(12-18-2023, 12:32 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-18-2023, 12:22 AM)JagFan81 Wrote: Dammit. Another one we gave away. Frustrating but as bad as it feels, we still lead the South and still control our destiny. This was a rough stretch and injuries and mistakes just killed us. It's all on us and it's things we can fix. It's up to the coaches and players and pulling together.

We really need a W just to get some positivity going again. We have a great chance to turn this around and get a W streak going.

The thing is, we're not fixing it. We keep doing the same thing over and over. We keep saying something needs to be worked on but obviously it's not being done. 

Two very obvious things are different from last year. Taylor is calling plays and Ridley is on the team. Take those away and are we the same offensively? Likely. Last season the offense was tight and had a rhythm that is not there this season. Press Taylor couldn't play call his way out of his office. 

I'm not normally legit pessimistic about this team. More like annoyed when things go sideways, but I'm really not seeing anything positive right now.

And I get that. I mean the first half of last year we were bad but people put that on Lawrence. This year it's on Press. I don't think it's just down to 1 person or one thing, thers lots of things that are all causing the problems. Oline had struggled, bad playcalling, bad execution, no run game, miscommunication all over the place, you could go on and on.

I agree that there are things we'd hope to see fixed bit haven't and that causes new issues to appear but most teams will go through that. I can't lie that it's a worry we can't seem to find the answer but that's the challenge for HC's.

We still have 3 games to turn this around and if we take care of our business then we're in. That's what gives me optimism.

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