I'm a realist. ESPN loves a great white hope story. This is their golden goose.
Is the award for the best player or the best positional player? Answer that? You cannot even with your "SEC D is better on the run" tell anyone that there is an SEC advantage in ST or Pass defense.
Well McCaffery is neither... if he was at Bama the kid would be the 3rd string back. If he was at LSU at best he would be the 3rd string back.
He would still be the best slot receiver and return man on any SEC team, and don't get too high on yourself, he would start for 11 of the 14 teams in your conference.
I would like to find the stat for yards after contact. Im looking at this as objectively as possible. But I cant deny out of all the games i watched throughout the conferences. The PAC was the sloppiest tackling out of the batch. Im not even sure how many yard McCaffery had against USC on runs that should have been stopped short that were extended by bad tackling. Or how many times USC didn't stack the box knowing a run was coming. I know you liked Wilcox but theres very good reason he's gone and very good reason McCaffery had 681 yards vs USC this season. I cant make excuses for SC they played flat out horrible defense. But i cant deny those defenses playing so bad boosted McCafferys stats. We can agree to disagree but I'm just calling it for what it is. If you watch Henry its two different worlds and his heisman
Take out his one, fluke td return for 98 yards, he averages a kickoff return of 26 yards. You know how far the ball goes if you kneel it in the end zone with a 300 pound linemen? The 25 yard line. So on average without the outlier, he is 1 yard better than a 300 pound return man.
Until you play big bad Northwestern, then he can't slice a piece of cheddar cheese.
He does actually. I think more of Reggie than Clarkson.
Reggie bush didn't crumble against strong defenses he elevated his game. McCaffery played 1 defense in the top 25 and was a no show.
Not the best comparison imo
So are you saying it is a fact that McCaffery has played equally as talented defenses? And if so where are some stats to back it up. Also would like proof McCaffery did not stat pad in smaller games and McCaffery played head and shoulders in bigger games than Henry. I am sure you can provide none of the above as I have done all this research hence leading to this thread.
More like a Toby Gerheart.
Oh there is that argument, however, if you had seen a PAC game in the last 5 weeks you would note that the last 4 teams kicked away from him to the point that Stanford put 4 return men in the backfield (Sanders, McCaffery, Wright and Love), then had them breakout when the ball was kicked to let McCaffery get the ball, almost all of those teams kicked short. This means he had to track a bal kicked short and ofetn run the width of the field just to receive it, but he could have just knelt on it at the 2. Would a 300 pound line man be able to run a ball from the 1 to the 25?
Fournette died down in the stretch and is not relevant in this conversation. This conversation got started because Elliot is sitting at home along with Mayfield who are better players than McCaffery.
