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By special teams you mean FG unit? The rest were fine.Great team win. The Defense came up big.
With that said, plenty of room for improvement:
Special teams. Have they ever been this bad?
3rd and long. Seems like this has been a problem for decades.
Better blocking. Every team could say that.
You must doing washing a different gameI have to say at 21-0 I didn't think we could win.
Which of our currently healthy running backs are you leaving out? I'd say Dontae Smith is a baller.We will have 1, 2, 3, and 4 punch including Simms!
Amazingly, everyone seems to leave out Griffin.Which of our currently healthy running backs are you leaving out? I'd say Dontae Smith is a baller.
The like is because you're right... Not because I like the facts.More than that, they entered this game 14th out of 15 ACC teams in 3rd down conversion rate at 34% and they got 53% against us (even with the late stops). Our interior D line and our LB play did not impress, and the secondary left many guys wide open. Thank goodness they produced the TO's...that was a saving grace! (And they DID manufacture them, those weren't poor choices by L'ville, we stripped the ball out.)
Without the +3 TO differential, they would have clearly scored mid 30's against us. And that from a team whose offense is fair at best. If the middling' teams in the league can score mid 30's against our D without those TO problems, it put enormous pressure on our young QB to score on every possession.
If we can't find some answers on D, we are likely to lose the next 5 games (Clemson, @BC, Notre Dame, Pitt, @Miami), leaving us with two reasonable chances for wins at the end of the season (vs Duke and N C State) in our quest to improve on 3-8.
I surely hope I am wrong and this team makes me eat my words.
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He’s a good back who’s not quite got the speed of Gibbs nor the between the tackles prowess of Mason or Smith. There’s nothing wrong with grinding out 3-4 yds per carry.Amazingly, everyone seems to leave out Griffin.
Agreed.He’s a good back who’s not quite got the speed of Gibbs nor the between the tackles prowess of Mason or Smith. There’s nothing wrong with grinding out 3-4 yds per carry.
I'd be really curious to see what adjustments we made defensively at halftime.
Anybody know a defensive expert 'round these parts? Lookin at you, @Ibeeballin
Did we change who spied their QB?I didn’t any real adjustments. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense. We held the ball, moved the chains and scored.
Did we change who spied their QB?