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streetja said:
Slow starts was a Richt thing. Now that he's gone it should be too. And while starting slow wasn't a rare thing to do on defense, it was usually limited to the first couple drives of the game.

One thing I wonder if it will be gone too is the inexplicable mass substitutions thing we did on both offense and defense. Wonder if Manny was being ordered by Richt to do that.
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Yeah, that was dumb as ****
 
JD08 said:
I'm good with jumping out in front and keeping your foot on the gas until it's over.

Of course, how many times did Al Golden have a game won just to give it up in the fourth?
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This. I love how people forget we used to lead at half only to pi$$ it all away. Our best teams would struggle in the first half and take it home in the second. You think we had a bad team in 2001? Check out their scores after the first quarter.
 
NJshoreCane said:
My comment about our starts from a previous thread:

We did make it a habit of starting out slowly on D....

LSU- Opening drive FG & 50 yard TD run, 10 points in the 1st qtr.
UNC- Opening drive FG, 9 first downs, 89 yards rushing, 10 points in the 1st.
FSU- Opening drive TD
BC- Opening drive TD, TD on second drive, 11 first downs, 152 yards passing, 14 points in the 1st.
Duke- Opening play 75 yard TD run.
GT- Opening drive TD, 73 rushing yards, 14 points in the 1st (7 converted on Dallas' KO return fumble).
VT- Opening drive TD.
UW- Opening drive TD, 122 yards rushing, 14 points in the first (7 set up by Rosier gift).

The only 2 P5 teams that didn't score on their opening drive was UVA and Pitt, who ranked 82nd, and 98th in total O last year.
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I’m confused. We have been told that our poor offense last year resulted in our 6 loses. Now your post details how our defense failed us early in games and may have been an important reason that we lost 6 games. Very interesting observation. Hopefully in 2019 our defense will begin games with much more intensity than last year. Otherwise the optimism we are experiencing may be premature.
 
Moonman said:
Did he though? Or did the offense and special teams consistently put us in bad spots? Our opponents had amazing field position most games.
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Take a look through this thread. Someone posted an incredible stat about first drive TD’s against us
 
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Moonman said:
Did he though? Or did the offense and special teams consistently put us in bad spots? Our opponents had amazing field position most games.
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Special teams and poor field position has more of an impact as the game progresses. Giving up a TD on the first drive of the game with that level of frequency is just plain bad, there's no way to spin it.
 
I understand where you coming from, but you also have to remember that's why Diaz fired the entire Offensive staff and brought in a very good OC/Qb coach and a pro OL coach. Problem addressed and results TBD.
 
The defensive slow starts were alarming, however when we are living in a world where Alabama is running a modern offense and getting into shootouts, the offensive slow starts (and finishes) were and are much more egregious
 
Mnhurricane said:
The defensive slow starts were alarming, however when we are living in a world where Alabama is running a modern offense and getting into shootouts, the offensive slow starts (and finishes) were and are much more egregious
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I agreee, and I'm the guy that posted about the slow starts by our defense.
The defense recovered in most of those games.
The offense did not.
 
NC_Canes_11 said:
This. I feel like it got overlooked bc of how bad our offense was. But Manny got out coached in most first halves last year. Now that he’s the head man, he absolutely can’t let that happen anymore
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It doesn’t matter if an offense comes into a game doing stuff it’s not done before. It matters if the defensive staff can adjust.
 
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NorthEastCane said:
Special teams and poor field position has more of an impact as the game progresses. Giving up a TD on the first drive of the game with that level of frequency is just plain bad, there's no way to spin it.
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Beat me to it. Cant be stressed enough. How many shanked punts let opponents start their drives on our 45. The amount of 3 and outs and shanked punts put the defense in a **** position the majority of the time they took the field.
 
TheEye said:
Meh. The game is won in the 4th.
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Ahhhhh . . . . no.

When leading at the end of the 3rd, we win most of the time.

When losing at the end of the 3rd, we lose most of the time.

Simply, it's an objectively verifiable empirical fact that the team entering the 4th quarter with the lead unsually wins. Under the circumstances, diminishing the importance starting fast manifests a near pathological level of ignorance, if not impairment, so profound it rises to the level of a likely irredeemable character flaw.
 
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Another things that must be corrected --- not capitalizing off TO's. And we can't just improve marginally, Richt set the bar so low that we need to triple our points off TO's tally.
 
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