Game 12—Golden Flashes @ Zips

[Balsy]

It is nice to see the Zips on ESPN Sports Center.  (screen grab from the video link posted earlier)

[ZipsVoice]

5 hours ago, LZIp said:

Our manican was #1...is that a hint at who we should expect to see?

You mean Alvin Davis???  

[LZIp]

Seemed like a fiery speech at the basketball game. I'd have liked to hear that.

[zipsoutsider]

Beat Kent! @ZipsFB pic.twitter.com/rtZsh00eN8

— CAST (@CAST_UA) November 19, 2017

[Hilltopper]

Looks like Nelson will be the starter.

[zipsoutsider]

33 minutes ago, Hilltopper said:

Looks like Nelson will be the starter.

? Did they feature him at the MBB game?

[Hilltopper]

12 hours ago, zipsoutsider said:

? Did they feature him at the MBB game?

Educated guess on my part.

[zipsoutsider]

3 minutes ago, Hilltopper said:

Educated guess on my part.

I will take your word for it.

[Dr Z]

Better be right @Hilltopper, I’m basing my TFT picks on this educated guess! ???

[mivid12]

On 11/18/2017 at 9:04 AM, skip-zip said:

 

The post cited one particular pass as justification for why we should switch our starter.  That's why I commented.  

 

 

observation...not justification...my eyes tell me nelson is the better qb IN MY OPINION

[zipsoutsider]

2 minutes ago, mivid12 said:

observation...not justification...my eyes tell me nelson is the better qb IN MY OPINION

IMHO, it's pretty difficult to make a real assessment based on one game. Woodson had a 72% completion rate at Buffalo.

[feetg10]

All of the sudden they are calling for rain on Tuesday evening. 

[Balsy]

38 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said:

IMHO, it's pretty difficult to make a real assessment based on one game. Woodson had a 72% completion rate at Buffalo.

 

But has had trouble with the deep ball all season.  Has shown to get rust when sitting out, and Kato has improved.  IMO, ride the hot hand.  But IDK, this is all assuming Woodson is even back in the first place.  

[zipsoutsider]

Just now, Balsy said:

 

But has had trouble with the deep ball all season.  Has shown to get rust when sitting out, and Kato has improved.  IMO, ride the hot hand.  But IDK, this is all assuming Woodson is even back in the first place.  

I honestly think there are legitimate reasons for starting either. I just think it's premature to get too hyped up about Kato, yet. Against Buffalo, Woodson had  41 and 36 yard completions.

[Balsy]

10 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said:

I honestly think there are legitimate reasons for starting either. I just think it's premature to get too hyped up about Kato, yet. Against Buffalo, Woodson had  41 and 36 yard completions.

 

True.  I guess we Zips fans are just so desperate to win we're almost becoming browns fans with our QBs...

[zipsoutsider]

I think the real story is that the receivers finally started catching the ball more consistently. 

[WD UA 2015]

Depth chart for this week shows Woodson as 1st and Nelson 2nd

[CDMac]

15 minutes ago, WD UA 2015 said:

 

Depth chart for this week shows Woodson as 1st and Nelson 2nd

 

Where are you getting the weekly depth chart? I'm obviously missing a site/resource for data on the Zips Football team.

[Blue & Gold]

12 minutes ago, CDMac said:

Where are you getting the weekly depth chart? I'm obviously missing a site/resource for data on the Zips Football team.

The Akron Beacon Journal 

[94zipgrad]

Depth chart hasn’t been updated all year unless a season ending injury.

[WD UA 2015]

19 minutes ago, CDMac said:

Where are you getting the weekly depth chart? I'm obviously missing a site/resource for data on the Zips Football team.

Gozips.com has the game notes pdf posted for the kent game. Id post the link but i havnt figured out how to do it from my phone yet.

[zipsoutsider]

Weekly depth charts are a part of game bites and you can learn some interesting things: http://www.gozips.com/documents/2017/11/16//Game12_KSU_112117.pdf?id=12555

[CDMac]

7 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said:

Weekly depth charts are a part of game bites and you can learn some interesting things

Question is, how accurate has the depth chart been all season? Thanks for the link - I'd been there before but hadn't visited the game notes recently.

[CDMac]

Yeah, checked the last 2 game notes and, predictably, #4 was listed as number one QB while #1 was listed as second string for both those games as well.

I say predictably as there is no reason for the staff to bother updating this as a tip of their hand as to who may or may not start.

 

Earlier this week I thought TB would start #4 given his comments in the presser about "if it's a 2 game suspension, that's the punishment" but the more I think about it, the more I don't think they can go away from the hot hand at QB.

[Bruce Willis Drummond]

18 minutes ago, CDMac said:

Yeah, checked the last 2 game notes and, predictably, #4 was listed as number one QB while #1 was listed as second string for both those games as well.

I say predictably as there is no reason for the staff to bother updating this as a tip of their hand as to who may or may not start.

 

Earlier this week I thought TB would start #4 given his comments in the presser about "if it's a 2 game suspension, that's the punishment" but the more I think about it, the more I don't think they can go away from the hot hand at QB.

There is an old cliche in sports that “you don’t lose your job to injury” yet many jobs are lost to injury when the replacement is an upgrade.  I’m not aware of any sports cliche that says “you don’t lose your job to suspension”.  Let’s hope Terry has his thinking cap on here.