You are all losing site of the bigger picture

[FrancoPizza]

Biggest issue is we need a new defensive coordinator in the worst way, and maybe even a new DL coach. But only if Fran can find someone who is qualified and the right fit.

 

[PhatOrange]

Biggest issue is we need a new defensive coordinator in the worst way, and maybe even a new DL coach. But only if Fran can find someone who is qualified and the right fit.

I always thought Elijah Robinson was the DL coach.

 

[kingtidge]

Losing Angeli ruined the season but the thought of having him for 2 years going forward is promising - regardless, losing by 35 to Duke at home is not moving forward - you are kidding urself - there is not 50 yards in front of us - we have 99 yards in front of us with 30 secs - I don’t know what to make of Clemson - I see UCONN managed to escape Buffalo - beating UCONN was a fluke and they suck

If there was ever a season to take a mulligan after losing Angeli to injury, this season is it for sure. Sucks to say, and I know Fran views every game as a win to be taken and I love that attitude...

And also Sucks to say, but reality - it's looking like a real daunting row to hoe at this point...

I can take the fact that the QB situation with Angeli out may be untenable to build a competitive offense this year. A harsh reality.

My only gripe is the defense laying a massive egg against Duke.

We should be able to be comptetitive in other facets of the game, including defense.

The Duke game seemed somewhat like Stanford last year from the standpoint that we needed to make adjustments and the coaches could not do it/get the players to do it. You could argue a similar adjustment issue with UCONN on O, but Nixon finally figured it out in the final 10 minutes to salvage a win...

I think the coaches need to chessboard "plan b" execution better and get the players effective in executing changes when necessary. HCFB and staff are young coaches and some of this will get better with more experience, hopefully, but we need to get better at effective in-game adjustments, or there will be more WTEFF losses here and there when plan A goes sideways.

The Duke game rang that bell loud and clear again.

 

[Scooch]

?

You said we're all losing sight of the big picture. Who's "you"? I'm not sure I've seen much of that here.

 

[Chip]

Hope springs eternal ever year around here.

Next year will be no different, no matter what happens this year.

 

[RedtheGOB]

If there was ever a season to take a mulligan after losing Angeli to injury, this season is it for sure. Sucks to say, and I know Fran views every game as a win to be taken and I love that attitude...

And also Sucks to say, but reality - it's looking like a real daunting row to hoe at this point...

I can take the fact that the QB situation with Angeli out may be untenable to build a competitive offense this year. A harsh reality.

My only gripe is the defense laying a massive egg against Duke.

We should be able to be comptetitive in other facets of the game, including defense.

The Duke game seemed somewhat like Stanford last year from the standpoint that we needed to make adjustments and the coaches could not do it/get the players to do it. You could argue a similar adjustment issue with UCONN on O, but Nixon finally figured it out in the final 10 minutes to salvage a win...

I think the coaches need to chessboard "plan b" execution better and get the players effective in executing changes when necessary. HCFB and staff are young coaches and some of this will get better with more experience, hopefully, but we need to get better at effective in-game adjustments, or there will be more WTEFF losses here and there when plan A goes sideways.

The Duke game rang that bell loud and clear again.

Well said.

One thing that gives the Defense a mulligan (for this game only though) is that this was the first NFL level QB that we had played against in my opinion. We showed up at Clemson and showed what the talent can do when they click, yet a week later we are still running a ton of youth and first year starters and it's still September.

Aguilar and Klubnick are not slouches but you can tell they aren't going to play Sundays in my opinion.

Mensah on the other played like a Sunday QB not because he killed it with his arm but because he saw the field, made perfect reads all day, called audibles that killed us and then managed the game with no mistakes. He basically MCCORD'ed us.

In comparison Klubnick had no clue and at times seemed to play exactly into what our defense was doing. We'd blitz and his reads were off and and timing/passes were even worse. Seemed like he would try to elude the pressure instead of throwing to where the blitz came from. Mensah crushed us with that. Waited for the blitzer and then went right to a short easy pass for 10 yards.

Like you said we're clearly just too predictable on Defense and it's not the first time.

Offense I really believe will be even better next year. Losing Nixon may hurt if he goes pro but if we're hitting the portal and working on staff upgrades the whole offseason better be spent on upgrading Defense.

 

[0.2 YNdeeR]

Oh come on, I’d expect Cuse on 3 not to understand the analogy, but you, I’m disappointed.

any given sunday

 

[dasher]

2026

This is all tune ups for next year.

Right now it’s 41, 42. Remainder of the year is 43 and 44.

Next year is victory. Play the long game and don’t get fixated on the 50 yds in front of you.

I have been saying that since the start. The only troubling issue to me is the Defense and that includes the d-coordinator.