Any opinions on VTs early season struggles?
it’s unfortunately becoming an annual tradition. Last year wasn’t unexpected with new faces, but this year we looked bad for the first month with experience and improved talent. Are we just not good enough to beat mediocre Rutgers at home or is the staff not able to prepare game schemes/players before the season. With a couple more tougher games on the schedule, it’d be nice if we don’t fully duplicate last year by duplicating our Louisville and NCState games and show some real year over year improvement.
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1y
oline have improved
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1y
advantage. Vandy in that they had a ton of film on our guys but we didn't have much on their new offensive guys playing at Vandy. I'm sure we watched some film from New Mexico State but apparently they ran quite a bit of stuff that they didn't run at NMSU. Rutgers had a bye week (after only two games) so they had an extra week to heal and prep. The issue I had in both games was we were too slow to adjust defensively.
The other way they were similar was that we gave away an early turnover that put us in a hole. Against Vandy it was the somewhat fluky interception by a DL on a screen. Against Rutgers it was the fumble on the punt return.
It's worth noting too that Vandy executed their gameplan to near perfection in the first half. We only got three real possessions and one ended with a turnover. Meanwhile they controlled the ball and the clock while also building a multi-score lead. You couldn't have scripted it any better if you're Vandy.
Don't get me wrong we probably should have still won both games but turnovers and penalties will kill you every time.
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1y
Our general weakness including forever problem of containing a running QB. I wish we could have kept him instead of FU...
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EDGEMAN
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Frankly they should pay back some of their salaries for their performance in our early games. They definitely didn't earn it.
Next year we'll have to do a sizable rebuild.
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1y
Average returns in some cases.
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1y
The role They had him playing. And Some dumbass play calling.
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1y
able to do what he's best at
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I doubt we have to worry about somebody poaching him for more NIL or going to NFL next year unless he unexpectedly blows up in the rest of the season. Not likely.
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Yeah. We should be undefeated.
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1y
the O uses miss-direction and reverses and keeps their D off balance. Coach Pry said it, that we need to run our 2nd half plays early on. With our O eating more clock our D is rested and can play like their hair in on fire more
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1y
And slow to adapt - both in game and from game to game. Also Marve finally started giving a few different bodies more PT and reducing the PT of others.
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