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Post by Bornthrilla on Sept 30, 2010 14:08:58 GMT -5
I think Berry might want to spend a few days of practice and work on nothing but redzone execution.
It seems that every time we get down to the 25 yard line, we lose focus and start shooting ourselves in the foot.
This team has moved the ball pretty well since the second half of the Hampton game, but we have got to find a way to score touchdowns with more consistency. That is where your offensive coordinator earns his paycheck.
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Sept 30, 2010 14:21:57 GMT -5
I agree with alot of what you guys are saying, but the object of the game is to score more points than your opponent. Moving the ball at will between the thirty and thirty means absolutely nothing, if you don't score. We have to admit that A&T has some serious problems that need to be solved. They are 0-4 and heading into the meat of their schedule. All (coaches and players) are going to have to do some serious soul searching and start using the "muscle" between the ears. Finanacially A&T is not in a position to make wholesale changes or even minute changes. So this group is going to have to suck it up and become more innovative and creative, if they plan to salvage some of what's left of this season.
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 30, 2010 14:23:14 GMT -5
ah...just because the offense has a good game doesn't necessarily mean they are getting it done. 320 total offense doesn't mean we are an offensive juggernaut either...sure it's improvement but, your offense must generate enough POINTS to win and not yards. what i mean is, i've seen many offenses rack up yardage between the 20's and get no points. that isn't worth a wooden nickel. don't want to complain, but i just think by now, our offense should be rolling especially with our talent. so, to me, improvement is still unacceptable in my world...that's just me.
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Post by coach205 on Sept 30, 2010 14:26:39 GMT -5
You know also they need to look at their conditioning. I agree play calling in the red zone is very important. But think about this also they are getting toward the end of a long drive and they get tired and like yall say lose focus in the red zone. That could also mean they are not in good enough shape to finish drives. Attachments:
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Post by coach205 on Sept 30, 2010 14:29:26 GMT -5
I got a good one that make you guys feel a liittle better. Our defense held Morgan State (who suck by the way) to 64 yards of total offense and we still lost 20-3..... Please tell me how the hell that happens.... I'll tell you poor offense and special teams.
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Sept 30, 2010 14:31:53 GMT -5
I got a good one that make you guys feel a liittle better. Our defense held Morgan State (who suck by the way) to 64 yards of total offense and we still lost 20-3..... Please tell me how the hell that happens.... I'll tell you poor offense and special teams. We feel ya...... Then we may have a chance.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 30, 2010 15:00:47 GMT -5
ah...just because the offense has a good game doesn't necessarily mean they are getting it done. 320 total offense doesn't mean we are an offensive juggernaut either...sure it's improvement but, your offense must generate enough POINTS to win and not yards. what i mean is, i've seen many offenses rack up yardage between the 20's and get no points. that isn't worth a wooden nickel. don't want to complain, but i just think by now, our offense should be rolling especially with our talent. so, to me, improvement is still unacceptable in my world...that's just me. so turning the ball over 7 times doesn't contribute to your offense not scoring points? last time i checked, that's 7 opportunities to score points that we simply gave away to the other team in their scoring territory. ya think we might have scored more points had we not given the ball away 7 times? i do. if we ran up 320 yards of offense after sacrificing 7 possessions, can you imagine how much more offense we would have generated without those 7 to's? we're talking well over 400 yards. i tellin' ya'll, you're barking up the wrong tree. you want to overcome 7 to's by putting up more than 320 yards of offense and scoring more points? how many teams do you know that can do that? turn the ball over 7 times, spot a team 21 points and the strategy to win is not to eliminate the to's, but to put up more offense? come on now, you're missing the boat. most coaches would be satisfied with the 320 yards of offense but horrified by the 7 to's. yet, we've got folk who look right pass the 7 to's and instead demand more offense. i really think ya'll are barking up the wrong tree...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 30, 2010 15:06:03 GMT -5
I got a good one that make you guys feel a liittle better. Our defense held Morgan State (who suck by the way) to 64 yards of total offense and we still lost 20-3..... Please tell me how the hell that happens.... I'll tell you poor offense and special teams. We feel ya...... Then we may have a chance. that's why i think the tsu game is so important. if by the grace of God we can somehow manage to pull that game out, we'd have confidence going into our homecoming game against morgan. morgan only beat bowie state by 7 points. i agree, they are not very good. if our guys bond together this weekend and pull out a win, we'll have a chance to turn this ship around. we play dsu after morgan and dsu is currently winless like we are. again, i really don't think we're as bad as it seems. we just need a win in the worst way!
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 30, 2010 16:21:17 GMT -5
i could see your point if we had 7 turnovers and ran out of time during a comeback...that was not the case. we basically caught up enough by halftime to be in the game...27-16. then, we come out in the second half and do absolutely nothing with the ball, sure we had turnovers in the second half BUT, we had our opportunities to score and didn't without turnovers as well. we punted a few times in the second half. so, if our offense was rolling like you suggest, the times we didn't turn the ball over in the second half, we should have scored. in the second half, our offense couldn't get out of its own way...nothing nccu did. the drives we didn't turn the ball over, our oc had a few brain-farts!
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Post by Aggie Monster on Sept 30, 2010 17:41:27 GMT -5
Our offensive output against NCCU is very deceiving. We moved the ball on the ground in the first half. We gained the bulk of our total yards in the 1st half. Aside from that we moved the ball when and where they wanted us to. 2nd half all they were doing was keeping our guys in front of them and making the stops.
2nd half possessions: 2 total yards = punt 25 total yards = turnover 1 yard = turnover 42 yards = interception(we were in hurry up and NCCU was just giving us underneath) 2 yards = punt 27 yards = interception(see above comment)
So Im not really convinced we were/are some yard gaining dynamos. If we had not abused the right side of their defense in the 1st half running the ball our offense was/is still suspect.
Berry, shut me up please!
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Post by aggie1 on Oct 1, 2010 9:12:59 GMT -5
A&T football is at an all time low. I have seen better coached teams in high school. We have some talent but our coaching staff is sub par for college standards. We are in the same situation we were in several years ago and it seems it won't get any better.
A&T needs to hire its next football coach who has division I head coaching experience. Lately, we have been hiring assistants and coordinators. Hire someone with experience!! Is that too hard to understand.
Also, we need an Athletic Director with enough experience and wisdom to know how to find a very good coach. There are head coaches out there in lower divisions that will make a very good coach at A&T. Give them a chance.
Next time ... pay attention to what Bill Hayes suggest. He is a winner everywhere he goes.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Oct 1, 2010 10:14:47 GMT -5
A&T football is at an all time low. I have seen better coached teams in high school. We have some talent but our coaching staff is sub par for college standards. We are in the same situation we were in several years ago and it seems it won't get any better. A&T needs to hire its next football coach who has division I head coaching experience. Lately, we have been hiring assistants and coordinators. Hire someone with experience!! Is that too hard to understand. Also, we need an Athletic Director with enough experience and wisdom to know how to find a very good coach. There are head coaches out there in lower divisions that will make a very good coach at A&T. Give them a chance. Next time ... pay attention to what Bill Hayes suggest. He is a winner everywhere he goes. hayes just hired maynor this year at wssu who was a former oc but has never been a head coach before. maynor is now undefeated as a head coach. bethune cookman hired brian jenkins this year who has never been an offensive nor defensive coordinator and has never been a head coach before in his entire career. yet, jenkins' bcu team is also undefeated. so much for the theory that we must hire experienced head coaches. just hiring experienced head coaches is not the solution. hiring "qualified" coaches with or without head coach experience is the solution...
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Post by krazykev on Oct 1, 2010 12:38:45 GMT -5
Next time ... pay attention to what Bill Hayes suggest. He is a winner everywhere he goes. If Hayes was so high on Maynor then why did he not hire him at FAMU. He it a safe hire for a DII school and Winston still had DI talent on the team from the previous year. In DII you do things recruiting wise that cannot be done on the DI level. I like Maynor but, he would have not gotten any head coaching job in the MEAC if available last year. Now, that he is doing a good job as a Head Coach and if he keeps it up for a few years then his phone will be ringing off the hook. Good Luck to Maynor
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Post by DOOMS on Oct 1, 2010 13:08:37 GMT -5
I'm confused.
When did 320 yards of offense become good? Heck, Central gives up an average of 374 yards per game. In that scenario, 320 yards of offense sucks. Yes they play App State, but they also played Winston and JC Smith.
The offense still is not pulling it's weight, period. That doesn't mean it can't, but it does mean it's time to try a different method of motivation and/or preparation.
Try preparation h.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Oct 1, 2010 13:24:37 GMT -5
Kev,
I think when Hayes initialy went to FAMU, Maynor was just transitioning into Coaching. I could be wrong but he played arena for a long time. So just in my opinion three years ago Maynor probably was not ready for the WSSU job. I think he got the depth of his Coaching experience over the last three years
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