Anyone else heard that Stevens is out tomorrow?

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Read it on two websites and twitter from fans but haven't seen it anywhere official?

True or gamesmanship?

 

[Beerbully]

From Saturday Down South:

"...Coach Moorhead has noted that Stevens is further along this week than he was at this point last week, which is something Stevens agrees with.“Yeah, I would say that’s probably fair,” Stevens answered. “I don’t know – it’s kinda hard to think about as far as where I was last week, it’s a whole new week. Yeah, I’d say it’s fair, I think I feel better...."

"I think I feel better"?

He's probably not playing.

 

[dawgstudent]

Allegedly Matt Stinchcomb reported that he likely won’t play.

 

[Beerbully]

In that event, should we assume that Garrett will play a complete game, or might Mr. Thompson be summoned to the field?

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I’ll be very surprised if Thompson plays. I imagine it will be Mayden backing up Shrader

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Allegedly Matt Stinchcomb reported that he likely won’t play.

If that is true, then we are playing for next season.

 

[kired]

I've assumed if they didn't come out sometime this week and say he's starting, he's probably not going to play.

 

[BossDawg78]

It's incredible how stuff like this works out. If Stevens was a critical transfer QB for, say, Bama, he'd be bulletproof and in the running for Heisman. But no....at State, one of the very last things that needs to happen, happens. It's just funny how Karma works in the college football world. We can't have $#!t, it's always something.

Yes, I feel better after that. Damn it's frustrating.

 

[RPOdawg]

It's incredible how stuff like this works out. If Stevens was a critical transfer QB for, say, Bama, he'd be bulletproof and in the running for Heisman. But no....at State, one of the very last things that needs to happen, happens. It's just funny how Karma works in the college football world. We can't have $#!t, it's always something.

Yes, I feel better after that. Damn it's frustrating.

I’m not a Doctor but the hit he took didn’t look all that bad. He’s obviously not 100% but imo if he can play he needs to be out there. A bumped up Tommy Stevens > shrader. He needs to decided if he’s injured or if he’s hurt. There’s a big difference.

 

[MSUDC11]

I’m not a Doctor but the hit he took didn’t look all that bad. He’s obviously not 100% but imo if he can play he needs to be out there. A bumped up Tommy Stevens > shrader. He needs to decided if he’s injured or if he’s hurt. There’s a big difference.

Don’t think it’s fair to assume that Tommy is the one making this decision. And he tried to play through it last week so it’s not like he’s just telling the coaches he’s too hurt to play. Shoulders are tricky, especially when you’re dealing with QB’s. It’s almost like a pitcher in baseball with an injury, it doesn’t take much to throw them off and impair their accuracy or throw power. If he’s still in a similar spot to where he was in the second half on Saturday then he’s not going to be able to help us much.

I swear some people would rather us play him banged up and him throw five interceptions just to show he’s tough than sit him out if he’s banged up enough to where it might hurt his long term health and also our chances of winning.

 

[patdog]

Yeah. The guy played through an injury last season at Penn St. and played with one for 2+ quarters last Saturday. I think it's pretty safe to say that he's going to be out there if at all possible.

 

[ckDOG]

It's Emstate for a reason

Less likely luck or karma and more likely we were the only program dumb enough to roll out the red carpet for a QB with a gimpy shoulder.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

Exactly ... let's play a QB with a throwing shoulder injury because that's 17in' genius.

We all saw what the offense looked like last year without a QB capable of making passes.

 

[RPOdawg]

Exactly ... let's play a QB with a throwing shoulder injury because that's 17in' genius.

We all saw what the offense looked like last year without a QB capable of making passes.

We also saw what it looked like with a true freshman QB last week. Bad.

 

[Dawg1976]

He had his moments tho. If he indeed plays most of the game today, I just hope we see some improvement. I have a hard time seeing a win today tho.

 

[RiverCityDawg]

Don’t think it’s fair to assume that Tommy is the one making this decision. And he tried to play through it last week so it’s not like he’s just telling the coaches he’s too hurt to play. Shoulders are tricky, especially when you’re dealing with QB’s. It’s almost like a pitcher in baseball with an injury, it doesn’t take much to throw them off and impair their accuracy or throw power. If he’s still in a similar spot to where he was in the second half on Saturday then he’s not going to be able to help us much.

I swear some people would rather us play him banged up and him throw five interceptions just to show he’s tough than sit him out if he’s banged up enough to where it might hurt his long term health and also our chances of winning.

Great post. This has nothing to do with "deciding to play" or toughness. If it was his left shoulder we probably wouldn't even know he was hurt.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

We also saw what it looked like with a true freshman QB last week. Bad.

The QB wasn't our problem last week. The OL was spotty at best and we only had one WR that could catch the ball instead of tipping it to the other team for an interception.

We have one hope today if it's Schrader, KY's secondary is awful, really awful, so Osirus won't have as much trouble getting open on every passing play.

I think Hill runs over them as well. It's all a matter how the defense plays.