He has played nearly every snap of the first 2 games at the strongside inside linebacker postion and has 7 solo tackles. In the 3-4 defense that is the position of your "run stopper" and should be your leading tackler. Jordan Jones has nearly 3x that many tackles from the weak side. Love seems to be a step slow, gets caught up in traffic, and lacks instinct. I know Kash is a true freshman but if he played Love's snaps i think he would have more tackles than 7.
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Kash is the future. We just need to play the studs now. In 3 years it will make us a better team. Play the best and that's Kash!!!
Agreed...we've already burnt a RS year for Kash...so might as well play him. Love isn't getting a thing done at MLB
I agree. I think Landon Young looked good when he came in too. Time to play the talent
Stoops and Eliot kept telling us how Love was this and that but no one sat back and asked why Love was transferring from a mediocre Nebraska team because of a lack of playing time.
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His main problem is he is slow to find the ball. Then he gets blocked too easily for a MLB.
Those 2 deficiencies are hard to overcome in a defense that relies on the MLB to be the main tackler. It would be worse, but Jones is a beast and definitely has all the intangibles needed to play LB.
Those 2 deficiencies are hard to overcome in a defense that relies on the MLB to be the main tackler. It would be worse, but Jones is a beast and definitely has all the intangibles needed to play LB.
Love has been terrible. A big part of the run defense problem. At least as much as the dl
Love has been a major disappointment.
Also does anyone recall the 3 TEs the coaching staff bragged about? We need to get search teams out they are MIA
Also does anyone recall the 3 TEs the coaching staff bragged about? We need to get search teams out they are MIA
And now you know why Love transferred from Nebraska. It also provides a glimpse into Marrow's ability to evaluate talent.
I think they kept harping on Love's leadership and usually stopped short of saying he was a great football player. They moved Laster to that position for a reason, but I don't think he QBed the defense well enough. And, Kash is the future. I suspect he is not ready to lead. Athleticism and passion are only part of the equation. I think he needs to have a full command of the defense. Kash is definitely the future.
During the off-season we heard a lot about Love's leadership ability in team workouts, etc. He was sufficiently well-regarded by Stoops to go to SEC media days. The pre-season hype for Love is not matching what we're seeing on the field.
Most of your transfers are not going to be guys who are first team. Most of them are going to be guys who never get to play and their is good reasoning on to why that is.
Tell that to UL and a bunch of other football teams that refute that conclusion.
As others mentioned, his leadership was praised. Not his ability. He's been a major disappointmentall the same
Those guys were kicked off because of a failed drug test or violation of team rules not because they were 4th string. BIG difference.
I'll take a guy kicked out of school in a second but I know you guys wouldn't because your all's nose is so high in the air that your tripping over your own feet.
Stoops has mislead the fans going into the past two seasons, at least, with a bunch of false hope. I thought it might be true this time though, because they had a little experience to go with the talent. But, they've never looked worse. I said this in another thread but the offseason hype is downright insulting. They're either incredibly stupid & truly believe what they say or they're flat out lying to the fans. I understand coach-speak & that they're never gonna tell you how good OR bad it really is. But, you can't build up everyone's hopes & expectations & then be THIS bad.
There are transfers that start on teams all over the country. You are wrong when you say "most."
so your counting 5th year grad transfers and guys who have been kicked off their teams?
Gets a slow read and takes poor angles. Causes him to get blocked easily or constantly caught in the wash. Also is never able to shed a blocker.
Love was terrible at picking the correct gap and has terrible assignment discipline. He was out of position and rarely kept himself free to make a play on the running back. Jones has been a beast.
Stoops kept hyping this team up all preseason too. I know for a fact that Stoops knows what good football is, he coached at FSU. What was he seeing?
There won't be a future...play the best players now....if mash is that good get him,on,the field
This whole team,is terrible at shedding blocks
And also a QB. Nobody has mentioned all these successful LB's, DL etc who are transfers.
Like I stated QB's were born to transfer. Only 1 plays and you have 5 on the roster with more coming in. Your going to have QB's transferring all the time. We have had quite a few transfer from here. A lot of them will even switch positions to wide receiver, DB, TE or what ever depending on his skill set.
Very good point. Maybe from an experience standpoint, get him ready for next year.
As noted above, Kash's RS is already burned - he's been playing on special teams...
Do you think if Kash was better in practice he would be playing over Love. Apparently there is something amiss in practice.
We talking practice.
practice
practice
you mean practice
We talking practice.
practice
practice
you mean practice