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Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:19 am
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:19 am
Wanted to get my thoughts down on how each unit looks going into Ole Miss.
QB: functional with TS
-Simpson: looked to have very solid touch and quality decision making. Took some huge hits and I’m worried he will get happy feet if the OL doesn’t give him more protection
-Buchner: I’m not going to run him down but he is not a P5 QB
-Milroe: will need to be the guy if the OL pass pro doesn’t improve
RB: average
-McClellan: incredibly disappointing for a senior to be so low effort in pass protection. His burst is better than last year but he’s not good enough as a runner (3.8YPC) or pass catcher to justify using him if he won’t block.
Williams: got his avg up to 5.9YPC and had one of the best games of his career. Not a game breaker but he can be a feature guy if he just takes the yards the OL gives him
Miller: must not be impressing at practice, hoped he would be more involved by now
WR/TE: pretty good
With only 10 completions in a rainstorm not a ton to report here, but Bond looked like he took a step forward in a tough situation.
OL: disaster
LT: KP is 20lbs too slow for tackle right now. Will need a year to develop but would be a mauler at OG if we can backfill with Pritchett or one of the other freshmen. What a disaster we’ve been at identification and development here or we’d have an upperclassmen to plug in…
LG: we need TB back badly, with him hurt we can’t get DD off the field
C: I’m not sure if SM is injured but this is a disaster with snaps and blocking right now.
RG: thought we were fixed with TF coming in, but then TB went out and DD was back on the field and we were nonfunctional again
RT: bright spot that has had to deal with poor RG play
I outlined that I think the fix is:
LT: Pritchett or ??? + TE
LG: Booker
C: SM or DD
RG: Proctor
RT: Latham
This is the key position group IMO. If we don’t improve this is an 8-9 win team.
DL: trouble
Missing Oatis for any period of time is going to be a major problem. I’ll have to rewatch but this group without him is very average. Gave up 4YPC to a very questionable USF run unit that only went for 2.5YPC against FAMU.
LB: much improved
Lawson: absolute heat seeking missile
Turner: 2.5 sacks, this is who we thought he was
Braswell: picked up a sack and 3 TFL, huge improvement
Campbell: will have to rewatch didn’t track him much
Secondary: looked good
Only allowed 3.1YPA which is outstanding and their long completion was 15 yards. Part of that is Bama and part is they aren’t any good.
Overall:
I still think a lot of things are possible for this team, but to even beat Ole Miss the OL needs to improve dramatically and the DL needs to step up against an Ole Miss team that just threw for 13.1YPA and ran for 8YPC against a Georgia Tech team that would beat the USF team we just needed 4 quarters to put away.
If this game were at Oxford I’d be picking Ole Miss straight up. It’s time to fix it or the wheels might actually come off time IMO.
QB: functional with TS
-Simpson: looked to have very solid touch and quality decision making. Took some huge hits and I’m worried he will get happy feet if the OL doesn’t give him more protection
-Buchner: I’m not going to run him down but he is not a P5 QB
-Milroe: will need to be the guy if the OL pass pro doesn’t improve
RB: average
-McClellan: incredibly disappointing for a senior to be so low effort in pass protection. His burst is better than last year but he’s not good enough as a runner (3.8YPC) or pass catcher to justify using him if he won’t block.
Williams: got his avg up to 5.9YPC and had one of the best games of his career. Not a game breaker but he can be a feature guy if he just takes the yards the OL gives him
Miller: must not be impressing at practice, hoped he would be more involved by now
WR/TE: pretty good
With only 10 completions in a rainstorm not a ton to report here, but Bond looked like he took a step forward in a tough situation.
OL: disaster
LT: KP is 20lbs too slow for tackle right now. Will need a year to develop but would be a mauler at OG if we can backfill with Pritchett or one of the other freshmen. What a disaster we’ve been at identification and development here or we’d have an upperclassmen to plug in…
LG: we need TB back badly, with him hurt we can’t get DD off the field
C: I’m not sure if SM is injured but this is a disaster with snaps and blocking right now.
RG: thought we were fixed with TF coming in, but then TB went out and DD was back on the field and we were nonfunctional again
RT: bright spot that has had to deal with poor RG play
I outlined that I think the fix is:
LT: Pritchett or ??? + TE
LG: Booker
C: SM or DD
RG: Proctor
RT: Latham
This is the key position group IMO. If we don’t improve this is an 8-9 win team.
DL: trouble
Missing Oatis for any period of time is going to be a major problem. I’ll have to rewatch but this group without him is very average. Gave up 4YPC to a very questionable USF run unit that only went for 2.5YPC against FAMU.
LB: much improved
Lawson: absolute heat seeking missile
Turner: 2.5 sacks, this is who we thought he was
Braswell: picked up a sack and 3 TFL, huge improvement
Campbell: will have to rewatch didn’t track him much
Secondary: looked good
Only allowed 3.1YPA which is outstanding and their long completion was 15 yards. Part of that is Bama and part is they aren’t any good.
Overall:
I still think a lot of things are possible for this team, but to even beat Ole Miss the OL needs to improve dramatically and the DL needs to step up against an Ole Miss team that just threw for 13.1YPA and ran for 8YPC against a Georgia Tech team that would beat the USF team we just needed 4 quarters to put away.
If this game were at Oxford I’d be picking Ole Miss straight up. It’s time to fix it or the wheels might actually come off time IMO.
This post was edited on 9/17/23 at 9:24 am
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Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:28 am to tide06
I actually thought the DL played pretty well. Tim Smith looked much better. They held the LoS well. Most of the chunk runs went to the outside and were the result of missed tackling or poor edge setting by LBs and DBs.
We just need to accept the fact that we don’t have a pass rusher on the DL. OLBs and blitz design have to be great to generate pressure.
We just need to accept the fact that we don’t have a pass rusher on the DL. OLBs and blitz design have to be great to generate pressure.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:29 am to tide06
Our main problem on defense is that Saban just absolutely refuses to spy a mobile QB.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:34 am to tide06
The only unit that needs to be checked is Saban's.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:42 am to tide06
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QB: functional with TS
Hot many TD did he throw against USF?!! Take away that one play over 15 yards and he threw for 30 against USF. USF!! I don't understand why y'all refuse to see that, even though milroe isn't tua, he's the one that moves the ball batter against good and bad competition.
O line is trash.
I actually like our defense.
Ole Miss will beat us, but Milroe's ability gives us a better chance... Not a RS freshman.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:45 am to bamabonners
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Hot many TD did he throw against USF?!! Take away that one play over 15 yards and he threw for 30 against USF. USF!! I
Milroe might have moved the ball with his feet, but the way USF was blitzing and we weren't picking it up, I doubt Milroe would have completed a single pass. His only good passes have been long passes where he has time. Those were not there yesterday.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 9:59 am to Teague
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I doubt Milroe would have completed a single pass
Geez... I really don't understand some of you folks. He has 450 yards coming into the USF game and 2 INT on the year. His rating is 40 points better than a RS freshman that has only seen 2 quarters of play and a few mop up tasks. And you want the RS freshman to take on the sec...
Posted on 9/17/23 at 10:00 am to bamabonners
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Hot many TD did he throw against USF?!! Take away that one play over 15 yards and he threw for 30 against USF. USF!! I don't understand why y'all refuse to see that, even though milroe isn't tua, he's the one that moves the ball batter against good and bad competition.
I would argue that when he had time to actually deliver the ball he was very effective as a thrower.
But no QB, Tua or otherwise was going to be effective with OL play like we saw at times yesterday and noted that if it doesn’t improve we will have to go to some sort of Milroe RPO just to win 8-9 games.
With Simpson and a fix at OL I think we have a shot at the SECW. With Milroe or an OL operating at the level we saw yesterday we will be lucky to get that 9 win threshold.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 10:09 am to bamabonners
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Geez... I really don't understand some of you folks. He has 450 yards coming into the USF game and 2 INT on the year.
Almost all of this came when Texas or MTSU just sat back and only rushed 3 or 4 guys. MTSU did that basically the whole game because they were just there to collect their game check.
USF saw how Texas was able to get pressure any time they brought an extra guy and said “frick it. We’ll blitz every play.” We completely caved against that.
Milroe has explosiveness that may warrant playing him, but it’s just as likely that he gives USF two scores yesterday as it is that he get us two more scores.
I think we should start Simpson against OM. If the defense can’t consistently get stops and we are struggling to move the ball, then Milroe should come in.
Posted on 9/17/23 at 11:38 am to Crimson77
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I actually thought the DL played pretty well. Tim Smith looked much better. They held the LoS well. Most of the chunk runs went to the outside and were the result of missed tackling or poor edge setting by LBs and DBs.
That might be a fair point, I’ll have to do a rewatch to figure out who got beat where but it did seem like a lot of their yards came on 3rd and long broken plays.
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