Midyear Superlatives

[CuseJacket]

With 6 of our 11 regular season games behind us, what are your thoughts on the following thus far?

1. Breakout Player of the Year
2. Offensive POY
3. Defensive POY
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.)
5. Favorite Individual Play

Feel free to add additional superlatives.

 

[BigJacket]

1) TQM Tied with Benson
2) TQM
3) #20 Austin
4) Defense 3rd down turnaround from almost worst in country last year to almost best in country this year (amazing!)
5) TQM video game spin move

 

[tech_wreck47]

With 6 of our 11 regular season games behind us, what are your thoughts on the following thus far?

1. Breakout Player of the Year
2. Offensive POY
3. Defensive POY
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.)
5. Favorite Individual Play

Feel free to add additional superlatives.

1) Antonio Simmons
2) TM
3) Lawrence Austin
4) defense
5) TM tight rope down the sideline.

 

[AlabamaBuzz]

With 6 of our 11 regular season games behind us, what are your thoughts on the following thus far?

1. Breakout Player of the Year - Simmons
2. Offensive POY - Taquon
3. Defensive POY - Lawrence Austin
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.) - 3rd down D & Shamire -tied
5. Favorite Individual Play - ??

Feel free to add additional superlatives.

 

[Fatmike91]

I’ll play:

1. Breakout Player of the Year - has to be TM
2. Offensive POY - KB
3. Defensive POY - maybe AJ Gray?
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.) - D-fence
5. Favorite Individual Play - QS flying through the air like Superman...(I know, last year - but cut me some slack).

/

 

[FightWinDrink]

Most improved: entire defensive line

 

[JacketFromUGA]

1. Pressly Harvin
2. TQM
3. #20 Austin
4. 3rd down D
5. Triple with a pitch to Searcy who scored a TD (Wake Game) I love me some A-back pitches

 

[Ibeeballin]

1. Shamire Devine
2. TQM
3. Simmons or Gray (can’t decide)
4. 3rd down Defense
5. TQM spin move

 

[THWG]

1. Branch
2. TQM
3. Brant Mitchell
4. 3rd down defense
5. The 4th down stop against Wake to pretty much seal the game.

 

[stech81]

1) TQM
2) Tie TQM, Benson, and Devine
3) Austin ( 20 )
4) 3rd down defense
5) The 12 play in the 4th quarter we scored on this coming Saturday to beat Clemson .

 

[Dustman]

Hard to disagree with any of these. Taquon could fit in 1,2,4 or 5. Funny how much time we spent in the offseason debating the QB situation.

I think AJ is the defensive POY

Honorable mention to Tay Glanton (breakout) for grabbing the starting job and showing us why.

 

[AE 87]

1. Quon
2. Benson or Parker/Will
3. All of them
4. D (75% of the time) and absolutely not D (25% of time)
5. Don't have one yet

 

[swampsting]

1. TaQuon
2. Same
3. AJ Gray
4. Third down D
5. Our winning TD against Georgia. Just looking ahead.

 

[Sideways]

1) TQM Tied with Benson
2) TQM
3) #20 Austin
4) Defense 3rd down turnaround from almost worst in country last year to almost best in country this year (amazing!)
5) TQM video game spin move

I agree with all this but for "Most Improved" from last year I would put Brant.

 

[SidewalkJacket]

1. Breakout Player of the Year
TM obvious, but I have to throw in Harvin, too. If our punting game was bad, we might have lost another game. I think he will have a game at some point where he is the MVP, similar to Brooks vs. Miami (year?)

2. Offensive POY
TM

3. Defensive POY
Simmons

4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.)
How could anyone NOT say the defense?

5. Favorite Individual Play
OFF: KB breaking 3-4 tackles and busting loose for 60+ vs UNC.
DEF: VA sacking WF qb last Saturday on 4th down.

 

[Jacketman1]

1. Breakout Player of the Year
TM obvious, but I have to throw in Harvin, too. If our punting game was bad, we might have lost another game. I think he will have a game at some point where he is the MVP, similar to Brooks vs. Miami (year?)

2. Offensive POY
TM

3. Defensive POY
Simmons

4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.)
How could anyone NOT say the defense?

5. Favorite Individual Play
OFF: KB breaking 3-4 tackles and busting loose for 60+ vs UNC.
DEF: VA sacking WF qb last Saturday on 4th down.

That was 2006 and we won 30-23.

 

[33jacket]

defense is not a total surprise for me because we always had the kids to play better IMO; we needed to adjust the calls to be more aggressive. The surprise for me, is after 5 years, and 4 years of CPJ asking for it. Roof did it. So Roof, is the surprise for me; kudos to him for going outside his element and changing. These were not wholesale changes, but they were solid tweaks and stylistic changes/calls that helped.

With that said

1 TQM
2 TQM
3 #20
4 Roof
5 there are plays that don't show up on the stat sheet I enjoyed the heck out of watching on D with 20 playing solid inside and on O with OL. Pick those. Long runs happen...fun...but I really like the solid play aspect more than anything

 

[iceeater1969]

Breakout
Tqm - was an A b to a maybe qb to first year qb who can run, pitch, and throw . In each game shows continued improvement in all three and last game Zero turn overs by offense. .
O POY
Will Bryan - name any other player who has played very well at 2 positions. Sacrifice playing his position while other player are developing.
D POY
Branch - he is the violence in the middle guy.
SURPRISE
That we finally are aggressive on defense. Has worked great against average teams
Play
In last game late -the toss sweep to #1 for TD. AB ran the curve as fast as i have seen and all the blockers all got just enough.

THE BIGGEST SURPRISE IS WE HAVE A TEAM OF OF SO MANY PLAYERS WORTHY OF MERIT. How can I not have KB on the list

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

1. Breakout Player of the Year Pressley Harvin/Shamire Devine
2. Offensive POY TaQuon Marshall/Kervonte Benson
3. Defensive POY AJ Gray
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.) Special Teams sharp decline
5. Favorite Individual Play 4th down sack vs Wake

Added a category:
6. Best blocker Ricky Jeune

 

[nod]

1. Breakout Player of the Year: QB T Marshall
2. Offensive POY - RB K Benson
3. Defensive POY - CB S Durham
4. Biggest Surprise (can be a unit, statistic, team performance, etc.) - 4-2 record, thought they would be undefeated.
5. Favorite Individual Play - Simmons returning onside kick for TD