VERY UNPOPULAR OPINION ***WARNING*** The 24' QB situation

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Let me bury the lead and just say - I don't believe our fortunes will rise or fall with a stud QB transfer. I think if we rock into this coming season with the QB's that we already have, we will be fine and "should" win 10 games.

Would I love to get a stud from the portal who can help us ascend and rise again like the Phoenix this coming season? Who wouldn't, right???

I do think this coming season should be a 10-win game minimum (9 wins is on the razor's edge of whether or not Mario is gonna succeed here), and we will hopefully, be building for the future.

All indications are that we will own the trenches in all 12 games coming up in 24'. If we own the LOS in all 12 games, unless we have a spectacular meltdown or another Guinness Book of World Records on injuries in a season, and we retain Guidry for at least this coming season, we should win 5/6 of those games. Couple that with next season being the easiest we've seen in a long time and there you go.

Emory or JB11? I believe either of them should be able to win 10 games here in 24'. Additionally, this will be Dawson's make it or break it year. Many on CIS have already given up on Dawson and in a Lee Corso way, I must say, "Not so fast, my friend!" Mario will have a lot of developing to do himself this offseason and if he allows Dawson to really dial things up for the whole season, and have a QB that doesn't go into a shell (ex. TVD), he should be fine here.

JB, showed me enough in the Pinstripe to make me think that he could take us to 10 wins, especially given that we will own the LOS in all 12 games (or at least do that on paper).

Although it seems many have discounted Emory's results, the dude led us to a victory against Clemson and brought us almost to victory against a fully loaded undefeated FSU team, playing in Doak. Again, I don't see why, if we own the trenches, he couldn't take us to 10 wins.

If we do get a stud QB in the portal, then I would say the playoffs are likely and the sky is the limit.

Another portal thought: if Malachi didn't make it at USC for acceptable reasons, and not because he actually sucks, then bring him in, bring him along and let him compete with the QB's on the roster.

Final thought: the big picture this year is not the playoffs, it's winning 10 games. We will have more talent and own the trenches (on paper) against all 12 regular season teams AND we play the Noles at home. Whoever is QBing this year will not make or break this team, and Mario needs to win 10 in the worst way, so get there by hook or crook. If Mario gets to 10 wins this year, especially if he does it without a stud QB, then I think he's actually gonna make it here for a while longer. If he underperforms again, regardless of who's taking snaps, then the death spiral will have started and he won't last past one more season.
 
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Let me bury the lead and just say - I don't believe our fortunes will rise or fall with a stud QB transfer. I think if we rock into this coming season with the QB's that we already have, we will be fine and "should" win 10 games.

Would I love to get a stud from the portal who can help us ascend and rise again like the Phoenix this coming season? Who wouldn't, right???

I do think this coming season should be a 10-win game minimum (9 wins is on the razor's edge of whether or not Mario is gonna succeed here), and we will hopefully, be building for the future.

All indications are that we will own the trenches in all 12 games coming up in 24'. If we own the LOS in all 12 games, unless we have a spectacular meltdown or another Guinness Book of World Records on injuries in a season, and we retain Guidry for at least this coming season, we should win 5/6 of those games. Couple that with next season being the easiest we've seen in a long time and there you go.

Emory or JB11? I believe either of them should be able to win 10 games here in 24'. Additionally, this will be Dawson's make it or break it year. Many on CIS have already given up on Dawson and in a Lee Corso way, I must say, "Not so fast, my friend!" Mario will have a lot of developing to do himself this offseason and if he allows Dawson to really dial things up for the whole season, and have a QB that doesn't go into a shell (ex. TVD), he should be fine here.

JB, showed me enough in the Pinstripe to make me think that he could take us to 10 wins, especially given that we will own the LOS in all 12 games (or at least do on paper).

Although it seems many have discounted Emory's results, the dude led us to a victory against Clemson and brought us almost to victory against a fully loaded undefeated FSU team, playing in Doak. Again, I don't see why, if we own the trenches, he couldn't take us to 10 wins.

If we do get a stud QB in the portal, then I would say the playoffs are likely and the sky is the limit.

Another portal thought: if Malachi didn't make it at USC for acceptable reasons, and not because he actually sucks, then bring him in, bring him along and let him compete with the QB's on the roster.

Final thought: the big picture this year is not the playoffs, it's winning 10 games. We will have more talent and own the trenches (on paper) against all 12 regular season teams AND we play the Noles at home. Whoever is QBing this year will not make or break this team, and Mario needs to win 10 in the worst way, so get there by hook or crook. If Mario gets to 10 wins this year, especially if he does it without a stud QB, then I think he's actually gonna make it here for a while longer. If he underperforms again, regardless of who's taking snaps, then the death spiral will have started and he won't last past one more season.
We are replacing 2 key starters on the OL, I dont think its a given our OL will better and our DL needs a ton of work.
 
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Do a w/l game by game with each of the QBs currently on our '24 roster. I want to see this.
I'll say this - on paper, I don't know who we will lose to, but I just know that Mario won't take a knee or will misuse TO's or something, so he will drop 2 games. If you were to hand this roster as is to DeBoer, Harbaugh, Lane, etc., you're probably looking at a perfect regular season.
 
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I'll say this - on paper, I don't know who we will lose to, but I just know that Mario won't take a knee or will misuse TO's or something, so he will drop 2 games. If you were to hand this roster as is to DeBoer, Harbaugh, Lane, etc., you're probably looking at a perfect regular season.
Ill say this - on paper. You've got 2024 awards season locked down. @WaterburyCane just this one time.
 
We are replacing 2 key starters on the OL, I dont think its a given our OL will better and our DL needs a ton of work.
We have quality depth coming in to replace those two starters (the Indiana kid already replaces one of those spots) and on the DL, the only contributor we are losing is LT and has been well-chronicled on here - he was too inconsistent. Deen was nice and I appreciate his service, but we won't miss him.

With the two studs that are coming in from the portal, the return of everyone else that played last year, the 2 5 stars coming in (one of them will probably contribute), the best returning DE in the ACC - BAIN - and finally, and I think grossly overlooked: the return of Kelly and Mesidor.

Assuming Mesidor and Kelly return to full strength and stay relatively healthy this coming year, that is a **** of a DL and they are being coached up by JT and Big Joe!

This is why I believe we will own the trenches. Who are we playing in those 12 games that will dominate our DL or OL? At least on paper, I would have to say none of them. We "should" own the trenches in all 12 games.
 
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I'm curious about what makes OP think we "should" win 10 games with Williams or Brown next year? Could we win 10 with either of those guys? Yeah but I saw very little in either quarterback that makes be believe we should be 3 games better with either of them. Jacurri Played "okay" in the bowl game but is still very raw and we were still scaling the offense back to the bare minimum. Same goes for Williams. We had to run the most conservative offense possible because they couldn't be trusted to use the whole playbook. Could one or even both of these guys make a huge jump next year? Sure. I think it's possible. But I'm not assuming either of these guys is going to make a big enough leap that we can rely on them to carry our offense next year.
 
I'm curious about what makes OP think we "should" win 10 games with Williams or Brown next year? Could we win 10 with either of those guys? Yeah but I saw very little in either quarterback that makes be believe we should be 3 games better with either of them. Jacurri Played "okay" in the bowl game but is still very raw and we were still scaling the offense back to the bare minimum. Same goes for Williams. We had to run the most conservative offense possible because they couldn't be trusted to use the whole playbook. Could one or even both of these guys make a huge jump next year? Sure. I think it's possible. But I'm not assuming either of these guys is going to make a big enough leap that we can rely on them to carry our offense next year.
He just called Marley Cook and Cj Clark stud DT. I'm not sure you really want this answered.
 
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I feel like that Dallas Cowboys Cycle meme...

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Except in order it is:

Step 1.) ...Getting hyped and bought in from Spring Practice to Game 1 kickoff,
Step 2.) Season is over and moped-mode sets in by around game 3 with first loss.
Step 3.) Hoping for chaos in CFB and for rivals rest of season--misery loves company.
Step 4.) Sad off-Season *****ing and moaning intensifies until (go back to step 1)...

This is our life as a Canes fan.
 
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I'm curious about what makes OP think we "should" win 10 games with Williams or Brown next year? Could we win 10 with either of those guys? Yeah but I saw very little in either quarterback that makes be believe we should be 3 games better with either of them. Jacurri Played "okay" in the bowl game but is still very raw and we were still scaling the offense back to the bare minimum. Same goes for Williams. We had to run the most conservative offense possible because they couldn't be trusted to use the whole playbook. Could one or even both of these guys make a huge jump next year? Sure. I think it's possible. But I'm not assuming either of these guys is going to make a big enough leap that we can rely on them to carry our offense next year.
I actually have written at length about this in this thread. Maybe I'm right/wrong, but you shouldn't be curious as to what I'm thinking if you've read everything that I wrote.
 
I'll say this - on paper, I don't know who we will lose to, but I just know that Mario won't take a knee or will misuse TO's or something, so he will drop 2 games. If you were to hand this roster as is to DeBoer, Harbaugh, Lane, etc., you're probably looking at a perfect regular season.
If you answered like this at deposition, I'd move to strike you as a witness.
 
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