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What has me confident:

- GT just looked very slow vs. Clemson. Slower than I can remember them ever looking.
- Even if we get out of position, they don't have enough speed at the skill positions to make us pay.
- Their longest run through 4 games is 31 yards.
- We had an extra week to prepare
- Richt is 6-2 vs. Paul Johnson

What has me worried:

- We're 2-3 in our last 5 trips to Atlanta, with 1 of our wins coming in OT. We haven't played well @GT
- Richt is 6-2 vs. Paul Johnson, but 6 games were by 8 points or less. They've been close games.
- Starting 3 freshman LB's, even as good as they are, is a little worrisome vs this offense. I'm more worried about the mental discipline & assignments than the physical part
- I hope we're not overlooking GT with FSU coming next week. We were @Cincinnati the week before FSU last year and got caught.

Straight up, we're the obviously better team, by a lot. This shouldn't be that close. BUT...I'm definitely concerned about looking ahead to FSU. If we're there mentally, we roll them.
 
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90scane said:
If we smash them we likely will jump into the top 10 with 3 top 10 match-ups.

#7 Stanford vs #10 Washington
#4 Michigan vs #8 Wisconsin
#3 UL vs #5 Clemson

At worst, we should move up to #11 with a solid victory leading to a top 15 game vs FSU.
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90cane is right. Rankings DO matter. The only time they don't matter is if you're undefeated. The whole point of rankings is to be as high as possible. I'm not sure why people think their meaningless

I understand them being meaningless preseason or before conference play for sure.. But they definitely matter and us being in the top 10 is big in terms of perception of the program for recruits and media. Not to mention bowl games later
LustNCanes said:
I don't care of rankings, why so many here put so much weight in the rankings? Winning will take care of everything.
We will be moving on up as long as we take care of our end! I hope fsu loses every game they play. I could care less if they're ranked or not!! Go Canes
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bshaw28 said:
BUT...I'm definitely concerned about looking ahead to FSU. If we're there mentally, we roll them.
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I think the week to prepare you mentioned in the confidence column should negate the looking ahead to F$U factor. There is no way the Coaching staff will allow it.
The focus is on the Jackets.
 
bshaw28 said:
What has me confident:

- GT just looked very slow vs. Clemson. Slower than I can remember them ever looking.
- Even if we get out of position, they don't have enough speed at the skill positions to make us pay.
- Their longest run through 4 games is 31 yards.
- We had an extra week to prepare
- Richt is 6-2 vs. Paul Johnson

What has me worried:

- We're 2-3 in our last 5 trips to Atlanta, with 1 of our wins coming in OT. We haven't played well @GT
- Richt is 6-2 vs. Paul Johnson, but 6 games were by 8 points or less. They've been close games.
- Starting 3 freshman LB's, even as good as they are, is a little worrisome vs this offense. I'm more worried about the mental discipline & assignments than the physical part
- I hope we're not overlooking GT with FSU coming next week. We were @Cincinnati the week before FSU last year and got caught.

Straight up, we're the obviously better team, by a lot. This shouldn't be that close. BUT...I'm definitely concerned about looking ahead to FSU. If we're there mentally, we roll them.
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I agree man. Noon game at App didn't have me worried because the entire national narrative was App going to beat Miami at home. I knew the guys would be fired up.

This game scares me a bit. We haven't been great in Atlanta and a noon game with FSU on the horizon can be tricky. I still think Canes win, but I think it's going to be closer than what most of this board is thinking.

Gimme Canes 31-23
 
GT has a special place in Richt's heart I think. In-state OOC rival at UGA, Divisional rival at Miami. I dont think he'll let them look past.

That being said, its time the road to the Coastal Title comes through Miami.
 
One thing thing about GT is their OL is so, so bad, teams are no longer having to play "sound" and not shoot gaps. Everybody is just bum rushing their DL in an all out jailbreak, which is forcing early pitches. Defenses are then just sending their LBs and Safeties into the flats where they know the pitch has no place else to go. Resulting in any tackles. It use to be you didnt' want to get too aggressive against GT, instead play sound, assignment football. You obviously still want to play your assignments. But if you watch the way teams have played them going back to last year, everybody has been playing them in a hyper-aggressive defensive scheme. And that is actually tailor made for our defense.
On defense they play kinda like App State did. Ton of cushion for the WRs, no pressure from the defensive line. Roof is the personification of "Bend don't break" on defense. We will bubble screen that to death like we did App. State.
 
mossmadness said:
One thing thing about GT is their OL is so, so bad, teams are no longer having to play "sound" and not shoot gaps. Everybody is just bum rushing their DL in an all out jailbreak, which is forcing early pitches. Defenses are then just sending their LBs and Safeties into the flats where they know the pitch has no place else to go. Resulting in any tackles. It use to be you didnt' want to get too aggressive against GT, instead play sound, assignment football. You obviously still want to play your assignments. But if you watch the way teams have played them going back to last year, everybody has been playing them in a hyper-aggressive defensive scheme. And that is actually tailor made for our defense.
On defense they play kinda like App State did. Ton of cushion for the WRs, no pressure from the defensive line. Roof is the personification of "Bend don't break" on defense. We will bubble screen that to death like we did App. State.
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And as soon as they make an effort to stop it, bang, over the top. We should roll these guys with so much time to prepare.
 
My main concern is that we DO NOT BLOW THEM OUT 70-3 and get Paul Johnson fired. Paulie J and his triple option can hang around in Atlanta for a long time as far as I concerned.

Please Richt don't hurt him. A nice 42-7 would be fine.
 
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CAT5Coming said:
My main concern is that we DO NOT BLOW THEM OUT 70-3 and get Paul Johnson fired. Paulie J and his triple option can hang around in Atlanta for a long time as far as I concerned.

Please Richt don't hurt him. A nice 42-7 would be fine.
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I almost would like to see a new coach hired though.

Can you imagine Paul Johnson getting canned mid season and then another interim coach having to run an offense with triple option recruits? Or trying to run the triple option?

Or next year a new coach with a bunch of recruits who were made specifically for Paul Johnson s offense? Would be a disaster

For how much we hate him and how bad his defenses are he actually is pretty successful with that archaic offense

Gt is gonna go through some pains when they switch coaches
 
Watson was terrible against GT the guy missed open receivers all night long. That game should have been over at half time. I believe UM has better players at the skilled position than Clemson. If UM wins the turnover battle, this game will be over by the 3rd quarter.
 
90scane said:
If we smash them we likely will jump into the top 10 with 3 top 10 match-ups.

#7 Stanford vs #10 Washington
#4 Michigan vs #8 Wisconsin
#3 UL vs #5 Clemson

At worst, we should move up to #11 with a solid victory leading to a top 15 game vs FSU.
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Barring a blowout, the losers of these probably won't drop lower than us....maybe Washington.
 
Diaz has the horses to eat that **** alive. Our DTs should own the middle, and our penetration will cause problems and force fast decisions. We should eat up front.
 
CAT5Coming said:
My main concern is that we DO NOT BLOW THEM OUT 70-3 and get Paul Johnson fired. Paulie J and his triple option can hang around in Atlanta for a long time as far as I concerned.

Please Richt don't hurt him. A nice 42-7 would be fine.
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Don't Hurt EM.webp
 
Johnson has been trying to throw the ball a lot more this year. Thomas is actually a decent passer even though he looks like **** doing it. Watch for him to try to hit some pass plays on us.
 
marshallrc13 said:
I know we are young at LB but they seem to play wise beyond their years. NOW, the option is a whole new ball game. Me personally, the key is going to be the front 4, specifically the DTs. Against Clemson, the DTs below up a lot of their runs and forced them outside where their LBs, CBs, and Ss were in position to make the plays. I think if the front 4 can do their thing it will make it much easier on the young LBs. What is everyone's thoughts? I think we limit them but allow a couple gashing runs and control the game for the most part. They just don't scare me. I say we load the box and make Justin Thomas try and beat us. I don't think he can. They will eat some clock and keep it close for a little while but we take over with some big plays late 2nd qtr...
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We just played an option team and the LBs did fine. We'll be up against a much better QB and better WRs. I think we'll be okay as long as we don't turn the ball over and keep the penalties at a respectable (which could be said for every game) level. I think we have a championship level defense and emerging offense, so if we don't hurt ourselves we'll be tough to beat.
 
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It's asking for a lot, but I want Shaq to have a Spence '11-type game against these guys.
 
https://youtu.be/2nvUE_BuapY

Watch the game on flash forward above.

What i took from the Clemson vs GT game:

Defense: Ted Roof has a sound group that tackles pretty **** good as a whole. You can probably count on one hand how many tackles they missed in the Clemson game.
They were aligned well and rarely out of position, presnap.
Clemson ran trips most of the night but it seems tech always played soft coverage on the strong/wide side of the field/formation and up on weak/short. Watson, as ive said before, is a really limited passer from the pocket and missed several throws so its hard to say how good techs coverage is but they looked beat on several throws. I dont think Georgia Tech has the ability to keep up with our wrs if Kaaya is his usual accurate self. Watson left a lot of offense on the field for Clemson. I also dont think Clemsons playcalling was all that great. Imo, they should have played more spread twins and forced GT's Dbacks to tackle well or attacked the soft coverage they were playing to the wide side of the field. With Richt having more prostyle concepts and a more physical rushing approach; Itll be interesting to see how GT responds. I believe our offense, from a coaching and talent perspective, provide more of a challenge for GT.

OFFENSE: They are just not good. They really dont have any dynamic playmakers at any position. This is probably the weakest GT oline ive seen. They found the most success running behind the left side. The B-back is young but he runs hard. The wings are just not good at all and the wrs are a farcry from even the days of Stephen Hill. Id be highly surprised and upset if our dbs get beat up by these dudes. PJ didnt use a bunch of different formations or too much trickery. Everything was ran out of different variations of the same old flex. I did notice that the fake FB dive- pitch play works best out of his "spread" where the wrs are lined up all the way to the sidelines and end up cracking down on the LBs or safeties. That play will most likely be the play that gashes us for big gains and Pj usually doesnt run it until he sees the defense start giving up 3 yrds or more on the dive.

Overall: we should win this game going away as long as we dont turn the ball over. Similar to app state. Im going42-10. Canes.
 
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