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Please, please find a kicker. This is pathetic

Number1CanesFan said:
We moved the ball well. I think we only punted 2-3 times all game. It seems that Enos doesn't trust the running game when we get to the redzone. For the 2nd game in a row he abandons the inside zone running game for questionable gimmick reverses and outside runs. Couple that with zero points in the kicking game and the redzone scoring is an abysmal percentage.
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Yeah, I don't understand why our offense is so horizontal. All those screens and reverses. We were much bigger than Tech. Why can't we run it up inside.
 
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Better kicker right now than what we have..... I'm pretty sure Joey Jones could kick better than the people on our roster.
 


Kinda hard to tell from the angle, but except for that very first kick from right hash by #47 it looks like both kickers were banging em all through in warm-ups...

Some guys just aren't gamers. That 36 yarder 47 put up in game was just absolutely pathetic smh

That also looks like Patke behind them monitoring & encouraging them fwiw
 
Number1CanesFan said:
We moved the ball well. I think we only punted 2-3 times all game. It seems that Enos doesn't trust the running game when we get to the redzone. For the 2nd game in a row he abandons the inside zone running game for questionable gimmick reverses and outside runs. Couple that with zero points in the kicking game and the redzone scoring is an abysmal percentage.
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Telling that on the play we did score a td on a run play from a yard out we had to have two guys essentially ram rod our qb across the goal line from behind. Enos has no confidence in our oline to get any push.
 
We somehow need to get a ST assistant dedicated only to special teams. With the amount of games we’ve lost because of this part of our game over the last 15 years, it’s inexcusable not to have one. Just look at yesterday’s debacle GT basically won because of our cartoonish deficiencies. Crazy
 
305to954 said:
Yeah but I don’t think that lost us the game more than the muff punt and drop TD ..hurt tho..but by the scores of these games, imo it proves we are not capable of simply “out talenting” teams RN..especially upfront when your dependence is on 18-19 year olds
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We should be able to out talent them but the coaches are so ****** they take make it close.
 
Has anyone seen close ups to determine the holder's consistency? What role does the holder play in alignment?
 
poor coaching. you know yours guys can't kick so why not go for it on 4th down. i would have taken my chances with the crap QB rather than the known miss kick that was going to happen
 
I told you guys after the UVA game, it’s all fun and games until the new kid has to make a 32 yarder. You guys celebrated that UVA win like it was the f*cking Super Bowl.
 
Stu_2013 said:
Agree, was saying that at the game. Line it up slightly left of middle and let Bubba try. Bubba blasts everything to the right but at least he has the leg. Only problem with this is the coaches don’t even understand that.
Its like we don’t have a special teams coach, oh ya we don’t
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Agreed, Baxa has to be the kicker. He is in a mental slump and his alignment is poor. He should be standing at least a half foot further right on those kicks from the right hashmark. But there is no question Baxa is a college caliber kicker. The other kid should be amusement purposes at practice only.

I don't care about a lot of the criticism of Diaz. The administration isn't going to evaluate any coach after 6 or 7 games. I'd just like to see fundamentally sound decision making. When we start the game with a 3rd down screen pass from our own 9 yard line, and somehow Diaz ever considers the junior high kid should actually be attempting meaningful field goals in an actual game, then there is simply too much thinking going on.

Davidson was literally practicing 10 yard field goals at halftime. I am not kidding. Not from the 10 yard line. He was kicking from the goal line.

Diaz also screwed up at the end of the game by not running the clock down and kicking from the chosen angle with a few seconds remaining. Don't overreact to the prior misses. That's what everybody else in the stadium is doing. A head coach should be above that. Diaz should have approached yesterday's game as if it were the season opener. In that case there is no question he would have run the clock all the way down to nothing and had Perry kneel down near the center on the prior play, before sending Baxa out there.

You are still a massive favorite to make a kick of that length, no matter what happened previously. When Diaz is throwing into the end zone while leaving 30 seconds on the clock and then sending the junior high kicker out there, he is prioritizing everything he should be ignoring.

It is surreal how bad the special teams coaches are in college football. One basic error after another. The former Dolphins special teams coach Darren Rizzi (now with Saints) could fix Baxa's alignment issues within one practice. Baxa is like a golfer who needs alignment rods on the ground.
 
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