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So, your solution to the special teams underperforming is to strip Frank Beamer of special teams duties, give all of those duties to Shane, while still expecting him to coach running backs and recruit at a high level? Why not just try playing more starters on special teams so they tackle better?
So who coaches the rbs?
...you realize Frank Beamer is the special teams coach, right? And what scheme do you think would make every single coverage member tackle better?
Agreed - and Pitt's D has not.
Agreed 100%. Poor execution can make even a perfect play look silly
That was excellent real-time (or psuedo real-time, I guess. It was after the commercial break) analysis.
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Exum was our best corner by the end of last year. I don't think he'd be getting in just because he's a senior - he's earned it. Provided he comes back 100%, obviously. That's the nice thing about the current situation - we can make sure he's all better, and there's no need to rush him back and risk an NFL career.
Our defense did play well enough to win last night, but our offense was no-where near where it needed to be to win. We should not have won that game, because our offense just isn't that good. There's no need to get angry about that, though. The team showed a lot of potential, and Bama is an exceptional team.
So... because they didn't do well, they must not have been trying hard? Couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that they were all inexperienced and playing against an excellent, fast, swarming defense?
You just made my point. It doesn't matter when your loss comes - starting 0-1 isn't any worse than starting 5-0 and beating nobody then losing to Clemson. And if you want to play decent teams, you've got to play them early. I don't know about you, but I'd rather play elite teams and see where we stand, then blow through some FCS patsies and have no idea what this team is made of. You need to play the best to beat the best, and you need to beat the best to be the best.
After last night, I don't think Bama makes it to the title game. Your offense needs to score more than 14 points, even against elite defenses for you to go undefeated. You can't rely on defensive touchdowns and the return game and expect to consistently win against elite competition, and offenses with better passing games will put up more than 10 points.
That team played their balls off last night. The D was flying around, the O-line was holding a dominant front-7 in check... You can't possibly be complaining about the team's want-to or effort. I'm really not sure where you're getting this at all.
Ease up, dude. Nobody expected to compete for a title this year, and if you did, you were drinking far too much kool-aid. And for what it's worth, last year we were undefeated until we played Pitt (in week 3), and the year before that we were undefeated until Clemson came to town in week 5. Were either of those years less heartbreaking? No.
So pump the brakes and get some perspective - if you want a decent OOC schedule, they're going to make you play it early. If you're happy playing FCS teams, then you're crazy.
Agreed - poor execution can make a lot of playcalls look silly. And you can't expect to reliably beat a great front 7 like that with one trick. I feel like thats an O'Cainspring tactic (run-run-pass-punt). You require a bit of an imagination to have a chance. Poor qb and receiver play made it a moot point, though.
I hope the Fullers all make more Fullers. Then, in 20 years, we field an entire team of Fullers. And they wear all maroon. #alloftheFullersinallmarooneverything
Guys, we made. It's time.
I don't know how to limit the section of the video that plays but... :19-:58
I guess you mean the 1995 team? I guess they were just before my time. I was 8, and have no recolection of the hype for them at all...
My prediction - the tide players wake up Sunday morning feeling like they just lost a wrestling match with a bear. VT proves it's still the tough-nosed hard-fighting team we expect.
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# | Sam Rogers Named Starting Fullback for Alabama Game and more Depth Chart News I don't think that came out quite the way you meant it to...
Well Louisville's super weak schedule has people inflating their ranking because people would rather look correct in the end then actually rank teams they think is the best... It's just a perfect storm of annoying voter habits all rolled into one team...
Well, I think the offense also doesn't get to dictate who the defense blocks either - if you are doing something that could be illegal based upon what the defender does, and you do it every play regardless of what the defender does, then you're expecting to chop block at some point during the game. The onus to follow the rules is on the player that the rules apply to. It isn't on the defender to not get dangerously chop blocked. It's on the offense not to do it. Paul Johnson disregards this, and plows ahead anyway, knowing that they don't get called reliably anyhow, and that makes him dirty.
I'm saying a WVU team that everyone thought was just a decent team blew up on Clemson in the bowl win, and then suddenly started the season ranked highly. Then, when they proved to be same mediocre team that dropped 2 gimme games (to Syracuse and Louisville) the year before, everyone was shocked.
Now Louisville, which had gotten clobbered by a mediocre Syracuse team and lost to UConn the year before, hammers the favorite in the bowl and they start ranked high with national title expectations. And then people discuss their pathetic schedule as if it's a reason for them to be ranked so highly - as if a pathetic schedule makes your team better somehow. Sure, they're less likely to lose, but they'll be even more wildly overrated. This is not a team that will win the title, and I'd be shocked if they do make it through their schedule (as weak as it is) unscathed.
That and they were wildly overrated because of one really good bowl win (cough Louisville cough cough)
hear hear! Couldn't agree more