USC WR Jordan Addison has caught defenses’ attention
Opponents are accounting for last year’s winner of the Biletnikoff Award and that won’t change Saturday in Utah
Adam Grosbard (OC Register) — LOS ANGELES — USC wide receiver Jordan Addison has not been his consistently splashy self of late.
Addison, last year’s winner of the Biletnikoff Award at Pittsburgh, was targeted six times in Saturday’s win over Washington State. He was held to three catches for 37 yards, 25 of which came on a single reception.
While he hit triple-digit receiving yards the previous week against Arizona State, it was the second time in three weeks that Addison has been limited to three receptions after having at least five in each of USC’s first three games this season.
Following practice Tuesday, Addison said he has seen a difference in how defenses are playing him now that there is some film of him in the USC offense.
“What I notice is the leverages they play against me. Most of the time they play a lot more outside leverage to keep me from getting outside,” Addison said. “That’s one of the big things I’ve been noticing, it’s been a little bit harder to get outside. But just the receiver that I am, I have to make it work.”
Addison says this is something new for him, and not something he experienced at Pitt, where he played exclusively in the slot. At USC, he’s lined up outside more often, allowing him to take advantage of his elite speed.
So far, it’s produced 32 receptions for 479 yards and six touchdowns. But defenses are trying to adjust.
Head coach Lincoln Riley pointed out that defenses have not been able to divert players to double up Addison due to the other matchups they have to pay attention to across the USC offense.
“At times, he’s seen a little extra attention, but it’s not like he’s being double-covered every single play,” Riley said. “He’s obviously had a good first half of the season, but I think he’s primed really well for us here.”
Addison’s two dips in production have coincided with down performances from the USC passing game as a whole. Quarterback Caleb Williams completed 47.7% of his passes in the two games in which Addison was limited to three receptions, as opposed to 74% in the other four contests.
Against Washington State, USC was held to 188 passing yards. Addison noticed that not everything was properly aligned as the Trojans went through the offense.
“Probably just the timing of everything. The timing of the routes with the QB. We gotta just clean stuff up throughout this week of practice and that’s what we’ve been doing,” Addison said. “We just gotta stay focused a little bit more, be a little bit more detailed within our releases and our routes. I feel like everything will turn around.”
That will start this week against Utah. Addison will likely find himself matched up with corner Clark Phillips III, the former La Habra standout who led the Pac-12 in pass breakups last season and is tied for the FBS lead with four interceptions this season.
“He’s a solid corner, he’s got great feet, good speed and challenges like this, this is what I look up to and this is where I rise the most,” Addison said.
Left Tackle Shuffle — When starting left tackle Bobby Haskins left Saturday’s game briefly with a shoulder injury, USC opted to put Mason Murphy (76) in rather than Courtland Ford.
Ford started the first two games of the season at left tackle and eight games at the position last year. But Murphy got the nod against the Cougars over Ford, who hasn’t played since a holding call against him eliminated an 82-yard touchdown pass against Arizona State.
“Just felt like it was the right decision at that point,” Riley said. “We got guys that have been practicing well. We’ve got some tough decisions to make there. We felt like in that situation it was the right time to give Mason a shot.”
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Joel Klatt (who predicts TENN beats ALA this Saturday) Disses USC’s D on Colin Cowherd (who would hire Matt Rhule right now to replace Brent Venables, who he already sees as absolutely hopeless at OU): “Caleb Williams is a bad matchup for UTAH (which has a lot of trouble with mobile QBs). however, I will say this — this is a terrible matchup for USC. Their success this year is a bit of an illusion. The reason being, because, it looks like their defense is playing better, and can stop some people. They are #1 in scoring defense in the… Read more »
I think Klatt is correct. If SC plays like it did on D against any team but Washington State AND if the O plays like it did against OSU, ASU and WSU, we are going to get steamrolled. But, I have a hunch that the O will play much better than it has the last three games AND I think the D that showed up against WSU is also for real. But, I have no illusions – SC should lose this game.
Do you think Brent Venables can repair his situation at OU? I think he’s literally already doomed. OU will hang on, probably at least through 2023, but I bet Venables has already proven he’s not the man for the Sooner job. If OU had the guts to get rid of Venables before the year’s end, I think that would be wise, the sooner, the better. The longer Venables stays, the deeper the hole he’ll dig. Were you a big-name prep, or a valuable portal guy, would you want to sign with Venables, just because you might be able to play… Read more »
I would then give Rhule complete control over selecting his staff next year, including DC. Venables is proven DC and a disaster as a HC. This OU D stinks to high heaven. He cannot make it any worse. This way the kids will get pumped knowing a quality and proven HC is taking over the program.
At the same point in Helton’s “real coach” tenure at SC (6 games in, early 2016), Cowherd was calling for SC to dump him and hire Chip Kelly, who was already stinking it up with the 49ers. And I thought that was a great idea.
There’s no way Oklahoma is going to fire or demote Venables to bring in Ruhle. You just can’t run your business that way.
I take them one at a time. Anyone who has watched OU can clearly see Venables does not know what he is doing as a HC. A mistake this big should be fixed asap, but maybe you think Venables will somehow catch on. I don’t believe that for a second. As far as Urban Meyer goes, I wouldn’t let him within 10 miles of my program unless he’s doing a pre-game show. And It’s never a matter of waiting for a certain amount of games. Instead, it’s a matter of making a move once you realize a huge mistake has… Read more »
Fair enough. We know what you’d do and we’ll treat that as the equivalent of what OU should do.
Now, what’s your best guess at what OU will do? Do you think the people who hired Venables see what you see and realize it can never get better? Or that they’re willing and/or able to bite the bullet?
I think there is zero chance OU will dump Venables midway through his first season, no matter how bad he is. Even if the suits know it, they won’t have the stones to admit they blew it.
I think 98% of us think OU is stuck with a stooopid, lazy hire, and they’ll sit with it until the pain of crappy OU football finally gets too severe. Some here might hold out for the reincarnation of Venables as a HC, but I’ve seen enough. I know I’m being rash and unrealistic here, but as a just recently tortured Trojan fan, I already feel sorry for OU fans who have unexpectedly lost LR, and now are staring down the long process of yet another arduous HC replacement ordeal. OU’s gonna have to take its medicine and eat a… Read more »
A key to how quick Venables gets cut loose will be the loss of fan support. I haven’t followed that closely, but they are truly fanatical there about their ball.
L.A. is quite a different, much more complicated place, but eventually, big numbers of USC fans turned their back on the Trojan program completely when dim-witted STAN beat us bad last year in the Coliseum. When you finally lose your fanbase, who keep you in business, things happen.
STAN always thinks it’s so smart. It just goes so well with their bottom-feeder territory nowadays. “We’re better than you.” That’s their misguided motto. Well, it turns out they’re not. Their team is one of America’s absolute worst now, and it’s by a mile. And it’s because of their stupidity. They stink to high heaven, usually finish weak, and it’s all their own conceited fault. Unless you count their ridiculous COLGATE win (why are they even allowed to play a school like that?), they’ve lost 11 straight games with a boring, stubborn, behind-the-times lazy coach who hates recruiting, hasn’t updated… Read more »
well I still like stanford, but you said it all very well.I’m old enough to remember all the beat downs given to the cards(I go back to where they were the indians) every year. It was a nice run but things look like they have returned to normal.I guess I’m old enough to feel so bad about the pac-12 breakup.Life goes on.
I feel strange about the Pac-12 break-up as well. But I’m not really conflicted about it because the B1G affords USC much better opportunities and the Trojans were always severely underpaid while the Pac-12 never supported USC when Reggie Bush’s parents decided to cash-in early.
It’s a loser position to be left behind, but some schools will still do okay and undoubtedly even absolutely thrive in their universe outside the B1G and the SEC.
If I were convinced after 6 games that I made an irreversible mistake in hiring Venables, and if I had the freedom to buy out the rest of his contract, then I’d publicly admit the hiring was a mistake, cut him loose immediately, wish him well in 2023, and take the flak. All after hiring my new Messiah, of course.
I think we agree in part and disagree in part. Where we agree: I wrote what I would do. Venables has never been a HC before. He is now a dumpster fire. OU will finish dead last in the Big 12 and go 3-9 for the season. The odds of him suddenly figuring it out (and SC was down this road with Helton) are IMO close to zero. If I had a chance to bring in a proven Championship level HC (and Rhule is that), I would admit the mistake and move on. Where we disagree: This D needs fixing… Read more »
I’m really putting my faith in Riley and his staff that they are going to come up with new wrinkles and plays, offensively, that they have been saving for this game. I always respect what Klatt has to say, but UCLA ran against Utah, and I think our running backs and run blocking are at least as good. This game to me purely rests on Caleb’s ability to spot the open guys, even if it’s a check down, be accurate and make smart decisions. Take what the Utah defense gives you and capitalize on it. I also don’t think that… Read more »
What makes you think Venables will be able to turn this thing at OU around? Why not stop the bleeding now? Did you happen to watch OU just lose to TEXAS 49-0? Against TEXAS in the famed Red River Rivalry, Venables’ team played like they were uninterested and slow walk-ons enjoying Texas State Fair cotton candy more than playing any football. I have no favorite for who the Sooners should take to replace Venables, but he’s WAY over his head. I think a lot of NEB fans sure wish they would have canned Scott Frost immediately after going 4-8 in… Read more »
I don’t know if Venables will be able to turn things around, nor if he deserve the chance. Based on what we’ve seen so far, no. I know we are dealing in hypotheticals. I’m just saying that when Riley left everyone there suddenly and shockingly, the administration and alumni, as you say lazily, felt they needed to quickly turn to a favorite son in Venables to quickly heal the pain. No one ever knows if a first time head coach coming off of a highly respected and successful assistant career, is going to find instant, or any success as a… Read more »
There is how it is, and how it should be. OU will have to slide much, much further downhill before it decides to fix itself. Why? Because that’s the way it’s done in CFB, even though 75% of coordinators who take over HC positions fail. It’s a very poor economic model, for any business, and that’s exactly why 20-25 college HCs get fired every single year and huge buy-outs are the name of the game. Venables didn’t take over a floundering VANDY or ARIZ program. He took over venerable, storied OU, supposedly a top 8-15 program pre-season even with LR… Read more »
I think that if he hasn’t shown any promise in coaching and recruiting, by the end of next year, when their Big 12 contract expires, they will find justification to make a move before they enter the SEC
But that’s the real problem, isn’t it? Venables will likely improve, at least somewhat. Who wouldn’t? He has totally stunk up the joint so far, and at a place like OU, he should at least always be good, if not great. Helton’s record at USC was a very mediocre 46-24, with two crappy Holiday Bowl losses before he was finally kicked out of town while being viewed as one of the worst coaches in USC football history. I doubt hardly any of us think Venables will be the Sooner coach when they move to the SEC. I know I don’t.… Read more »
I don’t think Chip Kelly would have gotten as long a leash, with his dismal first three years, at any other Blue Blood school. It was as bad as anything I’ve seen, and you couldn’t have any worse fan support over that time, than UCLA has had. He’s one of the luckiest guys around. He benefited from the timing of poor financial stability, and Covid
San Diego, We are talking only hypothecally. OK goes to the SEC in two years. Do you want to risk having a totally destroyed program that cannot compete in the Big 12 move to the SEC? Or do you to have a competitive program. Venables will NEVER compete in the SEC. Hiring him turned out to be a mistake. OU will not have the luxury SC had of playing in the awful Pac 12 while we figured out the hire of nice guy who have never been a HC before was a disaster.
OU’s in such bad shape. They get BAY and KU at home in two of their next three.
Since the Jayhawks lost their QB, maybe the Sooners should throw a party. I can’t find anything else for Sooner fans to celebrate, at least not until they find out that Venables has been relieved of his HC duties. He’ll leave with a big, fat buy-out and still be able to get a good DC job somewhere, if not in Norman.
It would great to get the passing game back on track, especially this week. That seems to me the only missing piece for a complete game, run, pass, shut down defense. Oh, speaking of defense, a solid first half would be nice, but I don’t want to seem greedy.
Yes, it seems that Caleb does get locked on to Addison and Mario and does not see other receivers. Hope it is because he is young. Or Riley has not yet opened his playbook. But so far the results are great so just a factor to consider.
The defense is playing greater than expectations. There is not much depth so
hope they can keep it up.
This may sound ridiculous, but after watching Tuli Tuipulotu last weekend against WSU, I’ve figured out he reminds me of Junior Seau, but bigger. So disruptive. What a fantastic first half of the season for Tuli.
Attended the 1989 SC vs ND classic in South Bend … #55 was a one man wrecking crew in the 1st half of that game. Just dominant. Certainly see the similarities with Tuli.
I was there too. Definitely one of USC’s most dispiriting losses I’ve ever witnessed in person. USC went through that horrible, long period of never beating the Irish, come hell or high water.
That’s why one of my favorite games that I ever attended at the Coliseum was in 1996 when USC and Sammy Knight finally beat ND 27-20 in the stadium’s first OT game ever. Holtz then retired.
I left the Coliseum that night with a glow that I’ll always remember, even though USC was only 6-6 and John Robinson II was showing signs he and Mike Garrett would not be co-existing much longer.
Throw the ball to the open receiver. Hopefully they have gotten over their drops in the last game and can make some high light reel catches this week. If they put their best defender on Addison, that means the lesser defenders are covering Rice and Williams, or whoever LR puts out there. Caleb just needs to see them.
Addison, last year’s winner of the Biletnikoff Award at Pittsburgh, was targeted six times in Saturday’s win over Washington State. He was held to three catches for 37 yards, 25 of which came on a single reception.
Addison’s two dips in production have coincided with down performances from the USC passing game as a whole. Quarterback Caleb Williams completed 47.7% of his passes in the two games in which Addison was limited to three receptions, as opposed to 74% in the other four contests.
Left Tackle Shuffle — When starting left tackle Bobby Haskins left Saturday’s game briefly with a shoulder injury, USC opted to put Mason Murphy (76) in rather than Courtland Ford.
Joel Klatt (who predicts TENN beats ALA this Saturday) Disses USC’s D on Colin Cowherd (who would hire Matt Rhule right now to replace Brent Venables, who he already sees as absolutely hopeless at OU): “Caleb Williams is a bad matchup for UTAH (which has a lot of trouble with mobile QBs). however, I will say this — this is a terrible matchup for USC. Their success this year is a bit of an illusion. The reason being, because, it looks like their defense is playing better, and can stop some people. They are #1 in scoring defense in the… Read more »
I think Klatt is correct. If SC plays like it did on D against any team but Washington State AND if the O plays like it did against OSU, ASU and WSU, we are going to get steamrolled. But, I have a hunch that the O will play much better than it has the last three games AND I think the D that showed up against WSU is also for real. But, I have no illusions – SC should lose this game.
Do you think Brent Venables can repair his situation at OU? I think he’s literally already doomed. OU will hang on, probably at least through 2023, but I bet Venables has already proven he’s not the man for the Sooner job. If OU had the guts to get rid of Venables before the year’s end, I think that would be wise, the sooner, the better. The longer Venables stays, the deeper the hole he’ll dig. Were you a big-name prep, or a valuable portal guy, would you want to sign with Venables, just because you might be able to play… Read more »
If it were me, I would hire Rhule immediately (if he will sign), let him take over immediately as HC, fire the DC and move Venables to DC.
I would then give Rhule complete control over selecting his staff next year, including DC. Venables is proven DC and a disaster as a HC. This OU D stinks to high heaven. He cannot make it any worse. This way the kids will get pumped knowing a quality and proven HC is taking over the program.
At the same point in Helton’s “real coach” tenure at SC (6 games in, early 2016), Cowherd was calling for SC to dump him and hire Chip Kelly, who was already stinking it up with the 49ers. And I thought that was a great idea.
There’s no way Oklahoma is going to fire or demote Venables to bring in Ruhle. You just can’t run your business that way.
So you’d stick with Venables and watch OU slide further and further into irrelevance. Personally, I wouldn’t run my business that way.
And how many games do you give the next guy to prove he’s the one before you make a play for Urban Meyer or the next great thing?
I take them one at a time. Anyone who has watched OU can clearly see Venables does not know what he is doing as a HC. A mistake this big should be fixed asap, but maybe you think Venables will somehow catch on. I don’t believe that for a second. As far as Urban Meyer goes, I wouldn’t let him within 10 miles of my program unless he’s doing a pre-game show. And It’s never a matter of waiting for a certain amount of games. Instead, it’s a matter of making a move once you realize a huge mistake has… Read more »
Fair enough. We know what you’d do and we’ll treat that as the equivalent of what OU should do.
Now, what’s your best guess at what OU will do? Do you think the people who hired Venables see what you see and realize it can never get better? Or that they’re willing and/or able to bite the bullet?
I think there is zero chance OU will dump Venables midway through his first season, no matter how bad he is. Even if the suits know it, they won’t have the stones to admit they blew it.
I think 98% of us think OU is stuck with a stooopid, lazy hire, and they’ll sit with it until the pain of crappy OU football finally gets too severe. Some here might hold out for the reincarnation of Venables as a HC, but I’ve seen enough. I know I’m being rash and unrealistic here, but as a just recently tortured Trojan fan, I already feel sorry for OU fans who have unexpectedly lost LR, and now are staring down the long process of yet another arduous HC replacement ordeal. OU’s gonna have to take its medicine and eat a… Read more »
Agree. And the key to all of that is “politically and financially feasible.”
A key to how quick Venables gets cut loose will be the loss of fan support. I haven’t followed that closely, but they are truly fanatical there about their ball.
L.A. is quite a different, much more complicated place, but eventually, big numbers of USC fans turned their back on the Trojan program completely when dim-witted STAN beat us bad last year in the Coliseum. When you finally lose your fanbase, who keep you in business, things happen.
dim-witted stanford? how do you really feel about the farm??
STAN always thinks it’s so smart. It just goes so well with their bottom-feeder territory nowadays. “We’re better than you.” That’s their misguided motto. Well, it turns out they’re not. Their team is one of America’s absolute worst now, and it’s by a mile. And it’s because of their stupidity. They stink to high heaven, usually finish weak, and it’s all their own conceited fault. Unless you count their ridiculous COLGATE win (why are they even allowed to play a school like that?), they’ve lost 11 straight games with a boring, stubborn, behind-the-times lazy coach who hates recruiting, hasn’t updated… Read more »
well I still like stanford, but you said it all very well.I’m old enough to remember all the beat downs given to the cards(I go back to where they were the indians) every year. It was a nice run but things look like they have returned to normal.I guess I’m old enough to feel so bad about the pac-12 breakup.Life goes on.
I feel strange about the Pac-12 break-up as well. But I’m not really conflicted about it because the B1G affords USC much better opportunities and the Trojans were always severely underpaid while the Pac-12 never supported USC when Reggie Bush’s parents decided to cash-in early.
It’s a loser position to be left behind, but some schools will still do okay and undoubtedly even absolutely thrive in their universe outside the B1G and the SEC.
Follow up
If I were convinced after 6 games that I made an irreversible mistake in hiring Venables, and if I had the freedom to buy out the rest of his contract, then I’d publicly admit the hiring was a mistake, cut him loose immediately, wish him well in 2023, and take the flak. All after hiring my new Messiah, of course.
I think we agree in part and disagree in part. Where we agree: I wrote what I would do. Venables has never been a HC before. He is now a dumpster fire. OU will finish dead last in the Big 12 and go 3-9 for the season. The odds of him suddenly figuring it out (and SC was down this road with Helton) are IMO close to zero. If I had a chance to bring in a proven Championship level HC (and Rhule is that), I would admit the mistake and move on. Where we disagree: This D needs fixing… Read more »
RJ,
I don’t see how, politically, you could demote Venables to DC and expect to avoid a rebellion.
And your scenario assumes the problems with OU’s defense are 100% the fault of people other than Venables. I don’t assume that.
BV is the DC mythical guru equivalent of Suckisian the mythical OC guru … always hiding behind another HCs talent.
Alone they stink obviously
I’m really putting my faith in Riley and his staff that they are going to come up with new wrinkles and plays, offensively, that they have been saving for this game. I always respect what Klatt has to say, but UCLA ran against Utah, and I think our running backs and run blocking are at least as good. This game to me purely rests on Caleb’s ability to spot the open guys, even if it’s a check down, be accurate and make smart decisions. Take what the Utah defense gives you and capitalize on it. I also don’t think that… Read more »
What makes you think Venables will be able to turn this thing at OU around? Why not stop the bleeding now? Did you happen to watch OU just lose to TEXAS 49-0? Against TEXAS in the famed Red River Rivalry, Venables’ team played like they were uninterested and slow walk-ons enjoying Texas State Fair cotton candy more than playing any football. I have no favorite for who the Sooners should take to replace Venables, but he’s WAY over his head. I think a lot of NEB fans sure wish they would have canned Scott Frost immediately after going 4-8 in… Read more »
I don’t know if Venables will be able to turn things around, nor if he deserve the chance. Based on what we’ve seen so far, no. I know we are dealing in hypotheticals. I’m just saying that when Riley left everyone there suddenly and shockingly, the administration and alumni, as you say lazily, felt they needed to quickly turn to a favorite son in Venables to quickly heal the pain. No one ever knows if a first time head coach coming off of a highly respected and successful assistant career, is going to find instant, or any success as a… Read more »
There is how it is, and how it should be. OU will have to slide much, much further downhill before it decides to fix itself. Why? Because that’s the way it’s done in CFB, even though 75% of coordinators who take over HC positions fail. It’s a very poor economic model, for any business, and that’s exactly why 20-25 college HCs get fired every single year and huge buy-outs are the name of the game. Venables didn’t take over a floundering VANDY or ARIZ program. He took over venerable, storied OU, supposedly a top 8-15 program pre-season even with LR… Read more »
I think that if he hasn’t shown any promise in coaching and recruiting, by the end of next year, when their Big 12 contract expires, they will find justification to make a move before they enter the SEC
But that’s the real problem, isn’t it? Venables will likely improve, at least somewhat. Who wouldn’t? He has totally stunk up the joint so far, and at a place like OU, he should at least always be good, if not great. Helton’s record at USC was a very mediocre 46-24, with two crappy Holiday Bowl losses before he was finally kicked out of town while being viewed as one of the worst coaches in USC football history. I doubt hardly any of us think Venables will be the Sooner coach when they move to the SEC. I know I don’t.… Read more »
I don’t think Chip Kelly would have gotten as long a leash, with his dismal first three years, at any other Blue Blood school. It was as bad as anything I’ve seen, and you couldn’t have any worse fan support over that time, than UCLA has had. He’s one of the luckiest guys around. He benefited from the timing of poor financial stability, and Covid
San Diego, We are talking only hypothecally. OK goes to the SEC in two years. Do you want to risk having a totally destroyed program that cannot compete in the Big 12 move to the SEC? Or do you to have a competitive program. Venables will NEVER compete in the SEC. Hiring him turned out to be a mistake. OU will not have the luxury SC had of playing in the awful Pac 12 while we figured out the hire of nice guy who have never been a HC before was a disaster.
OU’s in such bad shape. They get BAY and KU at home in two of their next three.
Since the Jayhawks lost their QB, maybe the Sooners should throw a party. I can’t find anything else for Sooner fans to celebrate, at least not until they find out that Venables has been relieved of his HC duties. He’ll leave with a big, fat buy-out and still be able to get a good DC job somewhere, if not in Norman.
It would great to get the passing game back on track, especially this week. That seems to me the only missing piece for a complete game, run, pass, shut down defense. Oh, speaking of defense, a solid first half would be nice, but I don’t want to seem greedy.
Yes, it seems that Caleb does get locked on to Addison and Mario and does not see other receivers. Hope it is because he is young. Or Riley has not yet opened his playbook. But so far the results are great so just a factor to consider.
The defense is playing greater than expectations. There is not much depth so
hope they can keep it up.
This may sound ridiculous, but after watching Tuli Tuipulotu last weekend against WSU, I’ve figured out he reminds me of Junior Seau, but bigger. So disruptive. What a fantastic first half of the season for Tuli.
Attended the 1989 SC vs ND classic in South Bend … #55 was a one man wrecking crew in the 1st half of that game. Just dominant. Certainly see the similarities with Tuli.
I was there too. Definitely one of USC’s most dispiriting losses I’ve ever witnessed in person. USC went through that horrible, long period of never beating the Irish, come hell or high water.
I was there too. It was a kind of “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” day. Cold, steel gray skies, ND ghosts everywhere.😠
That damn Lou Holtz, he sure had our number.
That’s why one of my favorite games that I ever attended at the Coliseum was in 1996 when USC and Sammy Knight finally beat ND 27-20 in the stadium’s first OT game ever. Holtz then retired.
I left the Coliseum that night with a glow that I’ll always remember, even though USC was only 6-6 and John Robinson II was showing signs he and Mike Garrett would not be co-existing much longer.
That cheating racist jerk was Tommy Tubberville before Tommy Tubberville.
Who’s the ray-cist? Don’t understand, ’88….
Granny Holtz is
Thought SC had revenge for the 1988 debacle. But after that awful spot to open the the 2nd half …. we all knew what was going to happen. And it did.
yeap, it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous, Its way too early for such a comparison.
Throw the ball to the open receiver. Hopefully they have gotten over their drops in the last game and can make some high light reel catches this week. If they put their best defender on Addison, that means the lesser defenders are covering Rice and Williams, or whoever LR puts out there. Caleb just needs to see them.