No it's what you get when you routinely make arguments while completely ignoring facts, and when you are called out on making crap up you just brush it off like it doesn't matter that what you said was demonstrably false.
haven’t made up much of anything but you continue to make personal attacks
Sometimes the details are already there!
Of course, it is! Winning half of our games isn't -perish the thought - mediocre! That only applies to teams that win 7 games and go to a bowl. That's what defines mediocrity, don't you know!
Of course it is. What makes the difference is consistent failure or success. And we know what we have.
Tech's defense was bad but they weren't epically bad until the last few games. They had some decent showings against Clemson, UNC, Va Tech, maybe miami. Everyone talks about 100-0 in the last two games but that was the last two games. Kind of hard to make big changes at the end of the season playing two top 5 teams.
In a lot of ways, Pitt was the pivotal game last season. The defense looked good and penetrated against UNC. The team had played two good games in a row, but only one win.
It was against Pitt that I first noticed how out of position our defensive players were on lots of plays. I kinda rationalized that it was just Pitt and a really good QB, but it started me thinking this was not going to turn out well.
i think pickett could still be in the pocket now in march if our pass rush was going after him still. our guys generated zero pressure that entire game and he had ages in the pocket.
I agree that we only got to Pickett a couple of times, but he was unloading quickly and our dbs never adjusted to the quick outs (especially to Addison). Once we tried playing tighter at the LOS, he went over our heads for a long TD pass.
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| 2021 REGULAR SEASON | PASSING | RUSHING | |||||||||||||||
| DATE | OPP | RESULT | CMP | ATT | YDS | CMP% | TD | INT | LNG | SACK | RTG | QBR | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG |
| Sat 12/4 | vs16WAKE | W | 20 | 33 | 253 | 60.6 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 3 | 145 | 78.1 | 6 | 20 | 3.3 | 1 | 58 |
| 45-21 | |||||||||||||||||
| SUBWAY ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 11/27 | @SYR | W | 28 | 38 | 209 | 73.7 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 149.4 | 79 | 3 | 4 | 1.3 | 0 | 9 |
| 31-14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 11/20 | vsUVA | W | 26 | 41 | 340 | 63.4 | 4 | 2 | 62 | 3 | 155.5 | 60.7 | 6 | -14 | -2.3 | 0 | 5 |
| 48-38 | |||||||||||||||||
| Thu 11/11 | vsUNC | W | 25 | 43 | 346 | 58.1 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 4 | 144.1 | 63.5 | 10 | -11 | -1.1 | 0 | 6 |
| 30-23 OT | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 11/6 | @DUKE | W | 28 | 43 | 416 | 65.1 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 3 | 169.4 | 85.1 | 8 | 57 | 7.1 | 1 | 22 |
| 54-29 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 10/30 | vsMIA | L | 39 | 55 | 519 | 70.9 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 4 | 160.9 | 75.7 | 9 | -10 | -1.1 | 0 | 14 |
| 38-34 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 10/23 | vsCLEM | W | 25 | 39 | 302 | 64.1 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 146.1 | 91.5 | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 0 | 8 |
| 27-17 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 10/16 | @VT | W | 22 | 37 | 203 | 59.5 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 123.4 | 67.4 | 12 | 38 | 3.2 | 1 | 9 |
| 28-7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 10/2 | @GT | W | 23 | 36 | 389 | 63.9 | 4 | 0 | 55 | 1 | 191.3 | 86.9 | 6 | 21 | 3.5 | 0 | 13 |
| 52-21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 9/25 | vsUNH | W | 24 | 28 | 403 | 85.7 | 5 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 265.5 | 97.6 | 5 | 6 | 1.2 | 1 | 11 |
| 77-7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 9/18 | vsWMU | L | 23 | 31 | 382 | 74.2 | 6 | 1 | 67 | 2 | 235.1 | 92.3 | 9 | 57 | 6.3 | 0 | 20 |
| 44-41 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 9/11 | @TENN | W | 24 | 36 | 285 | 66.7 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 151.5 | 88.5 | 10 | 19 | 1.9 | 1 | 13 |
| 41-34 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sat 9/4 | vsMASS | W | 27 | 37 | 272 | 73 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 152.6 | 71.6 | 6 | 39 | 6.5 | 0 | 18 |
| 51-7 | |||||||||||||||||
| TOTAL | 334 | 497 | 4,319 | 67.2 | 42 | 7 | 67 | 29 | 165.3 | 81.2 | 97 | 241 | 2.5 | 5 | 58 |
Maybe. I was just offering up another reason why Collins may not have taken over the defense. We definitely stunk in the Pitt game but I think there was some rationalization because it was Kenny Picket and he will be the first QB picked in the draft. We followed the Pitt game with a win at Duke and the defense had decent games (relatively speaking) against VT and maybe Miami. Listen, we were a bad team last year (for the last three years). I don’t think the total train wreck happened until the last two to three games. It’s not like our offense was playing great either. We’re a bad team.
Not just last year. Last 3 years.What concerns me about this team's coaching is the inability to adjust during games. It is not the only thing, but it has been consistent over the last 3 years.
Switching from the 4-2-5 to the 3-3-5 did work against UNC. Against Pitt it was obviously not working at all. Pitt was well prepared, in one week of practice, to exploit
our defense. If we made any adjustments at halftime, they were not evident to me. We have an experienced defensive minded HC, ( some consider him a "genius"
Are we supposed to understand that there was nothing he could do to even slow the bleeding ? If Thatcher was in total charge of such a horrific performance last year, then explain to me why he was retained ? The basics of football were so poor- players out of position, poor pursuit angles, no wrapping up on tackles, stupid penalties, etc. Add that to average personnel and you get what we got- an unprepared , uninspired performance all season long- with few exceptions. Sad.
Yeah, you have nailed the cognitive dissonance in the whole defensive collapse question. No good answer for why Collins didn’t take over or why Thacker was retained. If and until we ever get more information from Collins every attempt to surmise an answer leaves you with a glaring contradiction in logic.What concerns me about this team's coaching is the inability to adjust during games. It is not the only thing, but it has been consistent over the last 3 years.
Switching from the 4-2-5 to the 3-3-5 did work against UNC. Against Pitt it was obviously not working at all. Pitt was well prepared, in one week of practice, to exploit
our defense. If we made any adjustments at halftime, they were not evident to me. We have an experienced defensive minded HC, ( some consider him a "genius"
Are we supposed to understand that there was nothing he could do to even slow the bleeding ? If Thatcher was in total charge of such a horrific performance last year, then explain to me why he was retained ? The basics of football were so poor- players out of position, poor pursuit angles, no wrapping up on tackles, stupid penalties, etc. Add that to average personnel and you get what we got- an unprepared , uninspired performance all season long- with few exceptions. Sad.