We went through the same shit last year. Wake's short-yardage stuff sucked ass against ODU in the opener and I talked to Warren the next week.
Here's part of what I wrote:
“Yeah, that was a little bit of a mess,” said Ruggiero, in his eighth season as the Deacons’ offensive coordinator.
Keeping in mind that Ruggiero doesn’t sugarcoat things, the next part is equally as important.
“I mean, we have plenty of things that we can do on short yardage and in a game like that, we really were just trying to practice those things, if that makes sense,” Ruggiero told Deacons Illustrated. “If that was … Florida State and the game wasn’t in control at any point, we might have done some different things and so forth, for sure.”
Here were Clawson quotes:
“Early in the year (in 2020), Kenneth Walker would maybe bounce things or do things and get away with it, or not get away with it,” Clawson said. “Eventually he learned to just trust it and hammer it, and Christian is new to that role.
“He’ll get better at it. It was the first time he’d done it in a game. I thought he did a good job with it in practice. … That stuff was fairly successful against our defense. We’ve got to get better at it, we’ve got to get more reps at it and I have confidence he’ll get better at it.”