The only play I noticed from Small was when we threw it to him out wide and he dropped it, although the pass was a bit high it was certainly catchable.
Not sure why we would use Small like this considering in his 2 College seasons he had less than or close to 150 yards of receiving and rushing. Just seemed like a bizarre use for Small since he isn't even good at receiving to begin with.
It was also bizarre to essentially lose the game with a throw to Bronson, on 2nd down... and a boneheaded throw by Pryor on the next.
THIS IS PRESEASON WHY NOT CREATE SOME USEFUL EVALUATION SCENARIOS? I would of liked to see them throw in Christine Michael on 2nd and 3rd down instead of throwing to Bronson, see if he can punch it in for a first down or touch down. Then on 4th give Turbin a shot, probably could of thrown in a few of our better O-Line guys too. We should of tested both Turbin and Michael to see if they could win the game for us. If we lose who cares at least we know Turbin and Michael are no Beast Mode. Instead we just called some idiotic plays resulting in horrible execution and all we learned is that Pryor makes bad decisions... wow what a revelation.
Overall I'm pretty disappointed from a fan's perspective with how this game went. Not only did our team look bad overall, but we didn't really make any progress when it comes to evaluating who should make the team.
My only evaluations for who should make the team were pretty much ones I already knew except for Coyle who seems legit.
Richardson should make the team, was our best receiver that game, but I think 99% of people already expected him to make the team and have some level of production.
Turbin is bad, everyone already knew this.
Christine Michael flashed some potential but ultimately he had a terrible game with 2.3 yards/rush average.
We also didn't really give any of our receivers a shot to prove themselves, other than Richardson and Lockette who should both make the team obviously in my opinion (Lockette is slightly in danger but we didn't use him much compared to the gauranteed Richardson).
I'm also tired of hearing all the excuses about our O-Line missing starters, WHO ARE WE KIDDING? There's a very high chance guys like Carpenter, Okung, and Unger will miss games this season. Why do we like to pretend that just because they weren't on the field things will be OK? There's a very high probability those guys wont be on the field at various stages of the season.
The Offensive Line we started with were god awful completely horrible, misfit noobies out there. Why in the world would we put in guys that are even worst? If our "starters" don't look ready to start then let them play longer, we wasted so many snaps on guys that are even worst than our "starters", which seems like it should be impossible that anyone could be that bad. We should of let the guys who could potentially have to fill in for our real starters in REAL GAMES LEARN HOW TO PLAY, they looked like crap.
Really hoping to see something remotely positive in the next game. I think we wasted Game 1 both in terms of evaluating talent and being competitive/playing hard.