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It’s been one of the most glaring deficiencies in over a decade.
Every time we lined up against a highly ranked team it was too obvious.
The exception being the domers when they were ranked.
But all that game did was showcase two teams that didn’t belong in the top 10.

Yes we had a few fast players. But team speed across the board was lacking.
 
We've definitely added speed, but how much of it matters we'll see. Right now, it's a list of unproven guys at this level, coming off an injury, or a straight up true freshman by and large.

It's a step in the right direction, but what's more important is how they pick up the schemes. If they know their roles (and they're effective) , everyone will look faster.
 
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We’ve needed speed. We need more speed. At more than just offensive positions, for sure.

But, judging from some of the posts on this thread and the rising, general optimism about what we now might do, we think speed was the primary factor that made us lose to MTSU and Duke and look like absolute **** in 80% of the snaps we watched last season?

I disagree. I believe coaching (offensive spacing, for example) and general team dysfunction/chaos made a slow-ish team look like they played with those 90’s blue ankle/training weights.
 
LuCane said:
We’ve needed speed. We need more speed. At more than just offensive positions, for sure.

But, judging from some of the posts on this thread and the rising, general optimism about what we now might do, we think speed was the primary factor that made us lose to MTSU and Duke and look like absolute **** in 80% of the snaps we watched last season?

I disagree. I believe coaching (offensive spacing, for example) and general team dysfunction/chaos made a slow-ish team look like they played with those 90’s blue ankle/training weights.
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Fair point, I believe it is both: speed + Air Raid-ish offense. That's the reason for my cautious optimism.
 
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LuCane said:
We’ve needed speed. We need more speed. At more than just offensive positions, for sure.

But, judging from some of the posts on this thread and the rising, general optimism about what we now might do, we think speed was the primary factor that made us lose to MTSU and Duke and look like absolute **** in 80% of the snaps we watched last season?

I disagree. I believe coaching (offensive spacing, for example) and general team dysfunction/chaos made a slow-ish team look like they played with those 90’s blue ankle/training weights.
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Yeah we could gave and should have beaten those teams last season. But the lack of speed is emblematic of a years long issue and also capped our ceiling. Thats why we could win 7,8,9 games etc. But couldnt go past that. Not enough game breaking x factors.
 
On paper this is the most talented team in well over a decade. We will see what that translates to. I do like opening with the battle of the Miami teams. That’s a decent team and the perfect opener to get ready for A&M coming to town. Mario needs to be unbeaten in September. No excuses.
 
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3FW said:
On paper this is the most talented team in well over a decade. We will see what that translates to. I do like opening with the battle of the Miami teams. That’s a decent team and the perfect opener to get ready for A&M coming to town. Mario needs to be unbeaten in September. No excuses.
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Wow, slow down. Let’s see what on-field product looks like. We’ve had plenty of paper tigers.
 
We should be the fastest team in the country every year. Both sides of the ball. Every year. We don't need different types of WRs or RBs, or DTs. We need speed everywhere. Be the best you can at the things you can do. It's better to be unstoppable at 1 thing in football, than well rounded in all aspects. Let's get back to running these guys off the field on Saturdays.
 
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Speed is one of the things that got us to where we were during the glory days. We caught the CFB world by surprise with it. The big dawgs realized what was going on and started recruiting speed themselves. They not only only caught up but blew by us as we languished in mediocrity for all the reasons we’re all acutely aware of.

The best we can do these days is catch back up with the big dogs speed wise so we can at least compete on a more level playing field.
 
LuCane said:
We’ve needed speed. We need more speed. At more than just offensive positions, for sure.

But, judging from some of the posts on this thread and the rising, general optimism about what we now might do, we think speed was the primary factor that made us lose to MTSU and Duke and look like absolute **** in 80% of the snaps we watched last season?

I disagree. I believe coaching (offensive spacing, for example) and general team dysfunction/chaos made a slow-ish team look like they played with those 90’s blue ankle/training weights.
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I view it like this:

Our offense shot us in the foot, our coaching sucked, they were not there mentally, and it was one of those rare bad days every big program has where they play with their food for too long.

The difference is, most teams usually pull it out due to having the speed and athleticism advantage that can prevail.

We had all the aforementioned things go wrong, with a negligible speed and talent advantage.

It was the nail in the coffin.
 
Lance Roffers said:
I’d sit there and watch this team last year and think to myself, “my goodness they are so slow. It’s incomprehensible how they can be slower than Middle Tennessee, yet here we are.”

Where it really goes overlooked is on special teams. On specials, your teams are filled with LB’s, TE’s, S’s.

Big bodies that run fast in a straight line. The glaring speed issues that were present on the teams was so frustrating to see happening. How previous HC’s let it get to that point I do not know, but it has to be rectified if you want to really dominate.

Miami hasn’t fielded even competent special teams in years.
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Remember when our kick-off team was full of burners that all ran 4.6 or better?
And they would get down the field before the kick returner even had a chance to get going.

It was actually fun watching those kids cover kick-offs.
 
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