and count the offensive snaps Lair got. When he got a pass thrown to him
today it was a big time drop. Your thoughts?
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You guys ripping on me for lair comments are simpletons. I like the way they use lair today. He dropped a ball. That's never happened before to anyone
 



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