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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 369135" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Well … I bet if you asked him he'd point to two offensive problems for this year.</p><p></p><p>First, we have struggled to put a consistent group of OLs on the field game after game. Due to career ending injuries and career decisions, we lost four OTs - Griffin, Whitley, Klock, and Fromayen - and one OG - Brown in the last three years. Losing Fromayen before this season was a wrench, but losing Griffin and Brown, who had all-ACC written all over them was a real problem. If we had Griffin and Fromayen or Klock at OT, the assignment problem would be lot less of a concern. As it is, we've had to play Will out of position for most of the year and hold the rest of the OL together with spit and duct tape. Everybody talked about how good the OL was at the first of the year. They were right. Then the injuries began to hurt us. I think Coach made the right decision to not blow the redshirts of our frosh OLs - except Hanson - but I sure do hope we can get around these OL problems (at OT, in particular) going forward.</p><p></p><p>The second factor has been inexperience. We started a new QB and BB this year. Both have performed better then expected, imho, but I sure do wish that Matthew hadn't hurt his foot and that Mills hadn't been dismissed. Having a lot of read problems is nothing new; there's a reason why Coach likes to start experienced skill players, QBs in particular. In an O that uses options, one of the things you can pretty much depend on is that it takes a year or so on the field to begin to make consistent reads. This lost us the UT game, imho, and sure hasn't helped in some others. TM and Benson have done yeoman duty this year and that'll pay off in the future, but right now it has it's drawbacks. </p><p></p><p>Tackling is another story. Everybody knows how to do it, but it takes confidence to make it work. In the VT game, you could see that our D thought that they could bring down any RB that the Turkies put on the field and they did. In the Duke game, not so much. This also depends on how fresh you are and how the score is going. In short, this is something that varies game by game for every team with very few exceptions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 369135, member: 265"] Well … I bet if you asked him he'd point to two offensive problems for this year. First, we have struggled to put a consistent group of OLs on the field game after game. Due to career ending injuries and career decisions, we lost four OTs - Griffin, Whitley, Klock, and Fromayen - and one OG - Brown in the last three years. Losing Fromayen before this season was a wrench, but losing Griffin and Brown, who had all-ACC written all over them was a real problem. If we had Griffin and Fromayen or Klock at OT, the assignment problem would be lot less of a concern. As it is, we've had to play Will out of position for most of the year and hold the rest of the OL together with spit and duct tape. Everybody talked about how good the OL was at the first of the year. They were right. Then the injuries began to hurt us. I think Coach made the right decision to not blow the redshirts of our frosh OLs - except Hanson - but I sure do hope we can get around these OL problems (at OT, in particular) going forward. The second factor has been inexperience. We started a new QB and BB this year. Both have performed better then expected, imho, but I sure do wish that Matthew hadn't hurt his foot and that Mills hadn't been dismissed. Having a lot of read problems is nothing new; there's a reason why Coach likes to start experienced skill players, QBs in particular. In an O that uses options, one of the things you can pretty much depend on is that it takes a year or so on the field to begin to make consistent reads. This lost us the UT game, imho, and sure hasn't helped in some others. TM and Benson have done yeoman duty this year and that'll pay off in the future, but right now it has it's drawbacks. Tackling is another story. Everybody knows how to do it, but it takes confidence to make it work. In the VT game, you could see that our D thought that they could bring down any RB that the Turkies put on the field and they did. In the Duke game, not so much. This also depends on how fresh you are and how the score is going. In short, this is something that varies game by game for every team with very few exceptions. [/QUOTE]
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