|
Post by westcoastaggie on Jun 21, 2024 10:22:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure we can "fry" chicken with relative ease in this league as we once did in our previous leagues. We need to work on some new batter as our palate is different. I think if one were to ask Coach B about the ingredients in doing chicken he would agree with it. He and his staff just doesn't say it in those terms. And I'm gonna say with ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE that "frying" chicken is NOT as easy in the CAA as it was in both the MEAC & BS. I believe part of the new batter is to be bigger and deeper on our defensive line...which it looks like we're doing. That said, Aggies Do! Let's go! QB play and 3rd down conversions are also a major ingredient in the CAA.
|
|
|
Post by pj on Jul 3, 2024 12:15:06 GMT -5
I think if one were to ask Coach B about the ingredients in doing chicken he would agree with it. He and his staff just doesn't say it in those terms. And I'm gonna say with ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE that "frying" chicken is NOT as easy in the CAA as it was in both the MEAC & BS. I believe part of the new batter is to be bigger and deeper on our defensive line...which it looks like we're doing. That said, Aggies Do! Let's go! QB play and 3rd down conversions are also a major ingredient in the CAA. Last year should have made our rushing attack deadlier for this up-coming Season. It seemed like we just ran, ran and ran. Now, with some receivers catching the rock, I think that this Team could finally just march down the field and score. (hopefully keeping the Defense from getting behind the 8-Ball so much).
|
|
oleschoolaggie
Official BDF member
2009 Poster of the Year, 2009 Most Knowledgeable Poster
Posts: 24,795
Member is Online
|
Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 3, 2024 14:59:24 GMT -5
I'm not sure we can "fry" chicken with relative ease in this league as we once did in our previous leagues. We need to work on some new batter as our palate is different. disagree, it worked against ecu, charlotte, kent state, and jacksonville state all of which were as good or better than caa teams. not to mention, it also worked on elon "multiple times". so it ain't that making chicken won't work, just need the appropriate coach making the chicken...
|
|
oleschoolaggie
Official BDF member
2009 Poster of the Year, 2009 Most Knowledgeable Poster
Posts: 24,795
Member is Online
|
Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 3, 2024 15:03:54 GMT -5
I'm not sure we can "fry" chicken with relative ease in this league as we once did in our previous leagues. We need to work on some new batter as our palate is different. I think if one were to ask Coach B about the ingredients in doing chicken he would agree with it. He and his staff just doesn't say it in those terms.And I'm gonna say with ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE that "frying" chicken is NOT as easy in the CAA as it was in both the MEAC & BS. I believe part of the new batter is to be bigger and deeper on our defensive line...which it looks like we're doing. That said, Aggies Do! Let's go! i saw "no evidence" whatsoever of that all season long last year. our defense allowed over "225 yards rushing" against us on average in "every game"...
|
|
A&T-roy
Official BDF member
Posts: 5,215
|
Post by A&T-roy on Jul 3, 2024 17:21:07 GMT -5
I think if one were to ask Coach B about the ingredients in doing chicken he would agree with it. He and his staff just doesn't say it in those terms.And I'm gonna say with ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE that "frying" chicken is NOT as easy in the CAA as it was in both the MEAC & BS. I believe part of the new batter is to be bigger and deeper on our defensive line...which it looks like we're doing. That said, Aggies Do! Let's go! i saw "no evidence" whatsoever of that all season long last year. our defense allowed over "225 yards rushing" against us on average in "every game"... Yeah. But there were reasons for it: - Young d-line - Light d-line - Inexperienced d-line - 3 new LBs - Anemic offense that caused them to be on the field quite a bit - Etc. That don't mean they were teaching and trying to stop the run. #Context
|
|
oleschoolaggie
Official BDF member
2009 Poster of the Year, 2009 Most Knowledgeable Poster
Posts: 24,795
Member is Online
|
Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 3, 2024 17:47:49 GMT -5
i saw "no evidence" whatsoever of that all season long last year. our defense allowed over "225 yards rushing" against us on average in "every game"... Yeah. But there were reasons for it: - Young d-line - Light d-line - Inexperienced d-line - 3 new LBs - Anemic offense that caused them to be on the field quite a bit - Etc. That don't mean they were teaching and trying to stop the run. #Context roy, i would contend that coach brown's system is entirely different from coach broadway/coach wash's system. i'd also contend that they don't teach "the same" fundamentals cuz our "tackling" was gawd awful last season, never seen it that bad since coach broadway first arrived in 2011. i've never seen in a very long time so many "broken and missed" tackles as i saw last season and that's on the coaches. i mean, our d-line has always been considered small (relatively speaking) under coach broadway and coach wash. yet, nobody could really run on us, certainly not at a rate of over 225yds per game. coach broadway would've busted a gasket if his defense gave up 225yds rushing per game...
|
|
A&T-roy
Official BDF member
Posts: 5,215
|
Post by A&T-roy on Jul 3, 2024 20:22:50 GMT -5
Yeah. But there were reasons for it: - Young d-line - Light d-line - Inexperienced d-line - 3 new LBs - Anemic offense that caused them to be on the field quite a bit - Etc. That don't mean they were teaching and trying to stop the run. #Context roy, i would contend that coach brown's system is entirely different from coach broadway/coach wash's system. i'd also contend that they don't teach "the same" fundamentals cuz our "tackling" was gawd awful last season, never seen it that bad since coach broadway first arrived in 2011. i've never seen in a very long time so many "broken and missed" tackles as i saw last season and that's on the coaches. i mean, our d-line has always been considered small (relatively speaking) under coach broadway and coach wash. yet, nobody could really run on us, certainly not at a rate of over 225yds per game. coach broadway would've busted a gasket if his defense gave up 225yds rushing per game... We already know his "system" is different from Broadway & Washington's. That don't mean they don't teach to stop the run, protect the football and win the kicking game in different terminology. As a matter of fact, Brown was a linebacker and tackling machine. When we were in the MEAC we could get away with being small (relatively speaking),,,and we did for about 10 years. Yep, our tackling was pretty bad last year. Size can have a big impact on tackling. A few things that were related to were one of our outside LBs (Avarion Cole) was playing at only about 190, our real starting FS (Ty Williams) was starting at SS and our starting FS was really the backup. Expect you'll see all of that change this year...bigger kid at the LB spot Cole was at, Williams will go back to FS and the starting SS will be bigger. Another thing that probably impacted it was opposing teams linemen were better able to get to the second level because they didn't have to double-team anybody. Watch us work.
|
|
oleschoolaggie
Official BDF member
2009 Poster of the Year, 2009 Most Knowledgeable Poster
Posts: 24,795
Member is Online
|
Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 3, 2024 20:37:02 GMT -5
roy, i would contend that coach brown's system is entirely different from coach broadway/coach wash's system. i'd also contend that they don't teach "the same" fundamentals cuz our "tackling" was gawd awful last season, never seen it that bad since coach broadway first arrived in 2011. i've never seen in a very long time so many "broken and missed" tackles as i saw last season and that's on the coaches. i mean, our d-line has always been considered small (relatively speaking) under coach broadway and coach wash. yet, nobody could really run on us, certainly not at a rate of over 225yds per game. coach broadway would've busted a gasket if his defense gave up 225yds rushing per game... We already know his "system" is different from Broadway & Washington's. That don't mean they don't teach to stop the run, protect the football and win the kicking game in different terminology. As a matter of fact, Brown was a linebacker and tackling machine. When we were in the MEAC we could get away with being small (relatively speaking),,,and we did for about 10 years. Yep, our tackling was pretty bad last year. Size can have a big impact on tackling. A few things that were related to were one of our outside LBs (Avarion Cole) was playing at only about 190, our real starting FS (Ty Williams) was starting at SS and our starting FS was really the backup. Expect you'll see all of that change this year...bigger kid at the LB spot Cole was at, Williams will go back to FS and the starting SS will be bigger. Another thing that probably impacted it was opposing teams linemen were better able to get to the second level because they didn't have to double-team anybody. Watch us work. our d-line was small (relatively speaking) when we beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state. are you suggesting none of those teams were as good or better than the caa teams we played last season? keep in mind, last season "multiple" meac teams beat multiple caa teams that we didn't beat. so if our small d-line was good enuf to beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state all "on the road" (except elon was home-n-home), then i don't wanna hear no doggone "excuses" that we essentially couldn't do it "at all" against our entire schedule last season...
|
|
|
Post by aggie2039 on Jul 3, 2024 20:58:01 GMT -5
We already know his "system" is different from Broadway & Washington's. That don't mean they don't teach to stop the run, protect the football and win the kicking game in different terminology. As a matter of fact, Brown was a linebacker and tackling machine. When we were in the MEAC we could get away with being small (relatively speaking),,,and we did for about 10 years. Yep, our tackling was pretty bad last year. Size can have a big impact on tackling. A few things that were related to were one of our outside LBs (Avarion Cole) was playing at only about 190, our real starting FS (Ty Williams) was starting at SS and our starting FS was really the backup. Expect you'll see all of that change this year...bigger kid at the LB spot Cole was at, Williams will go back to FS and the starting SS will be bigger. Another thing that probably impacted it was opposing teams linemen were better able to get to the second level because they didn't have to double-team anybody. Watch us work. our d-line was small (relatively speaking) when we beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state. are you suggesting none of those teams were as good or better than the caa teams we played last season? keep in mind, last season "multiple" meac teams beat multiple caa teams that we didn't beat. so if our small d-line was good enuf to beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state all "on the road" (except elon was home-n-home), then i don't wanna hear no doggone "excuses" that we essentially couldn't do it "at all" against our entire schedule last season... In 2017 ECU lost to James Madison 14 - 34 In 2018 Jacksonville State lost to Maine 27 - 55 In 2017 UNCC was 1 - 11 In 2022 UNCC lost to W&M 24 - 41 CAA teams have demolished the FBS teams we barely beat.
|
|
|
Post by aggie2039 on Jul 3, 2024 21:22:24 GMT -5
Richmond also sent NCCU packing in the first round of the playoffs
The MEAC championship lost to Hampton too.
|
|
saabman
Official BDF member
Posts: 12,263
|
Post by saabman on Jul 3, 2024 22:29:50 GMT -5
I'm not sure we can "fry" chicken with relative ease in this league as we once did in our previous leagues. We need to work on some new batter as our palate is different. disagree, it worked against ecu, charlotte, kent state, and jacksonville state all of which were as good or better than caa teams. not to mention, it also worked on elon "multiple times". so it ain't that making chicken won't work, just need the appropriate coach making the chicken... I disagree OSA . Those teams were three times more talented than what we had last year. Last season, We had the GREASE but we didn't have the CHICKEN..i.e Talent.
|
|
A&T-roy
Official BDF member
Posts: 5,215
|
Post by A&T-roy on Jul 3, 2024 22:44:36 GMT -5
We already know his "system" is different from Broadway & Washington's. That don't mean they don't teach to stop the run, protect the football and win the kicking game in different terminology. As a matter of fact, Brown was a linebacker and tackling machine. When we were in the MEAC we could get away with being small (relatively speaking),,,and we did for about 10 years. Yep, our tackling was pretty bad last year. Size can have a big impact on tackling. A few things that were related to were one of our outside LBs (Avarion Cole) was playing at only about 190, our real starting FS (Ty Williams) was starting at SS and our starting FS was really the backup. Expect you'll see all of that change this year...bigger kid at the LB spot Cole was at, Williams will go back to FS and the starting SS will be bigger. Another thing that probably impacted it was opposing teams linemen were better able to get to the second level because they didn't have to double-team anybody. Watch us work. our d-line was small (relatively speaking) when we beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state. are you suggesting none of those teams were as good or better than the caa teams we played last season? keep in mind, last season "multiple" meac teams beat multiple caa teams that we didn't beat. so if our small d-line was good enuf to beat ecu, charlotte, kent state, elon (multiple times), and jacksonville state all "on the road" (except elon was home-n-home), then i don't wanna hear no doggone "excuses" that we essentially couldn't do it "at all" against our entire schedule last season... Go compare our 2016-2019 d-lines to last year's d-line....size, experience and age. Not to mention that we had Tarik, Cartwright & Martin as running backs, 4 future NFL players (Cohen, Parker, Johnson & McCain) on those teams and our QBs (Quick, Raynard & Carter) were much more experienced AND better than ANY of the QBs we had last year.
|
|
DECKS
Official BDF member
2008 Poster of the Year
Charter Member of the BDF
Posts: 10,568
|
Post by DECKS on Jul 4, 2024 7:08:29 GMT -5
This season we'll be better but I still only see about 3 wins. Here are my reasons:
1. We have our 3rd offensive coordinator in as many seasons. Marsh definitely will make us better but it takes two or three seasons to build an effective offense.
2. Defensive line. Can we stop the run? Spring game wasn't very encouraging and not a lot of experience grabbed from the transfer portal. My big hope is that Brown will sign a good dl coach to replace Lang.
Lot of other variables to consider. Hopefully most of our opponents took big hits from the transfer portal.
|
|
|
Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jul 4, 2024 7:34:12 GMT -5
While there are many variables we need to improve upon the record will be the same unless there is major improvement with the following:
1. Receiver Route Running and catching the ball consistently 2. Defensive Line has to be able to win the battle in the trenches at a higher rate particularly on 1st down
|
|
|
Post by Bornthrilla on Jul 4, 2024 7:55:05 GMT -5
The question is what do we do really well?
I would say our No. 1 strength going into the season is our ability to run the ball.
If we maximize that, we should be able to keep the score close and have a puncher's chance to pull the upset against most of the teams on our schedule.
A dominant running game tends to hide a lot of other warts.
|
|