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Message: [QUOTE="anomander, post: 1126359, member: 2766"] I actually feel a little bit better after watching the rest of CFB struggle against FCS opponents the past 2 weekends. I still don't think there is any excuse for the performance we had last Friday, but still believe this team has the talent to win 8 games, and compete in almost every single one. This is going to be a huge game for us, and one I think we can win by a couple of td's if we are basing it on talent alone (which unfortunately isn't all that matters). Here are some things I will be looking for. 1. Offensive line. This needs to improve. Sure we get Palmer, and hopefully Robinson back, but I don't think that's an automatic improvement. The line needs to gel. I might have discounted the loss of Mackey who was responsible for calling out most of the blocking assignments. The interior OL has to be much better. I have no doubt we have the talent to be one of the best OL's in the ACC, and we proved that last year. Big game for Joe Adam. 2. Coordinators. Both McDonald and Bullough need to improve. Offensive play calling is just too choppy. There are games where he seems to get into a good flow, but is too quick to go off of what is working. I'd like to see him come out and display a noticeable gameplan and make adjustments off that. Are we interchanging too many players? Sometimes more isn't better. All I kept thinking last week was our offense was anything but "hardnosed". We were too much east-west, and not enough north-south. We will be the physically superior team once again this week I want to see us act like it. Defensively if we can improve our tackling I think we will be fine. 3. Hunt. I still have total confidence in him, but he was mid-season 2013 form then the Hunt we saw the last few games of last year. imo I would like to see McDonald call a couple plays for Hunt on the ground to get him going. It's when he's at his best and seems to feed off of it, plus it opens things up a bit. It seemed like that's what he was trying to do before getting objected. Anyways I expect a big time bounce back week from Hunt. Anyways i'll call it early. Cuse bounces back in a big way. 30-14 [/QUOTE]

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