Every team seems to be improving.

[Newhouser]

UNC is better than the start of the season. Wake too. Us ...not so much, anywhere.

 

[phil77]

That is because we have a staff full of recruiters and we lack in Xs and Os. Our success more than anyone else revolves around how good our QB1 is and if that QB1 can make up for all the other issues.

 

[orangenauburn]

You would be wrong. There are some terrible teams. Also, how many teams lost QB1 and are improving?

 

[Newhouser]

You would be wrong. There are some terrible teams. Also, how many teams lost QB1 and are improving?

Losing your QB doesn't mean the other position units can't improve. People get hurt. Other units get better. Ours have not.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

UNC is getting closer and closer to its first real win under Belichick. Still a loss to them will be bad. That said I fear we might not even stay close with them.

 

[djorange1989]

UNC is getting closer and closer to its first real win under Belichick. Still a loss to them will be bad. That said I fear we might not even stay close with them.

So if they beat us they will still have to wait for their first real win

 

[djorange1989]

You would be wrong. There are some terrible teams. Also, how many teams lost QB1 and are improving?

Pitt didn’t lose their QB, but they are better since they threw their true freshman QB into the starting role. I guess he absorbed the playbook much better than Carney has for us. I get it, we would likely win 7 games with Angeli but you have to construct a better roster in general

 

[PAcuse]

See Penn State, Florida, USF, etc

I'm so tired of people on here saying we are the ONLY xyz
Come on...

 

[SUskibum]

UNC is better than the start of the season. Wake too. Us ...not so much, anywhere.

We looked a lot better @ Clemson than we did @ Atlanta/TN.

Losing a QB throws everything in the toilet for most teams. Yes we are particularly bad, but I would be more upset if we were in year 4 or 5 when Fran had a few mature QBs he recruited, plus the annual transfer. In year two best case is for a starting QB that is playoff worthy and we had that.

Everyone will say RIckie doesn't play OL or RB or Defense, but the whole team takes a step back when they know the most important position on the team is not good enough to win the game. Takes the winds out of your sails.

 

[hungrychuck]

We looked a lot better @ Clemson than we did @ Atlanta/TN.

Losing a QB throws everything in the toilet for most teams. Yes we are particularly bad, but I would be more upset if we were in year 4 or 5 when Fran had a few mature QBs he recruited, plus the annual transfer. In year two best case is for a starting QB that is playoff worthy and we had that.

Everyone will say RIckie doesn't play OL or RB or Defense, but the whole team takes a step back when they know the most important position on the team is not good enough to win the game. Takes the winds out of your sails.

I was thinking this in the first half today.

Defense was playing at least credibly. Especially considering they’re often being out-schemed and in many cases out-talented.

But what can they expect when they earn a stop?

Not a hell of a lot. And then they’re back on the field.

The new cliche is “complementary football.”

Exactly the same as the old cliche: “total team effort.”

We don’t have it.

 

[CuseBlood44]

BC looks competitive tonight. I’m thinking we may lose out

 

[dollarbill44]

We looked a lot better @ Clemson than we did @ Atlanta/TN.

Losing a QB throws everything in the toilet for most teams.

This is very true. Look at the Ravens right now.
Still, this has been 5 weeks of Rickie and we have a totally non- functioning offense.

 

[swish7]

UNC is better than the start of the season. Wake too. Us ...not so much, anywhere.

I don't follow other teams closely, but a few peer teams have beat us or played close with us the past few years, where I really admire how they play and are constructed.

First and foremost, we have got to be able to control the LOS.

Secondly, we need a spicy vanilla O, vanilla with just enough spice to surprise people.

Thirdly, we need depth. A player goes down? Another steps in that is ready & eager to play.

Fourthly, and related to the 3rd, we need to excel at coaching people up, and display fundamental excellence on the field.

The God stuff does nothing for me. Wish people would leave it out of sports, entirely. The raising young men, getting their degrees, & getting them jobs, etc, is gold, love that. Need to continue that while getting better in football.

Stanford, Pitt, SMU, Wake, Louisville, Tech, etc come to mind, as teams doing well while we flounder. & we 100% are floundering. Not even remotely competent in these games.

 

[721Comstock]

I don't follow other teams closely, but a few peer teams have beat us or played close with us the past few years, where I really admire how they play and are constructed.

First and foremost, we have got to be able to control the LOS.

Secondly, we need a spicy vanilla O, vanilla with just enough spice to surprise people.

Thirdly, we need depth. A player goes down? Another steps in that is ready & eager to play.

Fourthly, and related to the 3rd, we need to excel at coaching people up, and display fundamental excellence on the field.

The God stuff does nothing for me. Wish people would leave it out of sports, entirely. The raising young men, getting their degrees, & getting them jobs, etc, is gold, love that. Need to continue that while getting better in football.

Stanford, Pitt, SMU, Wake, Louisville, Tech, etc come to mind, as teams doing well while we flounder. & we 100% are floundering. Not even remotely competent in these games.

Yeah, you’d think with our QB struggles and sputtering O,
we’d maybe throw in a few trick plays here and there, to try to make something happen?

Other than that onsides kick @ Clempsum,
(Which is ST’s, not even O trickeration)
We’ve been incredibly, remarkably vanilla and predictable.

Hell, at this point even mixing in Villari at Wildcat or letting Carney get a few full series would seem like Fran & Nixon being wild and crazy guys.

Why haven’t we tried a double pass where the QB throws it backwards to Villari, then he throws to a WR or RB?

I’ve seen numerous of our peers using a double pass for a TD or big gainer.

 

[Newhouser]

I love Ga Techs misdirection stuff. We will never be good enough up front to knock people back. We need to move people side to side.

 

[swish7]

Yeah, you’d think with our QB struggles and sputtering O,
we’d maybe throw in a few trick plays here and there, to try to make something happen?

Other than that onsides kick @ Clempsum,
(Which is ST’s, not even O trickeration)
We’ve been incredibly, remarkably vanilla and predictable.

Hell, at this point even mixing in Villari at Wildcat or letting Carney get a few full series would seem like Fran & Nixon being wild and crazy guys.

Why haven’t we tried a double pass where the QB throws it backwards to Villari, then he throws to a WR or RB?

I’ve seen numerous of our peers using a double pass for a TD or big gainer.

I am not even asking for tricks. Just some misdirection, some counter plays, some play action, some options.

 

[OrangeMojo]

I love Ga Techs misdirection stuff. We will never be good enough up front to knock people back. We need to move people side to side.

We have some of the largest human beings on the planet across the oline - how is it that they can never be good enough to knock people back.

It seemed Marrone was able to quickly field a competent oline when he became coach - why is no one else able to do it?

I don’t care what it costs - they need to bring in an offensive line coach for next year that’s actually good at his job.