Question: How long before Evans is seeing major playing time?

JustNeedMe81 said:

Situational player at first. But you could see him play more in Texas A and M and Auburn games... Dude is a beast coming off the edge.. and for their QBs... Definitely going to increase his reps little by litlte each week.

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Nope. He'll be 280 and a DE by then. Seriously, would love to see them let some of these young guys go. Sacrifice some technique and paid dues for some reckless abandon.

He's a true freshman with awesome ability, but, my goodness, there's no hurry! He has some stuff to learn!
Do we really need him to be a Freshman All-American this year in order for us to be great??
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CharlestonTide said:

Nope. He'll be 280 and a DE by then. Seriously, would love to see them let some of these young guys go. Sacrifice some technique and paid dues for some reckless abandon.

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reckless abandon is what gets you beat, especially against some of these new offenses. They're designed to exploit just one guy not taking care of his responsibility. That exposes a seam or a weakness and it's a big play. We saw that week one when we had foster not knowing exactly where to be in his pass drops and WVU ate it up. I think the coaches will find some ways to just let him go a little bit, like we saw last week. There just aren't a lot of those situations yet.

gtgilbert said:

reckless abandon is what gets you beat, especially against some of these new offenses. They're designed to exploit just one guy not taking care of his responsibility. That exposes a seam or a weakness and it's a big play. We saw that week one when we had foster not knowing exactly where to be in his pass drops and WVU ate it up. I think the coaches will find some ways to just let him go a little bit, like we saw last week. There just aren't a lot of those situations yet.

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foster was not playing a role last year and we were exposed. my point is we need a ...... or two to cause some disruption on the edges. we are too predictable on defense.

It's a simple answer......Not long.....and Thank the Good Lord we got him instead of the Barn...

Alasippi said:

He's a true freshman with awesome ability, but, my goodness, there's no hurry! He has some stuff to learn!
Do we really need him to be a Freshman All-American this year in order for us to be great??
Sip

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If he's better than the older guys, yeah he needs to play.


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RTR91 said:

If he's better than the older guys, yeah he needs to play.


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^^^^^ Straight up.

I'm thinking he's exactly the kind of player who could seriously disrupt Auburn's (and Ole Miss') read option.

CharlestonTide said:

foster was not playing a role last year and we were exposed. my point is we need a ...... or two to cause some disruption on the edges. we are too predictable on defense.

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I'm confused - what does last year have to do with Foster against WVA?

RTR91 said:

If he's better than the older guys, yeah he needs to play.


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Exactly. We aren't on a seniority system here. The best player play..

Right now, he needs to get his feet wet.. play here and there throughout the season. The next four games will be a good way to determine how our defense will play. I would expect the coach to try and play our players as much as we can to get them " conditioned" for texas A and m. The next three games will be a good small sample test of see where our defense is against offense. If we can handle those people, we'll be okay with texas a and m. Only thing we have to remember with Evans and William, we should be lot better handling Texas A and M. They dont have Mike Evans or Johnny $$$ So, we should be able to go back to what we do best against them and force Kenny to make lot of mistakes. They will score, but it won't be a close game.

CharlestonTide said:

Nope. He'll be 280 and a DE by then. Seriously, would love to see them let some of these young guys go. Sacrifice some technique and paid dues for some reckless abandon.

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And just which school again was it that thought right up until the last minute that they had him?

It escapes me at the moment. :biggrin2:

I like watching him play and think he will be a great one before it is over. That being said, is anyone else amazed at the type of pressure that Stanford gets up front with their 4 down lineman. No matter if it's USC running base sets or Oregon spreading the entire field, they get pressure on the qb all night long.