In reply to: You ask the $64k question posted by El Kabong
we're in a lot of trouble when we actually play, you know, teams with decent talent.
Big issue to me was that we were too easy to scout and trap. There might have been some conditioning issues, but basically football is a copycat sport and teams will study film and tendencies all day long and as soon as something doesn't work (or vice versa) they'll attack it.
I don't know if it was the talent of Wake or the scheme we werent prepared for but they exploited us by spreading the field in both the run and pass game.
As ive stated before, we need to keep upgrading talent on defense. We get a guy here and there that is elite but we never seem to have a handful of them at once and we certainly never have it at all 3 levels of the defense at once.
can’t make anymore.
I think Kelly looked passive and almost disengaged the first half of the season, but when it was obvious the team had begun playing at a high level he took over. Maybe or maybe not individual play calling, but certainly the fundamental identity of the offense and what the scheme was going to be.
There is no reason we shouldn’t have beaten Stanford comfortably, but we were a different team by then, or I should say we had become the end of season kind of team that is the norm under Kelly.
...It seemed like the playcalling had turned to getting passing reps for Wimbush, and people around us were commenting to similar effect.