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Ok, records and ability to pass our way to narrow victories over marginal opponents for most of the season aside do the members of this board think we are better than last season at this point?
I'll start. To me I feel we are 9-2 on a shoestring for the most part. I am ecstatic about our emergence of a legitimate passing game that I believe would at least keep us on the field with most of the Top 10 teams in the country.(more on this later) Conversely I'm still baffled that we lose yardage on more of our running plays that we gain yards on...
I'm all in with the pressure we bring when playing marginal opponents but baffled how most of the time we get gashed by average at best running teams and then rely on a big sack to get off the field.
I'm pleased with our ability to keep it together down the stretch of most games.....I'm baffled we can't hit the gas and put mileage between us and most of the teams we've played this year allowing a breather for our gassed defense and to allow EJ to run the TOTAL offense....not just come in to run the football. I wanna see him work our passing game for most of the 4th quarter in games(we know what we have with Trask so I don't want to hear that he is still rusty...he's not, he is what he is, a good passer)
Where I'm going with this is our possible bowl match up's(and further to our future) I see quite a few teams that we could possibly end up playing that don't look like good match up's for us.
Are we better than at this point last year? IMO no....I think we would have beaten ANYONE outside of the playoff teams from last year including UGA if we had played them again!!! I don't quite feel the same this year.
I'll start. To me I feel we are 9-2 on a shoestring for the most part. I am ecstatic about our emergence of a legitimate passing game that I believe would at least keep us on the field with most of the Top 10 teams in the country.(more on this later) Conversely I'm still baffled that we lose yardage on more of our running plays that we gain yards on...
I'm all in with the pressure we bring when playing marginal opponents but baffled how most of the time we get gashed by average at best running teams and then rely on a big sack to get off the field.
I'm pleased with our ability to keep it together down the stretch of most games.....I'm baffled we can't hit the gas and put mileage between us and most of the teams we've played this year allowing a breather for our gassed defense and to allow EJ to run the TOTAL offense....not just come in to run the football. I wanna see him work our passing game for most of the 4th quarter in games(we know what we have with Trask so I don't want to hear that he is still rusty...he's not, he is what he is, a good passer)
Where I'm going with this is our possible bowl match up's(and further to our future) I see quite a few teams that we could possibly end up playing that don't look like good match up's for us.
Are we better than at this point last year? IMO no....I think we would have beaten ANYONE outside of the playoff teams from last year including UGA if we had played them again!!! I don't quite feel the same this year.