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LAVISKA SHENAULT IS A BAD BAD BAD MAN

I don't mind plays, here and there, for Viska. The former staff just went to that well, too much, when other teams knew what was coming. If you're gonna put him in that situation, at least have an option for him, other than just a power run every time. Saying that, if you asked him, it would be a pretty good bet he'd say, just get me the ****ing ball.
 
Uncle Luko said:
I don't mind plays, here and there, for Viska. The former staff just went to that well, too much, when other teams knew what was coming. If you're gonna put him in that situation, at least have an option for him, other than just a power run every time. Saying that, if you asked him, it would be a pretty good bet he'd say, just get me the ****ing ball.
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In this case, “the former staff” is on the current staff.
 
Viska is more RB than a WR like Paul Richardson, so I want to see him with the ball in his hands. I hope we don't have to give it to him nearly as often on short-yardage and I hope they don't throw him into unnecessary beheadings. With that said, he's a weapon and one to be used with care.

Will be interesting to see how Johnson utilizes him, especially given the TE situation.
 
buffaholic said:
Viska is more RB than a WR like Paul Richardson, so I want to see him with the ball in his hands.
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Agree. I would line him up at one time or another at every skill position. That doesn't mean he gets the ball when he's at running back, but he's a threat by being a distraction. So line him up at various receiver spots, end of the line tight end, running back, quarterback. Make the defense attempt to figure out how to deal with him. Occasionally he could run the ball out of the backfield. Sometimes he would run out of the wildcat. He could use his speed at tight end, etc.

At the same time, don't over rely on him and don't allow him to be exposed to injury do to excess use.

After last season's CSU game I told the family he is Heisman Trophy caliber. I really believe he is one, if not the best player in CU football history. He has an unreal combination of size, speed skill agility, etc. He's built like a tight end, but move like a receiver. He bounces off defenders like a bowling ball through bowling pins. There was a play in the CSU game last season when he got called for holding. What happened on the next play? He pin balled his way into the end zone after taking in a pass.
 
We need to reduce the punishment Viska takes but I am more worried about those slow developing screens than I am him running the ball.

Other than the images of him ending up in the end zone my most vivid mental images are of him running a 5-8 yard pattern into the defense and as the ball arrives a defender lighting him up from behind.

I'd like to see more patterns with him catching the ball behind the LBs and catching it on the run so he isn't a sitting target.
 
Laviska can be as good as he wants to be, he has everything you need. I don't want to see an iso qb keep, like before, unless we need a play, and he wants to do it. Dude can have a really good NFL career, said it before, I'll say it again. I know, comparisons are taboo, he reminds me of Fitz, both body type and skills.
 
There were three senior starters at WR that year. Guys who all had pretty good years the year before. Hindsight is great, but I understand why it happened the way it did.
 
Bliff Cranch said:
Nothing borderline about it. Utter stupidity. Probably the thing I resent most about FHCMM.
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I'm sure its somewhere on this site, I hate this new update though. But Tucker said "we're not afraid to play young guys, we have to have competition." That's so nice to hear!
 
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