Holmon Wiggins

You know, they ran the ball, like, 39 times in that game.

So Holmon Wiggins has gotta be patient.

He's gotta be stubborn.

Stick with the run.

He's gotta hit 'em 'cause he's been missing the layups a lot this year.

He's been bricking layups, and it's crazy.

But if he can just hit a couple layups early on, if Holmon Wiggins has a good first scripted drive and schemes a few guys open and we can stay patient with the run, get a little bit of that established, and just move the ball, just get Marcel comfortable because we've seen him perform well before, okay? Whatever's going on mentally for him, we need to get him Just playing football again, okay? Backyard football with your boys, right? That's what we need in this game, and he's got to show up, man.

If I could get that stat line, 20 of 29, two 21, two touchdowns, no turnovers from Marcel, man, I feel pretty good about our chances.

Do I think it changed the game plan a ton? Probably not.

Again, I think hopefully Holmon Wiggins, if it were me, I'd be planning to run the tar out of the football against Arkansas.

They cannot defend the run.

But Craver's still a guy that you want on your team, man, and you want him out there because he's a threat at all times.

Not great, not bad, but I liked what I saw from him early in the game against LSU.

I thought there was potential there.

Holmon Wiggins abandoned the run way too early, in my opinion, in that game.

Again, I don't care who it is, just I, I want, I want the running back room to have 40-plus carries in this ballgame.

He is, his first half accuracy is considerably better than his second half accuracy.

You have basically protection that's worse, then he's holding the ball, which I think, I think he's h- I think the holding the ball thing goes back to changing from Collin Klein to, was it Holmon Wiggins? I think the pressure gets there, and then he's not throwing with accuracy.

That's the biggest thing.

And, like, I haven't watched every snap of Texas A&M so far, but the games I'm watching, I'm seeing he's g- he's getting out of trouble in the pocket, and then throwing crap balls, or throwing balls that are just in the wrong position, or throwing, throwing behind receivers, or what- whatever it is.

Mm-hmm.

Like, it's the third time around, he should start to figure some things out and, and, you know, that's, that's usually when it starts to go advantage hitter, right? So that's on Marcel and, and, uh, Holmon Wiggins to kind of a- adapt to that, 'cause I can't imagine that it's gonna come, I mean, let's be honest, come as easily as it has in, in those first two meetings.

One where you weren't expecting it, and the other one, uh, where it was just, it kind of got away from LSU there in that third quarter.

I imagine just watching the LSU defense through three games and watching the A&M offense, like it's, it's gonna be a lot more difficult in coming.

Um, I completely agree with Billy in that respect.

Uh, A&M has not looked good through three weeks, but they have so much talent and good coaches and they're capable.

Now, you did hear Billy talk about Holmon Wiggins.

Remember, both of A&M's coordinators from a year ago are gone.

So there's, there's QB struggles, QB mismatches for both of these teams.

Who is better able to work around them? Holmon Wiggins for Texas A&M and an offense that includes Mario Craver at wide receiver, a unit in Texas A&M that includes a newer offensive line and Ruben Owens at running back and Isaiah Horton, two at receiver.

Unfortunately, Terry Bussey is hurt.

Or Lane Kiffin with Dylan Jones, and even without Tradez Green, which makes their offense significantly less intimidating, and I do hope that he comes back and recovers.

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And new coordinator, again, promoted from within, trying to do what continued to work, but Holmon Wiggins is a first-time play caller.

After being a pretty proven elite receiver coach, I think you're seeing kind of the, the downside.

Now he's not as a- as involved as a receivers coach, and that position group hasn't been as good.

... that you weren't expecting to physically dominate you in your own house, that's a demoralizing thing.

But, uh, obviously Holmon Wiggins is gonna, and I'm not, I'm, Bobby, we were all, Bobby and I, everybody's on the same thing, kind of questioned the Holmon Wiggins hire.

Yeah.

But it, you know, he's a, he probably today wasn't the reason Marcel Reed struggled.