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I only saw one bad call by Chaney (TE reverse)

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I like Chaney. But when any offensive coordinator (over a 4.5 season stretch - 3 at Tennessee not counting the year with Lane Kiffin and 1.5 at Arkansas) can only produce 5 SEC wins, it's going to get people's attention, especially if said coach is the only common denominator in the equation. Regarding the games at Tennessee, where he called the plays and won, if one factors in the quality of opposition at the time, it's not impressive. JMO.

Like I said, I like Chaney. I like him a lot and I want his offense to seal wins in SEC games, not stall out. Against quality defenses, it's the stalling out part that will not win games. And winning SEC games against quality opponents without stalling in the second half/fourth quarter is exactly what it will take to silence his critics.

...and whatever that takes, I very badly want to see it happen. The good news is, as you pointed out, the team continues to show a lot of improvement.

The playing calling at the end of the first half was horrible. Got bailed out by the fake punt

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A play I can't get out of my head is the last TD aTm scored. How was that not a false start?

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I'm pretty sure it was a false start but I refuse to watch the game again and I doubt that calling the penalty would have helped us much. A&M was rollin'.

FWIW, I was very impressed with our improvement on defense.

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like Chaney. But when any offensive coordinator (over a 4.5 season stretch - 3 at Tennessee not counting the year with Lane Kiffin and 1.5 at Arkansas) can only produce 5 SEC wins

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Yep, its all Chaney's fault, yep.

You didn't. He just thinks Chaney is a genius (lol) and, evidently, we can't find better.

Chaney isn't really our problem. He's not our solution either.

To be fair, on the 4th down in OT...if AC follows his blockers and stays on the play its an easy first down.

ATM did drop several key passes. They catch those, it is also a different game.

No excuse for the tripping penalty. You can't blame the ref for calling it even if it didn't impact the play.

My ONLY beef with our offense is that we don't have much progression in our passing game. I appreciate that we'd rather have BA throw it away rather than throw another pick 6, so it probably just boils down to talent at WR and QB. The freshmen look good at WR so far.

Biggest improvement overall...our defensive backs. I mean...damn. They just woke up one day and decided to play the ball. Yes...the 3 TD passes by ATM were hard to swallow, but a DB falling down will happen sometimes, there's little doubt that everyone relaxed after the reciever clearly jumped with a no call in OT...and the other TD can be credited to excellent execution by ATM. We've broken up more passes this year than in the previous decade.

I like the improvement...now we need to keep bringing it. We actually can play with Bama.

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I have noticed tendencies, especially at tennessee to choke away games, but I do like the improvement and I think his play calling will work once we're more experienced.

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He definitely has improved with his play calling since last year. In fact, almost everything about the team has improved since last year. We also have some good recruits coming this next year and in combination with the players we have returning, I have to agree. We can only get better.

something else to think about, toliver gets hurt on a freak play in the 1st half & doesnt play the rest of the game. The 4th qrtr rolls around & weve got a walk-on DB trying to cover 6'5" receivers.
We lack depth on Defense, but the young guys are really good.

Might be true. But Bert has grown up a LOT as a coach since then I think.

Interesting article. It gives me incentive to pay more attention to the NC State offense than I have in the past. They certainly gave Florida State a good fight this past week.