Mixon out for Saturday..

[57stratdawg]

Thomas and Rankin out as well. Mixon is our leading WR.

 

[AlCoDog]

Damn. Thomas better hang on to the damn football. That Rankin injury is lingering longer than originally thought I guess.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Mixon is a loss. If we have a receiver who gets open it's Mixon.

Go back and watch our very first offensive play from the BYU game. Mixon was so open at the top of the screen he'd still be running.

 

[RightOfCenter]

What is going on with Corey Thomas. He has been out a while, hasn't he?

 

[Bulldogg31]

Sounds like Big Cory from McAdory may play this weekend. Likely could have played against BYU but not needed. We shall see.

 

[aTotal360]

He was in a boot Saturday. I know they wear the boots all the time, but usually that's a sign you're not ready. Either way, we need him back on the field.

 

[kired]

Speaking of WRs --- am I the only one disappointed in Donald Gray's performance so far? 25 yards per game? He's on pace for a little over 300 yards this year, which would be his worst season. His average per catch is about half of what it's been the last two years. I'm not saying it's all his fault... but I expected him to easily be out #1 WR. I guess I expected a Chad Bumphis type senior year from him, but he looks more like Robert Johnson.

 

[bonedaddy401]

He would be much more effective if he could play inside and not against each teams best corner.

 

[57stratdawg]

He caught some curls against BYU, but he can’t get away from defensive #1 CB on deep stuff.

 

[civildawg88]

Disappointed? The WRs have been flat our terrible. Fitz has made some stupid decisions, but if you take account all the drops this year I bet his completion % gets to around 60%.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

We took an adequate SEC slot receiver & converted him to a Sun-Belt level wide-out because he is now matched up with everyone's best corner. It has not helped that Gray keeps dropping passes.

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

So you're saying we are now looking at a 80%-20% Run-Pass split for Saturday.

 

[msstate7]

We took an adequate SEC slot receiver & converted him to a Sun-Belt level wide-out because he is now matched up with everyone's best corner. It has not helped that Gray keeps dropping passes.

Gray has never played inside... not at state, not at juco

 

[Strike.sixpack]

Disappointed? The WRs have been flat our terrible. Fitz has made some stupid decisions, but if you take account all the drops this year I bet his completion % gets to around 60%.

Just adding 12 drops, 2 per game which I sure we can 12 drops on the season that was all on the WR, and his completion rate would be 62.3%. This probably changes the majority of the fans view of his throwing ability.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Please don't confuse the narrative with any facts

 

[AlCoDog]

I’m trying to think of one spectacular catch to offset a drop and cant think of one.

 

[pmack65]

He's really not a #1 receiver, for him to be successful he needs to have a big time receiver on the other side allowing to free him up more. Unfortunately he's all we have

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Thomas and Rankin out as well. Mixon is our leading WR.

I would like to see us commit to Couch full time on the outside and move Gray back inside. With Mixon out, this is a perfect time to do it.

 

[kired]

Absolutely. He's obviously the best deep threat we have at WR. If we can connect on a few more passes like the TD this past weekend, teams have to start paying attention to that.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

We can’t move him back inside when he never was inside. Donald Gray was not, and will be be an outside receiver for us. Should he be? Probably, but it ain’t happening.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Not only deep threat, but also the back shoulder throw along the sidelines. He should be much more physically able to shield the defender and make that catch than Gray. Gray is getting crapped on, and yes he's dropped some balls, but let's give him a chance at a position where he can actually help us instead of trying to bang that round peg into the outside receiver square hole.

 

[msstate7]

I would like to see us commit to Couch full time on the outside and move Gray back inside. With Mixon out, this is a perfect time to do it.

Why not just move Myles inside where he was pretty successful early in his career?