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helluvaparamedic

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We were fortunate to get the win. 5 missed field goals by the Tigers.

We have offensive woes. Run game is solid; however, passing game is disaster. I believe (but have no statistics to back it up) that short passes to our RB's and the FB are our most successful ones to date. Why no passes to the TE? Actually I only saw one attempt to the TE.

Except for pounding the ball at them, which worked, the play calling, I thought was atrocious.

Never quite noticed before, Taylor's side armed release.


Josh Nesbitt is not quite ready for prime time. Booker needs to be ready to go. Is he injured?


Defense and Special Teams played lights out. Big tip of the cap to these guys and Coaches Tenuta and Kelly.


Maryland is going to be a tough ball game. Our D had better be able to match the intensity of yesterday's performance and our passing game had better grow up quickly.

I'm happy for the win, but our guys still have a lot of work ahead of them.
 
I agree. If our defense doesn't shut the other team down and the other team doesnt miss multiple field goals, we lose. Thank God for Tenuta today, Gailey better buy him a steak dinner (actually quite a few for the past 5 seasons).

Offense was aweful, I would attribute only about 3 points to our offense.

Maryland will be tough but so will VT and Miami. After last weeks fiasco I'm not confident about any game besides Army.
 
Well, helluvaparamedic, just shows that we don't always really know what we're seeing.

"Why no passes to the TE? Actually I only saw one attempt to the TE."

Peek had 2 catches and at least 1 drop. Of our 7 receptions, 2 were by backs (Mike Cox). So we do have trouble in the passing game, but evidently not the ones you "saw". IMO the biggest single problem we have is our receivers can't catch the damn ball. Correct that and it would be interesting to see what Taylor could do.
 
Clemson missed 4 FGs, not 5.

Field goal attempts
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Buchholz, M 1st 13:52 48 yds - Good
Buchholz, M 1st 07:48 47 yds - Missed
Buchholz, M 2nd 00:00 30 yds - Missed
Buchholz, M 3rd 12:04 50 yds - Missed
Buchholz, M 4th 14:54 48 yds - Missed


We had plenty of good fortune (and a good bit of bad fortune too) in the game, but the only particularly lucky thing here was the 30 yarder being missed. 47, 48, and 50 yard attempts are always a crap shoot.
 
Given the distances they attempted FGs from, they should only really expect to get 3. So 9 points instead of 3, and we'd have still won. Not saying we didn't get lucky on other stuff, though. Illegal hands to the face comes to mind.
 
beej67 said:
Given the distances they attempted FGs from, they should only really expect to get 3. So 9 points instead of 3, and we'd have still won. Not saying we didn't get lucky on other stuff, though. Illegal hands to the face comes to mind.
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So basically if they don't give up a blocked punt or a fumble on a KO return and make 3 of their FGs they beat us, right?
 
So basically if they don't give up a blocked punt or a fumble on a KO return and make 3 of their FGs they beat us, right?
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If we're doing what-ifs, lets give Bennett back his two turnovers while we're at it, and that takes 3 more points away from Clemson and gives us another 3, minimum.

The what-if game is silly.
 
One thing about the field goals --3 or the 4 missed were from 47, 48 and 50 yards. I give the defense credit for stiffening and not allowing Clemson inside the 30 on any of these three drives.
 
Well, if we want to play what-if, if BC hadn't dominated us on both sides of the line of scrimmage for most of the game we would have won that game and if we had recruited Tebow or somebody like that we'd have a passing game.
 
beej67 said:
If we're doing what-ifs, lets give Bennett back his two turnovers while we're at it, and that takes 3 more points away from Clemson and gives us another 3, minimum.

The what-if game is silly.
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My what-if was in response to yours
 
helluvaparamedic said:
We were fortunate to get the win. 5 missed field goals by the Tigers.

We have offensive woes. Run game is solid; however, passing game is disaster. I believe (but have no statistics to back it up) that short passes to our RB's and the FB are our most successful ones to date. Why no passes to the TE? Actually I only saw one attempt to the TE.

Except for pounding the ball at them, which worked, the play calling, I thought was atrocious.

Never quite noticed before, Taylor's side armed release.


Josh Nesbitt is not quite ready for prime time. Booker needs to be ready to go. Is he injured?


Defense and Special Teams played lights out. Big tip of the cap to these guys and Coaches Tenuta and Kelly.


Maryland is going to be a tough ball game. Our D had better be able to match the intensity of yesterday's performance and our passing game had better grow up quickly.

I'm happy for the win, but our guys still have a lot of work ahead of them.
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We were very fortunate to win. Our ST's fortunes, coupled with CU's ST misfortunes & a good dose of a defense allowed us to mask some offensive deficiencies. I will take the "W", but we have plenty to be worried about.
 
lucky and fortunate is UVA

lucky for them we fumbled a punt
lucky for them TC did'nt play
Lucky for them we made bonehead Offside penalties

its called parity in College football
 
While you're playing this game, "what if" they properly reviewed the first play fumble, in which TB was clearly on the ground when he handed off the ball. Dead ball call there would have been correct, and no fumble.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
One thing about the field goals --3 or the 4 missed were from 47, 48 and 50 yards. I give the defense credit for stiffening and not allowing Clemson inside the 30 on any of these three drives.
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Two of those kicks if my eyes don't lie looked like they would have been good from 60, the guys got a helluva leg, just not accurate.
 
Nesbitt looked horrible in his one series. He fumbled and missed a wide open Greg Smith who was frantically waving his arms up and down.
 
Taylor has looked good in 2 minute offenses this year. Maybe we just need to switch into the 2 minute offense on occasion during the regular game, to see whether it works or not.
 
Not sure if its been talked about, but we've been down on the O-line quite a bit(me included)this year, but I was very happy with the way they played Sat. TB had time to throw and late in the game when we were just trying to bang out a few first downs there were big holes for TC and RG, and that was with Clemson stacking the LOS. Games are won and lost up front and if this is a sign of things to come we're not out of it just yet....
 
beej67 said:
Taylor has looked good in 2 minute offenses this year. Maybe we just need to switch into the 2 minute offense on occasion during the regular game, to see whether it works or not.
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He has looked good because teams are running a deep prevent defense and are giving up lots of easy yards underneath to WRs.
 
Maybe, but the first drive vs BC looked a lot like a 2 minute offense and it seemed to be the only thing the whole game that worked.

I would still like to see the Wildcat again once in a blue moon, just for spice. It'd force other defenses to practice against it, at the very minimum. Maybe now that we've laid off of it for 3 games we'll whip it out vs Maryland while they don't expect it.
 
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