Next year could be ugly

How??? We return 4 guys on the OL with over 14 starts a piece, We return 6 of our 7 WR with Coley being ALL ACC.. We return ALL ACC RB, A 4 year starter at TE in Walford. Ryan Williams has started at a BCS school as a true freshman. The defense should have one of the top secondaries in the country in ALL ACC Howard at CB and Gunter who has 3 picks with 2 Defensive TD should get some ALL ACC honors. With an emerging star in Artie Burns with a solid Crawford at Nickel with two good safeties in Bush and Jenkins. AQM and McCord should be feasting next season with 2 3 year starters in Pierre and Chickillo.. If Perryman returns you have an ALL ACC LB returning. With the soft schedule again we should.... win the coastal and 10 games.. Golden is going into his 4th season no more excuses..
 
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No reason to expect anything different from what we've seen. Really good not quite elite offense, mediocre at best to poor defense.
 
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Duke has 4-5 months to heal for spring camp. It's not that long for an ankle fracture. I would like to see him get less carries, but more catches and returns though. I think Gus will be a bruiser and if we get Yearby and flip either Cook/Michel our backfield will be loaded.

The WR's will be sick - especially if Griffin makes it in. Coley, Dorsett, Waters, Scott, Lewis, Griffin, Berrios and maybe Dixon is a lot of talent.

We lose Linder and Henderson (who was a part time player) Flowers, Feliciano and McDermott return, with guys like Bunche, Isadora, Gadbois, Odogwu, Gall, KC, Darling providing depth.

Perryman leaving isn't a done deal. It will be interesting to see where the advisory board projects him.

Our secondary will be mostly all upper classmen. Maybe Gunter or Burns play some safety for depth. We lose some depth on DL but there's talent coming up.

Morris was erratic this year. He locked on receivers and didn't spread the ball around in the second half of the season. He also did a poor job of helping the OL by flushing himself out instead of stepping up.

The biggest weakness is the DC. I don't like bashing him, but if you know the X's and O's of defense you realize why we need someone new.

Still excited about the future with the team.
 
With what we are losing, if Dorito is back, I see us at 8-4 or 9-3. Offense should be very good, defense about the same.
 
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So lets see our schedule next year:

Florida A&M
Arkansas State
Cincinnati
Nebraska
Duke
Florida State
North Carolina
Pittsburgh
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Virginia
Virginia Tech

This isn't exactly murderer's row we're dealing next year. The defense will still be a monster fire, but with all the weapons on our offense and either Williams or Olsen with the keys to the Mercedes, we can pretty much outscore any team on our schedule except FSU.

And if the defense is only marginally better either with better talent or a new DC, 10+ wins is within our capabilities.
 
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linder is a lose. sentrel is irrelevant. Olsen might be able to show us just how bad morris was.
 
You have to add some substance behind it... We have talent building I still think we are 2 years (2015) from dominance.


Starters in bold

QB - Williams/Olsen/Crow/Kayaa/Rosier
RB - Duke?/Crawford/Powell/Yearby?/? (Duke and Yearby broken ankle)
FB - Edwards/Tucker (Edwards will be our big back, Tucker wont get the ball much)
OT - Flowers/Gadbois/Gibbons RS
OG - Feliciano/Darling
C - McDermott/Knighton/Linder RS
OG - Isidora/Gall
OT - Bunche/Odogwu/McDermott
TE - Walford/Sandland/Dobard/Herndon RS
WR - Dorsett/Lewis/Berrios
WR - Coley/Scott/Brady/ (Dixon? if we land him... No WR gets RS except, maybe Langham)
WR - Waters/Griffin/Langham/Jones

DE/OLB - McCord/Muhammed/Smith/Harris
DT - Pierre/Hamilton/Moten/Valentine
NT - Wyche/Moore/King/Jenkins
DE - Chickillo/Kamalu/Thomas/Hoilett/Jackson
OLB - Perryman?/Armbrister/Grace
MLB - Kirby/Blue/Young
OLB - Figueroa/Owens/McCray
CB - Gunter/Burns/Hope
CB - Howard/Elder/RL3/Turner
Nickel CB - Crawford/Dortch/Bethel
S - Bush/Carter/Gray? (Gray has grade issues may not get in)
S - Jenkins/Fentress/Mays/Lockley? (haven't heard much about Lockley)

K - Goudis
P - ?
 
If we get good QB play, offense is ridiculously loaded. Duke AND Coley? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

And there are plenty of weapons and depth elsewhere.

Offense will be good with even adequate QB play, and I'm confident Olsen or Williams can at least provide that.

Defensively, we have to wait and see. A lot of questions need to be answered. I expect us to be better, but I don't think we make a huge leap.

Overall we'll be better.

So you think either Olsen or Williams will be a upgrade over morris


I'm not a big Morris fan.

I think we have a chance to be more efficient, but probably not as explosive with the deep ball.
 
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Im concerned about our depth at D tackle and linebacker. Aside from that, we will have our strongest roster in many years.

You don't think the O line will take a step back?

You think our starting DT's will be a significant upgrade? What about our Lbs with the loss of Perryman.

I think we have young talent but our roster is also overloaded in certain areas and weak in others.

For all the strength we have at WR & DB

We lack depth at RB, DL & LB

We lack stud playmakers at interior D line and LB.

Finally, we will be breaking in a new QB. We can't expect a Rapeis Winston like freshman performance.

OL might take a step back but not significant one IMHO

DB we good and upgrade at safety w healthy bush and Jenkins

RB we should have more depth w Yearby coming in. Gus more developed. Crawford and of course Duke

WR/TE loaded

LB. Fig and Kirby will be upgraded. Will be tough replacing Perryman. Wonder if McCord moves to LB? Grace? We might be better but w less depth

DL. Could we be worse? Our DEs should be better. DT .... Smdh

Punter. Drop off

QB. Who knows but it's most important
 
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If we get good QB play, offense is ridiculously loaded. Duke AND Coley? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

And there are plenty of weapons and depth elsewhere.

Offense will be good with even adequate QB play, and I'm confident Olsen or Williams can at least provide that.

Defensively, we have to wait and see. A lot of questions need to be answered. I expect us to be better, but I don't think we make a huge leap.

Overall we'll be better.

If we are better it's because we move up 10-15 spots. But we won't have a good defense and it will still frustrate the living crap out of us all year next year.
 
So lets see our schedule next year:

Florida A&M W
Arkansas State W
Cincinnati W
Nebraska toss up
Duke we will get revenge W
Florida State L
North Carolina W
Pittsburgh W
Georgia Tech W
Louisville toss up
Virginia W
Virginia Tech W

We can go 9-3, 10-2, or 11-1
 
So lets see our schedule next year:

Florida A&M
Arkansas State
Cincinnati
Nebraska
Duke
Florida State
North Carolina
Pittsburgh
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Virginia
Virginia Tech

This isn't exactly murderer's row we're dealing next year. The defense will still be a monster fire, but with all the weapons on our offense and either Williams or Olsen with the keys to the Mercedes, we can pretty much outscore any team on our schedule except FSU.

And if the defense is only marginally better either with better talent or a new DC, 10+ wins is within our capabilities.

Think we'll be able to sign and top notch free agents?
 
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