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USC Morning Buzz: Moving A Prized Asset Around Offense

Lincoln Riley said he is experimenting with tailback Raleek Brown.

This means moving him around, including playing Brown in the slot.

An official reason for the move is the depth at the tailback position. But moving Brown to the slot also limits some of the risk in playing him.

What risk?

There were times last season when he was just as likely to make a bad play as a good play. He was inconsistent and his pass-blocking wasn’t great. So you put him in the slot and he doesn’t need to make a decision at the line of scrimmage or worry about his pass protection.

Riley: “We’ve been pushing him mentally. He’s done a good job responding. We’re putting him in some different positions and he’s learning but also he has a natural athleticism and explosion that makes him fit in a lot of places.”

Now even with this development will Darwin Barlow play? Barlow needs to figure that out because if not he needs to hit the portal.

27 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Moving A Prized Asset Around Offense”

  1. There’s a lot of competition in the backfield and everywhere else. That’s a good problem to have. A lot of competition on the O-Line. You have a number of good players coming back(on the O-Line). You have the 3 we brought in from the portal. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Elijah Paige break into the rotation in his true freshman year. I remember when he decommitted from ND, I went on a ND you tube page and you had these 3 ND pundants giving their opinion. They were really disappointed to lose him. At that point they had five 4-star commitments on the O-Line and they said that, of the 5, he was the best one. I think that they will get Deuce Robinson and that will help recruiting.

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    1. IDONT WANT TO WOOF
      BUT I SAID DURING LAST SEASON THAT THE SLOT WAS RALEEKS BEST SPOT

      TOO SMALL TO BE A GREAT BLOCKER BUT GREATSPEED AND ELUSIVENESS AND HIS HANDS SEEM FINE AT CATCHING THE BALL.

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      1. The slot is his best spot. The question is, does he want to be a slot back or does he want to be a regular running back.

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      2. YEAH PARCELMAN AND I THINK IFHE WANTS TO GO TO THE NFL HE WOULD BE BETTER OFF AS A RECEIVER

        MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE TYREEK HILL

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    1. But does this Caitlan Clark play defense, George– the NBA cats would love to play her to see if they could have an All-World shooting day

      By the way, nice to see you on the rampage and woofing again.

      While Duce holds everyone hostage with his pending “announcement” I will be making an announcement tomorrow as far as what time I will be getting up Friday

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      1. JOHN OL FRIEND
        YOURE GETTING LIKE MG
        NEVER SLEEPS

        HAHA
        OK
        HERES IS MY ANNOUNCEMENT

        I WILL BEGOING TO SLEEP SOON

        HA

        But I NEVER WANT TO STEAL YOUR THUNDER COUNSELOR

        I KEEP THINKING OF RON DRAKE AND THAT HIT !!

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      3. PPS JOHN
        WHAT NBA PLAYER CAN SHOOT STRAIGHT OR EVEN DUNK WHEN THEY ARE BEING GUARDED BY CAITLAN ??? ❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇

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      1. Alright, George, you roped me in, here is my side of that joke–
        A middle-aged, plain looking woman told her husband she would be gone for about a month, that she was tired of being poor, and was going to prostitute for money.
        –A month later she returns and puts her earnings of $450.50 before her husband, who asks, “Who paid you the 50-cents?–
        All of them

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    2. You know, Ed.G, I think our Wolfman used one of those loop holes to get out of grading the SC-Neuter Dame game, but I like your idea of being able to gather up and take some of those loop holes wherever your road leads you. That is what you meant, right Ed, sometimes your ‘Klingon’ vocabulary flies over my head

      Speaking of ‘road leads you’ did you see how this Georgia offensive guru coach is taking on something like his 6th team in 10 or 12 years, something like that, the point is talk about a vagabond and how unsettling that must be on his kids entering their 6th school.
      But thing is these types of coaches corral a million-and-up so it would be hard to turn down an extra mil’ a year deal.

      Did you hear that NFLers of the 1950s who had to have a second job after football to make the rent, but then television stepped in and advertisers saw the advantage of selling to tens of millions, and presto, “Will you please take $100-million, Lamar Jackson,” or
      in baseball, “We know you are foreign-born Japanese but Americans have adopted you as if their own, so please accept our $1-Billion contract for how many years you can ply your trade”

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      1. HEY JOHN
        GREAT JOKE
        I LOVED IT
        GONNA TELL IT TO MY POSSE IF I HAVE YOUR
        PEMISSION

        WHEN I WAS TEN I READ
        A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
        BY POLLY ADLER I THINK

        SO I LEARNED ABOUT CAT 🐈‍⬛ HOUSES IN THE FOURTH GRADE

        NO NO
        I LIED

        I READ THAT BOOK IN 1956
        BUT STILL LEARNED A LOT ABOUT CATHOUSES !!

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      2. LJ, SUCC is doing the ONE&DONEpolka/choka, choka, choking; I’m just pointing it out is all. I hope you don’t mind?

        “Is it true,” Willie McGinest has been voted the Clown U 2023, Alumnus of the Year for outstanding leadership in LA County communities.

        #Here, Here!

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  8. Fact checked! Your pulling a Trump, Owns! The 2022 Alumnae Awards has no listing for the April 29th, 2023 event (which I received an invitation for because the whole family and my doctorate earning wife received from USC) HAS NO LISTING OF WILLIE MCGINEST AT THIS EVENT!! I’LL BE THERE BECAUSE YOUR BROKE ASS WON’T BE!!! TYPICAL JOKE WANNABE BRUIN!!!

    Willie screwed up. I’ll let him know the next time I see him in Long Beach at the Poly games. But it beats cracking your wife’s ankle like Hundley.

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    1. My wife is dead TW. Thanks for speaking ill of the dead. You’re just a typical bozo, rah-rah, uncircumcised DICK TW.

      #Little Will-eeee and the Perps have released a new rap single:

      A side: They Call Me MR. THUG
      B side: We Will F**K You Up MotherF**ker.

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      1. Obviously, I didn’t reference your wife. Me? I have an invitation! You? Remedial reading capacity, you brought up your wife’s being deceased. That explains your depravity. Some smokes of CBD+THC could help you comprehend the difference. Your intelligence reminds me of Willie McGinest in that you both overreacted to a perceived slight. Once again, keyboard thug, McGinest didn’t get honored at an event that my wife and I received an invitation to because of her efforts working with the Rossier School of Education that she received a doctorate from. She also received her master’s from UCLA. You truly are an embarrassment to your late wife to react like a chump. Grow up.

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