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Some thoughts on the Canes-Duke...

Biggest takeaway is is the offense needs TDs in the red zone not FGs..convert one of those 3 FGs into a TD and you make the defense's job a lot easier.

We already can't count on them. Can't also put them in bad spots.
 
the defense is a bunch of robots

he has coached the natural ability and iq out of them they play tight as **** and not instinctive save a few guys from play to play.

* Jacobs had a good day. He has gotten comfortable..he needs one or two deep shots a game just to keep teams honest and to test em out.
 
Mr. Dynasty1 said:
Sheppard was all they had and it was like we had no idea. I don’t understand how we lost him repeatedly
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We didn't lose him. Every big play he made was just bad defense. Mo with a bad run fit, Day not containing, several guys not getting off their blocks on a screen, middle zone guy vacating on the 3rd and long.. We knew where he was, we just made some ****** plays when the had the ball.
 
This year was an obvious drop off year, Mario needs to get his portal strategy together and secure this recruiting class. We need lots of help. A CFP appearance would be good from an optics standpoint but this team is not getting very far if we get in. It is what it is
 
aleahy said:
I think what is frustrating is we should have a ton of momentum and be rolling downhill. We just aren’t.

The OL was botched. The defense looks unsound and plays with poor fundamentals frequently. And, on top of that, we don’t play with great intensity. More like a team that goes through the motions.

Maybe I’m too negative, but it feels like we should be better and have more energy than we do. We are quickly running out of time here.
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I think we're taking everyone's best shots and enduring.

This is not a healthy team and we'll eventually run out of steam, but I definitely wouldn't call them soft or going through the motions.
 
It felt to me like we rotated guys earlier on defense this game.

I liked what I seen from Scroggins. Our S play and Day particularly continues to kill us. Last week it was Dunnigan. A key difference this year is once we got that lead in the 3rd we would’ve been able to grind them with the run and and our OL and we don’t have that ability consistently this year.

I wish we had this years version of Lyle with last years OL. He doesn’t always have the vision of Mallory but when there’s a hole he’s tough. Unfortunately this line struggled to create gaps consistently
 
gogeta4 said:
the defense is a bunch of robots

he has coached the natural ability and iq out of them they play tight as **** and not instinctive save a few guys from play to play.

* Jacobs had a good day. He has gotten comfortable..he needs one or two deep shots a game just to keep teams honest and to test em out.
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you identified the issue. They are in read/react mode, reminds me of DNofrio more than Guidry.
 
colperm said:
I don’t know how you people get so upset with a double-digit without Toney. Just need to win, avoid major injuries and keep getting better.

Not every game is going to be 45-7
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This game should have been a 19 point win, at minimum. Add an extra point instead of a dumb QB keeper for 2 and you have a 20 point win.
 
colperm said:
I don’t know how you people get so upset with a double-digit without Toney. Just need to win, avoid major injuries and keep getting better.

Not every game is going to be 45-7
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The FSU game is the one where I came to the realisation that we weren't winning anything this year.

Now I'm just enjoying being 9-1 and undefeated in the ACC. We'd have killed for this during the Shannon, Golden, Richt, Diaz years.
 
I’m sorry if you didn’t think our backs weren’t going to break long runs on that retarded defensive scheme I don’t know what to tell you after 7 years of that.
 
Manny knows Mensah better than anyone and was going to throw him a challenging defensive gameplan accordingly… made more challenging without Mali obviously.
 
gogeta4 said:
the defense is a bunch of robots

he has coached the natural ability and iq out of them they play tight as **** and not instinctive save a few guys from play to play.

* Jacobs had a good day. He has gotten comfortable..he needs one or two deep shots a game just to keep teams honest and to test em out.
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Agree about the defense. Seems very robotic. Play like they're scared to ***** up. Total opposite from last year
 
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