Top 5 positives and negatives
Positives
1. Kyle McCord looked good I thought. Threw some tough throws and he’s the one that makes the offense move. The coaches need to give him all the first team reps next week and go.
2. Defense adjusted well by adding a corner instead of a 3rd safety. Martinez is just a liability vs most WRs and that’s no knock on him. IMO he should be on offense where he’s electric. He’d be dynamic on jet sweeps etc
3. Burke is legit shut down. Challenged multiple times and he was in zero danger of giving up any of them.
4. Styles is largely avoided but when teams do challenge him it’s general a mistake for the offense.
5. I thought Henderson actually played well today and the OL was outstanding with pass pro.
Negatives
1. The overall plan on offense. There’s no urgency, there’s no rhythm, and a pretty noticeable lack of physicality.
I get wanting to work on things which is what lead to 40+ passes but how does this help us prepare for ND? It doesn’t. So it did nothing to establish our brand of football which I’m sure for ND will be balance and setting up play action.
We complain about not having enough possessions and seem to have no intent to press things offensively.
2. Penalties were back breaking today. We had multiple touchdowns called back on penalties and had two drives killed by them too.
3. In what should’ve been our easiest game we were playing Marv and Egbuka during the last minute of the game. What a waste to play our depth.
4. Give Kyle the job and move on. This dual QB stuff is absolutely murdering our productivity and sort of feeds my main issue with our O having no rhythm.
5. I’m ready to state that JT and Jack are fairly average. They’re good players but they are not elite play makers. Where is the pass rush? Our two sacks were Tommy and again a DT. The DEs really have been nonexistent since Chase left.
