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<blockquote data-quote="dressedcheeseside" data-source="post: 29131" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>My 2 cents on Jon Dwyer: imo, he didn't reach his full athletic potential. Remember the off-season prior to the '09 season? Jon was coming off one helluvan impressive year. He was explosive and fast, an awesome thing to behold. We all expected him to take it another step further and be a Heisman candidate. That never happened and my guess is most of that was on Jon. In fact, not only did he not step forward, he stepped back. Now with someone of Jon's talent, I'll take Jon at 80% over almost any other back and he still had a damn good year. However, who knows what could have been. It was plainly obvious to even the casual fan that he had lost a step and was trying to "freelance" instead of take what the play gave. Heck, even his teammates had to call him out publicly about this very thing.</p><p></p><p>My guess is coach was on him constantly about this behind closed doors and Jon didn't like it. He saw it as lack of gratitude or appreciation or whatever. I say it's the coaches job to ride a player that's severely under-reaching his potential, especially when that player has the potential to be an all-time great in the history of the college game. Sadly, it didn't work. </p><p></p><p>Imo, Jon needs to thank Nesbitt and Bay Bay. Those two guys kept the defenses honest and not sitting on the dive. Remember how many times Nesbitt abused the midline (wish we still had that threat, but that's another thread)? Remember Bay Bay catching all those deep balls and smoke routes? We also had a pretty darn good triple option threat with the pitch backs on those teams. Remember Roddy Jones and Ant? Defenses couldn't focus too much on Dwyer or they'd get burned big time. Not only that, our offense was still brand new to opposing defenses and their coordinators. They didn't have a mastery of the cut block avoidance technique like they do now. All that benefitted our O and especially our Bback. Yes, he took pounding, but it's football.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dressedcheeseside, post: 29131, member: 77"] My 2 cents on Jon Dwyer: imo, he didn't reach his full athletic potential. Remember the off-season prior to the '09 season? Jon was coming off one helluvan impressive year. He was explosive and fast, an awesome thing to behold. We all expected him to take it another step further and be a Heisman candidate. That never happened and my guess is most of that was on Jon. In fact, not only did he not step forward, he stepped back. Now with someone of Jon's talent, I'll take Jon at 80% over almost any other back and he still had a damn good year. However, who knows what could have been. It was plainly obvious to even the casual fan that he had lost a step and was trying to "freelance" instead of take what the play gave. Heck, even his teammates had to call him out publicly about this very thing. My guess is coach was on him constantly about this behind closed doors and Jon didn't like it. He saw it as lack of gratitude or appreciation or whatever. I say it's the coaches job to ride a player that's severely under-reaching his potential, especially when that player has the potential to be an all-time great in the history of the college game. Sadly, it didn't work. Imo, Jon needs to thank Nesbitt and Bay Bay. Those two guys kept the defenses honest and not sitting on the dive. Remember how many times Nesbitt abused the midline (wish we still had that threat, but that's another thread)? Remember Bay Bay catching all those deep balls and smoke routes? We also had a pretty darn good triple option threat with the pitch backs on those teams. Remember Roddy Jones and Ant? Defenses couldn't focus too much on Dwyer or they'd get burned big time. Not only that, our offense was still brand new to opposing defenses and their coordinators. They didn't have a mastery of the cut block avoidance technique like they do now. All that benefitted our O and especially our Bback. Yes, he took pounding, but it's football. [/QUOTE]
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