Well, I can put into words now... First and foremost, we´re not a bad football team. We are talented, but we still have a mixture of lack of talent, bad situational awareness and simply want it too much sometimes. We´re decent, we just are not there yet.
1. CBs need to be a focus in the portal. I dont understand why Porter Jr. didnt cover Walker, as it became evident that Davis cannot do it. Davis had his best game vs the Aggies playing inside in the box as a nickel and we trot him out wide. We do not seem to be comfortable playing either Brown (unless he has an injury, ******* play him) or Richard (Greentree All-American at this point). We need the young talent, sure, but if there is someone who wants to take the final step towards the NFL, throw the kitchen sink at him.
2. We just about made every mistake from a players perspective and at some point, it will catch up. Ironically it was not just the expected ones (Keontra Smith), Matt Lee had bad snaps throughout the whole game, Henry Parrish fumbled in the endzone and TVD had a pick where he simply wanted it too much. Third quarter, after UNCs TD and our fumble, we played tight on offense, essentially repeating the mistakes Mack Brown mentioned at halftime with his team (which was also true). The ironic thing is, we had UNC on the heels, that defense was nowhere to be found. The roster will continue to have players being shuffled out and replaced with new ones and it will happen next year.
3. I have read tons of things in regards to the inability of the TE being included. There are two reasons as to why this happens, 1. Riley Williams is the only legit receiving option that we have here and he is a freshman who simply is not there yet (shocker, very few Freshman TE are) and 2. TVD is playing in a progression read system whilst not making the reads. This is who he is and that wont change, hence why I believe he wont declare for the NFL. However, some of the comments on here regarding his play are downright shocking. The TD pass to George at the end of the second quarter is the best throw I will see from a QB this week, if not this month. I am not sure if any of you are ready to believe that he is the best option we have, but some in here expose their brutal lack of knowledge about offensive football with the comments they have made yesterday.
4. I am not sure why Dawson has scaled down on the diversity of the run game. I dont see the pulling guards, I dont see McCoy being out there, I dont see split zone anymore. Not sure whats happening here, but we had some tremendous success running the ball with moving either TE or OL and that has gone away completely. Might wanna come back to that.
Overall, as I said, this is not a bad team. I get the frustration at this point and it sucks even more given that we beat ourselves yesterday, however, I dont get people going "the season is over", "Cristobal sucks, we need to fire him", "TVD needs to be benched"... like, after 4-0, this fanbase pretended to have the biggest balls in America and two losses were enough to have a mass castration event happening. This team is still in a transitioning period, from a talent perspective, we are not there yet and coaching wise, one change absolutely has to be made (and probably will, I do not see Addae being retained
@Memnon after all of the smoke from last year and the Raymond talk the year prior). If the players had the same attitude that a lot of this fanbase would have after a loss, we would quit one loss into the season and just collapse every time some adversity hits.
It is Clemson next week and we either have a loyal fanbase supporting the troops or we have the same sissys that we always have. Its up to you.
