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Tony,

I think our biggest risk for the season almost came to fruition last night with shaw going down.

Do you honestly think he can last all season taking those kinds of hits all game when he takes off?

I know there was some pressure but do you think he needs to let the play develop more before taking off? Is there anything the coaches can do in the short term to help him in this regard?

Lastly, should we be as worried as it seems we should be if Dylan Thompson had to play a whole game or do you think he was just nervous/caught by surprise getting thrown into the fire like he was?

Just like to hear your opinion on the new kickoff rules? We obviously have a ways to go with our special teams unit. Why not just boot into the endzone and give it to them on the 25? Instead of trying that high shorter kick and let them possibly return it?

tony,

Was it just a concidence there were so many issues with the helmet coming off for us? Vandy didnt have the problem, but we had several instances. The announcers said cann had to come out at one point because of a helmet coming off.

Do you think the team's conditioning is ok? Clowney looked gassed after the first quarter on tv.

Lastly, when thompson had to come in, why didnt they run the ball with lattimore? they did drop back passing and with the play of the o line and how thompson's first pass was a one hopper it didnt make any sense not to run the ball. The obvious play was when they had second and 1 and try a drop back pass and lose 10 yards on a sack.

Tony is there a reason we no longer have videos on The Big Spur. I noticed links to USC's site. Is that a new rule or something?

Tony,

Can you give us your insights on why we seem to have clock management issues with getting the play off? I would think by now we would have implemented a better system that doesn't take us down to the last few seconds of the play clock on most plays.

Tony, the back-up QB's looked below par to me. Are they capable of playing better, and would they consider Nosovitch, who at least may be able to run.