I have been listening to all the pundits reading the forums on the state of Syracuse football
So I would like an honest answer for this question.
What football team that Syracuse ever fielded could withstand the number of injuries, opt. outs
and the number of players who are currently playing with injuries
full games who desperately need to be be subbed out on a regular basis. Case in point is Servais.
Only a blind man could not see he has been playing almost the full season injured.
I don’t know is it’s his knee or back or combination of both but he is bravely physically struggling out there this year. He has to play because there is no one to replace him due to the pre-season injuries that
Destroyed any depth at that position. Personally I thing the switch to the right side for him was to help with where his injuries are and give him a better chance to get out of his stance and to have better Leverage to withstand a bull rush.
Freshmen all over the starting lineup our underclassmen have never been successful tackling junior and senior running backs in all the years watching SU football. Yes an outlier here and there possibly but in the 2% over 50 years of SU football.
Freshman running backs can run the football, some are strong enough to get yards after the first contact.
But they miss blocking assignments consistently, wrong reads for holes that open up. Compound that with no spring football limited summer camp, upper class men can rely on game experience and drill muscle and repetitive memory freshman cannot.
I have watched SU football since the end of Ben’s days, underclassmen as linebackers rush to wrong spots, over pursue, get driven back on contact with running backs.
underclass men as db’s are poor at tackling, physically get overwhelmed by opposing running backs, Tight ends and big receivers. Safeties who are asked to run support are not physically ready for this task
Wrong reads, missed tackles are the norm. Against Liberty in the first half all 3 starting safeties were out with injuries, not just Liberty but the Greg Robinson versus Akron with upper class men at the offensive line and running back would have run all over this team too.
In fact I am in amazement that the pass protection has been as good as it has been and shows we have talent back there.
Young wide receivers and first year starters have hardly ever gotten off the line when press coverage is used against us, wrong routes are common place.
I don’t know of any SU team even our best rest could have survived the offensive line attrition of this year.
We have Never been a school that got offensive linemen that other good schools got and that includes Mac, and Paul. We schemed many of our offensive teams because of this (see our option years).
I have seen on twitter past players showing displeasures about Liberty, I wonder how they would have done as underclassmen. Julian Whigam could not tackle at all until his senior year, because he did not have the strength built up.
Sorry for the rant! But this is an outlier year if ever there was and none of our coaches past or future could coach there way out of this., and believe me my glasses are clear on this not orange!
Well I think this is my third post in all the years of lurking back to the old message boards
I guess it time to head back to lurking, hope I did not offend anyone as passions for SU can fun both ways on the board.
Got to run the dog to the hospital so I don’t have time to proof this so Sorry In advance for any run ons, grammar or misspelled words.
So I would like an honest answer for this question.
What football team that Syracuse ever fielded could withstand the number of injuries, opt. outs
and the number of players who are currently playing with injuries
full games who desperately need to be be subbed out on a regular basis. Case in point is Servais.
Only a blind man could not see he has been playing almost the full season injured.
I don’t know is it’s his knee or back or combination of both but he is bravely physically struggling out there this year. He has to play because there is no one to replace him due to the pre-season injuries that
Destroyed any depth at that position. Personally I thing the switch to the right side for him was to help with where his injuries are and give him a better chance to get out of his stance and to have better Leverage to withstand a bull rush.
Freshmen all over the starting lineup our underclassmen have never been successful tackling junior and senior running backs in all the years watching SU football. Yes an outlier here and there possibly but in the 2% over 50 years of SU football.
Freshman running backs can run the football, some are strong enough to get yards after the first contact.
But they miss blocking assignments consistently, wrong reads for holes that open up. Compound that with no spring football limited summer camp, upper class men can rely on game experience and drill muscle and repetitive memory freshman cannot.
I have watched SU football since the end of Ben’s days, underclassmen as linebackers rush to wrong spots, over pursue, get driven back on contact with running backs.
underclass men as db’s are poor at tackling, physically get overwhelmed by opposing running backs, Tight ends and big receivers. Safeties who are asked to run support are not physically ready for this task
Wrong reads, missed tackles are the norm. Against Liberty in the first half all 3 starting safeties were out with injuries, not just Liberty but the Greg Robinson versus Akron with upper class men at the offensive line and running back would have run all over this team too.
In fact I am in amazement that the pass protection has been as good as it has been and shows we have talent back there.
Young wide receivers and first year starters have hardly ever gotten off the line when press coverage is used against us, wrong routes are common place.
I don’t know of any SU team even our best rest could have survived the offensive line attrition of this year.
We have Never been a school that got offensive linemen that other good schools got and that includes Mac, and Paul. We schemed many of our offensive teams because of this (see our option years).
I have seen on twitter past players showing displeasures about Liberty, I wonder how they would have done as underclassmen. Julian Whigam could not tackle at all until his senior year, because he did not have the strength built up.
Sorry for the rant! But this is an outlier year if ever there was and none of our coaches past or future could coach there way out of this., and believe me my glasses are clear on this not orange!
Well I think this is my third post in all the years of lurking back to the old message boards
I guess it time to head back to lurking, hope I did not offend anyone as passions for SU can fun both ways on the board.
Got to run the dog to the hospital so I don’t have time to proof this so Sorry In advance for any run ons, grammar or misspelled words.