Relf's Ribs
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rabiddawg said:
with this strategy by Dan for one game. I'm not sure I agree with this for 5 games. The fans and school are part of the "team" grinding for our State right? Are we with you Dan or is it you and your team against the world? Wanna protect your player I completely agree with but keeping your fans in the dark for 5 weeks I don't agree with. Say he is not 100% without specific details but don't continue to lie about it for over a month.
Relf being injured is the only explanation for his poor play that makes sense to me. It probably won't ever be proven conclusively, but you won't ever be able to convince me he isn't hurt, either. As someone else said, he just hasn't run the same since the end of the AU game. It would explain a lot of his bad passes, too, after he looked so sharp the first 2 weeks. And it also explains why we pretty much scrapped the option from our offense since the LSU game. Hopefully Relf can get healthy, because we still need him.
...if he really was hurt, why not just say so? I think I may have read somewhere where Mullen said Relf wasn't 100%, but I can't find it. All I can find is some stuff about Relf's finger and that was back in August. This also raises another question; did the coaching staff think that a hurt Relf was better than a healthy Russell up until the 2nd half of the UAB game? Obviously so, but why? Russell appears to be better than serviceable. Also, the entire team looked different when Russell came in. It's almost as if they felt they had a chance to win with Russell and not Relf.