It seems I’m in the minority here but I really like JRP. I always thought he had a great attitude, always struck me as a team first guy when somehow a lot of you think he’s selfish b/c of some campus tour video? So he was asked about his favorite plays, like seriously it was a question pertaining to him, he’s going to talk about his favorite/best plays!
Yeah, he needs to improve at qb, we all know that, the whole staff and team know that I’m sure. His Fresh year at Ole Miss can’t even be considered a qb year, they basically ran him as a rb. This was his first true qb year, so let’s look for that soph bump next year. Listen, he was our best option last year, MK was never it or ever going to be it…bad OL, WR who struggled to get open (play calls maybe?), tons of dropped passes. Just a really weird year all around.
Let’s stop bashing JRP for last years QBing guys. First off he would have been a 3k / 1k qb if not hampered by injury, we were a top 11 offense even still. He would have been a 65%+ if WR/RB caught balls thrown to them, it was so bad we all saw. There were some over throws and batted down balls, but no one else realistic makes those throws either with our OL or play calling. JRP gave 110% effort, was clearly our best option in the offense, he’s playing 2 very specialized sports at a high level which is just insanely hard to do. None of you have played one at a high level, so please spare us your uninformed opinion.
A little baseball tidbit and stats, he’s hitting around .300 and had pivotal HR/SB as well as a HR saving highlight catch in CF today. Other contributions also but still, playing 2 sports, especially ones that overlap is so extremely hard. This dude should be celebrated, but you all just want to break him down. Pretty pathetic, and none of you understand how much he gives just to get all of you nerd’s unknowing disrespect towards him.
