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My Post Game Recap - UVA

who said:
This is the same poorly coached team from last year. We're 5-1 but the games we won so far were the games we won last year.
FSU and UL - Convincing
Pitt and UVA - Dogfight
It's fool's gold.

The bye week is undefeated against Mandy. Just chalk NC State up as an L. No real coaching or preparation goes on during a normal week, let alone a bye week.
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Okay, but what if we win?
 
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Liberty City El said:
We're still 2 recruiting classes away from being a true contender.

We can compete in the ACC, but for 2nd place.

Going forward for 2021 & beyond, we need a QB, a dynamic WR, a Ballhawk Safety, some speed at CB & speed at LB.

We also have to start recruiting more aggressively outside of just FL, we need an infusion of Houston/TX talent.
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We’ve been saying that for 10 years
 
“Terrible terrible coverage by Al Jr on the Deep TD to Henry, completely fell asleep & busted coverage, that was just bad on his part. He played most of this game like he was just going through the motions, he's been very good on the season but tonight he seemed mentally out of it.”- I was there, he was hurt and was tapping to get out the game bu I do y think anyone saw.
 
TimeB0mb said:
That was as bad a series as I've ever seen. It looked like UVA was on the verge of giving up. What the **** was Lashlee thinking? Maybe try to get King on a bootleg with a WR or TE running a dig route about 2 yards in the end zone? The defender would get sucked up trying to stop the QB run and King would have an easy TD pass. Baker called his defense 5x better than Lashlee called the offense. Pathetic. I guess on the bright side, it's looking like we don't have to worry about Lashlee getting poached by the NFL or King declaring for the draft.
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Still don't get why we haven't run a single TE Waggle where we slip the 2nd TE to the back of the end zone after he blocks down. We could use Mammaerlli or Hodges in that role perfectly if the Defense is keying in on Mallory.

We also still haven't ran a PA Quick slant either, which I kinda get because we don't really have any Outside WR's that could probably get an inside release on the goal line lol, but still, just run it with Mallory & have him line up at Z.

Also, we need to go with more 5 wide sets in general, it would open up the offense even more, just keep a Hot route safety blanket for King, but apply pressure on Defenses by forcing them to leave a WR uncovered if they decide to bring any Bltizers vs a 5-wide set.
 
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Liberty City El said:
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Offense:

D'Eriq King - 21/30 322yds 1TD 70%cmp & 14att 28yds
Mike Harley - 10rec 170yds 1TD
Will Mallory - 2rec 58yds
Mark Pope - 3rec 48yds
Dee Wiggins - 3rec 36yds
Don Chaney Jr - 10att 43yds 1TD
Jaylan Knighton - 12att 37yds

Gained 444yds (322yds passing & 122yds rushing) of total offense, 78 plays, 23 1st downs, 8/17 on 3rd down, 5.7 yards per play & 31:28 in time of possession.

Love the first drive play calling with the first two passes on Deep balls to Mallory & Harley, started out early to stretching the field vs UVA.

On the second drive King had a good run to move the ball backed up into our end zone & also delivered another throw to Mallory who made a good catch. Mallory has done a good job stepping as the primary TE since Brevin has been out, I'd like for him to get more targets, but he's been good for a few explosive plays in every game.



Mike Harley played his best game of his career today. He was catching everything thrown by him & got very good YAC yardage on the day, he really stepped up amongst the WR room as the go to WR for King out the Slot. Despite his struggles early in the year, he's just kept fighting & kept working & has emerged as the WR1 for this team.

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Two Great catches early on by Pope, but two bad focus drops.

Wiggins has been a huge disappointment this season, he has no physicality at the top of his routes, he cannot separate to save his life & goes down faster than a baby Deer. He gets no elevation or verticality in his routes at all, just folds like a lawn chair as soon as a CB touches him, he wouldn't start for me for the rest of the year, his size & speed is completely useless, smh.

No more Bubble screens to Marshall Few, ever.

All the TF WR's were out this game due to Covid protocol, looking forward to them getting back in 2 weeks for NC St.

The OL got completely blown up on the interior on 3rd down early in the game Scaife got abused. Interior OL played really bad, Scaife got beat like a rented mule, he was getting completely bull rushed all game. Snowden gave Zion fits. Clark & Jarrid Williams were solid, but the rest of line played like shìt.

King did a good job escaping the pass rush on the 2nd drive in the 3rd quarter, UVA got away with illegal contact to the head on that play, but King saved a potential sack & gained yards on the scramble. This was a good passing performance by King, he missed one to Harley that would've went for a TD on that last drive in the 4th quarter, but overall he was very good completing 70% of his passes & had no turnovers. I felt he made good decision to Mallory in the end zone, just think he needed to give him a jump ball & get the ball placement higher to the back shoulder so he could snatch it out of the air.

Terrible call to end a 15 play drive in the Red zone with just a FG, we totally let UVA off the hook. 3 straight runs to the same side was idiotic AF. There was so many plays that could've been run against a super tired UVA Defense in that spot & we just completely gave up. Haven't been too critical of Lashlee to this point, but that was an awful decision IMO.

Also disagreed big time with punting the ball back to UVA on that first drive of the 4th quarter, it was a 4th down & 1 at midfield, we could've easily converted that & kept the drive going.

They got away with a facemask on Knighton in the 4th quarter as well.

Our rushing offense since Louisville has been garbage, we did gain over 100 yards but we were only running at a horrendous 2.5 yards per carry, it was more so death by a thousand paper cuts, we cannot run on the inside to save our lives. Chaney had some nice runs, but we telegraph our run plays way too often, as soon as we gain anything more than a yard on a run we just hand it off right away again & just waste a down with too many short yard gains. The best runs we had is when we went with 4-wide splits & forced the Defense to pull defenders out of the box & Chaney/Knighton would bounce it outside.

Overall, the offense wasn't bad in terms of production through the air, just left too many points on the board, we should've scored 37 points.

Defense:

Jaelan Phillips - 7tcks
Gilbert Frierson - 6tcks & 1PBU
Bubba Bolden - 5tcks & 1PBU
Quincy Roche - 4tcks 1TFL
Waynmon Steed - 3tcks 1TFL
DJ Ivey - 3tcks 1PBU
Bradley Jennings Jr - 3tcks 1TFL 1 sack
Jahfari Harvey - 3tcks
Gurvan Hall - 2tcks & 2PBU's
Jon Ford - 2tcks
Nesta Silvera - 2tcks

Gave up 366yds (181yds passing & 185yds rushing)

Running QB's always gives this Defense trouble. Armstrong rushed for 91yds on us, but aside from the busted coverage late in the 4th we did a good job in pass Defense holding them to just 181yds passing. Defensive line barely got any pressure, we only had 2 TFL's & 1 sack the entire game.

Every tackle that Amari Carter makes will be called for targeting, it's clear the ACC refs have him tagged as a player they literally have a quota to throw out of every game he plays. At this point Diaz & Baker just need to start playing Jalen Harrell & Brian Balom (once he gets cleared from quarantine) as the 3rd Safety in rotation because AC5 will not be allowed to finish a game this season

Gurvan Hall had a textbook hit dislodging the ball on an early defensive drive.

Bolden didn't play his best, he had a few lapses in coverage but was solid overall.

Terrible terrible coverage by Al Jr on the Deep TD to Henry, completely fell asleep & busted coverage, that was just bad on his part. He played most of this game like he was just going through the motions, he's been very good on the season but tonight he seemed mentally out of it.

Great PBU by Ivey on 4th down, he had good leverage & came underneath the outside shoulder & got active with his hands, he also had a very good tackle on a QB run from Thompson. He's played better since earlier this season.

We play way too much soft Zone coverages, it bugs me lol.

Good job by Jennings blowing up the play in the red zone for a sack, that was good recognition by him.

That was a great TFL by Steed to get to Tavares Kelly in the backfield. He had a bad misread on that long run on 4th down by Armstrong, he hit down on the ball fake, but otherwise he played well with Flagg being out.

Our best LB's are Brooks, Flagg, Steed & Jennings, McCloud just can't turn a corner & has no lateral quickness at all.

The biggest issue with this year's Defense is we are not forcing enough Turnovers, we need to put an emphasis on getting to the ball Defensively, either through stripping it from ball carriers or having our DB's start jumping more routes, but we need more turnovers. We need desperately need a Ballhawk on the backend, hopefully Kamren Kinchens & James Williams will get their shot to play next year as TF's because after Bolden leaves we won't have an impactful Safety returning. Hopefully, we got something with one of the 4 TF S's from the 2020 class.

Rarely do I talk about refs, but this was a God awful officiating crew. It's almost like they were trying their hardest to slow down any good drive we got going on offense & made sure to be momentum killers at every turn. ACC refs are the fckin worst.

Overall, ugly team win, but a win is a win. We should've beat this team a lot more handily, we left points on the field. The Defense didn't play bad, but mental errors lead to preventable scores. Even with all that said, ****, we're still 5-1 lol hopefully the Bye week doesn't kick our asses like it has in recent memory. NC St is very beatable, maybe a good road trip can light a spark under this team.

Either way, just keep winning.
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Thank again LCE.
Win, lose, close or blow out. I always come back for the LCE break down.
I can’t wait till the break down when we get 6.
 
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Bigbenchcane said:
What game were you watching. We could have easily scored 37 plus. We left points on the field
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I couldn’t care less. We didn’t score them. I’m not going to pretend that everything is ok like y’all are. We won...wooohooo....guess what? We are digressing every week and we’re getting to the toughest part of our schedule.
 
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Lol
Surprised no one commented on this
“No more Bubble screens to Marshall Few”.
If I remember correctly, he did end up getting the first down, but could have went for a bunch mor.
Manny please, don’t do that **** again. No more cute tricks. We’re trying to win football games here.
 
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SSCane said:
Lol
Surprised no one commented on this
“No more Bubble screens to Marshall Few”.
If I remember correctly, he did end up getting the first down, but could have went for a bunch mor.
Manny please, don’t do that **** again. No more cute tricks. We’re trying to win football games here.
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Well it starts with zone reads...


You read the thread. I don’t have to tell you what I mean...
 
Angry Ibis said:
Why so angry after a win when all he’s saying is we left points on the field, which is true?
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For an angry guy, your name, that's a very nice question..

To answer your question, he's a young punk who thinks he knows everything.

Was it ugly, yes. I have a lot of questions about various things, but I'll take the ugly win. Are we some super duper awesome team like the past, no. It's still a win and something we typically only do half the time or barely better through the last 15 years. Each game will be a toss up. Funny thing about the guy throwing a tantrum, he wasn't even around when we were on top.
 
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weird, weird game for the offense. king moved the ball really well through the air, but the rushing attack was useless aside from a drive or two and i'm not really sure how we managed to leave so many points on the field for as much as we moved the ball. red zone playcalling/execution was rouggghhh today but so far this season that's an anomaly, so hopefully that improves. as others have mentioned those 3 straight handoffs inside the 15 leading to a field goal when we could've gone up 17-7 were absolutely brutal.

despite all that it honestly felt like we were in control of the game almost the whole way despite the lack of scoring. the blown coverage with blades made things way more tense than they needed to be, and we shouldn't even have been in that position if the offense could convert all those yards into points. at this point we kind of are what we are- a top 15-20 team that is ranked a little higher than we should be. that's still a significant improvement over last year. we just need to take care of business so we can start stacking recruiting classes.

honestly the only thing that truly does frustrate me is that we just play flat-out stupid very frequently. there's really nothing left to say about amari carter, and the penalties (while not overwhelming today) and mental mistakes/blown coverages are just terrible and tiresome.
 
Liberty City El said:
We're still 2 recruiting classes away from being a true contender.

We can compete in the ACC, but for 2nd place.

Going forward for 2021 & beyond, we need a QB, a dynamic WR, a Ballhawk Safety, some speed at CB & speed at LB.

We also have to start recruiting more aggressively outside of just FL, we need an infusion of Houston/TX talent.
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1000% I think we are good at safety with Williams and Williams. On paper that's an elite duo. CB and LB, yup. Rumph has murdered us. I can't judge yet on LB. I like the potential, but I don't think it's elite. Still holding out hope for T2 though. I think Rumph is gone after this year so at least CB recruiting will improve. WR- I'm still bullish on the young guns, sucks they were out for UVA due to COVID stuff. But we really need to get another AR82 type threat. It's not just that we don't have an elite WR, we do not even have a Berrios- a reliable guy to move the chains and bail out his QB. As you indicated, we are really putting all our eggs in the TVD basket. We need another quality QB recruit to push him. Miami definitely needs to hit up Houston, and while we're there, chat with the Big 12 to see what might be on the table in 2027 when the acc deal ends because f#ck the acc and its crooked refs.
 
Liberty City El said:
Every tackle that Amari Carter makes will be called for targeting, it's clear the ACC refs have him tagged as a player they literally have a quota to throw out of every game he plays. At this point Diaz & Baker just need to start playing Jalen Harrell & Brian Balom (once he gets cleared from quarantine) as the 3rd Safety in rotation because AC5 will not be allowed to finish a game this season
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That hit tonight was blatant helmet to helmet by Carter. Stop blaming the refs for our players being undisciplined.
 
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