bobongo
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There’s a lot more to playing quarterback than passing and rushing stats.
I know that. I was just posting the stats for anyone who'd be interested. Sorry I got them wrong the first time.
There’s a lot more to playing quarterback than passing and rushing stats.
I would say the improved D made at least half the difference. Clemp did get points on short fields, I do not know how that compared to last year's Clemp game. Last year, the O kept us in the game against USF, and it was lost by special teams. This year, the D won the game.You think there’s a 25 point difference (USF scored 35 offensive points last year versus 10 points this year) because of our brand new defense? No way. If our defense is so much improved this year over last year, it sure didn’t show against Clemson. We gave up 49 points and 480 yards of offense last year versus 52 points and 639 yards of offense this year. I’ll admit that our new defense is passing the eye test where Roof’s didn’t but I don’t think the improvement made anywhere near a 25 point difference.
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The eye test says it's a lot better. Much better pass defense, and much better tackling. Those are where the improvements are. Just looks a lot better to me.You think there’s a 25 point difference (USF scored 35 offensive points last year versus 10 points this year) because of our brand new defense? No way. If our defense is so much improved this year over last year, it sure didn’t show against Clemson. We gave up 49 points and 480 yards of offense last year versus 52 points and 639 yards of offense this year. I’ll admit that our new defense is passing the eye test where Roof’s didn’t but I don’t think the improvement made anywhere near a 25 point difference.
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The eye test says it's a lot better. Much better pass defense, and much better tackling. Those are where the improvements are. Just looks a lot better to me.
I am trying not to judge too quickly how good or bad our defense is this year. IMO it's way too early to tell and the teams we've played so far on on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. I expected us to struggle more against Clemson, but the early D held it's own for a bit. Against USF we looked great, but that's a really low bar.
What sticks out to me is Tre Swilling. He is REALLY good. He hasn't been overwhelmed at all no matter who he is playing against. It's a start, and I will take it. The rest of the D will be easier to judge as we enter the October portion of our schedule.
USF never even looked his way. Swillign basically shut down half the field in their passing game.
If our defense is so much improved this year over last year, it sure didn’t show against Clemson. We gave up 49 points and 480 yards of offense last year versus 52 points and 639 yards of offense this year.
And to think. Many on this board wanted Strong as our coach. Once upon a time.
If you can’t understand the obvious logical fallacy of them being worse this year because we shut down their offense and beat them you either just don’t understand or more likely you choose not to understand.
They were terrible last year. They lost 6 in a row. They didn’t beat another team with more than 4 wins and those games they barely won.
They returned 15 starters. 9 from the offense we could not stop last year.
They are basically the same crappy team and we actually beat them this year.
I don’t like it, either. And certainly I’d rather see it go away. But I think you think people care about what GT does more than they actually do. Other schools/teams have rally signs and stuff and sure, occasionally they get made into memes (which are usually pretty funny). And nobody really cares and it doesn’t hurt anything other than the feelings of the people who feel insulted.
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Did he "give him the business"?I almost burst a vein screaming about the holding on the long run by their starting QB. It was like the ghost of Ron Cherry showed up to officiate.
They looked his way at least once. He made a heck of an athletic play to break up the pass. They avoided him most of the game though.
Every person on here needs to be about the money down and whatever other weird social media inspired stuff CGC conceives.
I'd be all about “tradition” if we were nick Saban and bama. But given that we're kind of an odd ball place, we have to think different
Is Yates redshirting?That QB might already be on our team. We have a 4* QB currently redshirting.
Is Yates redshirting?
He looks like a 3 star recruit
https://247sports.com/player/jordan-yates-46041110/
yes , that was the only outlier among the rating servicesHe hasn't played a snap so far. 4* on Rivals
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2019/jordan-yates-200329
Every person on here needs to be about the money down and whatever other weird social media inspired stuff CGC conceives.
I'd be all about “tradition” if we were nick Saban and bama. But given that we're kind of an odd ball place, we have to think different