Team plays like it’s leaders. Joe struggles and the team struggles. It’s that simple. New QB, new life, and new team. It’s that simple. Heupel just has to make the hard call and do what’s best for the team. Let Joe coach Nico for the year.
No other way to say it: that was a pathetic half of football from both a player and coaching perspective. Looked every bit like the team that struggled against the Peay.
This game is essentially over imo. Best case scenario is we figure some things out in the second half and have something to build on going forward.
Only things that should prevent Nico from playing are injury or you’re worried you’ll doom his confidence if he goes in here and sucks. Otherwise we’re about to get blown out so Nico can’t do any worse.
This staff has proven time and time again they will not pull players out. Hadden, Tank, Milton before getting hurt 2 years ago. We just got lucky last year and Hooker bailed us out or ran our offense well enough to mask our problems mostly.
Or why we refuse to play Turrentine or Thomas at safety who will actually hit people. Or Mathew’s at corner who is a stud. Like some of our coaches are ok with playing average players just because of seniority
Its the game fla gameplan as last on defense. We arent blitzing, we are allowing mertz to sit in da pocket comfortably and choose who to throw to. Why isnt slaughter playing?
The offense line is having trouble with the noise here ( fyi: neyland is louder) and the offensive playcalling is bad.
This staff has proven time and time again they will not pull players out. Hadden, Tank, Milton before getting hurt 2 years ago. We just got lucky last year and Hooker bailed us out or ran our offense well enough to mask our problems mostly.