ball915
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The topic that isn't being addressed because we upgraded from Golden. It's not even a comparison on how much improved the coaching is but there are still areas for improvement. Our DB's our the most improved unit and the future is bright to national championship level good. Our DL has been very solid all year but was neutralized last night against a national title level team. Kool will only have these guys getting better and better. LB play was a more hit and miss but let's call it what it is the defense is solid.
RB play was tested with Homer stepping up including the emergence of Deejay Dallas, who I believe is a special talent. Like the DB's the future at RB is national title good. WR's were also tested having solid showing the majority of the season. Our blocking from this position is if not the best, near the best in the country. The biggest difference was the coaches learning how to use Berrios as a slot guy in the short to medium range. TE's we were thin and Herndon not only stepped up but was a force coming from a backup role. Irvin Jr. looked like a freshman but worked his way through some discipline to fill in.
OL play was improved early in the season and could be argued regressed to staying status quo. This is the biggest area of Golden hangovers and it showed last night. With that said, what Searles did what Kehoe could was encouraging but would just of liked to have seen them improve. QB play is in the same boat as Rosier just didn't get better. His comments after his Pitt benching were telling and while he might be a quiet kid he shows absolutely no leadership or command like Kaaya. Ken Dorsey was a quiet kid like both but turned it on when lacing them up as he hated losing and just don't see it from Rosier.
ST's is the biggest glaring issue IMO. Our punt/kick coverage teams have been fine with no major returns given up. Don't recall us blocking a punt or a kick all year yet alone putting pressure consistently. Since we were in punt return all season would should of had plenty of practice to set up a return yet Berrios felt like the nations leader in fair catches. Jeff Thomas was below average on kick returns all season with our speed never being fully utilized in any capacity on ST besides coverage. A change needs to be made who runs ST.
Defensive play calling has been such an improvement with a system that our kids coming in are used to and one that elevates their strengths in our favor instead of being dead set in some system that worked for a coach elsewhere with different types of athletes. Offensive play calling has been nothing less than awful and the strategy that Richt uses is exposed by our 29% 3rd down conversion rate. All season he continued to run laterally and last night against a dominant line got swallowed up every time. Rosier is inaccurate and he insisted on allowing him to throw mid to deep balls instead of short balls to reduce the air time in attempt to mask Rosier's weakness. Richt lived in 3nd and long all season with the 1-2 yard rush on first and incompletion on 2nd being the root of why. The offense had zero flow and solely relied on chunk yards contrary to Clemson last night that moved the chains all night long consistenly. All of our routes our vertical with a rare lateral route to get the ball in our athletes hands and use our speed. Richt calls plays as if we had a dominant OL and accurate QB exposing our weaknesses instead of masking them. That is the difference between our offense and defensive coaching and Richts inability to sustain drives forced our defense to play way too many plays. Clean that up with ST's and we will be dominant
RB play was tested with Homer stepping up including the emergence of Deejay Dallas, who I believe is a special talent. Like the DB's the future at RB is national title good. WR's were also tested having solid showing the majority of the season. Our blocking from this position is if not the best, near the best in the country. The biggest difference was the coaches learning how to use Berrios as a slot guy in the short to medium range. TE's we were thin and Herndon not only stepped up but was a force coming from a backup role. Irvin Jr. looked like a freshman but worked his way through some discipline to fill in.
OL play was improved early in the season and could be argued regressed to staying status quo. This is the biggest area of Golden hangovers and it showed last night. With that said, what Searles did what Kehoe could was encouraging but would just of liked to have seen them improve. QB play is in the same boat as Rosier just didn't get better. His comments after his Pitt benching were telling and while he might be a quiet kid he shows absolutely no leadership or command like Kaaya. Ken Dorsey was a quiet kid like both but turned it on when lacing them up as he hated losing and just don't see it from Rosier.
ST's is the biggest glaring issue IMO. Our punt/kick coverage teams have been fine with no major returns given up. Don't recall us blocking a punt or a kick all year yet alone putting pressure consistently. Since we were in punt return all season would should of had plenty of practice to set up a return yet Berrios felt like the nations leader in fair catches. Jeff Thomas was below average on kick returns all season with our speed never being fully utilized in any capacity on ST besides coverage. A change needs to be made who runs ST.
Defensive play calling has been such an improvement with a system that our kids coming in are used to and one that elevates their strengths in our favor instead of being dead set in some system that worked for a coach elsewhere with different types of athletes. Offensive play calling has been nothing less than awful and the strategy that Richt uses is exposed by our 29% 3rd down conversion rate. All season he continued to run laterally and last night against a dominant line got swallowed up every time. Rosier is inaccurate and he insisted on allowing him to throw mid to deep balls instead of short balls to reduce the air time in attempt to mask Rosier's weakness. Richt lived in 3nd and long all season with the 1-2 yard rush on first and incompletion on 2nd being the root of why. The offense had zero flow and solely relied on chunk yards contrary to Clemson last night that moved the chains all night long consistenly. All of our routes our vertical with a rare lateral route to get the ball in our athletes hands and use our speed. Richt calls plays as if we had a dominant OL and accurate QB exposing our weaknesses instead of masking them. That is the difference between our offense and defensive coaching and Richts inability to sustain drives forced our defense to play way too many plays. Clean that up with ST's and we will be dominant
