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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 758674" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I’m one of the couple of hundred thousand who Ga Power hasn’t restored power to, so I heard Ballard’s radio version yesterday instead of watching. I’ll watch when I get electrified again. </p><p>There’s understandable frustration here (I’m frustrated too), and I’ll try to respond in the places I think I might be helpful </p><p>(This is from my iPhone today, so no fancy stuff)</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px">Just observations in the midst of a team that’s learning, mostly.</span></p><p></p><p>I’ve seen athletes in different sports regress in other areas when one part of their play gets corrected. For example, you’re thinking so much about keeping your head up during a tackle that you slow down and make the wrong read. There’s only so much head space a player has for “thinking”, as opposed to things he’s worked down to a reflex. I don’t know if that’s happening here. </p><p></p><p>These defensive bad habits aren’t a 2020 thing. We’ve been doing it for years (maybe going back to when Tenuta left, or maybe post-Kelley; I’m not sure ). I’ve seen a lot of people say “put the freshmen in” but maybe we should just get them playing right so that when they do go in they have good habits. Some of these habits are so ingrained that I’m wondering if we can exorcise them.</p><p></p><p>I’ll have to see the OL, but that definitely happened at Clemson. We’re losing a few good players to graduation I think (is this Minihan’s last year?), so this year’s incoming class is a big deal</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The condensed game will be on the ACC Network YouTube channel either today or tomorrow. If you’re really interested, hitting the gear in the YouTube player and setting it to 0.25 speed is the best way to see what’s happening. (Ibeattetris has a way with the browser developer tools to set the video playback to any speed you want)</p><p>Curry will look better in comparison when you do this. He’s still making mistakes, but others are having worse games. Some players are getting completely blocked, hesitating, and getting caught in no man’s land. If it’s like BC, you’ll see multiple players going to the same gap. There were players trying to compensate for teammates instead of doing their assignments, and that just cascades down.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thacker didn’t call Curry out by name (which means he’s being classier than I am right now) but he’s coached to be quick and decisive and do the opposite of what he did there. Last week he missed the tackle and BC got a huge completion instead of us getting a sack. Maybe he was just too scared of getting sidestepped again so he made a different mistake.</p><p></p><p>There are problems because of physical mismatches, but we compound that with mental mistakes because we’ve gotten into our own heads. </p><p></p><p>I don’t envy the coaches right now. It’s like they’re repairing a house, and every time they go to repair one problem they find a new and worse problem that’s been covered over, like finding a door that doesn’t close correctly because you need to call in a structural engineer, or that your house is wired with aluminum wiring. On defense, we’ve gone 10 years with problems we haven’t fixed, just schemes around, and they’ll stick out like a sore thumb when you do try to fix them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 758674, member: 282"] I’m one of the couple of hundred thousand who Ga Power hasn’t restored power to, so I heard Ballard’s radio version yesterday instead of watching. I’ll watch when I get electrified again. There’s understandable frustration here (I’m frustrated too), and I’ll try to respond in the places I think I might be helpful (This is from my iPhone today, so no fancy stuff) [SIZE=13px]Just observations in the midst of a team that’s learning, mostly.[/SIZE] I’ve seen athletes in different sports regress in other areas when one part of their play gets corrected. For example, you’re thinking so much about keeping your head up during a tackle that you slow down and make the wrong read. There’s only so much head space a player has for “thinking”, as opposed to things he’s worked down to a reflex. I don’t know if that’s happening here. These defensive bad habits aren’t a 2020 thing. We’ve been doing it for years (maybe going back to when Tenuta left, or maybe post-Kelley; I’m not sure ). I’ve seen a lot of people say “put the freshmen in” but maybe we should just get them playing right so that when they do go in they have good habits. Some of these habits are so ingrained that I’m wondering if we can exorcise them. I’ll have to see the OL, but that definitely happened at Clemson. We’re losing a few good players to graduation I think (is this Minihan’s last year?), so this year’s incoming class is a big deal The condensed game will be on the ACC Network YouTube channel either today or tomorrow. If you’re really interested, hitting the gear in the YouTube player and setting it to 0.25 speed is the best way to see what’s happening. (Ibeattetris has a way with the browser developer tools to set the video playback to any speed you want) Curry will look better in comparison when you do this. He’s still making mistakes, but others are having worse games. Some players are getting completely blocked, hesitating, and getting caught in no man’s land. If it’s like BC, you’ll see multiple players going to the same gap. There were players trying to compensate for teammates instead of doing their assignments, and that just cascades down. Thacker didn’t call Curry out by name (which means he’s being classier than I am right now) but he’s coached to be quick and decisive and do the opposite of what he did there. Last week he missed the tackle and BC got a huge completion instead of us getting a sack. Maybe he was just too scared of getting sidestepped again so he made a different mistake. There are problems because of physical mismatches, but we compound that with mental mistakes because we’ve gotten into our own heads. I don’t envy the coaches right now. It’s like they’re repairing a house, and every time they go to repair one problem they find a new and worse problem that’s been covered over, like finding a door that doesn’t close correctly because you need to call in a structural engineer, or that your house is wired with aluminum wiring. On defense, we’ve gone 10 years with problems we haven’t fixed, just schemes around, and they’ll stick out like a sore thumb when you do try to fix them. [/QUOTE]
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