Good morning sunshine pumpers

Will an apology make you feel better? I could hear a thousand apologies this morning, and wouldn't feel a tad bit better

nah. Im not writing team off after one terrible game

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Defense is fine" " Womack is great"

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They have a tiny front seven that will get pushed around by any physical run game.

The unfortunate part and I put this in the other thread. This game was easy for Gus. He watched 2 games Vandy and Oklahoma and knew he has us. Inside read and motion jet sweep. His new QB threw one pass downfield, that was it. We have a good secondary but it absolutely doesn’t matter, all they do is chase guys the front seven should have stopped. Every single team we face with a read game will do this. The only hope is getting the offense to elite levels.

They’re talented players. Granted, Lawson is coming off the ACL injury. Still, the inside linebacker coach is Wommack. There’s the problem.

It’s not just one terrible game. This is the same team that lost to Michigan, OU, Vandy, etc. We are 5-5 over the last 10 games. We’ve lost 3 of the last 4 and we’re double digit favorites in all of them.

Yesterday wasn’t an outlier. It was the new normal.

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0 and 10 wouldn't play at the top schools in the SEC.

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Lawson healthy would be fine.

He shouldn’t be on the field in his current state but that’s more a reflection of our lack of depth there, his courage and poor coaching. It’s absolutely an indictment of Wommack that he saw what we saw and wasn’t making changes.

I’ll also point out again that LBs who are playing behind undermanned DL fronts sometimes get overwhelmed because of… physics.

They’re getting blocked by bigger guys running free to the second level. As every coach since the wing T has known that’s a bad thing for the defense.

If we had more and better DL guys up front against power sets it would eat up their blockers and free up those LBs to some degree because of… math.

I actually think his 3-3-5 can work against modern offenses just fine.

He just cannot sacrifice games when the other team decides to make what’s a pretty obvious counter to it by going jumbo up front.

I was pretty angry by the 2H with watching him revert to script yet again, but I’d actually be interested to look at what made Malzahn go spread in the 2H when he was gashing us and chewing clock in power sets during the 1H.

In other words, as bad as yesterday was defensively I actually think it would’ve been worse if Gus hadn’t gotten cute in the 2H.

Gus went full Gus and gave us a shot, we just pissed ourselves instead. Down 7, big third down stop and Smith drops an elbow on Castellanos for no reason. FSU is going to lose 4-5 games, they’re not that good..and they made us look pedestrian.

Could be a loooong season. Maybe the OU, Michigan, Vandy, and FSU performances are the norm and the UGA and LSU’s are the exceptions. frick

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Ty hitting players at their feet

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Ty started panicking and throwing off his back feet. He’s also woefully inaccurate throwing on the run.

Ty cannot hit players in stride . Everything was late or receivers had to adjust to the ball negating any opportunity to RAC