Mertz made some bad reads but generally he was on target. Plus he had 3 dropped passes, not counting the bad short throw to Pearsall.
What?!?! You really don't know how a team that returned 8 total starters, had ~30 players enter the transfer portal after last season, with a new QB, an OL that was completely rebuilt and a bunch of F/RSF playing in various positions ... "could look so utterly unprepared for the first game of the season?" I don't think I'd enjoy watching a football game with you.
Someone answer this for me….where was Arliss at TE?!?!????? We’ve heard nathan but promising things about him and while I love Odom, I’m watching him lumber tryna get YAC with a torn up knee thinking “why not use Arliss???”
The lack of athleticism at TE in general is IMHO a serious detriment to the offense, especially with the way BN wants to run said offense. Imagine a Kyle Pitts being able to pull LB's out of the box to open things up for the run. Or be available in a quick game to relieve pass rush pressure.
I agree with what you are saying and mostly it’s easy fixes. That offensive line though, I don’t know, that may just be a liability all year. What we thought was our strength in offense, ground game, may be our biggest weakness. It takes some serious quarterbacking to overcome a poor rushing attack. Thank god Mertz was serviceable or it would get really ugly quick.
Heck, even Hayden caught a pass. We were asking that same question all game. If he can't block, just put him in for the play where he is the 1st or 2nd option.
Purplexing gor sure. Livingston passed him and fell down all by himself on tge only play I remember. That’s ok though, shit happens and it’s not a mental mistake. I worried far more about blocking than any other issue we have. Everything else is fixable.
The only thing about you post tgat confuse me is the 3/4 turbo unless you talking about false starts killing drives.
Do yall want to know a little underrated nugget…Napier has the same record as Taggert at FSU at this same point in time…yikes on bikes
The blind spot you mention might extent to more than a single area. The question is will he recognize his own shortcomings and correct, or at least mitigate them before they undo him the way DM was undone by his refusal to adapt. Billy is not arrogant, a lazy recruiter or just outright weird like DM sometimes was. But he has a way to go to become a fully capable P5 HC. His willingness and ability to grow and to learn from failure will determine if he can make himself into the HC we all want him to be.
Barber filled in for injury last year, you count that as a starter? Also missing the most important piece- the veteran center. And if you actually read my comment, you would see that whoever the safety was is irrelevant. He was out in a horrible position because the defender who was supposed to have the WR in front of him, fell, leaving the WR WIDE OPEN. Calm down.
Well it is relevant when the player getting called out on a message board wasn't even in the game on the play. I think we all might be better off taking your advice to calm down (including the dude you see in the mirror every morning).
Extremely, seeing as how Taggert inherited a team that won the championship a couple years ago and Napier inherited a literal dumpster fire. It’s a night and day difference between the two coaches and their situations. ridiculous to compare the two, but I get it, it’s the internet. Context is left out
