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What Unit Are You Most Concerned About?

What Unit Are You Most Concerned About?

  • QB

    Votes: 10 8.6%

  • RB

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • WR

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • TE

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • OL

    Votes: 103 88.8%

  • DL

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • LB

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • DB

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Special Teams

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    116
  • Poll closed .
Tad Footeball

Tad Footeball

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Throwing playcalling out for a second (yes, I know that's a difficult request), what group/position are you most concerned about now based on their performance (or lack thereof) in Game 1?
 
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Offensive line. No protection for kaaya and no lanes for duke. This needs to get fixed in time for Nebraska
 
The o-line was CLEARLY the weakest link last night, and that is saying something. We will never be legit again until we get better upfront. It's been a problem since Coker's final season.
 
QB, Kaaya has to play better, needs to grow up quick, without a real coach to help him
 
At this point, I wouldn't care if Kehoe had two National Championship rings on each of his fingers and one on each of his toes; he needs to go.

Over the past two seasons in particular, we have struggled mightily against even decent defensive lines. I'm legitimately concerned for Brad Kaaya's life when we play FSU.
 
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Obviously the staff is fair game but that discussion can be had in about 426 different threads on here. My point here was kinda based on if you knew nothing about our coaching or past player performance and had to make a call based on film alone from this game.

I know some people are calling it a deflection or a copout but I'm going with OL too. Louisville wasn't bringing 9 guys EVERY play yet the rbs and qb were facing pressure as if they were. If Kaaya had all day back there and we still were running the god**** bubble screens and such then I'd say something else. We couldn't establish the run, let a 14 year old QB get smashed immediately and it all fell apart from that point on regardless of if better playcalling could/should have made a difference after.
 
I gotta say that special teams were pretty freakin' atrocious as well and probably won't get a lot of discussion. For something Alfred supposedly is heavily involved with from an actual corching perspective, the return for the TD plus the flag on Coley's pretty amazing punt return from midfield were especially annoying.
 
Somebody in another board nailed it: if you switch coaching staffs for last night's game, we blow out UL. The coaching staff has an exponential, negative ROI.
 
The OL was the worst unit on the field by far. But, I picked the LBs for the simple reason that I believe the OL has talent, some depth (not enough), and will get better. The LBs have talent, too, but the lack of depth there really showed late in the game. If the offense can't start sustaining drives, we may be suiting Pete up at LB by the time F$U rolls around.
 
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sebastian91 said:
The OL was the worst unit on the field by far. But, I picked the LBs for the simple reason that I believe the OL has talent, some depth (not enough), and will get better. The LBs have talent, too, but the lack of depth there really showed late in the game. If the offense can't start sustaining drives, we may be suiting Pete up at LB by the time F$U rolls around.
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Their inability to provide any sort of decent pass coverage was glaring at times too. Again.
 
Tad Footeball said:
sebastian91 said:
The OL was the worst unit on the field by far. But, I picked the LBs for the simple reason that I believe the OL has talent, some depth (not enough), and will get better. The LBs have talent, too, but the lack of depth there really showed late in the game. If the offense can't start sustaining drives, we may be suiting Pete up at LB by the time F$U rolls around.
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Their inability to provide any sort of decent pass coverage was glaring at times too. Again.
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Agreed.
 
Tad Footeball said:
sebastian91 said:
The OL was the worst unit on the field by far. But, I picked the LBs for the simple reason that I believe the OL has talent, some depth (not enough), and will get better. The LBs have talent, too, but the lack of depth there really showed late in the game. If the offense can't start sustaining drives, we may be suiting Pete up at LB by the time F$U rolls around.
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Their inability to provide any sort of decent pass coverage was glaring at times too. Again.
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At least we didn't see D-lineman constantly covering wide outs.
 
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