CPJ Weekly Press Conference

Akinji07 said:
No, I just don't understand it is all. You're predicting a 10-2 with a loss to uga. I think Clemson, FSU, VT and UGA are all gonna be hard games. I just can't find any other reason than conditioning for why you would pick uga as the only other loss. Unless you actually think they're a top 10 team ahead of the others.
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Well, UGA is the only one of those teams I haven't watched at all. Wasn't in the mood to watch the USC game yesterday.

Games I watched for Clemson, FSU and VT were Louisville, BC and tOSU. I'm not exactly overwhelmed by those teams, except for FSU's defense. GT has also beaten UGA two times in 15 years, with a number of victories against Clemson and a few against VT during that time.

The issue with predicting games is every game is normally distributed around the point spread, with an SD of 15 points. So to have a 90% chance of beating a team, you have to be around 18 points better on average.

I said 10-2 trying to think of which teams Tech is worse than and which Tech is better. If Tech and the other team gives their mean performance, then Tech may only be worse on average than UGA. With the variance added in though, Tech will play below average in some of the games they're favored. So 8-4 to 9-3 may be more likely.

Man, I just made an off-the-cuff comment which I thought was being optimistic. I didn't put much thought into it. Sorry to have pissed you off so much.
 
ContactBuzz said:
Did he take any blame or just put it on all of the players?
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I guess you could say he put it mostly on the players.

The question is, what if it is mostly the players' fault, at least in terms of execution vs. playcalling? You call a play that clearly would have worked with the correct assignments, then it's hard to blame playcalling. Especially if it's a play, like Skov on the 3rd and 1, which should be very simple to execute.

Maybe he should have taken more responsibility for how he worked with the psychology of players on that big stage. That's most likely where he really failed, although it's easier said than done to get a 19 or 20 year old to tune out the noise.
 
You tried your best, guys. My fault not yours. Let's go get ice cream.

- Brian Gregory
 
ContactBuzz said:
Did he take any blame or just put it on all of the players?
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He took blame for the players missing their assignments, and not getting them prepared to know what to do.

:biggrin:

Said we missed over 70 assignments, which was 3 times worse than any other game since he's been at Tech.
 
Aside from opening his eyes, running to the correct side of the QB would help
 
Every game from here on in will be a war. Duke, Pitt, VT, Miami, UNC, etc. We have to play better or we can lose every game left on our schedule. I think we will play better and win most of them. But what I think has no relevance to what will actually happen.

Football is mostly physical with just enough mental to muck up the works if your don't have your mind right. We need to get our mind right and play fast and physical. If we do that we got a good chance against anybody. If we don't we can lose to anybody.

Go Jackets!
 
beej67 said:
He took blame for the players missing their assignments, and not getting them prepared to know what to do.

:biggrin:

Said we missed over 70 assignments, which was 3 times worse than any other game since he's been at Tech.
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Maybe if we weren't lining up 3 wide all game. Play the ööööing bread and butter.
 
buzztheirazz said:
Maybe if we weren't lining up 3 wide all game. Play the ööööing bread and butter.
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I trust CPJ and his play calling. I, too, caught myself saying 'what the hell are we doing' during the game from a formation standpoint, but CPJ knows a lot more about football and his offense than I do.

I think the three problems were (in order):
1. The players simply got beat and outmatched - this will happen from time to time. You can't out-scheme getting beat. It's football, and it happens.
2. After the above, we also missed assignments and didn't play sound football
3. CPJ didn't make enough offensive adjustments. Formation or not, we couldn't find anything that worked.
 
buzztheirazz said:
Maybe if we weren't lining up 3 wide all game. Play the ööööing bread and butter.
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No way dude, that's the one adjustment that worked. They had funky alignments, and when we pushed it 3 wide they reverted back to the 3-4.

We just have to COMPLETE PASSES.

Oh and not miss seventy blocking assignments.
 
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