Georgia Tech vs. Kansas: My Last Thoughts
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 13, 2010 8:41 AM EDT
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PrintThe emotions are gone. I'm not really upset anymore. A night in Lawrence, KS will help you out with that problem. Now, reality has set in and it's time for us to look at this game and this season logically. Here are the quick thoughts after looking over the drive charts and reflecting on the game (DVR didn't record).
- Defensive line: It's an issue of personnel. When your starting nose tackles weighs in at under 300 pounds, it's a tough job out there.
- Embry Peeples needs to get some tar on his hands like the kid from The Little Giants or Orlando Jones in the Replacements. How deep is he in Paul Johnson's doghouse?
- 91 yards in penalties will kill you and it killed us!
- FTRS readers JBar said it perfectly: "I didn't think we'd miss Demaryius Thomas as much as we do now."
- As written by Coley Harvey, Kansas' no-huddle offense just confounded the Georgia Tech defense.
- Kicking and punting, WTF?!
- I enjoy watching Steven Sylvester sack quarterbacks
- Isaiah Johnson is good. 9 tackles, 5 of them solo with 1 sack.
Looking forward:
We lost. It's done and it's over. We can still win the ACC, we can still "turn this thing around." What better place to make a statement to the college football world that we are back on track than Chapel Hill, North Carolina? The Tarheels played under-manned against LSU and made it a game. They have a week off and they'll be ready to take us on. With a week to prepare, fix mistakes, and adjust, will we be ready?
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Will we be ready?
I’m sure the team will be ready as I highly doubt CPJ is going to let them forget Saturday. However, the real question is can we succeed? I’m not going to go all doom and gloom because I still believe that CPJ, Joshua Nesbitt, and our offense as a whole can still put up some numbers, but I’m not sure how many teams we will be able to outgun.
Unfortunately, you can’t teach talent and that is exactly what is missing from our defense. We’ve lost six players to the draft from our defense plus a few graduates in the last two years. Add to that a new 3-4 scheme and absolutely zero recruiting for that scheme and we are fighting a steep uphill battle. I think we face four or five teams that get an extra week to prepare for us this year and that is going to hurt. Hopefully Groh and Co will find a way to get these guys playing sound within the system and find a way to stop that hurry up offense before the rest of the league figures it out.
"Everybody talks about SEC speed. The 27 fastest guys at the (NFL) combine, how many of them were from the SEC? Three. But if you say it enough, everybody will believe it."
-CPJ
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
Agreed
I think we were a little optimistic with the Defense – but thats infinitely easier to see now. It seemed very easy to think we could show any sort of improvement over last years defensive debacle. But we struggled on defense WITH a few NFL Caliber players. I think the improvement on D is going to be a little more uphill than the average Tech fan imagined. Part of that has to do with lowered expectations from 09, as scary as that sounds. We’ve got some bright spots, I hope our struggles aren’t solely based on a lack of talent. And, if this does end up a rougher season than imagined, hopefully they can show some steady improvement throughout the season. Once Nesbitt is gone we are going to need the D to hang tough while we get the next wave of players in.
CPJ
has never lost back to back games since hes been at Tech
This is my Family Tradition
by The_GT_LineageX11 on Sep 13, 2010 2:45 PM EDT reply actions
That game
was about as sloppy as it comes. Dropped passes (if it hits you in the gut, JESUS CHRIST CATCH THE GODDAMN BALL), dropped pitches, missing blocks, terrible throws by Nesbitt, missing all kinds of tackles, kicking the ball awful….it was just an unbearably bad game, and there’s no excuse for that when playing a team like Kansas. If we play like that in Chapel Hill, we’re going to get ROCKED. UNC’s a lot better than they get credit for in my opinion, and very well CAN dominate us if we don’t take it to them.
Oh, and the reason Nesbitt isn’t going to win the Heisman is because I haven’t heard a Tebow-of-2008-post-Ole Miss-esque speech yet.
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