Playoff level Defense but the Offense.......

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I'm not sure we can praise the defense enough. They bailed us out numerous times and are getting very little help from the offense. It's a shame that, against SEC defenses, our RB is the only player that seems up to the task. You can only really gripe about the last TD but they were pretty tired at that point.

O-Line: Got dominated most of the night against UF front 4. No push and a lot of early penalites.
QB: Nico looked lost in the first half and the INT was such a bad decision I am questioning his ceiling. I know that is an overreaction but he has been inaccurate and turnover prone which will cost us dearly down against the upcoming teams. He has to get it together....
WRs: How many drops can Nimrod have before getting pulled? Bru was a non factor and Squirrel is clearly in a lot of pain. This group needs to be more physical and fight for their QB.

Playcalling was also pretty weak although it improved in the second half. Whatever is going on we need the offense to figure it out real quick or Alabama will beat us by two+ scores.....
 
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Our defense is definitely better than our offense but honestly we haven't played an offense with a pulse. Bama will be the first one.
 
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Run. Run it again. Run. Run it again. Run. PA pass. Run. Run it again. Run. Run it again. Run. PA pass. Repeat, repeat, repeat
 
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The pass timing was better this week than the previous two games. The missed deep throws were on the fingertips of the receivers, which shows me that they’re improving. Another week of practice and we might be able to move the ball through the air as the boys continue to practice and learn.
 
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Why have we went away from wide receiver screen passes? We use to do 20 a game. It is rare to see in the last two games.
 
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GoVols64 said:
I'm not sure we can praise the defense enough. They bailed us out numerous times and are getting very little help from the offense. It's a shame that, against SEC defenses, our RB is the only player that seems up to the task. You can only really gripe about the last TD but they were pretty tired at that point.

O-Line: Got dominated most of the night against UF front 4. No push and a lot of early penalites.
QB: Nico looked lost in the first half and the INT was such a bad decision I am questioning his ceiling. I know that is an overreaction but he has been inaccurate and turnover prone which will cost us dearly down against the upcoming teams. He has to get it together....
WRs: How many drops can Nimrod have before getting pulled? Bru was a non factor and Squirrel is clearly in a lot of pain. This group needs to be more physical and fight for their QB.

Playcalling was also pretty weak although it improved in the second half. Whatever is going on we need the offense to figure it out real quick or Alabama will beat us by two+ scores.....
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Go back and watch the replay. There were multiple plays where there were wide open receivers that were either missed by Nico's arm or eyes because of the pressure. Posting from an agenda of het someone else here makes you ignore the facts.
 
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SEC Championship level defense and the offense took the ball in overtime and went right in to score a touchdown to win the game.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Our defense is definitely better than our offense but honestly we haven't played an offense with a pulse. Bama will be the first one.
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We wreck way too many plays in the backfield and we play the ball in the air too well to discredit our defense like that. Obviously Bama and UGA are the best two teams that we play but everyone else we play isn't a nobody. That's not fair to our kids at all.
 
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Pride85 said:
Go back and watch the replay. There were multiple plays where there were wide open receivers that were either missed by Nico's arm or eyes because of the pressure. Posting from an agenda of het someone else here makes you ignore the facts.
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Not following the last part of your post. I agree the pressure affected him but there were wide open guys he didn't see w/o pressure. If you read my post the O-Line is the root cause but great players make plays under pressure. Nico hasn't done that on a regular basis...yet.

Not clear on what you mean about agenda and ignoring facts?
 
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GoVols64 said:
I'm not sure we can praise the defense enough. They bailed us out numerous times and are getting very little help from the offense. It's a shame that, against SEC defenses, our RB is the only player that seems up to the task. You can only really gripe about the last TD but they were pretty tired at that point.

O-Line: Got dominated most of the night against UF front 4. No push and a lot of early penalites.
QB: Nico looked lost in the first half and the INT was such a bad decision I am questioning his ceiling. I know that is an overreaction but he has been inaccurate and turnover prone which will cost us dearly down against the upcoming teams. He has to get it together....
WRs: How many drops can Nimrod have before getting pulled? Bru was a non factor and Squirrel is clearly in a lot of pain. This group needs to be more physical and fight for their QB.

Playcalling was also pretty weak although it improved in the second half. Whatever is going on we need the offense to figure it out real quick or Alabama will beat us by two+ scores.....
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I was hoping Mike Matthews was going to get more action.
 
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Ned Ray McWorkher said:
We wreck way too many plays in the backfield and we play the ball in the air too well to discredit our defense like that. Obviously Bama and UGA are the best two teams that we play but everyone else we play isn't a nobody. That's not fair to our kids at all.
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No one is "discrediting" our defense, how they handle Milroe will tell us ALOT about them though. Way more than is currently known. Arkansas is statistically the best offense we've played and we lost to them with Green got hurt. In any event, team statistics at this point in the season can be deceiving due to schedule disparity.
 
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