Doug LaMaurice

I think they'll be better for it.

But, you know, going into a sophomore year, I think both those guys stand a chance to, like, really take some large steps forward.

I so I'm happy that it worked out this way because I am probably a little prone to like if I have a whatever, a preconceived notion about a guy and then somebody tells me something that goes against that.

I don't dismiss it, but like I don't believe it all that strongly.

But the fact that we got to watch practice first.

and Jacoby Jackson started to change my mind a little bit in that practice, and then Carlos Laughlin said what he said about him, what was it, five days later?

I'm rethinking it pretty significantly, I think, what his impact could be.

And I do think, based off a lot of the stuff that Carlos Laughlin was talking about with Jacoby, his ability to catch the ball, his ability to make guys miss after the catch, pass protection, just being an old, strong dude, I kind of think he's going to be their third down back.

pass protect keep Julian saying clean and then if there's nobody coming can leak out and be an option and catch the ball on third and seven and maybe get something is that the third down back you mean for Jacoby Jackson yes not sure yardage um I don't know that there's anything discernibly different between Isaiah West Bo Jackson and Jacoby Jackson when it comes to short yardage and I would rather have the ball probably in Bo or Isaiah's hands down on the goal line um

but neither one of those guys could block last year so yeah so like cj donaldson yeah he had to play against miami because they couldn't block miami it's not because they were trying to run in short yardage so um that's where i think jacoby jackson could carve a role for himself like it's and it's a situational role and that's great um but like and his uh his body of work pass blocking wise of florida was was a small sample size but the numbers were good so um

And Bowe's weren't good.

Isaiah wasn't asked to do it a ton, but even when he was asked, he wasn't very good either.

Bowe got ran over three times last year by a blitzing linebacker.

So maybe that's less likely to happen now that he's, I think he said he's like 217 or something like that.

220, I think he said.

So obviously he can be a stronger player, but that's...

That's where he's – that's whatever, the weakest part of his game.

And there are moments where that skill set is important.

So, yeah, what I say, that's sort of what I – I went from thinking Jacoby Jackson's not going to be much of a factor at all to thinking when they want to back out there who can pass protect on third down, maybe he'll be the guy on the field.

But may not wind up with many touches.