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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5493506, member: 5685"]
Agree with most of that. I do think we have the "dudes" on O to be much much better than we should yesterday. Nixon has been great and we are lucky to have him. But given the talent we have this year, he needs to call a more balanced game.

IMO Willis is our best player. Yet Nixon called a game like he had McCord and last year's WRs. Watching all these other teams play, Angeli is an above avg QB. There is a lot of bad QB play out there. But he isn't a guy who should be throwing it 44+ times a game.

I think the same can be said about our WRs. They are above avg. That said we haven't done a good job these two games getting them the ball. There is too much talent there to have such little impact thus far.

Generally speaking, our 2nd half D when we haven't had a big lead (GA Tech for example) has been much better in these past 15 games. But the 1st half D has been awful. You cannot keep waiting until halftime to see what the other team is doing to have a plan. You need to attack from the start and dictate the game. We do not have the O this year to make up for our poor 1st half D. This passive BS almost cost us this game, and will prevent us from making a Bowl this year if we do not change.

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Outside of GA Tech, it seems like our D gameplan is to see what the other team is doing and then take it away. Which of course isn't really a gameplan. I am starting to wonder if that GA Tech gameplan was Fran and not ERob. Fran saw GA Tech the two years prior and was very familiar with them. That game has been an outlier in what have have seen thus far from ERob.
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