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Well, I finally finished the replay and I have about 1/2 an hour before it's time to head to West Midtown. I might have to do this in two installments. Bottom line is that this was a good win for us and Vandy provided about what we needed for an opponent at this stage. Sadly, there is still a lot of stuff to clean up and only a short week to do it in.
To be truthful, I am not that impressed with Vandy as a defense. For an SEC opponent, they don't offer a lot in terms of wild athleticsm and depth of talent. They have a couple guys on the interior who are fairly physical, but nothing special and one guy behind them (#41), who you can say is a high level athlete. He is crazy all over the place, but he can run and he is large and agile. Their defense reminds me of Pitt's in terms of foot speed, but without the upper echelon disrupters in the center of the DL. I thought I heard somebody say #52 almost came to GT. Well, be glad he didn't. I wasn't impressed with him at all. He was slow footed and a day late and a dollar short most of the time. He looks good in a uniform, but that is about it. So, we did about what we should have to this group, but I really think we can and should have played better. We had some individuals make some really good plays, but the cohesion of the working offense remains a project. There still too many whiffed blocks against lesser athletes than Clemson will be throwing at us, mostly caused by late recognition on our guys moving into space. We still have occasions where I am not sure everybody is running the same play, or running the right track. We did stuff like run called dives right into an unblocked LB when both OLs ran to the outside. Either one of them missed the call or the BB ran the wrong track. We let a couple guys through on passpro just not paying attention. Stuff like that unnerves me at this point in the season. Skill position players are still slow to take up the blocking thing. If we don't do better soon, things are going to get ugly. I would say we are about 50% when it comes to making me happy in this aspect on a given play. Everybody is taking turns disappointing and nobody is immune.
I guess I will save the individual reports for when I return from the show.
To be truthful, I am not that impressed with Vandy as a defense. For an SEC opponent, they don't offer a lot in terms of wild athleticsm and depth of talent. They have a couple guys on the interior who are fairly physical, but nothing special and one guy behind them (#41), who you can say is a high level athlete. He is crazy all over the place, but he can run and he is large and agile. Their defense reminds me of Pitt's in terms of foot speed, but without the upper echelon disrupters in the center of the DL. I thought I heard somebody say #52 almost came to GT. Well, be glad he didn't. I wasn't impressed with him at all. He was slow footed and a day late and a dollar short most of the time. He looks good in a uniform, but that is about it. So, we did about what we should have to this group, but I really think we can and should have played better. We had some individuals make some really good plays, but the cohesion of the working offense remains a project. There still too many whiffed blocks against lesser athletes than Clemson will be throwing at us, mostly caused by late recognition on our guys moving into space. We still have occasions where I am not sure everybody is running the same play, or running the right track. We did stuff like run called dives right into an unblocked LB when both OLs ran to the outside. Either one of them missed the call or the BB ran the wrong track. We let a couple guys through on passpro just not paying attention. Stuff like that unnerves me at this point in the season. Skill position players are still slow to take up the blocking thing. If we don't do better soon, things are going to get ugly. I would say we are about 50% when it comes to making me happy in this aspect on a given play. Everybody is taking turns disappointing and nobody is immune.
I guess I will save the individual reports for when I return from the show.