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No but if they're doing those things every single time even when they're clearly better than the other team, that is on the coaches. It's up to the coaches to get the team in a headspace to get up for the game
I just want a quarterback, ANY quarterback, who throws a catchable ball. I don't give a shit if he can scramble or anything like that, just be able to hit an open guy.
I feel like even doing that has been impossible for us since, I mean hell probably Tyrod
Maybe. After losing to Vandy, the coaches will be desperate to find something that works tho. Enter Pop or Rangel. I'm not saying it'll work but that's likely to happen imo
Miami went and got the best QB they could in the portal each of the last two years. Spent big on OL recruiting as well.
FSU went and got a running QB and paid Gus Malzahn $6M/3yr to be their OC.
I think you are overestimating the quality of the non-drones QBs on our roster.
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Yea... that's kinda my point 😕
Other than die hards, I think the fan base has largely checked out. 2009 and 2013 feel like an eternity ago.
Because they both sunk our entire NIL budget into just their OL's.
Watching fsu and Miami move the ball with relative ease makes me so angry. Why can't we have nice things?
It wasn't like this when we played bama here in 2009 or 2013.
The Beamer family moved on from us and we are unable to move on from them
oh, you're also counting the two completions to other team too, right?
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Overall, the team played a good game i thought. Bad errors at critical moments, which seems to be the theme of the Pry era. Another game that was very winnable and within grasp, but was handed away
Big winner for me today was Sling's day pass!
I feel better about the team this evening than I did when I woke up this morning. We were really competitive with a team that's much more talented than us. WRs looked good, RBs were effective even though the #1 wasn't playing, DL and general defense was good and Laws was excellent. D would be better with Delaney, but we expected he wouldn't be playing this year since his first start freshman year l, and I think that 3 year preparation for his absence showed.
I've never been a Drones fan, he's all potential and no substance. Would've really been interesting if we'd landed Malik Washington. Definitely missed Xavier Chaplin on the line.
I'm not mad, all that matters is conference play.
Weren't there at least 3 passes that absolutely should have been caught by the receivers? Percentage completion, while probably MOSTLY on the QB is not 100% on him. And also, a bunch of his plays were running out of the pocket and getting rid of the ball rather than taking a loss. That counts against percentage completion, does it not, while also not giving an indication as to his accuracy.
Give him 3 extra completions for receivers dropping balls they should have caught and like 4 throwaways for being chased down by the defense (was it even higher?) and you're talking a MUCH different completion percentage. And, was his percentage completion higher last year because he took sacks or ran out of bounds for a loss rather than throwing the ball away?
Yet another game where we don't score a touchdown. Yet another game where end of half clock management is simply mond boggling.
I am just waiting for this program to excite me somehow and nothing about it is. I dont expect us to beat SEC teams but it sure would be nice just to get back to the days where we could punch above our weight
Wish we could've pulled it off, but I did see some encouraging things. The OL didn't look terrible, which feels like a big improvement over the last 3 years.
Secondly, it looked like the LBs were the most decisive in their movement since maybe the Tremaine Edmunds years.
The WRs were also making plays. Obviously a lot of things to clean up but the fight and physically we were playing with showed and I am looking forward to getting payback against Vanderbilt
I think there's a better than fair chance Drones will not be starting by October
Agreed. One prime example, they played prevent D, soft coverage and he went 0 for 4 on the last drive. He should have easily made those passes and should have kept it and run on one of the incompletions. That was a drive that should have gotten us to the red zone. Total head scratcher.
You may not have, but the point I was referencing said that Drones had regressed and was the worst version of himself.
And re-read your message -thought you were supporting the OP's sentiment I wrote above. I think he's a little better in some regards, definitely need to see.
Not enough talk going on about this. It's the most egregious part of the day to me. I cannot fucking believe he still hasn't figured out clock management.
Not all the incompletions or drops are equal though. Tayke Heath had a 3rd down drop that was chest high, straight to the hands but some of the other drops were made harder because the ball placement wasn't good.
There was the ball to a running back that would have had him running free down the sideline that he threw below the knees, which I remember him doing a lot last year (difference being Tuten had other worldly balance to make those catches).
I am not a film nerd, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some mechanical/footwork issues on the drops, because to your point, he has some great throws were only his receiver can make a play. I don't expect perfection, but there is still room for improvement.