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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. He is pretty good. I thought so when I saw the game. Both of his scores were on coverage busts. I’m fine if we fail when their second best option beats us after we take away their best option. We were trying to do something smart and didn’t have the horses to pull it off. Ok. It was pretty much the Hutchison show or bust for the last two quarters of the game. Taking away Worthy really puts a lid on our scoring potential. I’m fine with doing that to other teams. Particularly ones that aren’t good on offense to begin with.
  2. You’re conflating my side eye at our defensive foibles with some idea that I didn’t see Cain’s issues or a few other missed opportunities to put the game away in a more comfortable manner. In the context of the game we both flubbed sure fire easy 6’s. In the context of the argument at hand we did diddly to stop their only real weapon from having a career day. We’re finally getting some breaks to go our way. That’s nice. It doesn’t mean I don’t see us failing to even try to do some intelligent things to limit their only viable means of moving the football.
  3. This. My post above was cutoff before o could edit it. Coverage busts aside, could anyone see a discernible coherent strategy to limit Hutchison’s effectiveness? I sure couldn’t. We do weird shit on defense. Play honest fronts with two deep safeties at incredibly inappropriate times, substitute bizarrely, and default to sit and take it mode. I understand that we don’t have a single edge that gives an OC a hint of heartburn, and that our coverage between the corners is adventuresome at best. Noted. I can deal with failure due to lack of Jimmy’s and Joes despite intelligent attempts to take away things the opponent does well. I see us lacking the players and just doing what we do. Sometimes we do what we do well. Sometimes what we do intersects nicely with the opponent and we look pretty good. And then sometimes the opponent is less cooperative. And still we do what we do.
  4. Cain wasn’t in danger of single handedly taking over the game while keeping their offense alive. Yes, both teams had pretty sure big gainers flubbed, but that wasn’t the point. Their big WR should have gone for 11 catches and 200 yards against us.
  5. He’s really good when he’s singled up or lonely in the middle of the field. That’s my point. We did very little to make it difficult for him or his QB by having to get past his first read. Hutchison is going to get his catches if he gets 10 of then for 8-9 yards a reception instead of 15 it’s a very different game. And we were one fortuitous drop from him having 200 yards on Saturday
  6. Texas plays two high zone to near exclusivity. Obviously there are a lot of variations there. I can’t look live and decide if we’re in some form of quarters or whatever, but I can tell when we’re robbing underneath or throwing extra coverage one way. The big give away is the extra bodies around the r threat you’re trying by to diminish. ISU had an offensive breakout against Texas. There’s a bit of difference between a given reviver catching 10 balls for 88 yards and 1 TD, and basically doubling that against us. Outlier performances happen. They just happen with regularity against us.
  7. My uneducated eyes see us running our stuff down after down, and just changing out personnel as the adjustment. It’s certainly trying something, but it’s not doing everything in our power to take away the one dude who’s beating time and again. I would be less critical of our approach if I saw us attempting that and failing. Ok, we asked them to beat us by making their second and third best option perform above their heads to beat us, or option one to make circus catches with two guys draped on him to win the play time and again. I’m not seeing that. Just trying different bodies to do the same thing.
  8. Fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go ‘round.
  9. At this point I’d settle for old school doubling somebody. Just show that you’re trying to make them beat you left handed.
  10. We seem to operate in the “well someone else might beat us” train of thought with regard to taking away a team’s best offensive threat. So f’ing be it. Take away their best threat on third and PK, and if they complete it to option three and beat you on the series then tip you cap, and ask them to do it again. We’re just situationally brain dead in those instances, and our defensive substitution packages deserve a fair share of ire too.
  11. I think being average was about it anyone realistically hoped for. That paired with a legit offense has won this conference more than a few times. I can see the improvement. But our margin is razor thin. Probably enough to keep us from reaching our goal this year unless our offense plays out of its mind during a few critical games.
  12. It seems it’s PK’s default setting when something unexpected shows up. I actually don’t fault him much for that. We see it all of the time when a semi-competent back up QB enters the game and the DC doesn’t have a cheat sheet for tendencies and strengths/weaknesses. I wasn’t impressed that the concept surprised us for two quarters. But that’s a nit for another day much like us not being ready for a team to attempt a fourth down conversion against us even if they were all tricky and didn’t do it out of a conventional offensive formation (fake FG).
  13. I’m sure most competent staffs can sit down for 20 minutes during halftime and cobble together the basic strategies required to shut down a wildcat offense with no ability to complete a forward pass. We didn’t look like we anticipated wildcat well which is pretty interesting given that we featured it ourselves when QE went down, and it took us 2 quarters to decide that playing 2 high coverage and honest fronts against it was stupid. We shut it down once it was decide that their RB’s weren’t in fact going to slice and dice our secondary through the air.
  14. I think that was their last drive of the first half. They actually managed to move the ball, but we’re actually in negative yardage territory up to that point for the half. I looked at my brother and asked if he’d ever seen a team have negative yardage at halftime.
  15. Clemson is a shadow of itself with coaching brain drain as its staff is siphoned off, reduced talent and a dude with NFL measurables, an offensive number of vowels in his last name and middling ability as a college QB taking snaps. They’ll get a train run on them if they meet a legitimate top 10 opponent at some point this season.
  16. I think that’s more than anyone could have reasonably hoped for given last year’s disastrous defensive performance. I think the angst is mostly that we’re situationally stupid given our players’ abilities and the penchant for most college offenses being able to complete short passes against air. It’s irksome. This defense becomes more fun if we really get the offense humming and then opposing offenses have to try to score often using a lot of short gains.
  17. At least in their 60’s.
  18. Probably. Our best bet is that 1. QE stunts on them and 2. Sanders offers to lose the game personally as he seems to do about 4 or 5 times a year.
  19. Was the F35 demo the C model pictured or the A?
  20. NC State isn’t a top 10 team, and what one does against a Mike Leach Jekyll and Hyde team doesn’t matter. That’s a bad tech team that will get curb stomped several times this season. We are not a good team in our current iteration, but that could start to change when Ewers gets back. We are a very high delta team given our youth key spots and lack of depth or ability at others.
  21. Radiant.
  22. This is what I assumed. Previous game was on the Saturday a week before and then they have 10 days off before the next one.
  23. Please, please, please vacate your secondary against UT’s receivers. I beg you to leave Worthy, Whitt, Ro or Bijan singled up against your second, third, and fourth best DB’s. Please do this. Quinn Ewers dealing into single coverage is pretty low on my list of worries for this offense. Him needing to throw deep outs to the far hash behind his back is kinda what that mulleted MF’er does. I’d be more worried about a competent defense playing drop 8 against him and having a talented back 7 that can quickly crash down to make their light front right. Which probably isn’t TTU.
  24. They were by default. As we seemed to play as though we were unaware of what the limitations would be for a team that lost its top 4 tackles and had a walk-on getting playing time.
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