It’ll be interesting as the season wears on to see if Skipper accounts for more points for the other team or for us. It’s pretty close now.
It’s amazing when you think about it - miss 3 (4) field goals and lose by 7. Give up a safety and pick 6 and lose by 9. Give up a pick 6 and fumble return for TD and lose by 14. Who’s heard of losing consecutive games where the margin of loss equaled the points give up off turnovers.
C-USA got hosed with lousy bowl tie-ins where you either won the conference or went to a crappy bowl game. One of the bowl games against the crappy MAC teams was the year TU went 7-1 in C-USA losing only to an undefeated top 10 Houston team. That's a pretty damn good year of football IMO.
If Skipper just held onto the ball. I can live with the occasional INT taking a shot deep. It happens to the best of them. The fumbles after good drives are absolutely killing this team.
I agree. I don't think there is such a talent deficiency that we cannot compete. And the negative plays are killing this team and I think you're right, that is something that falls on coaches. They need to get tougher with the players making the mistakes and replace them for a series or two until they can find the discipline and toughness within themselves to earn their way back on the field
You don't throw out an entire computer code just because it has a bug. You just fix the bug.
You fix them one by one until your code works. Also, I think you're being pretty nitpicky on some of the stuff. Some things need to be prioritized more than others. The biggest things you didn't address which could prevent a host of the other problems is fixing the pass protection and drilling the line more to cut down on stupid penalties. (False Starts). Let us get into 3rd and manageable instead of 3rd and 17 and we'll probably cut down on the INT's and fumbles because we won't need to protect quite as long or make nearly as risky throws trying to play from behind.
The coach calls fine plays overall. There have been a couple calls I disagreed with, but nothing so attrocious that he should be let go. I saw far more calls from BB in Cody Green's senior year or GJ's senior year where I scratched my head.
No coach is going to call every single play correctly 100% of the time. Go ask Chad Morris or Gus Malzahn.
In four games, Skipper has under thrown the deep sideline pass every time for multiple interceptions. Until the Temple game, Hobbs has been dropping way too many catchable balls. Skipper does throw a nice and accurate inside slant but his fumbles are killing this teams chance for success. The defense has really improved but this team cannot overcome multiple turnovers every game.
Cleaning up penalties and pass protection from the offensive line would help in the following areas:
MILLER has been making the same snap infraction penalty for four years now , I now just accept that it's going to be called every game . Our tackles get beat on the edge every third play . This is far from being one of the best offensive lines in TU history, hope they will continue to improve and prove us wrong.
No. Not even a tiny bit of improvement. They each look exactly the same as they always have. If anything, it seems as if the team is regressing. Which is why I've wanted him gone since last season. He's a terrible coach, can't recruit decent talent, doesn't seem to discipline for mistakes that keep happening every game, terrible play caller, doesn't adapt at all, and on and on. It's pathetic. He needs to GTHO! Give some high school coach with an innovative and creative offense $700k/year for three years and tell him he has until year 3 to get to a bowl if not sooner.
Wrong. He made a ton of them his FR year and they were virtually gone in year 2 with Dane (I can't remember more than 1 or 2 the entire season his Soph season). He made a couple last year and I chalked it up to the difference in the cadences between Skipper and President as most showed up when the switch was made. So far this year I think I've counted 2 that are on Miller. There were a ton his FR season. He has certainly improved in that. Also, his calling out coverages is invaluable. And if you watch, rarely is he ever beaten. Most of the pressure has come from outside. Miller is not the problem on this OL. Neither are the 2 OGs. Our issues are clearly the tackles. Both have pretty bad footwork (and slow) and I honestly think that their arms are too short to really be effective against guys who are using the outside speed rush. Usually your OTs are tall, quick feet with a really strong first drop step and long arms.
Thanks. And that makes sense. I think the side cuts are the ones that were the questionably dangerous blocks they are trying to eliminate. The from behind cut blocks have been called clipping as long as I have been alive. Watching the triple option operate a lot of the FB runs up the middle rely on the OL getting down and cutting the DL and if the DL sets up in an offset where none of their guys are square up with the blocker, there are some potentially devastating knee and ankle injuries that occur.
