re: Don't care about Harris getting "meaningful" snaps anymore (LONG)

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The light came on for Mett after the bye week, in case you forgot.

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No... the light came on for Mett in the offseason when we hired Cameron. This is Jennings 2nd year with Cameron and nothing has changed from the Iowa game to now. And thats just necuase he doesnt have that much talent or potential to improve. Hes near or at his ceiling. And he doesnt have near the talent or arm that Mett did.

And no Im not saying give Harris the reins now. Im content with Jennings as the QB right now. He has better control that Harris does right now. But its not like hes doing things that Harris cant do. Like you said, hes throwing 16 pass attempts per game.... and only completing 50% of that. Hes not efficient. We wont be opening up the passing attack with Jennings at QB and he would struggle even more than he is now if we opened it up. Hes not accurate, he doesnt have a big arm, he struggles with his reads and progressions. Hes just not that good.

We beat 2 bad teams in UF and UK. Sure UK is on the rise and UF is still UF... but they are not good teams. We won, and im pumped we won dont get me wrong. But we didnt win because of Jennings. We won because of our rushing attack and our D stepped up vs UK. And Jennings connected with Dural for 41yards late in the 4th, but he was wide open due to a missed assignment on UF.

Look at our receiving leaders from the past 2 games...

vs. UF. Jennings was 10/21 (47.6%) for 110yards(and had like 50yards until the middle of the 4th) - Melvin Jones - 4 recs, 19 yards. Quinn - 3recs, 31 yards. Dural - 2recs for 52 yards (43 on that blown assignment). Dupre - 1rec, 8 yards.

vs. UK . Jennins was 7 / 14 (50%) for 120yards. Magee -3recs for 44yards. Dural - 2recs for 39yards. Dickson - 1rec for 27yards. Hilliard - 1rec for 10 yards.

Our leader in receptions the past 2 games was our fullback and then our RB. Dural has the most receptions from a WR these past 2 games... with a whopping 4 catches. Hell... he was the only WR to catch a ball last night.

And its not like we have played a lot of really good teams with really good defenses and Jennings has struggled... hes struggled vs everyone, regardless if they are a cupcake team, OOC opponent, SEC opponent. Hes been the same QB regardless who we play. His best game completion percentage wise was vs ULM... where he had a 61.1% completion percentage... thats his best game. He hasnt gotten above 53.8% besides that game. Take that game away, and Jennings completion percentage is 48.1% on the season....

And again... Im not saying Harris should be starting and playing every snap right now. Jennings has better control than he does. But lets not act like Jennings is not bad. Because he is and consistently has been and doesnt have much / any room to improve. Plus, we havent played too many legit teams and Jennings has still been bad vs bad teams. And we are about to go up against some good teams these next few weeks. Teams that can take away Dural and make it hard for us to run the ball. Not too confident in Jennings against these quality teams coming up.