On Brady Cook and Luther Burden: "The bye week came at a great time for our team really to recharge and refresh and get healthy. Both of those guys I anticipate will be full speed by the time we hit Sunday’s practice…This week we are keeping them out of contact and working on just getting them healthy."
Said they're hopeful to get Kris Abrams-Draine and Chad Bailey back for Vandy and letting Dominic Lovett heal up to 100%.
Said they're doing some self-scouting, taking a little bit of time with family, going on the road Friday to high school games to recruit this week.
I asked if this was a week where they give a longer look to some young guys and he said yes. He said yesterday, today and tomorrow have nothing to do with Vanderbilt. They're giving some of the more experienced guys the team periods off and focusing on younger guys who haven't played as much or at all.
I asked him specifically about Sam Horn's development and if he would consider giving another quarterback a series or two along the way in games. Here's what he said:
"I’d absolutely consider it, absolutely something that we’re talking about but something that has to be earned in practice and not something that can just be given," Drinkwitz said." If we put somebody into a game we believe they have the ability to move us into the end zone and have a full comprehension of what we’re trying to do. If you don’t have a full comprehension bad things happen."
Maybe I'm wrong here, but that answer told me they basically don't think Horn has enough of a grasp on enough of the playbook to be in there at this point in time, at least during meaningful time. Obviously if you're in a blowout, that changes things a little bit because you can pare down the playbook, but if you're looking at a guy playing where the game is still in doubt, you can't limit yourself on what you can call. He said this week is all about trying to continue to develop those guys that they know have talent. He mentioned a ton of them by name including Horn.
I'll probably write something on the QB situation over the weekend, but my takeaway from talking to him today is that I wouldn't really expect to see Horn in a game.
Said they're hopeful to get Kris Abrams-Draine and Chad Bailey back for Vandy and letting Dominic Lovett heal up to 100%.
Said they're doing some self-scouting, taking a little bit of time with family, going on the road Friday to high school games to recruit this week.
I asked if this was a week where they give a longer look to some young guys and he said yes. He said yesterday, today and tomorrow have nothing to do with Vanderbilt. They're giving some of the more experienced guys the team periods off and focusing on younger guys who haven't played as much or at all.
I asked him specifically about Sam Horn's development and if he would consider giving another quarterback a series or two along the way in games. Here's what he said:
"I’d absolutely consider it, absolutely something that we’re talking about but something that has to be earned in practice and not something that can just be given," Drinkwitz said." If we put somebody into a game we believe they have the ability to move us into the end zone and have a full comprehension of what we’re trying to do. If you don’t have a full comprehension bad things happen."
Maybe I'm wrong here, but that answer told me they basically don't think Horn has enough of a grasp on enough of the playbook to be in there at this point in time, at least during meaningful time. Obviously if you're in a blowout, that changes things a little bit because you can pare down the playbook, but if you're looking at a guy playing where the game is still in doubt, you can't limit yourself on what you can call. He said this week is all about trying to continue to develop those guys that they know have talent. He mentioned a ton of them by name including Horn.
I'll probably write something on the QB situation over the weekend, but my takeaway from talking to him today is that I wouldn't really expect to see Horn in a game.
