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We're not as talented as we think...
Most of the talent on this team is on the Defensive side of the ball, particularly on the DL & in the LB corp...
The Secondary is fairly average, with the exception of Elder & Quan... But, Jenkins, Carter, Red, Colbert & the rest just aren't that good.
(Although, Young shows promise to be a solid Corner in the future once he gets more experience)
On Offense, Coley is good & Richards will be great, Joku & Herndon are good, Yearby & Walton are solid, not great but not terrible either.
The OL is simply horrendous, one of/if not the worst in D1 football & Kaaya on his best day is average, he's not great by any standard.
We should still be able to win more games with that though, because teams with far less talent still figure out how to get it done on a weekly basis, but the bottom line is, it's going to take at least another 2 recruiting classes before we really can compete in the ACC.
I'm struggling to understand WTF happened to this OL. Same exact OL as last year and last year they were not even half as bad as they have looked this year. Is the scheme exposing their flaws? Have they regresssed due to inferior coaching from Searels?
??? they were straight trash last year and more of the same this year.
We allowed 19 sacks all of last year or 1.46/game. That was good enough for 34th in the country. Pretty **** solid if you ask me. After last night we are sitting at 74th in the country in terms of sacks allowed.
Stats like that are very random and you certainly can't rely on them mid season.