I'm so frustrated right now I'm just not gonna comment on anything.
Cry me a river. It's a sports message board. Not my workplace. You grow up thinking you're holier than thou by bossing people around on a MESSAGE BOARD. Get outta here with that crap.
It's pretty simple. Keep it PG13. If you can't I'll petition the mods to ban you and they can decide. That 4 letter c word you're so fond of has no place here IMO....and I don't mean the c word that ends in rap.
We have the look of a team that read a lot of press about how great they were gonna be. Coaches included. JMHO.
Agree with this....but just think how good they will be in 3Learning curve is too big for a freshman to thrive in or offense. Which again falls on PJ for not balancing out the classes better. We will be in the same situation in 4 more years
Here we go again... CPJ is worth every penny we give him.
Chan?
Anyway, I'll throw in my 2cents, if it's worth that. I'm no expert, but I don't believe the guys claiming the expertise to say out-schemed are either. What plays work when you can't block?
CPJs been coaching a long time, and he said we practiced well. What happened? I don't know.
Our D looks better, but not yet great.
My wag at what we're facing:
Duke's D is good, probably comparable to ND and UVA. CU and vpi are probably better. FSU and d'oh U are probably not as good but better on O. In other words, I see 5 games that today's team would struggle to win.
We should play relaxed now without the pressure of ACC or cfp possible. I say we see a turnaround because of that. If not? Ouch.[/QUOTE
I am one of those that thinks we got our schemed. I just cannot believe our guys forgot all the techniques that worked so well last year. I have not watched the film, but I saw Duke completely sell out to stop the run. They were always bringing 6 against our five lineman. The blitzed two on every pass play as well and single covered our receivers. This creates a situation where you have one more player rushing than blocking. It appeared to me that our line was struggling on WHO to block. This is a scheme issue. When we got out of the base to spread them out they shot the safety up to stop the option. This exactly what ND did last week. ND confused our blocking and play calling by using multiple sets. This is strictly scheme. They had the off side defensive end step up so it typically blew up the counter option. ND did this as well. The option's success depends on outnumbering the defense at the point of attack. Doesn't it appear we have been outnumbered the last two games?
We can beat this with short passes. We have these in our playbook. Does anybody remember the screen play we used several times with Dwyer. We have the short wherl route that we ran at ND. We have the short pass to the Abacks coming out quickly from our standard set. We have the smoke route. There are passing options that we did not use. I know Justin has brought another dimension with his speed his arm strength for the deep pass is just not that good. I know some will disagree with this.