CoolestNerd23
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I'm by no means an expert but I watched the UNC-USCe game again today as well as Roman's "From The Perch" and collected some thoughts...
USCe is not a good team! Like some others have said they look like a 5-7 loss team. The defense is ok but their tackling was ABYSMAL, like worse than ours or UFelony's in Week 0. It was disgusting. Also, their offense is sad and slow. The schemes are bad and the players were average at best. Feaster had some decent runs but the playcalling was predictable so it was easy to keep him in check. Jake Bentley is halfway awful and the playcalling didn't help him. Despite all of that they could've/should've won this game.
Sam Howell is pretty decent but not unlike anything we haven't seen before. As Roman pointed out in his breakdown, it was one read and go all game. When his first read wasn't there he started dancing around and looked to run. Often that first read was a RPO slant or Go/Fade. I wouldn't be surprised to see Garvin or Patch standing up and playing a spy role for when Howell wants to pull the ball down ala the game plan for Ballpark Franks. Brown, Newsome and Groves are good not great but will make some tough catches and make you pay if you don't wrap them up.
They ran the ball almost twice as much as they passed which isn't shocking considering they have some good backs. Again, USCe was horrible at tackling though and the Yards After Contact on run plays had to be high. They ran to the left side quite a bit so Neo and Pat will have to handle business. Expect Manny and Blake to focus on taking away the run similar to how they, effectively holding them to 52 yards, did against the Porch Lizards.
They are still respectable defensively but nothing special there either. Their leading tackler was Chaz Surratt and if that name sounds familiar it's because the last time we saw him he was at QB and after throwing his 3rd pick that game he injured his wrist and missed the rest of 2018. He's now a starting linebacker and was their leading tackler...I don't know about you but to me that says a lot about a defense.
All in all this should be a W for Manny & Co. We all know our defense will be up to the task and perform well but what the offense does will say if this is a dogfight or not. If Enos can't find success in this game we're probably in for a long season.
Go Canes!
USCe is not a good team! Like some others have said they look like a 5-7 loss team. The defense is ok but their tackling was ABYSMAL, like worse than ours or UFelony's in Week 0. It was disgusting. Also, their offense is sad and slow. The schemes are bad and the players were average at best. Feaster had some decent runs but the playcalling was predictable so it was easy to keep him in check. Jake Bentley is halfway awful and the playcalling didn't help him. Despite all of that they could've/should've won this game.
Sam Howell is pretty decent but not unlike anything we haven't seen before. As Roman pointed out in his breakdown, it was one read and go all game. When his first read wasn't there he started dancing around and looked to run. Often that first read was a RPO slant or Go/Fade. I wouldn't be surprised to see Garvin or Patch standing up and playing a spy role for when Howell wants to pull the ball down ala the game plan for Ballpark Franks. Brown, Newsome and Groves are good not great but will make some tough catches and make you pay if you don't wrap them up.
They ran the ball almost twice as much as they passed which isn't shocking considering they have some good backs. Again, USCe was horrible at tackling though and the Yards After Contact on run plays had to be high. They ran to the left side quite a bit so Neo and Pat will have to handle business. Expect Manny and Blake to focus on taking away the run similar to how they, effectively holding them to 52 yards, did against the Porch Lizards.
They are still respectable defensively but nothing special there either. Their leading tackler was Chaz Surratt and if that name sounds familiar it's because the last time we saw him he was at QB and after throwing his 3rd pick that game he injured his wrist and missed the rest of 2018. He's now a starting linebacker and was their leading tackler...I don't know about you but to me that says a lot about a defense.
All in all this should be a W for Manny & Co. We all know our defense will be up to the task and perform well but what the offense does will say if this is a dogfight or not. If Enos can't find success in this game we're probably in for a long season.
Go Canes!
