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Post by aggie704 on Jul 27, 2014 18:46:32 GMT -5
I am really for the reason to start let's just sit back and let the coaches do there job the gun is fully loaded and the targets are in range let go for the kill one team at a time let put the best team on the field to beat our first opponent and then move to the next we have the team to win the all thing if and only if all things fall in place
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jul 27, 2014 19:34:43 GMT -5
Look at in the simpliset of terms can we point to any victory in the last 2-3 years that we could soley say the QB play won the game for us. I think no!! But we could name a few that QB play denied us a victory.
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Post by Bigboy on Jul 28, 2014 14:34:16 GMT -5
Players come in on Thursday and the first practice is on Friday Aug. 1st. I don't know the time of the 1st practice. If anyone know the time or camp schedule please let us know.
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Post by Aggie One on Jul 28, 2014 15:14:03 GMT -5
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2014 3:25 pm
From a news release
GREENSBORO – The A&T football team will return to the field for its first official practice at 9 a.m. Saturday on the practice field behind the Bryan Fitness and Wellness Center on campus. A&T will hold a 2½-hour practice in preparation for a 12-game 2014 schedule. Twenty-nine days later the Aggies will open the season in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney at 11:45 a.m. Aug. 31 at Bright House Networks Stadium in Orlando, Fla. A&T’s home opener is at 6 p.m. Sept. 6 against FCS playoff quarterfinalist Coastal Carolina at Aggie Stadium. For the rest of the story: www.news-record.com/sports/college/article_e0a68402-168c-11e4-815d-0017a43b2370.html
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jul 28, 2014 17:41:54 GMT -5
Preseason guestimates don't mean spit...games are won on the field not at the conference press conference. The coaches are guessing like the rest of us.
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Post by Gator on Jul 28, 2014 17:59:43 GMT -5
Been looking at clips from other teams, quarterback play will determine how far we go.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jul 28, 2014 19:25:22 GMT -5
Gator, I agree that in college ball your QB is a major reason you win. For the past three years we've had to play with a QB with some limitations. With 3 or 4 new QB's on our team we are all hoping that one of them turns out to be more versital than we've had in past years. We have all the other tools in place but our Qb position is critical.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 29, 2014 7:38:44 GMT -5
last season howard and famu had the 2 best "pure" qb's in the league and we beat both of them and we finished ahead of both of them in the meac standings. so yep, i guess a team's qb determines whether a team wins or not, while the rest of the 21 other starters and special teams guys don't matter.
sorry, but i just don't buy into the theory that "as the qb goes, so goes the team". last season, howard had the best qb in the meac and he was "deadly accurate" as a passer. dude placed pass after pass "squarely on the numbers" of his receivers and they seemingly "dropped" every last one of them. sorry, but it takes more than an outstanding qb to win games, it takes a "team" to win games...
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Post by saabman on Jul 29, 2014 8:34:25 GMT -5
On point OSA. The voice of reason.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jul 29, 2014 8:37:23 GMT -5
Okay, okay, I agree...it will take more than an effective QB to win. Here's where I'm coming from...if we had had that "effective QB" in the past two years we would have been a hell of a lot better team. The past two year we have come into the season with an obvious limitation and I'm hoping that we have at least reduced that limitation.
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Post by bigpeete1 on Jul 29, 2014 8:39:52 GMT -5
The AGGIES have the pieces in place to have an outstanding season, to me the QB position is the biggest concern. Please stop stop twisting things to fit your lame argument. Howard QB stat wise had an average season at best and FAMU QB was injured most of the season.
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Post by saabman on Jul 29, 2014 9:02:14 GMT -5
The AGGIES have the pieces in place to have an outstanding season, to me the QB position is the biggest concern. Please stop stop twisting things to fit your lame argument. Howard QB stat wise had an average season at best and FAMU QB was injured most of the season. We have a lot more to be concerned about . what concerns me is and should be the play of the D-line and the so called NFZ. The kicking, return/cover teams and play calling on the offence. And how we use the TE's. Also how we use the RB's.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jul 29, 2014 9:02:22 GMT -5
What concerns me going into this year is what happened last year at the QB spot. Despite his numerous mistakes, #7 was never taken off the field for a significant extent of time. The only way I view this is as....."if you think he's bad, wait until you see who's behind him."
Many of those QBs under him last year are still here. Are they going to make significant leaps to be better than #7 from last year - I just don't know. Honestly, I have my concerns that will not be the case.
With that in mind, I think we may have to take the "SC State - Richard Cue approach."
1) Run a whole bunch of screen plays to perfection 2) Run a whole lot of QB options 3) Master the quick in's/quick out's/wagon plays/swing passes/quick slants.
The way I view this, we need to have a lot of 0-10 yard passes turn into 40,50,60+ yard gains.
We have good skilled players - instead of putting the honus on the QB to be the playmaker, give the ball to the skilled players and let their talents do the rest.
The key for the offense is TO MINIMIZE TURNOVERS. It's hard to get a 0-5 yard pass intercepted. It's hard for the QB to fumble when the ball is out of his hands before you count to 3.
I love the long pass plays.....but if we don't have a QB who can consistently hit a receiver 20+ yards out, minimize those type of plays. I hate thinking this way because I love an aerial attack....but I ain't gonna lie - everytime a pass went beyond 10-15 yards, I was holding my breath fearing the worst. We have to get maximum outcomes from "minimum plays."
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 29, 2014 9:20:21 GMT -5
The AGGIES have the pieces in place to have an outstanding season, to me the QB position is the biggest concern. Please stop stop twisting things to fit your lame argument. Howard QB stat wise had an average season at best and FAMU QB was injured most of the season. what the heck are you talking about? howard's qb (mcghee) was the 2013 meac "offensive player of the year" and this year's 2014 meac preseason "offensive player of the year". famu's qb (fleming) was all meac in 2012 and "offensive rookie of the year" two years ago. both mcghee and fleming were "fully healthy" when they played against us. and who cares about "stats" if you're named by the coaches to be the best offensive player in the league? not that mcghee's stats weren't impressive, but dude is the meac's 2013 offensive player of the year! and fleming was also all meac. but now (all of sudden), neither of them are good qb's? dude, pub-leeeze. the teams we loss to last season other than dsu (morgan, scsu, & hampton) didn't have outstanding qb's, yet we "loss" to them. so if anything is "lame", it's your post that i quoted above...
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Post by saabman on Jul 29, 2014 9:23:38 GMT -5
What concerns me going into this year is what happened last year at the QB spot. Despite his numerous mistakes, #7 was never taken off the field for a significant extent of time. The only way I view this is as....."if you think he's bad, wait until you see who's behind him." Many of those QBs under him last year are still here. Are they going to make significant leaps to be better than #7 from last year - I just don't know. Honestly, I have my concerns that will not be the case. With that in mind, I think we may have to take the "SC State - Richard Cue approach." 1) Run a whole bunch of screen plays to perfection 2) Run a whole lot of QB options 3) Master the quick in's/quick out's/wagon plays/swing passes/quick slants. The way I view this, we need to have a lot of 0-10 yard passes turn into 40,50,60+ yard gains. We have good skilled players - instead of putting the honus on the QB to be the playmaker, give the ball to the skilled players and let their talents do the rest. The key for the offense is TO MINIMIZE TURNOVERS. It's hard to get a 0-5 yard pass intercepted. It's hard for the QB to fumble when the ball is out of his hands before you count to 3. I love the long pass plays.....but if we don't have a QB who can consistently hit a receiver 20+ yards out, minimize those type of plays. I hate thinking this way because I love an aerial attack....but I ain't gonna lie - everytime a pass went beyond 10-15 yards, I was holding my breath fearing the worst. We have to get maximum outcomes from "minimum plays." To open up the field you have to be able to run the ball. Feed the Kid and his crew the ball and the passing game will open up . If we learn to use the TE's and RB's on short passeš that will open up the long ball but we must learn how to set teams up which I did not see last year. I'm hopeing that Broadway and the OC will see that this season.
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