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Official Duke's Mayo Bowl vs. Wisconsin Thread

Lol, the offense put up 518 yards on the #1 defense in the country. If you think the overall general scheme of the offense is the issue and not that the QB that threw 4x more interceptions in one half than he’s thrown all season, idk what to tell you. Sam will bounce back. Had a pretty great season overall.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
I think the offense probably could be improved to become a bit less predictable, but we have been top 20 in points and/or yards per game in three of the past four years
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Yeah, as I posted earlier it needs to evolve a little bit, not a makeover, just evolve a little bit. I think we need to make it tougher on opposing d-coordinators to make adjustments to slow us down. We often seem to start fast and then start stalling.
 
Short yardage situations on O, LBs and Secondary on D. If we can just fix 2/3, we will be hard to beat. Sam shit the bed today, but we will bounce back.
 
BlackjackMc said:
Interceptions and special team performance negated the ability of the offense to move the ball. The Wisconsin offense was given possession of football in Wake territory far too often and they capitalized. That's football. Wake gave it away and Wisconsin took it and made Wake pay.

Clawson bears some responsibility for this loss. Sam lost focus when Greene dropped the long pass in the first half. Went 0-6 the rest of the half and wasn't even close. He regained it for two series in the second half. He never looked at the coverage before throwing the first interception. I doubt he saw the coverage for the next three interceptions.
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Too bad Sam. He missed a bunch of open guys for potential big plays. Greene will tell you he should have caught that one but suck it up Sam. He was terrible. If he is that shaken by one tough drop than he is not the player who should be leading our team.
 
Complacent Deac said:
I agree WR could be nice, real nice next year. RB key is Kenneth Walker, as he's well ahead of the others.

Gonna need to score a LOT of points unless we are bringing in some transfer DB's.
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As a matter of fact we have 2 transfer DB's coming in. 1 is the best corner in the Ivy League and the other is a solid safety from Navy. Our DB's will be fine next year if they can stay healthy.
 
deacon22 said:
Lol, the offense put up 518 yards on the #1 defense in the country. If you think the overall general scheme of the offense is the issue and not that the QB that threw 4x more interceptions in one half than he’s thrown all season, idk what to tell you. Sam will bounce back. Had a pretty great season overall.
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I liked the addition of the two short passes to CBS in the first half. Execution of same pass in the second half led to very bad result.

Now add orbit motion and occasional hand-off to the mix.
 
Resilient Deac said:
As a matter of fact we have 2 transfer DB's coming in. 1 is the best corner in the Ivy League and the other is a solid safety from Navy. Our DB's will be fine next year if they can stay healthy.
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I've been pretty impressed with Carson this season too, think he'll be a good one.
 
Deaconblue said:
I liked the addition of the two short passes to CBS in the first half. Execution of same pass in the second half led to very bad result.

Now add orbit motion and occasional hand-off to the mix.
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I don’t even think the design of the play was supposed to go to CBS on the 2nd wheel anyway. Sam felt pressure and thought that was his checkdown and just threw it up. Not really sure that’s a schematic issue, more just a bad decision by Sam.
 
Given the number of starts, pauses and stops to this season combined with attrition, I'm honestly not sure what to make of this season other than it was one to soon forget. Wake will always have depth issues. It's just who we are. But combine that with the challenges from the worst pandemic in 100+ years, and I'm not sure too many hard conclusions can be drawn from this year's performance.

It is obvious that we have a number of areas for improvement in key positions. I hope that the challenge for QB is wide open in 2021. That would be a healthy thing for all concerned.
 
deacon22 said:
I don’t even think the design of the play was supposed to go to CBS on the 2nd wheel anyway. Sam felt pressure and thought that was his checkdown and just threw it up. Not really sure that’s a schematic issue, more just a bad decision by Sam.
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In the postgame Clawson said it was the wrong read by Sam.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
I've been pretty impressed with Carson this season too, think he'll be a good one.
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Absolutely. Carson, Taylor and (can't think of Ivy league transfers name) will be a really good top-3 CB. And we have some young depth.

Gotta find speed at linebacker
 
Resilient Deac said:
Absolutely. Carson, Taylor and (can't think of Ivy league transfers name) will be a really good top-3 CB. And we have some young depth.

Gotta find speed at linebacker
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Wingfield is the Ivy

It's mind-blowing that the starting LBs put up almost 30 tackles, let up 1 touchdown when the ball isn't placed on the Wake 33 or worse(wisconsin had 6 of these) and the immediate response is "yeah i think they need more speed" hell the defense was one of the 2 reasons Wake was in this game alongside the receivers
 
Wake fans seem to think it’s impossible for a defense to get in a bad spot and hold teams to a field goal. They don’t have to escort FBs into the endzone. That’s the don’t break part.
 
CamLemons said:
Wingfield is the Ivy

It's mind-blowing that the starting LBs put up almost 30 tackles, let up 1 touchdown when the ball isn't placed on the Wake 33 or worse(wisconsin had 6 of these) and the immediate response is "yeah i think they need more speed" hell the defense was one of the 2 reasons Wake was in this game alongside the receivers
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It's not mutually exclusive to say the defense had a good day (compared to prior season performances) but recognize the front 7 had a shittastic season overall and would certainly benefit from a talent upgrade.

Especially when the front 7 was allegedly the strength of the team on paper heading into 2020.

The 2020 offense overperformed relative to expectations and the 2020 defense underperformed.
 
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Well that was a fitting end to 2020. The worst year of my lifetime. Let's hope 2021 can be a fresh start for the Deacs. Interesting to see how the roster turns out. Sounds like we may have a 100 players on scholarship.
 
Colonel Angus said:
It's not mutually exclusive to say the defense had a good day (compared to prior season performances) but recognize the front 7 had a shittastic season overall and would certainly benefit from a talent upgrade.

Especially when the front 7 was allegedly the strength of the team on paper heading into 2020.

The 2020 offense overperformed relative to expectations and the 2020 defense underperformed.
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it's almost *almost* like, and this is the entire point I've been making, when they havent been trying to cover for injuries/COVID at S and CB the defense looks closer to what we expect. Hell they were down 4-5 DL today and looked good.

The entire issue this year from coaches, players, outside coaches, writers, etc has been when they've been extraordinarily thin at the back, they've tried to hide it by adjusting gap responsibility which puts the DL and LBs in a position to either make an almost impossible play or they get gashed. In the now 4 games they havent been down to 4 safeties before they get to walk-ons named Nick Andersen, have been the 4 best statistically and eye test games on the season. It's almost like not being down a million players so you're playing 3rd and 4th strings guys matter
 
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