ericsaid wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:37 pm
Yosef84 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:47 pm
Rick83 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:23 pm
AppfaninCAALand wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:06 pm
Rick83 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:56 am
The Heels won't be blown away by looking at our game film from our first two games. So, this could be a perfect trap game situation for us to benefit from. Mack Brown is experienced enough to realize this but convincing his players is another story...
Everyone thinks Drink and Roof are playing checkers, when they are actually playing 3D chess.
I really hope that is the case. Drink is well aware of our desire to beat a P5, I've brought it up to him myself on the Spring Yosef Tour thing...
I hope he's right also! I'm hoping that we have been holding back. Saturday was painful to watch but the folks who are ready to throw in the towel already baffle me. We all wanted this transition to be magically smooth so that we would cruise to dominance everyone (at App) has projected. Hopefully Saturday was a glitch and the coaches get things back on track. I'm an unapologetic homer, so I will believe that's going to happen until the games are in the books.
Go Apps! Beat the Heels!
Holding back? The offense scored 56 points. If the defense is holding back....that's a problem. Not that you can run a base defense as a G5 squad and hope to hold another G5 without scoring at all, but the play calling and situational awareness as well as adjustments to what Charlotte was doing were just piss poor.
Hopefully the coaching staff creates better synergy and a plan for making adjustments to what the offense is presenting. Luckily, running a multiple front 3-4 base defense should present opportunities for confusion of a True Freshman should App manage to get pressure on the pocket and stop the run.
Offense scored 42. Special teams scored 14. I think it's pretty obvious that most of my comment was directed at the defense, but since you bring it up, I do think the offense has "held back" in terms of playing very vanilla. I also think the OL didn't look great in the first half while we had a sub in there. Evans had a stellar game and that covers up some things but I don't think we've yet seen our offensive potential. Based on numerous posts I've seen you make, I don't think you believe we have either. I'm not really sure why you felt it necessary to contradict anything here.
"Holding back" probably wasn't the best choice of words with regards to the D, but I do think that we have been "experimenting" somewhat. If we had been playing UNC this past Saturday, I don't think we would have implemented that "man coverage" scheme. Again, I don't think we've yet seen the D that we will see moving forward.
I do believe that there will be better synergy and more intensity moving forward. Hopefully we got our ugly game out of the way.