1) Penalties/discipline - we have significantly less penalties trying to line up on offense, false starts, illegal procedures, delay of games, and selfish personal fouls.
2) physicality and tackling - I would no longer consider our team soft. We have a mindset of a physical team even if we don't have the horses to fully be that yet.
3) Playing hard - we play hard and do not quit and that cannot be argued.
4) Appear organized - we call appropriate timeouts, send plays in on time, and appear to execute a gameplan with an identity (regardless of whether some don't like our gameplan or identity)
5) Pass rush - No longer do QBs have all day to pick us apart. We force the action a good amount of time.
We have so far to go. The OL is still among the worst in cfb (sorry but it's true). We don't really have a QB. And our WRs scare no one and allow defenses to crowd the line on money downs. We also have no depth on either side of the ball and get worn down quickly.
But Rome wasn't built in a day. I am happy we finally appear to be a program with a plan and have an organized approach to working that plan.
2) physicality and tackling - I would no longer consider our team soft. We have a mindset of a physical team even if we don't have the horses to fully be that yet.
3) Playing hard - we play hard and do not quit and that cannot be argued.
4) Appear organized - we call appropriate timeouts, send plays in on time, and appear to execute a gameplan with an identity (regardless of whether some don't like our gameplan or identity)
5) Pass rush - No longer do QBs have all day to pick us apart. We force the action a good amount of time.
We have so far to go. The OL is still among the worst in cfb (sorry but it's true). We don't really have a QB. And our WRs scare no one and allow defenses to crowd the line on money downs. We also have no depth on either side of the ball and get worn down quickly.
But Rome wasn't built in a day. I am happy we finally appear to be a program with a plan and have an organized approach to working that plan.
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