Improvement

BainbridgeJacket said:
We've had flashes before, but it requires us to maintain perfect execution and, let's be honest, our team's preparation is terrible and we shoot ourselves in the foot and the game gets blown open in the fourth. It's happened 3 previous years, so no, I don't see improvement.
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Prep requires lots of drills, which do not happen in practice for some reason. It should be muscle memory for the players and instead there's delays and causes errors.
 
I think our depth (or lack of) was exposed. Now, with that said, the majority of the teams, we'll face won't be loaded with 4 and 5 star recruits, sitting as 2nd string. Only UGA, will be the other team, that we'll face with such talent.

I would focus on these areas, more than anything else

* Blocking. Our blocking was terrible. No way to sugar coat it. Blocking will be the be all, end all, for this team, this season. Which is why I put it first.
* Penalties. This is barely #2... almost #1. We made too many stupid, boneheaded errors. We have no discipline on this team. Which is bad.
* Tackling. We need to learn how to wrap up. I think there is too much emphasis on the "big hit". We need to go back to basics, with tackling
* Targeting still remains to be the dumbest thing in football. If it was about "player safety", it would be called both ways. But, I digress.
* QB play. Starting the game with a lame duck INT, was stupid. I get it. It was a scripted play. However; Sims needs to be able to recognize when plays just aren't there. He has skills. He has talent. He, however; does not have the football IQ, needed for QB.
* LBs. Our Linebacker corps is pretty subpar. We have little to no speed. We will be burned, because of this.
* Coaching still not improved. Collins has no game management skills. None, zilch, nada.... We still have no coaches that can adapt to what teams are doing. We keep doing the same things, over and over. Whether what we're doing is working or not... does not matter. We just keep doing it.
* Lastly, ST.. We fail on special teams. We need to commit to some better focus on that. We made too many errors, that cost us points.

I will finish with this. Make no mistake, Clemson's defense will the best to 2nd best defense, we will see all year. They WILL have a top 5 defense. They have 7 NFL studs, at the min. on this team. So, us not moving the ball, should not of been a shock. I am more curious to see how games 3, 4 and 5 go for us. If we win 2 of those 3, I will feel good about the season. If we lose all 3 and are sitting at 1-4, I hope they fire Collins is the most embarrassing way.
 
erikill said:
Prep requires lots of drills, which do not happen in practice for some reason. It should be muscle memory for the players and instead there's delays and causes errors.
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I've watched a fair amount of pre-game warm ups as I did last night. We're way too loosely structured in our pre-game routines which begs the question is it the same in practice. Clemson was very businesslike, we seemed to be all over the map everybody on their own page. Then we came out jumping up and down on the bench, Clemson all focused on the sideline. It makes a difference & it starts with coaching/ coaching discipline, organizational ability.
 
In looking at all he miscues and missteps CGC has made since arriving, how would we even know if he is smart enough to continue something that actually works and contributes to winning games? I do not want to see some kind of random improvement enough to get stuck in a longer, already bad contract.
 
Liberty said:
I've watched a fair amount of pre-game warm ups as I did last night. We're way too loosely structured in our pre-game routines which begs the question is it the same in practice. Clemson was very businesslike, we seemed to be all over the map everybody on their own page. Then we came out jumping up and down on the bench, Clemson all focused on the sideline. It makes a difference & it starts with coaching/ coaching discipline, organizational ability.
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I have it on good authority that it's this way practice/warm-ups/in general. I sat last night behind a GA State starting OL (redshirt soph) who was giving me updates from his HS buddies in the locker room. Sounds like the pre-game speech was lackluster (very Ted Lasso-y) and even halftime was worse. Collins I don't think has the necessary harda$$ attitude to be a HC, and even he said GA State is stricter for drills. I asked him if he wanted to play for us haha.
 
erikill said:
I have it on good authority that it's this way practice/warm-ups/in general. I sat last night behind a GA State starting OL (redshirt soph) who was giving me updates from his HS buddies in the locker room. Sounds like the pre-game speech was lackluster (very Ted Lasso-y) and even halftime was worse. Collins I don't think has the necessary harda$$ attitude to be a HC, and even he said GA State is stricter for drills. I asked him if he wanted to play for us haha.
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There's been so much smoke about disjointed and chaotic practices, it almost has to be true. It would explain so much.
 
Liberty said:
I think we have 1 very good offensive player maybe 2, plus one middle of pack one possibly a couple more.

Dontae Smith is a solid back, maybe not Mason good, but he's an an above average ACC RB if he ever gets utilized. Not sure what's up with our OC shying away from players and where we're effective. I like McCollum, Jenkins looked the part and Carter are a good trio. Then there's Sims, talent but still has difficulties with footwork.

Sims is saddled with working behind an OL that can't even find the desire to play every play, unbelievable bouts of loafing yet nobody pulls them out & makes their ass ride the pine. Can someone please throw away the KEY!
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On OL--I think at least one FRosh (walkon) started on OL. 2 more had first start. ,I believe.Easy to see problems --but why? no talent?
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
There's been so much smoke about disjointed and chaotic practices, it almost has to be true. It would explain so much.
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yeah we keep hearing it, and we can see the impact(s) since CGC is overruling his coordinators
 
AlaGold said:
On OL--I think at least one FRosh (walkon) started on OL. 2 more had first start. ,I believe.Easy to see problems --but why? no talent?
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I understand the youth, getting beat by a physically superior DL, etc but I do not understand taking plays off. We saw it previous years with WRs not running their full routes, we've seen DBs just hanging out instead of getting in position if the ball carrier breaks a tackle, we've seen players "too good to block" & now continuing to see it in year 4 with some OL basically walking around aimlessly on the field with no purpose in life. That ain't right & they are able to stay in the game despite it being so flagrant we see it without aid of a replay. Imagine what the back up thinks.
 
BallCoach said:
Don’t mind Coach letting clock run out before half. Not like we were killing it in O. Seen too many times the offense throws a pick….
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I wouldn't mind if they had punted, we got the ball, and then we ran the clock out. I agree that chances of us executing a 40 second drill to go down the field 40+ yards and score are lower than the chances of us turning it over.

But it makes no sense to do that before forcing them to punt. We could block the punt. They could muff the snap. We could spring a big return. Any of those happen and we could end up with the ball on their half of the field.

How can you tell your offense that you believe in them and they can compete when your actions are effectively saying, "I don't care where on the field you would be starting with the ball, I'd rather just go into half down 11"? How can you win a football game like that?
 
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