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Defense played awful. The secondary was more of the same from the USF game, which is good reason for concern, but the DL and LB play was uncharacteristic relative to the first 4 games. Need to see a pattern develop before I get worried that our defense just sucks. We are also missing our best player on defense and our most talented CB.

Cam made a couple uncharacteristic mistakes but the offense overcame that and put up 508 yards and 38 points. This is despite missing our LT who is going to be playing in the NFL next year.

Every team struggles. Look at Georgia last week against a garbage Kentucky team. Is that what Georgia is? No.
 
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I’m not saying we are NC capable, but this team is WAY better than they showed last night. The defense looked gassed from the first play. We are missing critical elements of the team, which by the way, we are getting back. Teams needs to get a W any way possible next week then get some rest!
 
Poptimus said:
The greatest team ever, 2001 Miami, barely beat Boston College. The 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes barely beat crappy Cincinnati and Purdue teams. Etc. Etc.

This stuff always happens even to the eventual champions.
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Alabama barely beat a 6 win Tennessee team and won on a blocked FG.

Every champion has a few lucky bounces along the way. FSU had about 3 lucky bounce games last year.

Miami has to tighten up and Cal is going to be a challenge. Need to find a way to win and get to the bye week 6-0 and relatively healthy.
 
Poptimus said:
The greatest team ever, 2001 Miami, barely beat Boston College. The 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes barely beat crappy Cincinnati and Purdue teams. Etc. Etc.

This stuff always happens even to the eventual champions.
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nah THAT defense I saw last night which made a avg offense look good wont get it done.. Which is whatever, but we still need IMPACT players..

VT did whatever they wanted, inside outside and passing, their oline is TRASH and they controlled our dline
 
CaneBorn1983 said:
Defense played awful. The secondary was more of the same from the USF game, which is good reason for concern, but the DL and LB play was uncharacteristic relative to the first 4 games. Need to see a pattern develop before I get worried that our defense just sucks. We are also missing our best player on defense and our most talented CB.

Cam made a couple uncharacteristic mistakes but the offense overcame that and put up 508 yards and 38 points. This is despite missing our LT who is going to be playing in the NFL next year.

Every team struggles. Look at Georgia last week against a garbage Kentucky team. Is that what Georgia is? No.
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Who are you trying to convince? Us or yourself?
 
skyman said:
nah THAT defense I saw last night which made a avg offense look good wont get it done.. Which is whatever, but we still need IMPACT players..

VT did whatever they wanted, inside outside and passing, their oline is TRASH and they controlled our dline
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We were also missing a couple key players. Are there serious warning signs about our defense? Of course. Could Bain fix a lot of the issues? Of course.

My point is one game does not a season make. How we respond defensively versus Cal will be telling.
 
Poptimus said:
We were also missing a couple key players. Are there serious warning signs about our defense? Of course. Could Bain fix a lot of the issues? Of course.

My point is one game does not a season make. How we respond defensively versus Cal will be telling.
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How about if bain doesnt come back for most of season, you cant count on him at this point AND we are losing more players to injury who will probably be extended.. When Mario says you are close, he means you might never come back..
 
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CaneBorn1983 said:
Ask yourself that question every time you post. 🤔
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skyman said:
How about if bain doesnt come back for most of season, you cant count on him at this point AND we are losing more players to injury who will probably be extended.. When Mario says you are close, he means you might never come back..
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I know nothing about the players that went down last night. I didn’t see anything that was long term, and we have 1 game in the next 21 days, which helps with all of those.

I know for a fact that Bain will be back soon. Not worried about that at all. Same with Rivers.
 
CaneBorn1983 said:
I’m not saying we are NC capable, but this team is WAY better than they showed last night. The defense looked gassed from the first play. We are missing critical elements of the team, which by the way, we are getting back. Teams needs to get a W any way possible next week then get some rest!
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Every team is always missing critical elements. That why you need depth, not excuses.
 
CaneBorn1983 said:
Defense played awful. The secondary was more of the same from the USF game, which is good reason for concern, but the DL and LB play was uncharacteristic relative to the first 4 games. Need to see a pattern develop before I get worried that our defense just sucks. We are also missing our best player on defense and our most talented CB.

Cam made a couple uncharacteristic mistakes but the offense overcame that and put up 508 yards and 38 points. This is despite missing our LT who is going to be playing in the NFL next year.

Every team struggles. Look at Georgia last week against a garbage Kentucky team. Is that what Georgia is? No.
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Not gonna overreact but depending on the injury outcome of some of these guys, specifically the defense could be majorly concerning. Alston, Barrow, Harris all went down on top of Bain and Brown already down. There are some guys playing more minutes than they should be
 
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We looked lethargic early and gassed late. Effects of a short week after playing a super up tempo team? Lack of depth? I don’t think we went from “good” to “we suck” in one game but definitely disappointed.
 
Happens to everyone. The fact that we scored 38 with 3 turnovers is very promising. 2 turnovers literally at our own end zone and 1 gave them great field position to begin with. Not to mention the return back to the red zone on the interception. Not to mention 1 turnover after a phantom hold that would have made the game 21-7 instead of 14-14. If it was 21-7 it probably turns into a blowout

I thought VT was the 2nd best team in the ACC at the beginning of the year. If we got their best game, playing at that level, turned it over and didn’t tackle, and still won… I’m here for it.

Georgia looked awful against Kentucky. Their D was good but offense was horrible. I’d rather have the offense that can bail out the defense 10 times out of 10 than the other way around where the D is doing all they can and the offense can’t win the game
 
Two things happened last night. We played below our level and VT finally played to expectations.

Remember VT was getting predictions to win the conference and we all thought this would be a tough game preseason. I made the mistake of thinking VT was dead and the rivalry is over. That was a classic Miami vs VT game.
 
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