BarrelORum
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Still want to storm the field beej? Your stupid post looking ahead to next week cursed us. You just assumed that we'd win this week. You never mess with the football gods. Thanks for jinxing us. Its all your fault.
Anyway, onto my analysis.
Sometimes a team is just better than you are. Yesterday you saw that. UVA's first drive reminded me why I was so nervous going into this game. They are a very good team with a very good RB, an excellent big mobile OLine and a serviceable QB who limited his mistakes.
We're not going to win the ACC this year people. We have more than likely 2 more losses in our future and we'll finish the year 8-4 which was my first prediction anyway. I think PJ is a damn good coach and I expected him to do much better than most expected, but we do not have the players yet to execute his offense. Some of them need more time to develop, others I don't think will ever be good in this offense.
First let me dispell one of the dumber things I've read on this board. "Our DLine is only good but not great". They are great but they got zero help from our linebackers. UVA exposed our most glaring weakness on Defense... our linebackers. They would throw quick pass routes, and screens and limited pressure. When they threw the ball on mid to deep routes it was alwalys against our weakest link in the secondary. They would roll out the QB to avoid the pressure. Sure their oline held the crap out of us. But you have to expect that and overcome it. I thought MJ played alright. Walker was held most of the day. The bottom line is these guys did enough but got no help behind them. When your top 5 tacklers are guys in your secondary, it says that your linebackers stunk it up awful.
On offense. Had a lot of people in my section blaming Nesbitt. One called him a "stupid" QB and didn't know why Jaybo wasn't in there. I finally turned around and said, "If your lineman can't block, its easy to look bad". Nesbitt made three very bad reads in my opinion and the INT was one of them.
For Nesbitt, the bottom line is the first read is just not natural for him yet and he gives it to Dwyer when he should keep it, and vice versa. This comes with experience. Eventually the first read will be as natural as blinking. Those games where he sat out really hurt his progression. Its obvious we should have played him against GW just to give him some comfortability.
That said Jaybo doesn't scramble for a 1st down like Nesbitt did on two ocassions and Jaybo doesn't make the throw to Thomas in stride to set up the 2nd TD. Nesbitt will be deadly in this offense, he just needs time. This is why PJ is playing him relentlessly. He's young, kind of like the rest of our team.
The other thing that is having people hate on Josh is that he needs to stop fumbling the damn ball. The center snap I can understand. The 5 yard line fumble was absolutely atrocious. He just goofed it. It is painfully obvious to me that he is just not comfortable running this offense yet. Its understandable. In the long run I think he's our guy. If Jaybo ran the offense yesterday he would have been sacked 18 times as our interior olineman again sucked it up. Hell all the lineman sucked it up including Gardner who had a stupid penalty. For the most part, these kids lacked focus. Excitement yes. Prepared yes. Focused... no.
From my seats I saw the worst blocking from the left guard and right guard positions, and right tackle. Voss looked a little better actually but still not by much. Gilbert and Brown looked awful. I can't tell you how many times I saw one of them facing our own endzone right after the snap. This is the weakest link for us. Its killing us. Expect more of the same the rest of the season. These guys are just not gettng it done. I would love to hear from Demjackets how the true freshman (Uzzi, Smith, and McCrae) are looking because if we have to rely on Gilbert, Voss and Howard next year, we're in deep doo doo.
I think these guys could be capable, but PJ is going to have to make some adjustments. Maybe its best if our splits are not so wide because clearly our oline is just not capable of executing their blocks, split as wide as they are.
I was disappointed we didn't win yesterday, but its like I said to the guy who sits next to me. We're 6-2 with the youngest team in the ACC (one of the youngest teams in the country) with a new coach, and a new offense and we STILL had a chance to win the game and very well should have.
The future is bright, its just not going to be right this minute.
Anyway, onto my analysis.
Sometimes a team is just better than you are. Yesterday you saw that. UVA's first drive reminded me why I was so nervous going into this game. They are a very good team with a very good RB, an excellent big mobile OLine and a serviceable QB who limited his mistakes.
We're not going to win the ACC this year people. We have more than likely 2 more losses in our future and we'll finish the year 8-4 which was my first prediction anyway. I think PJ is a damn good coach and I expected him to do much better than most expected, but we do not have the players yet to execute his offense. Some of them need more time to develop, others I don't think will ever be good in this offense.
First let me dispell one of the dumber things I've read on this board. "Our DLine is only good but not great". They are great but they got zero help from our linebackers. UVA exposed our most glaring weakness on Defense... our linebackers. They would throw quick pass routes, and screens and limited pressure. When they threw the ball on mid to deep routes it was alwalys against our weakest link in the secondary. They would roll out the QB to avoid the pressure. Sure their oline held the crap out of us. But you have to expect that and overcome it. I thought MJ played alright. Walker was held most of the day. The bottom line is these guys did enough but got no help behind them. When your top 5 tacklers are guys in your secondary, it says that your linebackers stunk it up awful.
On offense. Had a lot of people in my section blaming Nesbitt. One called him a "stupid" QB and didn't know why Jaybo wasn't in there. I finally turned around and said, "If your lineman can't block, its easy to look bad". Nesbitt made three very bad reads in my opinion and the INT was one of them.
For Nesbitt, the bottom line is the first read is just not natural for him yet and he gives it to Dwyer when he should keep it, and vice versa. This comes with experience. Eventually the first read will be as natural as blinking. Those games where he sat out really hurt his progression. Its obvious we should have played him against GW just to give him some comfortability.
That said Jaybo doesn't scramble for a 1st down like Nesbitt did on two ocassions and Jaybo doesn't make the throw to Thomas in stride to set up the 2nd TD. Nesbitt will be deadly in this offense, he just needs time. This is why PJ is playing him relentlessly. He's young, kind of like the rest of our team.
The other thing that is having people hate on Josh is that he needs to stop fumbling the damn ball. The center snap I can understand. The 5 yard line fumble was absolutely atrocious. He just goofed it. It is painfully obvious to me that he is just not comfortable running this offense yet. Its understandable. In the long run I think he's our guy. If Jaybo ran the offense yesterday he would have been sacked 18 times as our interior olineman again sucked it up. Hell all the lineman sucked it up including Gardner who had a stupid penalty. For the most part, these kids lacked focus. Excitement yes. Prepared yes. Focused... no.
From my seats I saw the worst blocking from the left guard and right guard positions, and right tackle. Voss looked a little better actually but still not by much. Gilbert and Brown looked awful. I can't tell you how many times I saw one of them facing our own endzone right after the snap. This is the weakest link for us. Its killing us. Expect more of the same the rest of the season. These guys are just not gettng it done. I would love to hear from Demjackets how the true freshman (Uzzi, Smith, and McCrae) are looking because if we have to rely on Gilbert, Voss and Howard next year, we're in deep doo doo.
I think these guys could be capable, but PJ is going to have to make some adjustments. Maybe its best if our splits are not so wide because clearly our oline is just not capable of executing their blocks, split as wide as they are.
I was disappointed we didn't win yesterday, but its like I said to the guy who sits next to me. We're 6-2 with the youngest team in the ACC (one of the youngest teams in the country) with a new coach, and a new offense and we STILL had a chance to win the game and very well should have.
The future is bright, its just not going to be right this minute.
. First Pepper Rodgers and then Curry, I'm telling you man somebody in the GTAA is a double agent. Then we get Stewart as honorary captain, hey could you creat more bad vibes for one game?