Schultz from the rag

His prediction isn't a bad one. It is conservative of course, but, not unreasonable. I do like the fact that he's picking us over UGA.
 
From his predictions we will avg. 27.75 pts a game. I think thats a little low. I expects us to avg around 31. No way Miami holds us to 16 pts. They are not well coached and are undisciplined. We will rip them again. @ FSU is the game that has me worried.

10-2 mark it down
 
I see that Schultz is a supporter of the "Miami will not let GT pound them again" club.

He must figure that Miami will have different 'schemes' or pick up on 'tells' to prevent us from doing to them this year what we did last year.

Wrong. Miami and FSU will not be able to keep our offense down for one reason.... Our offense is predicated on exploiting fast defenses that over pursue and can't maintain good discipline. Miami and FSU players have no discipline and over pursue on the pitch or over commit to the dive and so we have lanes open all over the field. Teams that don't get as good of athletes (*cough*like WF*cough*) are better against Option teams because they don't have the speed to over pursue and react quickly. They are more disciplined because of it.

I'm more worried about WF stopping our offense than I am Miami.
 
unforgiven108 said:
I see that Schultz is a supporter of the "Miami will not let GT pound them again" club.

He must figure that Miami will have different 'schemes' or pick up on 'tells' to prevent us from doing to them this year what we did last year.

Wrong. Miami and FSU will not be able to keep our offense down for one reason.... Our offense is predicated on exploiting fast defenses that over pursue and can't maintain good discipline. Miami and FSU players have no discipline and over pursue on the pitch or over commit to the dive and so we have lanes open all over the field. Teams that don't get as good of athletes (*cough*like WF*cough*) are better against Option teams because they don't have the speed to over pursue and react quickly. They are more disciplined because of it.

I'm more worried about WF stopping our offense than I am Miami.
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Exactly! I was just perusing the schedule and my eye stopped on Wake. I do know they lost a lot on D but are very well coached unlike UM. I think they will give us trouble.
 
yellowandnaked said:
Exactly! I was just perusing the schedule and my eye stopped on Wake. I do know they lost a lot on D but are very well coached unlike UM. I think they will give us trouble.
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And they have played Navy three times in two years.
 
I think 9-3 is a reasonable prediction. I agree with the prediction, but not the specific games. Anything 9-3 or better and I will be pleased. 10-2 or better, I will be smitten! 8-4 or worse, I will be disappointed.
 
I could live with an 8-4 depending on who it was to and on the slew of injuries we'd need to of had...

I can somewhat agree with his Miami prediction, at least the logic of it. It may indeed be a must win home game between two away games. They also have a bye week before it and will remember last years game when we take the field. Will that be enough? I hope not :biggthumpup:
 
unforgiven108 said:
did last year.

Wrong. Miami and FSU will not be able to keep our offense down for one reason.... Our offense is predicated on exploiting fast defenses that over pursue and can't maintain good discipline. Miami and FSU players have no discipline and over pursue on the pitch or over commit to the dive and so we have lanes open all over the field. Teams that don't get as good of athletes (*cough*like WF*cough*) are better against Option teams because they don't have the speed to over pursue and react quickly. They are more disciplined because of it.
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We put up points on Miami and FSU for completely different reasons.

FSU played disciplined football. Each guy covered thier assignment to the detriment of the team. You had FSU players running AWAY from the ball carrier to get to their man. Any breakdown or blocking adjustment could lead (and did) to big yards. If I remember FSU correctly, they played good D 90% of the time. The other 10% they gave up massive TD runs.

Miami on the other hand spent all week practicing "tackling high and stripping the ball". That was a complete disaster. It lead to JD stiff arms, Cox carrying a pile of defenders, and generally the chains moving in 10 yard chunks the whole game.

The best strategy against us last year was stop the big play (giving up 3-4 yards was fine). Force the O to execute 15-20 times to get down the field. Given that many chances, we would either fumble or get a chop block which would end up turning the ball over.
 
I forgot the other reason Miami did poorly. It was the "don't worry about Cox if he lines up at B-back". I think he was untouched on his TD run.
 
WracerX said:
We put up points on Miami and FSU for completely different reasons.

FSU played disciplined football. Each guy covered thier assignment to the detriment of the team. You had FSU players running AWAY from the ball carrier to get to their man. Any breakdown or blocking adjustment could lead (and did) to big yards. If I remember FSU correctly, they played good D 90% of the time. The other 10% they gave up massive TD runs.

Miami on the other hand spent all week practicing "tackling high and stripping the ball". That was a complete disaster. It lead to JD stiff arms, Cox carrying a pile of defenders, and generally the chains moving in 10 yard chunks the whole game.

The best strategy against us last year was stop the big play (giving up 3-4 yards was fine). Force the O to execute 15-20 times to get down the field. Given that many chances, we would either fumble or get a chop block which would end up turning the ball over.
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There were still several instances in which multiple FSU players would converge on one Tech guy only to realize that he didn't have the ball, and the guy who actually had the ball was 20 yards downfield. Also they were using some bizarre scheme that they didn't use for any other game.
 
gtfan088 said:
Also they were using some bizarre scheme that they didn't use for any other game.
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The "line up two men inside the hash marks to cut the center" was insane. The second big run by JD against that formation was clearly an audible by Nesbitt out of whatever play was called. I'm sure PJ said "If they line up like that again, give it to the B-back on the dive".
 
I want to know what "history" the headline is referring to. I think that "history" has become synonymous with "moderate to high success" in the media.
 
WracerX said:
We put up points on Miami and FSU for completely different reasons.

FSU played disciplined football. Each guy covered thier assignment to the detriment of the team. You had FSU players running AWAY from the ball carrier to get to their man. Any breakdown or blocking adjustment could lead (and did) to big yards. If I remember FSU correctly, they played good D 90% of the time. The other 10% they gave up massive TD runs.

Miami on the other hand spent all week practicing "tackling high and stripping the ball". That was a complete disaster. It lead to JD stiff arms, Cox carrying a pile of defenders, and generally the chains moving in 10 yard chunks the whole game.

The best strategy against us last year was stop the big play (giving up 3-4 yards was fine). Force the O to execute 15-20 times to get down the field. Given that many chances, we would either fumble or get a chop block which would end up turning the ball over.
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Maybe you should watch some of the highlights again, several of JD's big runs up the middle were because the safety's broke on the movement of the A-back assuming he was going to get the pitch and couldn't recover in time.
 
He only has us getting to 40 points once (Jax doesn't count).

You know that ain't right.
 
I think what Wracer meant is that FSU's defense didn't dissolve into a ragtag bunch that Virginia could've scored easily on.
 
00Burdell said:
He only has us getting to 40 points once (Jax doesn't count).

You know that ain't right.
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He seemed very conservative with his scores. I can even somewhat agree with the closeness of them, just not the value (the game with Miami for example, I think will finish with a close score but with higher numbers than his).
 
Good point. FSU played us very well and when we were half-decent in the offense. Their issue? Every mistake they made was a 40+ yard play. People will see the yards and the scores and not realize that.

It will be interesting to see what they change this time around.
WracerX said:
We put up points on Miami and FSU for completely different reasons.

FSU played disciplined football. Each guy covered thier assignment to the detriment of the team. You had FSU players running AWAY from the ball carrier to get to their man. Any breakdown or blocking adjustment could lead (and did) to big yards. If I remember FSU correctly, they played good D 90% of the time. The other 10% they gave up massive TD runs.
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00Burdell said:
He only has us getting to 40 points once (Jax doesn't count).

You know that ain't right.
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Well that is because of all that sec speed, and just straight superiority of the ACC Florida schools. Those things will keep us in check and prevent any high scoring games.
 
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