Is This Year a Rebuilding Year?

[Deke]

But what about WR? That's what I'm most concerned about. Will we have big play pass potential? Because honestly, as good as we were at the line and on the perimeter last year, it wouldn't have mattered had we not had Smelter and Waller to air it out to.

Brad "White men CAN jump" Stewart or "Woody" for short.

 

[gtrower]

We'll lose most of our secondary.

It's funny, we lose basically our entire starting secondary next year, but I'm much more worried about losing Gotsis/JHD on the DL. I'm pretty high on Step, the Austins, Griffin, and the frosh we have coming in (particularly Wiggins and Gray). But relying on Gamble/Kallon to anchor our DL next year is worrisome.

That being said, our '16 offense should be one of the better units the ACC has seen in recent history.

 

[ibeeballin]

I'm not worried about ABs and BBs- they'll learn the positions they need to learn and we'll be fine there.

But what about WR? That's what I'm most concerned about. Will we have big play pass potential? Because honestly, as good as we were at the line and on the perimeter last year, it wouldn't have mattered had we not had Smelter and Waller to air it out to.

big pass play? Yes. Having someone who can create space and make the tough catch on 3rd & 6+ is the bigger question in my opinion

 

[white&gold]

"Rebuilding Year?"

 

[Ish]

We beat uga and msu without smelter.

 

[ScionOfSouthland]

Offense is always OK - even in our worst offensive years under Johnson we were OK.

Defense is the problem. Roof is trying to build depth, no doubt, but we will see how that depth performs as the year goes on.

This year is no rebuilding year - we've got something like 250 starts on defense coming into this season. Getting younger guys into the rotation early will be important.

 

[floridajacket]

Watch the second half of the NC State game for basically this year's team. Jeune had a bunch of good catches, and has only gotten better with full spring and fall practices. The young AB's looked solid enough, even though NC State left in their starters.

Thinking back to 2012 and 2013, the "bad perimeter blocking" was probably more that CPJ was trying to do too much with the new wrinkles for VL. The AB's now have gotten more focused reps in practice for the base TO offense.

The only position not shown in second half of NC State game was BB. My feeling is we'll be fine there. BB doesn't seem as different schematically than what BB's learned at Stanford or in high school.

And the defense will be fine. The real concern: whether our team last year needed turnovers too much. Turnovers are generally more random than yardage. The Pitt game would have definitely been closer without that crazy 1st quarter. At least for our last four games though we didn't have to rely as much on positive turnover margins.

 

[sports]

I don't particularly understand the enthusiasm surrounding the secondary. Call me crazy but even with the returners, they didn't exactly play lights out last year. Why is this year different? Enlighten me plz

 

[GTTerrific]

"somewhat" different

Ha! I noticed that too!

 

[Deke]

I don't particularly understand the enthusiasm surrounding the secondary. Call me crazy but even with the returners, they didn't exactly play lights out last year. Why is this year different? Enlighten me plz

I'd say they played pretty well last year (especially on the turnover front), but I agree they weren't lights out. I believe the thought is that last year they didn't get a ton of help out from the pass rush though, and pretty much everyone is expecting that to be better this year (more depth, experience, and JHD)

 

[jacket67]

In the absence of an effective pass rush, a good QB and receiver combination can always beat a good secondary. There is only so much the defense can do to prevent a catch. That forces the defense to hope for bad throws, dropped passes, offensive penalties, or a red zone stop. That pretty much sums up our defense last year.

 

[ScionOfSouthland]

In the absence of an effective pass rush, a good QB and receiver combination can always beat a good secondary. There is only so much the defense can do to prevent a catch. That forces the defense to hope for bad throws, dropped passes, offensive penalties, or a red zone stop. That pretty much sums up our defense last year.

+1

Roof is saying he will continue the aggressive play from last year post-UNC, so here's hoping we can get to the QB with the front four.

 

[Mike1967]

I think GT will go 9-3 in 2015 so all will be good.

My Predictions for ACC 2015
Atlantic Division

1)Clemson
2)FSU
3)Louisville
4)NCSU
5)Boston College
6)Syracuse
7)Wake Forest

Coastal Division

1)Georgia Tech
2)Pittsburgh
3)Virginia Tech
4)Miami
5)Duke
6)North Carolina
7)Virginia

ACC Championship

GT over Clemson

 

[KrazieJacket]

Something doesn't compute. People are saying Roof likes to run more of an attacking scheme like the last half of the season. CPJ was the one who said he wanted more of an aggressive D after the UNC loss last year. I never recall Roof being the attacking type as a DC. (Don't remember much of his D at Auburn).

 

[gtrower]

Something doesn't compute. People are saying Roof likes to run more of an attacking scheme like the last half of the season. CPJ was the one who said he wanted more of an aggressive D after the UNC loss last year. I never recall Roof being the attacking type as a DC. (Don't remember much of his D at Auburn).

http://georgiatech.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/12/for-georgia-tech-defense-aggressive-style-coming/

This likely doesn’t rate as much of a surprise, but Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Ted Roof plans to bring an aggressive approach to scheming and play-calling this season.

“We’re going to call it how we need to call it,” Roof said. But, “we’ll go into the games now thinking being aggressive.”

 

[TechFan85]

Bump?

 

[05GTCorndog]

Quality Bump IMO.

 

[coit]

I was gonna bump earlier this week but I just linked instead because you never know what you'll get banned for around here. Post #2 says it all.

 

[Yukonwreck]

And according to CPJ, nobody knows how to block on the perimeter.

Then teach them. Only a suggestion.

 

[johncu]

Looks like there were some good predictions in this thread. I was thinking 9-3 before the season, and I'll drop that to 8-4 now because I didn't think we would lose the Duke game. Anything less than that and I will be disappointed, anything more and I will be pleasantly surprised because it means we win out from here and beat at least 2/3 of FSU, Clemson, and UGA.

This is definitely a rebuilding year in a lot of ways, if you think about who we lost. Now that injuries have started to plague us, this is officially a rebuilding year. We are absolutely ravaged at the offensive skill positions at this point.