The Long Hard Truth

Aug 31, 2024, 11:19 PM

I’ll start with some of the positives that I saw today in detail, the biggest improvement is by far the offensive line, hands down the best position group that played today, impressed to say the least, the change was a sigh of relief. The defense is another championship caliber defense, the talent of defense is refreshing considering we have an average DC at best. We gave up yards in the second half but between the defense being gassed and honestly they gave up after giving up the TD, understandably so knowing that the offense was not giving them any support. To the glaring issues though, while we are a top ranked program, we have too many coaches that are not worthy of or don’t have a pedigree worth mentioning, we deserve to have the best coaches money can buy considering we have some of the highest paid coaches in college football. No we don’t have the world beater Wr’s that we are used to having in the old “WRU”, but they are good enough if given the chance, while unfortunately if you have watched Clemson football the last few years the issue falls solely on the QB position. Yes the last few years we could give blame to the horrid offensive line for the issues that thankfully Watson and Lawerence were able to make do considering their generational talent could mask some of these issues along with having explosive running backs. Cade honestly did not play a bad game, BUT he is an average QB at best that makes very question decisions. It is not that he doesn’t have the arm talent, but it’s that everytime he drops back, you can visibly tell he’s uncomfortable in the pocket and gets happy feet, the game is too fast for him and he freaks out and makes a hesitant decision and slow to get the ball out. This is not something you can just teach out of a QB, which is even more concerning that he’s the best QB on our roster and we do not have any non project type of QB recruits in the near future. I am hoping and praying that Cade can find his mojo because we have the pieces that can make this a championship team if he gets a fire underneath him, but that’s to be seen. I love Mafah, he’s a workhorse RB, but he’s no homerun threat which makes it harder to become the explosive offense we had during our championship years. We literally have turned into Georgia before they got on their championship run, always a QB away from winning and forced to be a ground and pound team, which is ineffective in the current college landscape, the great offenses have turned to the air raid type of offense, which require a great QB or some WRU type receivers.Thankfully, I don’t see us losing a regular season game this year so it gives Cade the time to really make this offense thrive, but that’s to be seen. I still have hope that our offense can find its grove because Cade did make a few really nice throws once we went into the hurry up offense which I believe we should be in the entire game, gives him less to think about and just play freely, he’s not Peyton Manning so give him less IQ things to deal with, take the reigns off and just let him compete. If we don’t have improvement at the QB position, I hate to say it, but we need to offer the best QB money can buy this offseason because that is literally the missing piece to our puzzle right now, while obviously their are small improvements that can be made with coaching/scheming, and some of his supporting cast on offense, the major problem IS 100% without a doubt the QB position. We have the talent and while the team gave up today, I am hopeful that by the end of the season we grow into the championship team we are used to having. We definitely have some things to look forward to because our offensive line turning into a strength and our defense not going anywhere will keep us in nearly any game we play regardless, considering that Georgia 🇬🇪 s considering to have some of the best offense and defensive lines in college, our guys in the trenches looked every bit as good if not better, at least in the first half. No we don’t have the depth that they have but if we play complimentary football, we don’t need the 3 and 4 deep to win every game we play. So cheers we will look back on this day as the stepping stone back into greatness, let’s hope that our offense finds its identity through better QB play and look forward to the playoffs this year! Go Tigers!

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I can see your points, but anytime you play a game where you know you have lost, you realize that 100% isn’t given from that point on, the constant busted coverages and the 10-15 yards of cushion was concerning. Maybe we don’t have enough talent in the secondary to play the Venables style of aggressive defense we are used to. Venables defense was always suspect to a busted play here and there but typically had enough sacks and turnovers to negate the aggressiveness. With we we tend to stack the box and play soft coverage to not give up the big play, but gives them plenty of space to buckle and dime down the field. The issue with this defense is it is based on an expectation that the other team is not good enough to be able to sustain a long drive. We bought one of the best OL coaches that we could buy and it turned out to be a GREAT hire, time to go through the closet and hire some quality coaches in other positions. I like the Riley hire, just got to get the right we under his tenure.

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