These are the key issues, imo, in order:
The program doesn’t have a winning culture. Gabe mentioned this in closing thoughts. I thought the BS at Auburn and the roughing the punter vs UK were crazy flukes until last night. That had made optimistic coming into this year: “we were 2 flukes from 8-4 last year!” But you watch us blow a 3rd-and-1, give up on 83-yd easy TD drive where a false start on them gave them another chance(!), then Brady fumble out the EZ, then blow another 3rd-and-1 on bad penalties and you start to think it’s the team.
OL: woof. New coach. Two new starters and still numerous penalties at terrible times: red zone, 3rd and short, etc. Snap infraction by the center? Anyone notice Javon Foster get pwnd 2x in Q1 by their backup linebacker for sacks? Ugh. If we convert a TD early on that FG drive and make that 3rd at the 44, we win easily.
QB. Obs, Brady very mediocre. Well understood, but it would matter a lot less if not for the above. Given the above, we beed someone able to overcome this crap with playmaking. He ain’t that.
No takeaways. The D is solid, but has zero takeaways. We had 18 last year in 13 games, zero so far in the softest part of the schedule. Given the above, a couple of turnovers would have helped a ton.
Last, the two main critiques on this site are logically incompatible: the QB sucks and the offense is too risk averse. They’re not each valid complaints; one is the reason for the other. This is why people clamor for Horn even though he is obviously not the answer (at least not yet): he’s the only way to resolve the paradox.
The program doesn’t have a winning culture. Gabe mentioned this in closing thoughts. I thought the BS at Auburn and the roughing the punter vs UK were crazy flukes until last night. That had made optimistic coming into this year: “we were 2 flukes from 8-4 last year!” But you watch us blow a 3rd-and-1, give up on 83-yd easy TD drive where a false start on them gave them another chance(!), then Brady fumble out the EZ, then blow another 3rd-and-1 on bad penalties and you start to think it’s the team.
OL: woof. New coach. Two new starters and still numerous penalties at terrible times: red zone, 3rd and short, etc. Snap infraction by the center? Anyone notice Javon Foster get pwnd 2x in Q1 by their backup linebacker for sacks? Ugh. If we convert a TD early on that FG drive and make that 3rd at the 44, we win easily.
QB. Obs, Brady very mediocre. Well understood, but it would matter a lot less if not for the above. Given the above, we beed someone able to overcome this crap with playmaking. He ain’t that.
No takeaways. The D is solid, but has zero takeaways. We had 18 last year in 13 games, zero so far in the softest part of the schedule. Given the above, a couple of turnovers would have helped a ton.
Last, the two main critiques on this site are logically incompatible: the QB sucks and the offense is too risk averse. They’re not each valid complaints; one is the reason for the other. This is why people clamor for Horn even though he is obviously not the answer (at least not yet): he’s the only way to resolve the paradox.
