Parkers Pros

Not worried about defense no matter who stays or goes. Would absolutely love Lance Rucker to come back. And he’s an insanely important piece. But if we’re hanging our hat on him to make a break us then we might as well stop now. Cause he could get hurt on the first play. We don’t want hostages here. We want bought in guys who believe. They are asking a lot of the committed to be here. So if they feel like their path to the field is too hard, can’t blame them for feeling like a change of scenery will help. If the rumors of Fleming coming back are true, I like our weapons both inside and out. RB room gets another offseason to put muscle on. I like that room, It’s young, untested, but hungry! We gotta figure out how to use our quick receivers better, Hoskins, Tai, and we have a talented tight end or two that we really need use to open up the middle of the field. I feel like that was largely ignored. This is a make or break year for Isaac.

Yes and no. If he goes to an FCS school he is running from something, OC, or he hears footsteps, Chuck and Colt and worries about snaps. Or he worries about the beating he gets in the Missouri Valley.I am pretty confident in who we have in the running back room if SS leaves. He’s a third down scat back for an FBS team unless he puts on 15 pounds of muscle over the summer. He’s a tremendous talent and would be a big loss. But this is the type of thing we need to be ready for a year after year. We need to keep Rucker and the defensive line depth. Devereux is huge with Malachi leaving. Would be nice to get one experienced field, flipping type of receiver, from the portal.

A lot of respect for SS. Like the look of our RB room now. Colt, Chuck and the gang can hold it down. I am selfish and want them all to stay. Can’t blame them if they want to live out an FBS dream. Really want Ruck back!

Toxicity aside on here this was a great 1st year for this staff. Defense wins championships and we have the best in the valley. We had listed safeties playing at our starting corners today and held that offense down. Our best defensive player was injured. For growing a program, this is a great place to build your foundation from. We have a great base of young offensive lineman that are huge. They can only get better. We have a great recruiting class coming in. We are a very young team overall and they have a chance to get back into the weight room and nutrition room and heal their bodies and make themselves better next year than they are this year and they will. Plus, you know they’re looking for guys in the portal to help fill some specific holes like some receivers that can flip the field to go with the ones that we have coming in. Coach has some difficult decisions to make. But I am confident they will be the right ones!

We gotta hope that Rucker can come back.

The ESPN commentator told Lance that he was a bad mother Rucker during his interview. That was hilarious!

All those experts who complained that the Valley got too many teams in can shut up now….

It’s hard to put your finger on exactly what it is on offense. It’s not always about the play calls. Some of it is the players not making plays. Cause we had a receiver drop a bomb touchdown. Our quarterback overthrew our receiver by about 6 inches on another long pass play for a touchdown. Coaching wise teams are now on Jerry’s fake hand off runs. We need to do some play action and throw off of those so they don’t bite so hard on him running. Where are our short little dig routes on short yardage. We have short quick guys. You can’t tell me that they’re not gonna win most one on one matchup to get a little 3 yard pass. And where are our tight ends. One or two catches a game? I feel like we have a ton of weapons.

So anyone know why Bluitt was recognized on Senior day?

We have no energy, anywhere. Everyone is dead. No defese, we are chasing. Getting nothing from the Klee line. Young looks better than a lot of guys right now. Verhoeff looks like a freshmen tonight. All over the place. We need to find some juice and quick!

I guess we’re gonna see how deep our corner room is. Two of our top three are now out for the year.

We are definitely getting better. To me a lot faster than I thought it would be. The transfers are better than we thought. And those we’ve lost to graduation or the portal, have affected less negatively than we thought. The cupboard wasn’t completely bare, but this staff is really coaching them all up. They now have belief. And expectation. And expectation to win. No more, “we hope to get a win“. To be fair, I don’t know where we stack up against the SU‘s, yet. But this is the first time in a long time. I truly do believe that we are at worse, on par.

Lots of good stuff on here I agree with. If you want to keep people all game, the product has to be interesting. I very much agree we are moving in the right direction. I am excited about our trajectory. And we all have to remember this is year one. It should only get better. So let’s have a little patience, and try to stick it out even during the ugly games for the whole game to help these kids along. It’s a bad look recruiting wise if half the building leaves in the 3rd. And Coach said it, we need to get out of our seats on first and second down on defense. If we truly wanna have a dominant home-field advantage. They feed off our energy. So we need to help them with energy.

I also think every time he stops a breakaway or makes a huge save there should be a Homer Simpson “doah”

Agree. I thought they sacked him by his hair though?