Today just felt...off

I agree.

And yet... Taylor Bertolet is perfect on PATs and FGs. How weird is that?

I agree, though. A few superlative plays surrounded by a lot of meh. Right now runs up the middle against our D concern me more than anything else.

The 2 glaring problems sticking its ugly head out is 1) pass protection and 2) red zone offense. Both were not impressive today, imo

Im not too worried about the defense, but it seemed we took plays off in the 2nd half. Hate to see that become a habit.

Yep. Felt totally off kilter. Brilliant one play and pathetic the next. The inconsistency today was just weird.

Still, it's a win, and the coaches will have lots to work on next week.

It must have been the heat. Even the FTAB was off a bit. I saw some pretty ragged lines in the first 30 seconds of the routine.

We looked like shite today, I know we scored a bunch but we should've put a hundred on these guys with the 2nd string. We have issues and it's gonna be a long year. I expected a lot more from this offense and they aren't playing like they should be.

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ng. We have issues and it's gonna be a long year.

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we definitely have issues but i dont know about it being a long year. we are at least going to get to 8 wins. but MSU, bama, ole miss, and LSU are definitely not looking fun

Our coaches have very different goals and objectives than our fanbase in these games vs overmatched opponents. We don't really gameplan much for them and instead use it as a live practice

Offensively:
1) get several players who haven't really done much some positive vibes. Speedy scored. Ratley got a number of good touches. We really tried to force a TD to RSJ kinda late because he doesn't have one yet this year. It's about making sure all the players are involved and having fun

2) work on plays and sets that we either haven't used or that need some practice. We worked on a bunch set (which looked devastating vs Nevada's man free) and the 12 personnel set (which I wasn't impressed with). We also tried a new goalline set. We ran an awful lot of zone read because we need live practice of it but we only ran the speed option once because it was executed perfectly and we really don't need Allen taking big hits

Defensively
1) get live game reps for the 3 who were playing their first game - Obioha, Henderson, Hilliard - and anyone else that hasn't had a lot of reps but we're now focusing on as rotation guys - Mack, Alaka, George, Lockhart

2) don't get anyone hurt

We could have scored 100 in 3 plays drives like the Carson,Kirk, Reynolds series all day.

That doesn't help us going forward though, and no one in conference is affected by the scores we put up against Nevada/ball.

Glad you're here for some perspective, otherwise I'm just pumping out koolaid

Actually tmc I do understand that but inconsistent play and lousy oline play shouldn't be happening even in a "practice" game. I'm sorry but there are to many unanswered questions with this team and I'm not sold one bit. I've bought in since we moved to the SEC but that's over the only thing that will be acceptable is results, not hype. If the team can't put it together it's time to make some changes. This is just my opinion and I expect to get blown up for it but it's how I feel.