80% Tucker is better than most backs in CFB including our backups right now - and that’s still an elite player that has to be accounted for every play whether he gets the ball or not. Dabo specifically mentioned him post game.
Yeah, they clearly used him as a decoy. But when that wasn't working, they didn't feel like the other guys were good enough to do anything.
I would like to think we have competent back ups. Have we ever had another time we didn't have one RB that could come in and be functional? A question for Dino's show this week should be about RB depth and why we don't have someone that can come in and be functional when other teams figure out Tucker isn't healthy enough to be more than a decoy.
Given how beat up he seems to be, he should have sat out that game entirely.
The other games Tucker got at least 15 carries except 14 vs NCSU I believe.
Nothing wrong with that comment. Dino has control over his program. Not the broadcast
We'll have to agree ro disagree. Asserting that Anae didn't know what needed to be done just doesn't make sense to me. It makes way more sense that we didn't have the guys to get it done. We have one playmaker at WR and Tucker is not Tucker right now. Even though he has had more carries in previous game, it has been nowhere near last year's load despite being in some close games, and it's been clear he has not been healthy. Despite that, they haven't used the other RBs to spell him for any significant time. When they've had to put Allen in, they haven't given him the ball.
It doesnt mean Dino won't be made aware of it
I’m sure he already has. There is no reason for him to do anything. I’d rather he focus on either scheming around an injured Tucker and focus on beating ND
its not a big deal but Dino can tell sean off the record that tucker was a decoy
I don't think so. I thiink it was more about not having your best player touching the ball for a significant part of the game against the best team we'll face. To anybody that knows this team, that just doesn't make sense without some sort of context to explain it.
They mentioned him not getting touches. I don't think they mentioned him taking himself out.
OburgOrange always getting mixed up with me haha
If indeed it is 80% give friggin 80% Tucker the ball more often! If he can’t understandably do it for 20 Carries then give 100% price a shot for gods sake.
100%, in addition to the Fuentes call that he went ballistic on when contact happened, a full beat before the actual flag was thrown.
How do you know what he has or does not have is related to that one play?
I don’t. But in my humble sports message board super non important opinion he had something before that game. It seems for a while (week 2) he’s playing with something.
So his “injury” was not from the Wagner game is what you are saying.
If he’s healthy then he needs to explain why he’s pulling himself out of a game of this magnitude while the team is driving and in a game where he has been relatively lightly used
