Clearly UL exposed our OL and offense’s inability to handle heavy pressure, but another surprising issue that also contributed to our losses is our O was very slow to get going in all of the key games except fsu. Went down 14-0 to Clemson and nothing first couple of possessions, again down 13-0 to UL with out of sync O to come back to take lead at half before the 3q debacle, again nothing first 3 possessions vs Pack, and of course again go down 14-0 vs UNC with empty first 2 possessions. With a 6th year Sam and so much experience in what had been such an effective O you would think it should be the exact opposite and we come out with confidence and clicking and be even a better O this year but not so. i think some is sam is incredibly streaky but also your coaches should have team prepared to execute with results. Instead we regularly dug ourselves holes and our D also often started slow and regularly gave up scores before finally tightening up later.
At end of day I do feel our D is better than last year and we got that needed bump for success we were hoping for, but our O was no where near as productive as last year and the UL game further impacted our Os confidence and O vastly underperformed in the big games except for CU 2nd half. Really frustrating as fan as seems we had the tools and just not Prepared and able to adjust.
At end of day I do feel our D is better than last year and we got that needed bump for success we were hoping for, but our O was no where near as productive as last year and the UL game further impacted our Os confidence and O vastly underperformed in the big games except for CU 2nd half. Really frustrating as fan as seems we had the tools and just not Prepared and able to adjust.
