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QB Jake Bentley out 6 weeks with foot injury, Ryan Hilinski in line to start

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QB Jake Bentley out 6 weeks with foot injury, Ryan Hilinski in line to start

Sept. 02, 2019

Local radio host Heath Cline reported Monday, That  Gamecock quarterback Jake Bentley “is going to miss some time” with an undisclosed injury." (VIEW ARTICLE)

 
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Could be a broken foot according to the Tweet machine. If Hilinkski is successful, I suspect it'll turn out to be a season-ending thing. If Hilinski falls flat, I suspect we'll see an unexpected recovery in just a few short weeks. Just suspicions though. I hope it isn't serious for Jake.

 
QB Ryan Hilinski now is the starter, let's get behind him. He is the real deal and you will see this Saturday. Let the young man play!! This could be the shot in the arm the program needed. 

 
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Hilliniski just lost hos most popular status...he's not the backup QB anymore. One poor throw by Hilliniski and they'll be calling for Joyner. However, I really hope that Hilliniski does well. If he lives up to the recruiting hype, then best wishes. 

 
Skyhawk96 said:
Hilliniski just lost hos most popular status...he's not the backup QB anymore. One poor throw by Hilliniski and they'll be calling for Joyner. However, I really hope that Hilliniski does well. If he lives up to the recruiting hype, then best wishes. 
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I'm expecting big things from him.

 
The timing of this "injury" seems kind of fishy to me. He looked perfectly fine on his feet before, during and after the game. To whoever said the Hilinski bashing will begin after one bad throw, well it may, but people gave Bentley the benefit of the doubt for the last 4 years. The situation is a bit different. 

 
Ace Dilcock said:
 I wonder if the injury was a reason for the poor performance. He certainly got worse as the game went on, so maybe he tried to play through the pain. 
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That's what I am wondering. Was Jake playing through the pain and not even telling the coaches? And when we got behind, was he just fighting the injury to try and get us back in front? That would have been dumb, but he wasn't thinking he couldn't do it. He was just trying to win regardless.

I know I said a few bad things about his play Saturday, but none of know how much he may have been hurting. I kinda feel bad for what I said but still wonder if Hilinski could have got us back in the lead?

Either way, I sure do hate losing that game. I hate the questions we have now about our O-line protecting the QB and the D stopping the run. But I still feel we forced our D to spend to much time on the field with the 3 and outs from the O. Our D did stop their last 2 drives in 3 plays.

Here's hoping Hilinski will be a huge plus for our team. Right now I am not ready to make any predictions. Let's see how he looks in the game Saturday. I really expect to see a lot of Rico and Tavien for a couple games while they decide whether to trust Ryan. Sure would love to see him be a tremendous QB being I will be there on the 45 lower level for his first start. Something neat to brag about if it happens.

 
AikenGameFan said:
That's what I am wondering. Was Jake playing through the pain and not even telling the coaches? And when we got behind, was he just fighting the injury to try and get us back in front? That would have been dumb, but he wasn't thinking he couldn't do it. He was just trying to win regardless.

I know I said a few bad things about his play Saturday, but none of know how much he may have been hurting. I kinda feel bad for what I said but still wonder if Hilinski could have got us back in the lead?

Either way, I sure do hate losing that game. I hate the questions we have now about our O-line protecting the QB and the D stopping the run. But I still feel we forced our D to spend to much time on the field with the 3 and outs from the O. Our D did stop their last 2 drives in 3 plays.

Here's hoping Hilinski will be a huge plus for our team. Right now I am not ready to make any predictions. Let's see how he looks in the game Saturday. I really expect to see a lot of Rico and Tavien for a couple games while they decide whether to trust Ryan. Sure would love to see him be a tremendous QB being I will be there on the 45 lower level for his first start. Something neat to brag about if it happens.
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I wouldn’t feel badly.  The team comes first, and everyone should be focused on that, not his own performance. I like what Mack Brown said before the game about doing your job, not less, not more.  Doing more can mess it up.

 
  From what I understand Bentley's injury happened on the final play of the game. If you watch the video you can see it. Anyway I hope Hilinski plays well but lets remember he has only been in the program for 9 months and does not know but maybe half of the playbook. He should be fine during the Charleston game but after that it may get ugly. 

 
$Billz said:
  From what I understand Bentley's injury happened on the final play of the game. If you watch the video you can see it. Anyway I hope Hilinski plays well but lets remember he has only been in the program for 9 months and does not know but maybe half of the playbook. He should be fine during the Charleston game but after that it may get ugly. 
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Guess it goes to the saying, "be careful what you wish for."

 
Gamecocks1137 said:
The timing of this "injury" seems kind of fishy to me. He looked perfectly fine on his feet before, during and after the game. To whoever said the Hilinski bashing will begin after one bad throw, well it may, but people gave Bentley the benefit of the doubt for the last 4 years. The situation is a bit different. 
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YES EXACTLY!  And somebody please confirm for me exactly how Jake Bentley injured his foot.  Nobody knows, and the staff and Jake have been silent about it.

CBS Sports speculated the following:

"From the television feed, Bentley didn’t appear to have any issues moving on South Carolina’s second-to-last drive. He tried to chase down a North Carolina defender who intercepted his final pass and appeared to slip, with receiver Xavier Legette and the defensive back falling on his legs.

On the game-ending sack, his legs were spread wide as we went down with a pair of defenders falling on him."

If I don't get a conclusive answer on this, I'm going to conclude two things:

1) The silence indicates that the story of a foot injury is likely not a truthful one;

2) This is simply a nicer way to supplant the Senior for the promising Freshman than what Clemson did with Bryant and Lawrence (although if that is the case, I much prefer the direct honest approach of Dabo to the manufactured story of a foot injury).

Regardless of who plays QB, if we do not improve the playcalling for the rest of the year, who plays at QB will not matter.  Starting the Freshman will just calm a lot of fans down (e.g. "He's a Freshman, he's still learning...") while too many of us see the real issue, and have since last year.

With THREE SENIOR TAILBACKS, we should be running the ball AT LEAST twice as much as we throw it.  Against UNC we had 24 called running plays and 37 called passing plays.  And Senior Mon Denson didn't even play at all.  Therein lies the problem.

Any thoughts?

 
$Billz said:
  From what I understand Bentley's injury happened on the final play of the game. If you watch the video you can see it. Anyway I hope Hilinski plays well but lets remember he has only been in the program for 9 months and does not know but maybe half of the playbook. He should be fine during the Charleston game but after that it may get ugly. 
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That could be why I didn't see the injury.  I saw what was happening with the play, and walked out of the room.

 
$Billz said:
Anyway I hope Hilinski plays well but lets remember he has only been in the program for 9 months and does not know but maybe half of the playbook.
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Hopefully he knows the good half.

 
I'm excited for the Hilinski era to start and think a good mixture of him and Joyner can throw opposing defenses off. 

 
We win ugly.  We lose ugly.

I chose to cut down a tree instead of watching the UNC game, so the weekend wasn't a total loss.

Jake had the same kind of Game 1 Kelly Bryant did at Mizzou and Mizzou got beat by Wyoming. 

Wyoming.

Jake has had his issues, but the reality is we are going to need to both him and Ryan if he can play, because we don't have nearly the depth in other positions that Trevor Lawrence had at Clemson last year.  BTW he didn't have a great game either against Georgia Tech.

The only positive is that I might actually watch the Charleston Southern game to see how Ryan does.

If we don't play better as a team this year, lots of folks will be watching cat videos on YouTube instead of watching our games.

 
I do not think or feel That Jake will be back from his injury to play this season. Most likely will take red-shirt. He knows that right now he would not be drafted or really have a chance signing with any team in the NFL. His stock now is low. So if Ryan takes hold like I feel he will and there is a real battle in the spring, Jake feels like he will not be named the number 1, look for him to transfer out. Where? maybe lower division school. We will see though plenty of time in between. king you will see a true freshman with the right emotion and will to win. Shaw was good at that and this kid is better. You will get your moneys worth Saturday at noon. 

 
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