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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 181650" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I hope you are right and I am wrong, and certainly you know more about it. But being better than Duke offensively is just not a good benchmark, I think. Failing on two-thirds of third down conversions and ofer on fourth down, and fumbling it away, combined with what I think we all agree (actually I know better than this; the minute one says "all" he is begging for contradiction, but...) terrible blocking up front and at the edge, and a QB fleeing for his football life on almost every down and then throwing terrible passes down the field, off the wrong foot and on the run, just seems to me every bit as dire as it looked. Combined with A backs brand new to the offense and B backs also in their first year -- and they looked it -- may not be fixable in a week or a season. All those positions last season were filled with seniors, some of them redshirt. It all takes a lot of fixing. As I said, I have my fingers crossed and hope I'm wrong.</p><p></p><p>As for special teams, as a movie line said, who could argue with that? The oddity to me is that for the first three or four years Johnson refused to hire a special teams coach, insisting he and the other coaches could handle it literally on a part time basis. He was convinced otherwise and it looks to me like they are worse now they ever. The answer to punt coverage may be kicker it higher and much shorter and maybe get a fair catch, and on kickoffs, well, out of the back of the end zone. Staying in their lanes seems something they don't bother with. Combine that with traffic cop tackling and you get the Duke result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 181650, member: 2175"] I hope you are right and I am wrong, and certainly you know more about it. But being better than Duke offensively is just not a good benchmark, I think. Failing on two-thirds of third down conversions and ofer on fourth down, and fumbling it away, combined with what I think we all agree (actually I know better than this; the minute one says "all" he is begging for contradiction, but...) terrible blocking up front and at the edge, and a QB fleeing for his football life on almost every down and then throwing terrible passes down the field, off the wrong foot and on the run, just seems to me every bit as dire as it looked. Combined with A backs brand new to the offense and B backs also in their first year -- and they looked it -- may not be fixable in a week or a season. All those positions last season were filled with seniors, some of them redshirt. It all takes a lot of fixing. As I said, I have my fingers crossed and hope I'm wrong. As for special teams, as a movie line said, who could argue with that? The oddity to me is that for the first three or four years Johnson refused to hire a special teams coach, insisting he and the other coaches could handle it literally on a part time basis. He was convinced otherwise and it looks to me like they are worse now they ever. The answer to punt coverage may be kicker it higher and much shorter and maybe get a fair catch, and on kickoffs, well, out of the back of the end zone. Staying in their lanes seems something they don't bother with. Combine that with traffic cop tackling and you get the Duke result. [/QUOTE]
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