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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 1169588, member: 19"]
To me, this is a hard debate to get into.  Obviously we all want Long to be McNabb.  I want someone, anyone, to be McNabb, with more of an iron constitution of course, the new turf is too nice for vomit stains.

There are just too many factors at play to really know the right answer.  I mean, with both Hunt and Wilson down, it doesn't look like we're designing anything for AJ to run.  That's a big reason why he'd be in there, and we have to remove it (except when he improvises on broken plays).  We haven't seen a Hunt QB/Lester OC combo.  So who can really know if that would have helped him.  I'd like to hope it would, because that makes for an easier answer to problems.

Teams are going to watch what we're doing with Long, and better plan for it, if it really is as simplified as people say.  Not to mention, what he's about to enter into on Saturday night.  Elite defense in front of 80,000 of their screaming supporters.  Get out of there alive, and without your confidence destroyed, and that will say a lot about him as a player.

Wake game, did we just completely take our foot off the gas early in the 3rd?  I would think so.  If you're Shafer, a win in that game is a million times more important than style points, and the odds of Wake coming back down 20 are the same if Wake was down 150.

There's certainly new life with Ishmael being more involved.  Instead of one and done early, he's being looked to quite a bit.  Is that Lester?  Is that Long?  Is that just Ishmael getting more experienced?  Who knows.

All I know is that if we should start playing better at home and beat both NC State and Duke with Long at QB, he had better get the start for Pitt & BC even if Hunt is available.
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