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We need our guys back to be better, but winning any game where you commit 17 penalties for 159 yards shows grit. We comin'.
 
genxcane said:
This is why this board drives me crazy. Any real fan who pays close attention would notice how depleted we are.

And yet, I have been yelling this at my screen the last 18 hours as these mopes keep complaining about how bad we looked.

As currently constructed, we are a slightly above average ACC team. We don't have the roster that would allow for the loss of 3 top RBs, 3 top OLs, 2 top TEs and several key people on defense. Anyone expecting the offense to dominate with all of those people missing is simply not paying attention.

The penalties are frustrating but that has been an outlier compared to other games this year. Way too many of them were procedural errors on the OL. So even there, the depletions and shuffling hurt us. There were several false start penalties that were simply an out-of-sync snap count from a back up center. Frustrating but understandable and correctable.

We had an away game in hostile territory and came away with a win with a severely beat up squad. You have to learn to win ugly before you can learn to just win. Just take the win and hope we get healthier down the road.

What I saw yesterday is a team that can get better. Which after the MTSU disaster is saying something. That game looked like a team that was hopelessly flawed beyond any hope.

I am sure some will call me a "slurper". Knock yourselves out.
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Fantastic post.

Ignore the noise. This is spot-on, as much as many refuse to hear it.

For all those calling anyone a "slurper"—there needs to a word for the mental-midget that started screaming "back" and "15-0!" the minute Mario was hired, yet was screaming "Fire Gattis" and trashing the new staff by the Southern Miss game.
 
Damiencane86 said:
So many years of soft practices and went the extreme opposite direction coupled with bad luck. Odds are some adjustments need to be made in the workouts & prep to focus on injury prevention but it's doubtful it can all be simply blamed on Feld.
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Oregon had the same issues and it never got better over time.
 
LMFAO at Zion if he can play and has decided to sit out in the hopes of getting drafted. He won't, there's no reason to. He'll be an UDFA on the cheap. He better impress from day one and one misstep he'll be out of a job completely.
 
SayWhat said:
LMFAO at Zion if he can play and has decided to sit out in the hopes of getting drafted. He won't, there's no reason to. He'll be an UDFA on the cheap. He better impress from day one and one misstep he'll be out of a job completely.
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The Covid year show the NFL doesn’t really care much it seems.. this team trash., might not be a bad idea for him honestly
 
CaneTheGaytors said:
Same issues at Oregon. Many top players out with injuries last season and the previous season.

It can’t be a coincidence. Something is up with his training regimen. So many dudes going down with serious injuries is always a warning sign. You don’t see so many bad injuries to so many key players at Baga, Taint, Jawja, USC, OU, etc..
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Insufferable.
 
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RozayCane said:
The Covid year show the NFL doesn’t really care much it seems.. this team trash., might not be a bad idea for him honestly
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Difference is those players that sat out were 1st and 2nd rounders. Don't see many Day 3 guys saying "naw I'm gud".
 
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hoops156 said:
Oregon had the same issues and it never got better over time.
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Then that leads to it being a combination of factors and while at Oregon that staff didn't recognize it and make any adjustments. It's hard finding the perfect balance of pushing your athletes hard with tough practices but you gotta always keep some reserves in the tank and keep the players fresh.
 
AtlAtty said:
How many of these injuries occurred during practice? Most it would seem to me from memory. Certainly Chaney, Citizen, X, Arroyo, Nelson, again form memory.
I ask because we now have much more physical practices than last year. so it begs the question whether more physical practices will inevitably mean more injuries in practice. If we weren’t going full bore in practice in 2002 would Sean Taylor have met Frank Gore in the hole and tore his ACL?
I am not advocating for less physical practices but this seems like a natural outgrowth.

More collisions=more injuries.
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I'm not sure that's right.

Chaney just isn't a good data point. I'm not going to drag the kid, but the fact is he was injured under the prior staff with the country club practices, and he is injured under the new staff with more physical practices. Unfortunately, he may just be one of those guys who struggles with injuries.

Citizen was definitely injured during practice.

Restrepo's injury was a foot injury from HS that he said just never healed right or something like that. Timing-wise I don't know whether any re-aggravation was in practice or in one of the 2 games he played this season, but it seems like a pre-existing injury.

Not exactly sure when/how Arroyo was injured. He played against MTSU but missed UNC and was declared out for the season after the UNC game (though that was a poorly kept secret and the news had been swirling before the game). I thought Mario had said Arroyo was banged up during the MTSU game, but who knows.

Nelson is a strange one. He had surgery sometime this summer (in July maybe) to "clean up" his knee before even participating in Fall camp. But our final spring practice was sometime in April, and fall camp didn't open until August. He came back and played some against TAMU, looked bad, and I don't think he's gotten a snap since. I don't know what to make of that situation one way or another.

And I think all the other guys listed were hurt in games and/or have some injury history.

Honestly, seems like a combination of bad luck and guys who may just be a bit injury-prone.
 
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