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QB: Joey is a significant upgrade from Nico. He may not have the upside and raw ability, but the feel for the game and his pocket presence and his ability to throw at different velocities is light years ahead of Nico

RBs have a chance to be the best RB room in the conference

Receivers look better but have to clean up drops

OL was solid

The playcalling was also a little more balanced and less predictable

The defense is a major concern though. Particularly the DL. Syracuse lost their entire OL and shouldn’t have been able to run it down our throats for most of the game. We have to get as healthy as possible and clean up our run fits by the time Georgia comes to town

Colton Hood and Jalen McMurray were very impressive today though and hopefully our secondary can help elevate our defense once we get McCoy back. Boo Carter on the other hand needs to do some deep reflection on what type of player he wants to be and what he wants to get out of the game of football. Two critical 4th downs got converted because of mistakes he made

All in all there were some promising things today both for now and the future, but also some big concerns
 
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Vol524 said:
Joey is an improvement over Nico. He also appears to be a better teammate than Nico. Losing Nico was an upgrade if you ask me. I hope the injuries we have are minor and everyone heals up quickly.
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Agree I think Heuple opened up the offense more with Joey in the 1st game than he did with Nico all of last season.
 
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VawlIn said:
QB: Joey is a significant upgrade from Nico. He may not have the upside and raw ability, but the feel for the game and his pocket presence is and his ability to throw at different velocities is light years ahead of Nico

RBs have a chance to be the best RB room in the conference

Receivers look better but have to clean up drops

OL was solid

The playcalling was also a little more balanced and less predictable m

The defense is a major concern though. Particularly the DL. Syracuse lost their entire OL and shouldn’t have been able to run it down our throats for most of the game. We have to get as healthy as possible and clean up our run fits by the time Georgia comes to town

Colton Hood and Jalen McMurray were very impressive today though and hopefully our secondary can help elevate our defense once we get McCoy back. Boo Carter on the other hand needs to do some deep reflection on what type of player he wants to be and what he wants to get out of the game of football. Two critical 4th downs got converted because of mistakes he made

All in all there were some promising things today both for now and the future, but also some big concerns
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Don't understand the rush defense concerns. They had 2.3 ypc....maybe it's because when it was 3rd and short they ended up converting majority of them ..but to say they ran down our throat is a stretch. Let Hobbs and Moi get healthy and we should look better
 
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KeyVol14 said:
Don't understand the rush defense concerns. They had 2.3 ypc....maybe it's because when it was 3rd and short they ended up converting majority of them ..but to say they ran down our throat is a stretch. Let Hobbs and Moi get healthy and we should look better
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Very little pressure without a designed blitz.
 
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VawlIn said:
QB: Joey is a significant upgrade from Nico. He may not have the upside and raw ability, but the feel for the game and his pocket presence is and his ability to throw at different velocities is light years ahead of Nico

RBs have a chance to be the best RB room in the conference

Receivers look better but have to clean up drops

OL was solid

The playcalling was also a little more balanced and less predictable m

The defense is a major concern though. Particularly the DL. Syracuse lost their entire OL and shouldn’t have been able to run it down our throats for most of the game. We have to get as healthy as possible and clean up our run fits by the time Georgia comes to town

Colton Hood and Jalen McMurray were very impressive today though and hopefully our secondary can help elevate our defense once we get McCoy back. Boo Carter on the other hand needs to do some deep reflection on what type of player he wants to be and what he wants to get out of the game of football. Two critical 4th downs got converted because of mistakes he made

All in all there were some promising things today both for now and the future, but also some big concerns
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We don't know how good Cuse is. We know that we are better though. I do hope that JA just had some jitters ...lots of high balls. Those high throws can be int's or it can get your receivers killed. It was a great first game though. Lots of potential on this team...more than last year...if the injury bug stops biting us.
 
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VawlIn said:
QB: Joey is a significant upgrade from Nico. He may not have the upside and raw ability, but the feel for the game and his pocket presence is and his ability to throw at different velocities is light years ahead of Nico

RBs have a chance to be the best RB room in the conference

Receivers look better but have to clean up drops

OL was solid

The playcalling was also a little more balanced and less predictable m

The defense is a major concern though. Particularly the DL. Syracuse lost their entire OL and shouldn’t have been able to run it down our throats for most of the game. We have to get as healthy as possible and clean up our run fits by the time Georgia comes to town

Colton Hood and Jalen McMurray were very impressive today though and hopefully our secondary can help elevate our defense once we get McCoy back. Boo Carter on the other hand needs to do some deep reflection on what type of player he wants to be and what he wants to get out of the game of football. Two critical 4th downs got converted because of mistakes he made

All in all there were some promising things today both for now and the future, but also some big concerns
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Colton Hood needs to keep his hands off the WR’s . He had at least 3 that could have been PI against him if the crew wasn’t allowing them to play.
 
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I don't know how much this game tells us other than we're better than Syracuse. They lost so much production from last year we won't know for a while if this was a "good win" or not.

Saying Joey is an upgrade is a little premature..again, we don't know what Cuse has....one of their DBs was 17 years old. I think he's an upgrade but I'll let you know for sure when he plays a few conference games. He definitely struggles throwing outside the hash marks.
 
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MurphyVol said:
I don't know how much this game tells us other than we're better than Syracuse. They lost so much production from last year we won't know for a while if this was a "good win" or not.

Saying Joey is an upgrade is a little premature..again, we don't know what Cuse has....one of their DBs was 17 years old. I think he's an upgrade but I'll let you know for sure when he plays a few conference games. He definitely struggles throwing outside the hash marks.
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So you tighten your splits up and run the same play out of a different formation
 
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Still not tons of push up front from the DL. The sack total today was a tad misleading.

Secondary was BAD, really, really, BAD, and we're gonna need McCoy back ASAP. Angeli is not very good and shouldn't have had close to 300yds. They had a lot of easy catches in the 10-15 yard range when they split the zone.

Way too many damn drops. WR's need to spend the week on the jugs machine. That was inexcusable! Yes Joey threw a couple high but they've gotta catch those.

Running game looks strong, Joey should be quite good.
 
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jblank said:
Still not tons of push up front from the DL. The sack total today was a tad misleading.

Secondary was BAD, really, really, BAD, and we're gonna need McCoy back ASAP. Angeli is not very good and shouldn't have had close to 300yds. They had a lot of easy catches in the 10-15 yard range when they split the zone.

Way too many damn drops. WR's need to spend the week on the jugs machine. That was inexcusable! Yes Joey threw a couple high but they've gotta catch those.

Running game looks strong, Joey should be quite good.
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Angeli is a better QB than you are giving him credit for. Secondary will be better. Shoot, I think everyone will after the first game jitters are out of the way.

Wide receivers for sure need to quit with the drops. And Aguilar has to get a bit better at lowering his passes.
 
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