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HurikaneMarc said:
We were 3-3 at this point last year and we just won on Saturday. We're ranked #12....and you guys want another coach already? Don't you want to see how the season ends first o ye of little faith?
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Not a lot of faith right now in all candor. I’m glad we have the W’s and want them as much as possible to keep the class ahead but the coaching and leadership deficits are glaringly clearer to me from Coach Slip-n-Slide.
 
RVACane said:
Not a lot of faith right now in all candor. I’m glad we have the W’s and want them as much as possible to keep the class ahead but the coaching and leadership deficits are glaringly clearer to me from Coach Slip-n-Slide.
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Virginia was really the first offensive stinker we've had since Clemson. Every other game we've scored north of 30. Ugly wins need love too.

We've just got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot and play a complete game. We haven't yet.
 
The Franchise said:
I hate to say I told you so, but I've seen enough of this program to know what's going on. Let's get right to it, shall we?

I had this revelation while watching Diaz continue to flounder. Diaz reminds me of Don Jr. Looks polished. Yaps a good game. Zero substance. He's a fake manly nerd who talks about manly stuff. His idea of hunting would be to stay in a 5 star hotel in Dubai and be taken to an air conditioned shooting range where they line up a bunch of animals chained to a post 30 feet in front of him and give him a machine gun. It's the nerd life. The difference between the two is Diaz is trying to accomplish something, but he's simply clueless on how to lead.

I've harped on this fact forever, and the nerds don't get it, but you can tell everything about a football team by their focus and effort level. We are devoid of either. Of course, the dopes on here will litter my thread with "we played hard, but Lashlee sucks." We neither played hard or played focused.

We have a few players who give effort, but, overall, we're a lazy skinny jeans group. We're the guys with the tight pants that stop at the bottom of the calves with designer loafers we can't afford and a backpack that costs more than we make in a month.

Let's discuss some specifics in the pros and cons section of this incredible blog.

Pros:
This won't be popular for the guys looking for a scapegoat, but King played a great game. He was on target with some absolute darts. Yes he missed Harley to ice the game, but this game never should have come down to one pass at the end.

Harley. That's by far the best game he's played. He is a hard working kid, who took the criticism of the WRs personally. Good for him.

Chaney. He's our best RB right now. Yeah I said it. He's tough fast and runs harder than a 14 year old boy watching his mom's hot friend, Nancy, paint her toe nails in her bikini.

Pope showed some life and made a great acrobatic catch. Yeah he had another drop, but expecting Pope not to drop an easy pass every game is like expecting me not to ram my Pickett/Yellen takes from last week down your faqquit throats until your mascara runs.

And...that's it.

Cons:

Scaife set the tone early for the type of tenacity and the mental toughness that we have when he got bullrushed like the ghey fat kid whose dad forced him to play Pee Wee football even though he'd much prefer to be playing with his Barbies. This dude's been a major bummer.

Cam. He ran like he didn't want to be out there. I don't know if he's hurt or what, but I'm glad they finally yanked him. On that stretch play he looked like he was carrying a piano on his back. Weak effort last night.

Bolden on the TD to the TE gave a feeble effort. All he had to do was carry the guy out of bounds, and that stops the TD.

Carter needs to get a Target ad at this point. I can see him with the Target bullseye painted on top of his head saying "I love Target!" while running head-first into a wall like the Kool Aid pitcher dude.

Lashlee needs to realize you don't have to force balance for the sake of balance. King had a hot hand, and, in case Lashlee didn't notice, UVAG was without their best defender, Blount, and their other starting S Nelson. Run them ragged with the throw game. Throw it 80% of the time if you have to. UVAG is horrible against the pass and pretty good against the run, so what does Lashlee do? Yep. Force that ******* read option inside zone all night long.

What's with our new habit of running give up handoffs on 3rd down in our own end? We're just giving away series regularly every game with that ****.

Our pass rush was supposed to be a huge strength. It isn't. Phillips is a great effort guy, but if he's even thinking about leaving early, he needs a lobotomy.

Did you see the play where Ivey gave a huge cushion to a QB playing WR for pretty much the 1st time? Yeah, so did I. He let a QB run him off for an easy pitch and catch 1st down on 3rd and 11. That play summed us up. 3rd and 11 and he's bailing against a QB playing WR.

96 yard drive in 2:40 when we should have been icing the game. That drive speaks directly to the mindset of this team and why I have dwindling hope for Diaz. We were celebrating a win up 13 with 10 minutes left instead of bearing down and trying to open it up on them.

We let a 3 QB rotation control us for much of the 1st half. Keep in mind none of those 3 can throw the ball. Then, Diaz tells the halftime reporter "We need to make them beat us throwing it." Yeah no **** Don Jr. That should have been the idea from the beginning.

Gurvan Hall looked like he didn't even care on that coverage bust for the late TD. We were already in "we won, let's start taking pics for the gram" mode.

Tried to tell you guys last week we got lucky Yellen played. Nope. The CISpool clowns came for me claiming Yellen was just as good as Pickett. Then, they spent the whole week trying to be funny about how Pickett was a god. Flash forward to this week and look at what ND did to Yellen on his home field. That desultory performance against Pitt was what I feared for the remainder of the season and why last week's Fireside Chat wasn't all puppies and rainbows.

There are 2 or 3 L's left on this schedule if we play like we have the last 2 weeks.

I said it last week, and I'll stick with it. We're average. And we're average for the same reason we stunk last year--Don Jr. isn't a leader of men. He celebrates ****** efforts in wins against horrible teams like UVAG as if we just won a NC. He's not demanding enough, and it shows by the focus and effort level of his team. D$ tried to tell me we're in that next tier behind the greats, but we aren't unless that next tier consists of about 65 teams.

We are a little better than last year, and that's solely because of King. If we had Perry at the helm right now we'd be a 3 loss team. I don't know about you guys, but this game felt eerily similar to last year against a much better UVAG team with a much better QB and much better D.
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I don't agree with you all the time, but this is spot on. It's easy to see that Diaz is not the right guy for this job. A real coach would not be celebrating a win over a 1 win UVA team like we just beat Bama in the NC game. GT is the only game left on the schedule where you can pencil in a win
 
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caneinorlando said:
Lmfao @ Coach Slip & Slide
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I was going to say CoRch instead of Coach but I’m trying to maintain some sense of decency and maturity of sorts.

But seriously, after that action after the game coached and played - it literally sums up what we have. This will forever be etched in my brain and I can’t “un-see” it.

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Dwinstitles said:
Yea someone said u expect Vilma or Lewis I'm like yea that's what I want at linebacker. That's what I fuqin expect....they are already neutered the fan base like ok linebackers are good for Miami. I ended the discussion immediately and also dudes saying these kids can crack the starting at Clemson is laughable
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What kills me is that Flagg was someone who a lot of people questioned the take given his size and perceived lack of athleticism. He's a true freshman that came in without a summer/spring camp and outside of Brooks, looks like our best LB. Yet, we continue to trot out Jennings and McCloud for a vast majority of the snaps. Our culture and process is beyond screwed up.
 
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305407cane said:
he has zero pass rush moves. If he had any the holding would be more visible to the ref
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Our entire d line has zero pass rush moves. Bull rush/speed rush or nothing. We can’t shed blocks to save our **** life. Now that kuligowskis teaching has left the building we look substantially worse. We dont even look like we’re trying to shed blocks anymore
 
HurikaneMarc said:
Virginia was really the first offensive stinker we've had since Clemson. Every other game we've scored north of 30. Ugly wins need love too.

We've just got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot and play a complete game. We haven't yet.
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I want you to be right. I was there not long ago. I knew in the off-season that we had a problem when there were no changes to defensive staff and I posted it many times. I said I was more worried about the defense than the offense. I still do believe that Lashlee can correct course though I’m disappointed in the non-stop and repeated inside zone run play calling.

But when I see Mike Harley’s comments about no effort, when I see Amari Carter - with a C on his jersey - doing the same thing, when I see the slow willingness to play the younger guys when the older guys aren’t getting it done in conjunction with what Harley said, when I see us eke out a win over UVA and after the game, Manny goes full-blown Coach Slip-n-Slide... I can’t benefit of the doubt it and rationalize it away.
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
Our entire d line has zero pass rush moves. Bull rush/speed rush or nothing. We can’t shed blocks to save our **** life. Now that kuligowskis teaching has left the building we look substantially worse. We dont even look like we’re trying to shed blocks anymore
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100% on this. It’s a shame cause I like stroud and what he’s done since he’s been here but I’ll say that if we had that Pitt DL coach we’d have a first rounder every single year
 
What's most disappointing is how boring we've been to watch all year sans FSU. Cannot believe we STILL have an idiot OC who won't accept our shortcomings at OL and who routinely tries to jam the ball down the other team's throat. Some of it must be on King for making the wrong reads but stop slamming the RB into the backs of our skinny, weak interior OL you stupid, stupid idiot.

The ONLY positive spin emerging from the last couple weeks is that these primannydonnas might not be feeling themselves like they were after beating Louisville and Florida State (in both 2019 & 2020 btw). The team has a chance to get healthy and convince themselves that NFL scouts will be watching us play NC State in 12 days.
 
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DMoney said:
And I’ll ask you the same question you couldn’t answer last week: who are the best teams beyond the Top 4?

You like to tell us how much CFB you watch, so I’m not sure why you struggle to list examples. My guess is you don’t want to look bad when those teams lose.

I see an elite Top 4, a very promising Wisconsin team, and a bunch of teams with huge holes. We’ve beaten every team on our schedule within that group. That’s good.

Average does not mean “every team outside of the Top 4.” It means in the middle of everyone. We are better than that by any objective measure.
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So is your defense that we suck, but so does everybody else?
 
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RVACane said:
I want you to be right. I was there not long ago. I knew in the off-season that we had a problem when there were no changes to defensive staff and I posted it many times. I said I was more worried about the defense than the offense. I still do believe that Lashlee can correct course though I’m disappointed in the non-stop and repeated inside zone run play calling.

But when I see Mike Harley’s comments about no effort, when I see Amari Carter - with a C on his jersey - doing the same thing, when I see the slow willingness to play the younger guys when the older guys aren’t getting it done in conjunction with what Harley said, when I see us eke out a win over UVA and after the game, Manny goes full-blown Coach Slip-n-Slide... I can’t benefit of the doubt it and rationalize it away.
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LOL! Weird thing is if I were asking you to rationalize a loss I'd get your apprehension. I'm asking you to be happy with ugly wins because they are going to happen. Manny is still learning how to win games.

Take a birds eye view of the season and don't get caught up in the ebbs and tides. Compare us to last year not Golden or Richt. What have they to do with this team?

Besides, the real goal is to finish the season 10-3. With the hope that we win our bowl game. This ensures that our recruiting class will stay on board and be a strong selling point to the next class.

We are a few years away still.
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
Our entire d line has zero pass rush moves. Bull rush/speed rush or nothing. We can’t shed blocks to save our **** life. Now that kuligowskis teaching has left the building we look substantially worse. We dont even look like we’re trying to shed blocks anymore
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It seems the only thing Mannys defense teaches is to run through the gap. It’s like the exact kinda defense that a typical fan would think works.
 
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