Key Losses of talent on our 2014 opponents

[Fly1]

FWIW..

Nebraska is losing 11 starters.

O-line: lose 4 of 5 starters
WR: lose their leading WR
TE: They played a few TEs, but the "starter" was a senior
QB: Taylor Martinez is gone, but he missed a large part of the season. Two QBs split reps the rest of the season....here are their numbers
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Tommy Armstrong Jr. 68 131 966 51.9 7.37 9 8 124.3
Ron Kellogg III 80 134 919 59.7 6.86 6 3 127.6

Kellogg was a senior, so the starting QB in '14 will probably be Armstrong. Armstrong was the starter against UGA in the Gator Bowl.
At RB they have pretty good depth. Ameer Abdullah, a junior, rushed for over 1600 yards, but is returning for his senior season.

Defense 4-3
D-Line: looks like they lose 2 out of 4 starters, but like many schools, they platoon guys in and out at d line.
LB: all starters are returning. LBs on their 2-deep for the Gator Bowl don't boast great size.
DB: they lose 3 of 4 starters.

Overall...under Pelini Nebraska is an up and down team. They do lose a lot of starting talent, so it'll be interesting to see how they play next season. We do play them at Nebraska, and with the history Miami and Nebraska have....I'm sure Lincoln will be loud and ready for Miami to come to town.

Bottom line
Al has hands full with Louisville and Nebraska early. He needs to deliver in both games. Nebraska's WRs aren't that good, and our WRs should have an advantage over the Cornhusker DBs. Miami will need DORITO to stop Abdullah and contain Armstrong. He is an athletic QB. Pelini is a defensive minded coach, so Coley will have his hands full.....can we please stop having the guard tap the center...and have the center stop snapping the ball on a consistent and predictable cadence.

We can win, but our Defensive play, the play of our QB.....and having a healthy Duke will be the key.

 

[poncho0091]

You know the canes are at the top of their game when our fans are counting player losses of our opponents as a key factor to a win... smh

NEGGED

Every team no matter what looks a this ****, stfu

I've never looked at this unless it was a teddy Bridgewater level type player. For example, I'll be watching when Winston leaves FSU, other than that, don't really care.

 

[kipsmithers]

i know that the board is still in FSU envy mode, but they are losing an insane amount of talent! plus we get a bye before facing them at home.

they're losing their:

best 2 RBs
2 of their best 3 WRs
their best DT
their best Safeties in Brooks and Joyner
their best LBs in Smith and Jones
and their best OL in Stork

Clueless is what you are.

Wilder and Freeman are not better than Karlos Williams
Joyner didn't even play safety last year...true freshman Jalen Ramsey did
Jones didn't play LB last year either he came off the edge
and no Stork isn't even in the same ballpark as Cameron Erving.

I really don't like when guys think they know something and truly have no clue.

 

[SmokeyRone]

If this was really a rebuilding year for UNC, they should be well past us in 2014, and I read somewhere that VT may have a real QB next year. UL has Petrino, so even without Bridgewater they can run a train on us, and FSU is light year ahead of us.

This year was the weakest year in history for the Coastal.

 

[Mico Jones]

i know that the board is still in FSU envy mode, but they are losing an insane amount of talent! plus we get a bye before facing them at home.

they're losing their:

best 2 RBs
2 of their best 3 WRs
their best DT
their best Safeties in Brooks and Joyner
their best LBs in Smith and Jones
and their best OL in Stork

Clueless is what you are.

Wilder and Freeman are not better than Karlos Williams
Joyner didn't even play safety last year...true freshman Jalen Ramsey did
Jones didn't play LB last year either he came off the edge
and no Stork isn't even in the same ballpark as Cameron Erving.

I really don't like when guys think they know something and truly have no clue.

LMAO.

Williams is not a better RB than Freeman. He was 3rd string for a reason.

Joyner is a stud and was the heart and soul of that secondary.

Jones's talent and versatility is what allowed Pruitt to run his 3-3-5 hybrid defense as per the man himself.

Irving is a monster but Stork is an all ACC caliber center and will be missed.

PUNCI's point is that they are big losses.

and that's not to mention the biggest loss of them all

TELVIN SMITH

 

[PUNCICANE]

i know that the board is still in FSU envy mode, but they are losing an insane amount of talent! plus we get a bye before facing them at home.

they're losing their:

best 2 RBs
2 of their best 3 WRs
their best DT
their best Safeties in Brooks and Joyner
their best LBs in Smith and Jones
and their best OL in Stork

Clueless is what you are.

Wilder and Freeman are not better than Karlos Williams
Joyner didn't even play safety last year...true freshman Jalen Ramsey did
Jones didn't play LB last year either he came off the edge
and no Stork isn't even in the same ballpark as Cameron Erving.

I really don't like when guys think they know something and truly have no clue.

LMAO.

Williams is not a better RB than Freeman. He was 3rd string for a reason.

Joyner is a stud and was the heart and soul of that secondary.

Jones's talent and versatility is what allowed Pruitt to run his 3-3-5 hybrid defense as per the man himself.

Irving is a monster but Stork is an all ACC caliber center and will be missed.

PUNCI's point is that they are big losses.

and that's not to mention the biggest loss of them all

TELVIN SMITH

and not to mention Brooks. Brooks is the least heralded of the bunch, but should have easily been named the Defensive MVP in the championship game. He was everywhere on that field and played MUCH better then PJ. PJ did make the single biggest play on defense, but Brooks balled out!

 

[kipsmithers]

i know that the board is still in FSU envy mode, but they are losing an insane amount of talent! plus we get a bye before facing them at home.

they're losing their:

best 2 RBs
2 of their best 3 WRs
their best DT
their best Safeties in Brooks and Joyner
their best LBs in Smith and Jones
and their best OL in Stork

Clueless is what you are.

Wilder and Freeman are not better than Karlos Williams
Joyner didn't even play safety last year...true freshman Jalen Ramsey did
Jones didn't play LB last year either he came off the edge
and no Stork isn't even in the same ballpark as Cameron Erving.

I really don't like when guys think they know something and truly have no clue.

LMAO.

Williams is not a better RB than Freeman. He was 3rd string for a reason.

Joyner is a stud and was the heart and soul of that secondary.

Jones's talent and versatility is what allowed Pruitt to run his 3-3-5 hybrid defense as per the man himself.

Irving is a monster but Stork is an all ACC caliber center and will be missed.

PUNCI's point is that they are big losses.

and that's not to mention the biggest loss of them all

TELVIN SMITH

and not to mention Brooks. Brooks is the least heralded of the bunch, but should have easily been named the Defensive MVP in the championship game. He was everywhere on that field and played MUCH better then PJ. PJ did make the single biggest play on defense, but Brooks balled out!

Last time I checked not only did Brooks get flattened on that screen pass for a TD. He missed an assignment at the start on that wide open play and got lucky Auburn missed it...but got beat later by Melvin Ray and gave up that long TD. that's not "BALLING OUT".

and yea FSU lost their whole defense the year before and a few offensive starters...how'd it work out for them the next year? oh yea they won it all. this talent lost **** is irrelevant.

 

[Copeseticman]

I'm hoping for only 3 losses from these four games: @ Louisville, @ Nebraska, @ Va Tech and vs FSU.

 

[BWCD]

If it's Mark Leal that takes over for VT at QB, that's a good sign for any VT opponent. He's not that great, and unless he has a spectacular offseason and develops greatly, he's not much of a threat thru the air nor running it. He's the elder statesman, so he'll get first crack at it.

Now, if one of their younger players coming in (i.e.--Andrew Ford) can win the job, they could be pretty good thru the air. Also, this offseason will probably help VT find a consistent RB--and heal up some of the younger backs that have been perpetually injured for them. They just lose one OL also, RT Andrew Miller.

Defensively, they lose most of their starting front 4 to graduation, only returning Luther Maddy who decided to not declare early. Dadi Nicholas will help then try to reload there also. Jack Tyler was a SR, and their leader at LB. Kyshoen Jarrett will be returning at S after deciding to stay for his SR season. So...VT will have questions on the DL and LB, but their secondary should be stout once again.

 

[rok]

FSU won't be quite as good on defense but their offense will more than make up for it.