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The Good, Bad and Ugly

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CFLCane said:
*Long developing passing play in the red zone. Nope.

* STOP RUNNING FAKE JET SWEEPS MY GOD MAN.

* More screens.

* PUSH THE ******* BALL DOWNFIELD. I don't think we attempted more than 1 pass over 10 yards for the first 35 minutes of the game.
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I was calling for rb screens in the game thread. UNC was begging to get hit with one with all the blitzing.
 
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The Good: We’re are all almost numb to this by now and expectations are at an all time low

The Bad: We still got murder by MTSU

The Ugly: 2 weeks to prepare against the 121st ranked defense and they mustered a whopping 24 points

Growing pains are one thing, but beating themselves and the total lack of focus starts at the top. The fact that it took all spring and summer to get our most important player comfortable with the offense is inexcusable. These are supposed to be professional’s. Getting paid millions. And for what, Groundhogs Day every Saturday?
 
Gocanes1990 said:
I think you nailed it. I wonder what the blown coverages were about… I’d add the adjustments made on defense were impressive. Miami beat Miami again. I’m an optimist. It just beats the alternative. We have two hard games left, FSU and Clemson. If we keep improving we should drop one of those two. Keep this class together, hammer the portal for our biggest needs at LB, DE and WR.
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CB too. Desperately need an upgrade there.
 
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TimeBum said:
Greg Cote of the Herald said TVD set a UM record in passing attempts and completions today. If that is true, only scoring 24 pts is f#cking absurd.
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True. We scored 40+ at UNC last season. TVD’s second start IIRC. Lost, but still…
 
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this current team does not require any sophisticated or philosophical analysis.

NASA engineers are not required to describe or identify the problems.

it simply boils down to this ..... this entire program does not currently have a single characteristic of a championship caliber football team
 
This season only matters in regards to who is gonna be on the roster in 2023.

So far, not many have deserved it. Why do y'all think Mario installed the Michigan State guy who made a complete turnover on their roster en route to a winning season with one third being portal transfers? Its going to be the same next year. Tons of scholarships will be removed.
 
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Great write up once again Cribby.
I don’t get some on here, if it’s as bad and you’re as miserable as you claim then go.
Fans are called fans for a reason, losing sucks, but expecting chicken salad already is shortsighted.
Watching Mario’s presser after the game told me all I needed to know, on to VT.

Granted we put ourselves in the position, but how there’s not a holding flag on Mayes last TD pass is really criminal.
 
E1k said:
**** i came away with alot of positives too im surprised by how low the board is lol. You never want to lose but im trusting the process and hoping we build off what we did today
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Part of the issue is some of us had a good number of positive takeaways from the A&M game. Then MTSU happened.

Sure there were some good moments against UNC. But that is a really bad defense.

I obviously hope we continue to see progress but we all know this team will continue to be wildly inconsistent. Bowl eligibility seems like a toss up at this point.
 
Cribby said:
It’s a what have you done for me business and wins is all folks care about but I came away pretty positive. After all the negativity from MTSU then getting down two td’s there was some resolve today. They could’ve packed up shop after the early onslaught. On top of that adversity we lost three OL and Ts left early with the same issue. There was also some growth from the most maligned group on the team the receivers. Which leads me to the good.

Good

1. Gattis

I have to give some props to Gattis albeit it took four games to mold the offense to the players. He used more space and far better pace today. Majority of the alignments today had more space and implementing more Rpo played a big part.

2. TVD

Ironically after TVD has a sit down with the OC and qb coach about adjustments to the offense we saw the real TVD. As I’ve been saying quality coaches play to the kids strengths not the other way around. Great bounce back game after everyone was trying to make him the lone scape goat.

3. Receivers

I saw multiple guys grow up today and some show up and introduce themselves to CFB. Ladson, Brashard , Redding and my man Colbie Young took big steps. There was some confidence gained by that group and I look forward to watching their growth.

4. Sagapolo

Coming off an injury with no burn he was thrown into a tough spot and held up pretty **** well. I thought he deserved a shout out.

Bad

1. Run blocking

After seeing drastic improvement the first few games we’re now back to seeing the same issues from years past. No push from the interior OL which is forcing Miami to be one dimensional. I know teams have been outnumbering us at times because of the pass game issues but today there was times it wasn’t numbers , it was just guys getting their butts whipped. It’s very discounting to see that performance against a very suspect front.

2. Drops

There was a minimum of four drops today that left yards on the field. The rb’s and te’s need to be better in the pass game. 85 had a great day but his third down drop was huge , there was tons of grass in front of him because of the blitz. Tvd lofted a dime out there while staring down the heat. If coaches put you in that position you have to make the play. Same with Knighton on the fumble. It’s inexcusable.

4. Tackling

The missed tackles in space continues to be a problem. There’s so many tackle attempts where guys refuse to wrap up. The amount of YAC teams get off missed tackles is just insane. I’d love to see the stats with yards after contact by opponents.

Ugly

1. The redzone

The big bad wolf continues to be an issue even though we were gifted multiple first downs by UNC on one drive. Yet the coaches contour to be hard headed forcing the run especially inside the five. We can’t move teams so why continue to force it leaving points off the board. I know Mario is a former OL but at some pount he has to swallow his pride and realize this offense is better suited to finesse. At least until he gets his guys in. This is by far some of the worst redzone play calling I’ve ever seen.

2. Blowing coverages

In all my years of watching football I’ve never seen this rate of coverage busts. I mean multiple huge gainers two weeks ago and then more today. I expected to see a bunch of shell coverages , keeping the ball in front of the db’s but we still found away to give up free points. Once we stopped blowing coverages and missing tackles the game plan was good enough to win. When we made them drive the ball the ball things improved. There was thirteen points score after the early onslaught.

3. Starting slow

This continues to be an issue. Every week we start slow or are sleep walking and that puts you behind the eight ball . I feel like I’ve been griping about this for years.

4. Third down conversions

The momey down in football on both sides of the ball is third down and we continue to struggle with them defensively. If we can’t figure a way to get off the field on third downs the losing will continue.

Coming out of this i actually see a silver lining for the first time all year. All I’ve wanted was to see improvement from the staff and players. I know that sounds crazy but the macro has always been more important than the micro. We at-least know the staff all though hardheaded they’re willing to adjust. Even if it’s only because they had to. Now we need to see a steak of wins , moral won’t cut it going forward.
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I agree with you on everything but the drops category. TVD ball placement is still poor. He places balls low, high, behind (ALOT), and overthrows targets too much! Our guys have zero chance to run after catches and often have to make acrobatic catches. They kept 💩 on the WR but every week they show me they can catch the ball enough especially with the poor ball placement. The drop was big by will, but he made plenty of other snags where they were poorly thrown. Rooster fumble is on the coaches cause he the only one with fumbling issues and has been for a while! Fix that ish!! It’s on the coaches to drill down on him to get that fixed.
 
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