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Diaz shifting gears to Pitt following Clemson loss

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I bet you anything, during a bye week, the first seven days, important components of this collective team can be found doing cart wheels between the Versailles and La Carreta, for complementary cafecitos y croquttas, with a few empanadas in between. Then on day eight....
 
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terdferguson said:
Head scratching comments from Diaz. Just say, we haven't gotten it done coming out of byes and I'm going to reevaluate how we prepare during those weeks.
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He takes the bye week thing personally because it's a direct affront to him and his staff. You had twice as long to prepare as Clemson, yet Clemson look 100x more prepared than you. That's a shot to the bow, and that's why he gets prickly over it.
 
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thisu said:
You speak like they‘re mutually exclusive. Lots of mouthbreathers wanting to argue the meaning of a word rather than substance.
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No I don't. The effort was there. It was just ineffectually.

This week is the concern coming out flat. We can't afford a hangover.
 
NorthEastCane said:
No I don't. The effort was there. It was just ineffectually.

This week is the concern coming out flat. We can't afford a hangover.
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You can have some effort and be flat. Ivey‘s effort, or lacktherof, was **** poor on the long Etienne run. Our WR failing to even try to fight for 50/50 balls was a total lack of effort. Our WR running routes and QB completing passes 3-4 yards short of the sticks on 3rd down was poor effort. On D, failure to study film for two weeks and then read and diagnose plays during games is a lack of effort.
 
Diaz said. “Sam gave up the first touchdown of the game, but other than that, we felt they played well.

Oh, you mean the backside screen misdirection where the ENTIRE offensive line leaked out and Brooks was left 1 on 5? That's on him? Kind of a BS comment. Especially considering the lack of accountability on other players.
 
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With their loss to Clemson coming out of a bye week, UM is now 0-4 under Diaz following a bye, something Diaz doesn’t put a lot of stock in.

“I get the narrative there

This is not a narrative. Its a mathematical fact. You've lost every game coming out of a bye. A narrative would be you've lost every game coming out of a bye thus you suck as coach and should be fired. Stop the BS.
 
thisu said:
You can have some effort and be flat. Ivey‘s effort, or lacktherof, was **** poor on the long Etienne run. Our WR failing to even try to fight for 50/50 balls was a total lack of effort. Our WR running routes and QB completing passes 3-4 yards short of the sticks on 3rd down was poor effort. On D, failure to study film for two weeks and then read and diagnose plays during games is a lack of effort.
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We'll just have to disagree with the definition of coming out flat then.

Ivey is what he is. Didn't play bad, took a bad angle and flailed. The WRs, they also are what they are. They don't have the skills to fight for contested balls and are better catching in stride. Completing passes 3-4 yards short? They weren't just falling down upon completion. Clemson was protecting the first down marker and have several guys positioned to gang tackle. The defenses failure to diagnose plays? They're coached to penetrate and go for tackles for loss without regard for gap integrity allowing the OL to get to the LBs that are out of position from pre-snap alignment. You have to be Ray f*ckin Lewis to make many of those plays.

Nothing you cited was coming out flat or a lack of effort. It's a failure to recognize your weaknesses and prepare a plan to compensate for it (as best you can).

Now that may add up to a flat performance but that's not what most think of when you say "they came out flat". You can say that's just semantics. But it's a world of difference if you're going to talk about corrective action rather than call them a bunch of jags that don't care.
 
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NorthEastCane said:
We'll just have to disagree with the definition of coming out flat then.

Ivey is what he is. Didn't play bad, took a bad angle and flailed. The WRs, they also are what they are. They don't have the skills to fight for contested balls and are better catching in stride. Completing passes 3-4 yards short? They weren't just falling down upon completion. Clemson was protecting the first down marker and have several guys positioned to gang tackle. The defenses failure to diagnose plays? They're coached to penetrate and go for tackles for loss without regard for gap integrity allowing the OL to get to the LBs that are out of position from pre-snap alignment. You have to be Ray f*ckin Lewis to make many of those plays.

Nothing you cited was coming out flat or a lack of effort. It's a failure to recognize your weaknesses and prepare a plan to compensate for it (as best you can).

Now that may add up to a flat performance but that's not what most think of when you say "they came out flat". You can say that's just semantics. But it's a world of difference if you're going to talk about corrective action rather than call them a bunch of jags that don't care.
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Not caring and flat is different as well. You can care or be a JAG, but still play uninspired football. It’s as if our offense knew they were beat after the first two drives. Our D was flat after the first drive. Sure, some players had a play or two, maybe more, where they went above and beyond physically, but most of their heads didn’t appear to be in it soon after kickoff.
 
Diaz is not the answer and it is staring at us in the face.

Covid might help keep recruits home but it will mean we get Diaz for longer.
 
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I think his old man’s speech writer wrote that BS cause the whole interview was filled with deflection..
 
cooks002 said:
Diaz said. “Sam gave up the first touchdown of the game, but other than that, we felt they played well.

Oh, you mean the backside screen misdirection where the ENTIRE offensive line leaked out and Brooks was left 1 on 5? That's on him? Kind of a BS comment. Especially considering the lack of accountability on other players.
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Not the first time he's thrown players under the bus to protect his butt-buddies on the staff.
 
AlphaMarshan said:
Venables made the right call against us. He stacked the box and threw a lot of blitzes at King and knew our WRs weren't good enough to make 1-on-1 plays against his corners in space. And he was right.
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I agree he was right that’s why I wrote my post to provide a counter strategy to what Venerable did and to what we are gonna see going forward.
 
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