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<blockquote data-quote="BCJacket" data-source="post: 1030697" data-attributes="member: 2332">I said going into this season that my expectations weren&#039;t going to be based on a win-loss number. We play a brutal schedule - in opponent strength, how it lines up and in the travel/away draws we got. What I wanted to see was progress in our team playing like a good football team. We&#039;re not going to be the biggest, fastest, most talented team week in and week out. But do we play clean, protect the ball, play well on special teams, have good technique in tackling and blocking? So far, we look better in most of those areas. Not perfect. But our tackling has been mostly better. Outside of (BS IMHO) holding calls against GSU, we&#039;ve played pretty clean. Few turnovers. Special teams has been great - nearly helped us manage a miracle comeback last Saturday. Birr&#039;s misses have been on long kicks.The hype machine got a little ahead of the wheels after the FSU game. Syracuse ended up being an unexpectedly tough draw on the road. McCord is a great passer. But I&#039;m pleased with where the team is at. We kept competing and very nearly made a huge comeback. Just two years ago, we couldn&#039;t get punts or kicks off, couldn&#039;t cover, couldn&#039;t block or tackle, threw more INTs than TDs, made stupid self-defeating penalties. Go watch the UCF game from 2022 and then try to be mad about where we&#039;re at now.Expectation? We&#039;ll continue to compete in every game. Some weeks, the other team will be better. We&#039;ll pull off some upsets. We might drop a game we feel like we should win. We&#039;ll get better as the season goes, but the W/L column might not show it, since we play some legitimately very good teams.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BCJacket, post: 1030697, member: 2332"] I said going into this season that my expectations weren't going to be based on a win-loss number. We play a brutal schedule - in opponent strength, how it lines up and in the travel/away draws we got. What I wanted to see was progress in our team playing like a good football team. We're not going to be the biggest, fastest, most talented team week in and week out. But do we play clean, protect the ball, play well on special teams, have good technique in tackling and blocking? So far, we look better in most of those areas. Not perfect. But our tackling has been mostly better. Outside of (BS IMHO) holding calls against GSU, we've played pretty clean. Few turnovers. Special teams has been great - nearly helped us manage a miracle comeback last Saturday. Birr's misses have been on long kicks. The hype machine got a little ahead of the wheels after the FSU game. Syracuse ended up being an unexpectedly tough draw on the road. McCord is a great passer. But I'm pleased with where the team is at. We kept competing and very nearly made a huge comeback. Just two years ago, we couldn't get punts or kicks off, couldn't cover, couldn't block or tackle, threw more INTs than TDs, made stupid self-defeating penalties. Go watch the UCF game from 2022 and then try to be mad about where we're at now. Expectation? We'll continue to compete in every game. Some weeks, the other team will be better. We'll pull off some upsets. We might drop a game we feel like we should win. We'll get better as the season goes, but the W/L column might not show it, since we play some legitimately very good teams. [/QUOTE]

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