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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5235739, member: 10113"]
A few short weeks ago an average NC State team went to Cal and beat them.  It’s not the huge task some are making it out to be.

As usual, it depends what Syracuse team shows up.   Good Syracuse wins, bad Syracuse loses.   Offense will score 24+.

The guy who needs to step up is Elijah Robinson.   Overall, (especially considering that we can’t tackle), our defense has been OK.   People will be surprised by this,  but we are 7th in the ACC in total defense, 6th in red zone touchdown percentage and 4th in third down conversions. That is usually winning defense.

But time after time, when it’s time to be aggressive, we are not.  Those are his calls, and more often than not in crunch time, he is too overly cautious.    Last week after the safety, BC had a third and seven, and the backup Qb was going to have to throw his first pass. We chose that opportunity to do our usual three man rush and dropped eight, all deeper than 7 yards. He had five seconds to wait for a receiver to come free underneath, and got an easy first down.   Why not pressure? Force something!!    Then on the drive that put them up nine points, they had a third and two, with their usual 2 tight end set, and we came out with a light box, in cover three!!  basically giving them the first down.

I liked when we had an attacking defense.  I would rather lose with a feast or famine approach than death by a thousand cuts.
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