Is Thacker gone after the season?

[Gobees]

DB coaches weren't making the call to send 3 all night when blitzes were clearly disruptive.

Listening to the pre-game show, Bedford made a point of saying how many sacks UVA had given up and how vulnerable they were to that.
Did we have any at all? We clearly did not attack one of their biggest weaknesses, and keeping more guys back didn't help at all.
Coaching

 

[GTLiebs]

Before tonight.
Also 97th in third down defense.

and UVa was 96th in total defense. Before tonight.

Army was sixth in total defense.
Before today.

Makes sense then you hit the last and wonder if it all means anything in the end lol

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

Where was Biggers?

 

[swampsting]

No thanks - he was horrible too.

At least we held teams to 28 points or fewer in five straight games in 2018, and that's after the blowout over Louisville. Averaged 340 yards of total defense from Duke through Virginia games — and held three teams to 325 yards or fewer in that stretch.
I'd rather have that than what we're seeing now.
That defense actually was competent - not dominant but at least competent - the second half of the season in 2018.
This defense just keeps getting lit up like a coed at Panama City Beach for spring break.

 

[swampsting]

Makes sense then you hit the last and wonder if it all means anything in the end lol

hey, somebody asked about Woody. And Army's D has been good this year.
Until today.

 

[JJacket]

Where was Biggers?

Listed as having played.

 

[JJacket]

At least we held teams to 28 points or fewer in five straight games in 2018, and that's after the blowout over Louisville. Averaged 340 yards of total defense from Duke through Virginia games — and held three teams to 325 yards or fewer in that stretch.
I'd rather have that than what we're seeing now.
That defense actually was competent - not dominant but at least competent - the second half of the season in 2018.
This defense just keeps getting lit up like a coed at Panama City Beach for spring break.

Running clock to make stats look just "OK" is not an acceptable strategy.

 

[PressManCoverage]

Where was Biggers?

I wanted him and Makius Scott to play more, they haven't done worse than our older players , and when I see them Play they seem to be more active & disruptive than our Older players.

Might as well invest snaps in younger players that will have an ROI for 2022, 4th, 5th , and 6th yr Guys have done very little for us, except McGowan, maybe Ace

 

[GTFLETCH]

He should be...

With Geoff Collins and Dave Patnut

 

[stingmeyall]

Watched the condensed game on youtube. Geez we are still the absolute worst team in the NCAA at tackling...bar none. Our secondary couldn't cover anybody and it would be nice if they would just occassionally get their heads turned around on some throws. No pressure on the QB as usual and no vision by our coach how to blitz. As weak as our secondary is, what is the risk of bringing 6 or 7 on the pass rush? Oh and as gifted a athlete as Sims is he still is making too many freshman mistakes.

 

[cincyjacket]

The problem with the D is they leave receivers wide open.

They need to f the zone and play press man to man with a safety over the top.

 

[PressManCoverage]

Watched the condensed game on youtube. Geez we are still the absolute worst team in the NCAA at tackling...bar none. Our secondary couldn't cover anybody and it would be nice if they would just occassionally get their heads turned around on some throws. No pressure on the QB as usual and no vision by our coach how to blitz. As weak as our secondary is, what is the risk of bringing 6 or 7 on the pass rush? Oh and as gifted a athlete as Sims is he still is making too many freshman mistakes.

How many mistakes did he make in this Game, we all know about the Int, could you please list the rest of them or at least list the major mistakes?

 

[vapspwi]

How many mistakes did he make in this Game, we all know about the Int, could you please list the rest of them or at least list the major mistakes?

2 INTs (one negated by penalty) were bad decisions. There was one obvious situation where he kept instead of giving on a run inside. Couple of bad throws. But generally he and the offense played well.

JRjr

 

[knoxjacket]

2 INTs (one negated by penalty) were bad decisions. There was one obvious situation where he kept instead of giving on a run inside. Couple of bad throws. But generally he and the offense played well.

JRjr

His open field tackle of himself was the best tackle by anyone on our team today.

 

[PressManCoverage]

2 INTs (one negated by penalty) were bad decisions. There was one obvious situation where he kept instead of giving on a run inside. Couple of bad throws. But generally he and the offense played well.

JRjr

On the keeper instead of giving to the RB we don't know what he saw at ground level vs what we see at TV Angles, he might have seen a color flash from a defender, or The OC told him to pull and run to try and get an explosive play.

1 bad RPO Read, couple of Bad throws (all QBs have inaccurate throws), 1 INT that counted.

6 bad snaps out of 80 resulting in 1 TO, ask Dabo would he take that right now in a trade for DJ Ukelelei?

No one before the season would have guessed that Sims would have three 300 yd passing Gms at this point, two games where he was over 70% completions, and have accounted for 13 TDs total vs 5 Ints, maybe he's still at 1 fumble vs NIL (not sure), thru 7 Games he's a 63% passer, maybe with better TEs he gets more easy throws and is a 68-70% passer, maybe with a BETTER OL no tipped pass INTs.

If I told you before the season that Sims would be better than Spencer Rattler and DJ Ukelelei thru 7 games, would you have taken that, or tried to have me committed?

 

[stingmeyall]

How many mistakes did he make in this Game, we all know about the Int, could you please list the rest of them or at least list the major mistakes?

Didn't say major mistakes. Said inconsistent tendecies...like a freshman.

 

[vapspwi]

On the keeper instead of giving to the RB we don't know what he saw at ground level vs what we see at TV Angles, he might have seen a color flash from a defender, or The OC told him to pull and run to try and get an explosive play.

1 bad RPO Read, couple of Bad throws (all QBs have inaccurate throws), 1 INT that counted.

6 bad snaps out of 80 resulting in 1 TO, ask Dabo would he take that right now in a trade for DJ Ukelelei?

No one before the season would have guessed that Sims would have three 300 yd passing Gms at this point, two games where he was over 70% completions, and have accounted for 13 TDs total vs 5 Ints, maybe he's still at 1 fumble vs NIL (not sure), thru 7 Games he's a 63% passer, maybe with better TEs he gets more easy throws and is a 68-70% passer, maybe with a BETTER OL no tipped pass INTs.

If I told you before the season that Sims would be better than Spencer Rattler and DJ Ukelelei thru 7 games, would you have taken that, or tried to have me committed?

I was at the game watching the handoff play from the back side, albeit from 150 yards away. :-)

JRjr

 

[aeromech]

They both have to find new Jobs if I'm CGC.

I also find one guy to coach the 2ndary, like most Programs.

I still can figure out all the mental mistakes by guys that are 4 & 5 years removed from HS

You need to ask yourself if it is mental mistakes or if they are doing what they are being told to do. If you are told to give a 10-15 yard cushion and that is what you do, that is not a mental mistake.

 

[PressManCoverage]

From another GT Fan (lv20gt)


FWIW since returning against UNC (counting it as half a game) Sims is averaging 305 yards per game passing on 9.28 yards per attempt on ~63.5%, 9 TDs to 5 INTs, with 82 yards rushing on 6.8 ypc, 4 TDs. Each of the last 3 games have seen him pass for more yards than in any game last year. His INTs are still an issue but he has improved from about 1 INT every 20 pass attempts to once every 25. That still isn't good but the production(9.28 ypa ~top 10 in nation, 305 ypg would be 12th, and 82 ypg rushing would be second nationally for QBs) more than makes up for it, especially considering how young he is. It really is a shame some fans can't seem to understand how good he is and how high his ceiling is.

My comments:

Too many of our Fans are too quick to repeat something they hear from lazy part time Announcers that get tapped to do our Games on the crappy ACCN (my God Freshman mistakes, oh the humanity...... tic of course)

But we are getting relatively great FB from Sims (not perfect FB)

Ask yourself how bad would things be if we had just your run of the mill ACC QB?

Ask yourself what would our Record be if the other 21 starting positions were as relatively as productive as Sims has been thru 7 games, what would our Record be?

I think we would be 7-0 if every other starter was as productive (even with Sims' mistakes) at their position as he has been at QB.

When you put things in perspective, that's what makes all the Blame Sims, Blame PNode talk sound so crazy IMO

 

[aeromech]

But back to the Defense in this Thacker thread...

Could rushing 3 and dropping 8 be the defense version of "ripping the band-aid off"?? Once we get our 3 NFL bound defensive linemen maybe the defensive scheme we are seeing will make sense. This defense might be beautiful once we have NFL stars at every position. Is this an NFL defense that recruits want to play in and we just need to be patient?