Second-half adjustments It is especially not the case last Saturday. The team can simply play bette

[Sideways]

Our blitzes between the tackles are almost always not effective. I would rather see (our faster guys who can tackle in space) our blitzes come from the CBs or Ss from the outside in coordination with our DEs.

Yes, but to be honest I am not sure that anything can be done. It is hard to get pressure on those spread quarterbacks sitting back in a shot gun with all the eye candy going on that makes linebackers hesitate.

 

[Sideways]

I think that mis-snap of the ball and them recovering on their own 2-3 took alot of wind out of their sails. When did that occur?

Seems like it was fairly early in the third quarter but I might be wrong. The Wake coach said that the crowd noise caused the center to think that a play check was the snap count. If one of our players had not been held (tackled virtually) we would have recovered that ball.

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

Wake didn't abandon the RO....our D just shut it down. Where we got exploited in the 2nd half was deep balls...even though the coverage was mostly pretty darn good.

We are gonna miss our departing DBs next year.

 

[Lavoisier]

They got us on big plays in the second half but we manged to keep them out of the endzone which was a positive. I'm still dumbfounded by how poorly we tackle. We cleaned it up some at halftime, but that first half was some of the worst missed tackles I've seen in a long time. Their running backs were getting 7-9 yards easy every time because of it.

 

[GTNavyNuke]

I think a large part of our second half success was that Wake lost a lot the bye week advantage. By that I mean in the first half, Wake had very fresh legs and we didn't. By the second half, that advantage had dissipated some or completely.

That is what I thought would happen (and said in chat in the first half would happen). Whether I was right since I was lucky or correct is open to debate.

Fast forward to Saturday. Clemson is probably going to ravage us in the first half, especially the first quarter given their bye. If we are down 10 or less at half, we'll have a chance. Not a good one since Clemson has better athletes and depth for substitution as the game wears on, but a chance.

 

[Lavoisier]

I live in Clemson territory and they are surprisingly shallow on their depth. Especially on DL this year. Syracuse was able to wear them down with their crazy tempo because Clemson couldn't just sub in first rounders like they did the last two years. We need to sustain drives to get them winded because the front 4 is scary good, but there's a much bigger fall off this year than in years past.

 

[1979jacket]

Our blitzes between the tackles are almost always not effective. I would rather see (our faster guys who can tackle in space) our blitzes come from the CBs or Ss from the outside in coordination with our DEs.

They caught us a couple of times on safety blitzes. I want us to keep using it but it is dangerous when there is no inside help from blitzing defensive back and the linebackers almost always have a hard time dropping deep enough.

 

[AE 87]

I live in Clemson territory and they are surprisingly shallow on their depth. Especially on DL this year. Syracuse was able to wear them down with their crazy tempo because Clemson couldn't just sub in first rounders like they did the last two years. We need to sustain drives to get them winded because the front 4 is scary good, but there's a much bigger fall off this year than in years past.

That's a very interesting observation. It may be interesting to see if we'll try and keep them from substituting. Maybe we'll signal plays in or just have a series call. We just line up and wait for the clock to wind down and not let them substitute. If we could put together a 6 min, 11 play death march without letting them substitute, we might get them on their heels. Who knows?

 

[danny daniel]

I think that mis-snap of the ball and them recovering on their own 2-3 took alot of wind out of their sails. When did that occur?

About the 2nd play of the second half.

 

[LongforDodd]

About the 2nd play of the second half.

Thanks. Things seemed to turn to our favor after that miscue.

 

[Animal02]

Seems like it was fairly early in the third quarter but I might be wrong. The Wake coach said that the crowd noise caused the center to think that a play check was the snap count. If one of our players had not been held (tackled virtually) we would have recovered that ball.

Smart move by the Wake O lineman......if he gets called for the hold....it is a half distance to the goal penalty, or gets declined.....either way is better than letting Tech recover the ball.