What would you do?

That’s what I would do.

All of a sudden TW looks hesitant making the pitch to the point where the A Back gives him the look of like “PITCH the ball”. This draws the play out to the boundary leaving little room to make a play and get past the defender. This wasn’t the case earlier in the season.

We have the talent to hold up to most teams at every position except on the O-line and D-line. Tevin can be good. Right now the problem is that he cant throw a pass to a wide open receiver to save his life. Send Tevin the a shrink and put the fear of God into the O-line to block better and we’ll be a better team.

Or has our playcalling completely reverted to last year’s frustrating display. 1st down incompletions and 2nd down dives dont set us up very well for 3rd (and 4th). Maybe I am just paying more attention since we aren’t scoring, but I hate when PJ tries to call plays essentially against himself. The success from the triple option doesn’t come from “surprising” the defense on whether we run or pass the ball – it is executing the reads. I can stomach 3rd and 8 much easier if it is because we can’t execute dives and pitches. The worst part about these last few games isn’t that “we just aren’t that good,” it is that we are playing progressively worse from our own game. I didn’t necessarily expect to beat Miami, but I would have much rather lost in a shootout because we couldn’t stop the run. Let’s get back to counters, dives, and pitches on 1st down and stop getting cute with the playcalls.

I think the Defense is still very much a work in progress. We get killed up front size wise and the LBs are still learning their roles. Injurys have not helped. The secondary is the only reasonably consistent element of the D. Recruiting and experience will solve this.

The offense has enough skill players that it should be successful. I hear what people are saying about T. Washington not having the necessary wheels – on some level I agree – but we are getting killed up front. I know that CPJs scheme requires quick and athletic O-linemen, but these type of guys tend to be on the smaller side when compared to most D-lines. When the opposing D-line is bigger than our O-line (Virginia/Miami) we lose the Dive which sets up EVERYTHING else we do on the ground offensively. The not being about to hit a wide open guy in stride is completely on the QB. Not sure the answer here – when it works it really works as we’ve seen. When it doesn’t it really doesn’t. If the opponent continues to kill the dive and play the pitch and make the QB beat you by running/throwing then we need a QB who can run and throw. D. Sims is as good an option as any at this point.

Special teams seems to be just poor execution – and boneheaded plays. That is on the Coaching staff to instill some confidence and emphasize basics like the need to stay away from a ball if it hits the ground in front of you. Need a better kicker and punter.

CPJ said before the season started (and the fan base’s hopes were raised so high) that “sometimes winning means not losing.” I think he had in mind what you’re saying here. On the plus side, we’re “not losing” this year by not fumbling the ball (unlike last year), but we’re failing terribly to “not lose” by awful special teams mistakes and penalties. “Not losing” also means settling for long 8-10 minutes drives, with ugly but necessary 4th down conversions.

How good do you think CPJ is at the psychological/motivational aspect of coaching? I thought Chan Gailey was lousy at this aspect of the game, but even under his regime we would win one or two big games a year. If we don’t go 2-2 from here on out (which seems very difficult to me), this will have been two straight years in which we failed to win a big game over an opponent that we weren’t supposed to beat. That troubles me.

I miss George O’Leary. I thought he excelled at motivation. He got our teams up for the big games, even if we were overmatched, talent-wise. It’s incomprehensible that we have regressed so badly over the past month. That falls squarely on the coach’s shoulders.

Do you suspend Embry Peeples for the game because, well, hell, you just don’t like him?

Your a jerk…

Or at least tell Paul Johnson how to improve!

But I’ve done that a billion times and it hasn’t really helped. I’ll some it up quickly! Short passes and yards after the catch! Get the ball in the hands of the A-backs on more plays than just the pitch and the counter! Use more misdirection to fake out aggresive defenses! Try a 1-gap D-line scheme! Use more run blitzes and blitzes period! Drop a safety into the box to help stop the run if needed!

I dismiss TW from the team for throwing like a girl. Then I place sims at QB, Days at A-Back and Orwin at BB. Then place Perkins or RJ at the other A-back to block. Then I say Im going to pitch it and throw it again and thats my new triple option. Run it with the QB, Run it with the A-back, or Throw it with the aback. And if a QB babys a throw they can immediately find some pine. I dont care if you throw it 700 MPH straight into a defenders face. Id rather that than to lollipop it to someone’s feet on fourth and 3. Or shortarm it over Orwins head on the frist play of the game.

And for goodness sake. I give the special teams over to someone who knows what the hell theyre doing. I clearly dont know special teams since my punt returner is instructed not to catch it in the air period. Never fair catch and then to pick it up off the bounce. Then on kickoffs lets dance a jig before we turn upfield. Or if you dont feel like dancing lets run east and west across the field so we can make sure our offense starts inside the 15 that wa we can gain more yards on offense since we have farther to go…. ON the kicking game. Good God. No wonder CPJ hates to punt. Might as well fumble the snap on fourth down to field position would be the same. THen on kick offs just kick it out of bounds. We cant cover a kick so just give it to them at the 35 cause that sure beats giving it to them on our 40.

The answer is “play Clemson.”