The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly- FSU Style...

THE GOOD... We beat a good team even though our Offense didn't play well.

THE BAD... Our Kicking game was BAD.

THE UGLY Injury to FSU QB.

All in all this first game showed some glaring problems we need to work on.
FSU did what I expected them to do Defensively... They used the Clemson BluePrint for beating us. 8 man fronts will be the norm until we get a reliable passing game.
I expect every team that plays us to try to follow that BluePrint. HOWEVER...
Most of the teams we will face don't have as good a Defense as FSU.

The Good
We won

The Bad
Field goal kicking

The ugly
Injuries and "Aubren"


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rgw said:

The Good - Jalen Hurts as a passer. In a night where your starter doesn't eclipse 100 yards, it is seemingly "really low standards" to say this but hear me out. I thought he did an exceptional job of delivering the ball when he wasn't in scramble mode from the moment he got the snap due to poor protection. He had four deep balls - one off a scramble - that looked great. Problem: one was negated due to holding, one was stopped by DPI, one went through a true freshman's hands in the endzone. His short stuff was well delivered and in a spot where the receiver could move after the catch. If Hurts gets better protection, he is gonna have a good year.


The Bad - Offensive line play. I know FSU is one of the best we will see up front but Alabama looked inept at times. This must improve.


The Ugly - JK Scott's worst punt of his career. 9 yards...I suspect that will be the last time this season, seemed like a fluke but dang it was ugly.

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I really agree with your post. Jalen didnt play bad ball. He did well all game, but our offensive line play was really bad at times and he had no time to do anything. What was up woth those outside blitzes that were never picked up too? There were plays they had someone coming off the edges and we gave Jalen NO protection! There were some questionable play calls too that I dont blame Jalen for. I am still surprised we didnt see any mid field passing still or any shots to our TE's. I am hoping that we were playing it safe a bit and the next few weeks we can work out the rough edges om our offense.

CraigD said:

Yes, they sure could have called that pass interference penalty, but just before that FSU grabbed Jalen's facemask on the third down play. They didn't call that either
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I don't think it was a makeup call at all. It simply was not PI. The DB is allowed to occupy space an he did not have either arm up. If he had, it would have been PI automatically... :cool2:

The good.....defense.
The bad...... Play calling. Was SS still calling the plays? If you won't use the TE, put in another tackle for blocking.
The Ugly.....A wildcat QB who refuses to stay in the pocket.

JaxTider said:

the good .... defense
The bad .... offensive line
The ugly ... kicking

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This! It wasn't the play calling, it was the execution. It is hard to function when the line doesn't play as one. Let's hope they jell soon.

The Good: We took a good team's best shot, played subpar in some aspects, and still won.

The Bad: the middle of the field. It's lava on offense and turns opposing receivers into Randy Moss on defense. I'm ready to start tag team suplexes on these jump balls so maybe they will start missing a few.

The Ugly: inconsistency. We can't big play our way to the Championship Game again. The result will be the same as last year, a gassed defense in crunch time.


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GOOD: We won! Special teams defense. No turnovers.

BAD: O Line, especially in passing game. Kicking inconsistency. Injuries to 4 Linebackers.

UGLY: Our offense overall needs to improve or we may not even win the SEC or SEC Championship game.

I'll just go with "The Ugly":

Injuries...on both sides. Francois's injury made me cringe, it was bad. I also don't like how we lost 4 LBs, two of which are probably going to be out a while.

Adding to the "Good": - Jimbo's full, open and unstinting praise of Alabama and Saban in his post-game presser.

the good: defense, special teams coverage.
the bad: as usual poor field goal kicking.
the ugly: same offense as last year, only worse. don't know if Jalen will ever think run first, and look downfield to find open receivers. only one wide receiver caught a pass. the offensive line had problems defending the typical 7, 8 man defensive front because of the no pass threat. play tua.

DrollTide said:

Adding to the "Good": - Jimbo's full, open and unstinting praise of Alabama and Saban in his post-game presser.

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Doesn't mean squat, he also praised Rapeis.

bamanix said:

the good: defense, special teams coverage.
the bad: as usual poor field goal kicking.
the ugly: same offense as last year, only worse. don't know if Jalen will ever think run first, and look downfield to find open receivers. only one wide receiver caught a pass. the offensive line had problems defending the typical 7, 8 man defensive front because of the no pass threat. play tua.

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Lol at "play Tua". Come on man...

FSU has a great defense and most likely the best secondary in the country.

The Good: We got out of Atlanta with a win against a team that could possibly meet us again if either A) their qb comes back or B) their backup is good enough

The Bad: Overall we played probably a 6.5/10 type game. I was mostly disappointed in the O line. But optimistically I really think we have time to work out the kinks between now and October 7th

The Ugly: Francios injury.... hope he makes a quick and full recovery

Good - impressive win over a playoff contender in week one

Bad - the fact that I couldn't watch the second half of this game and the first half of the LSU game at the same time

Ugly - place kicking.

colbysullivan said:

Lol at "play Tua". Come on man...

FSU has a great defense and most likely the best secondary in the country.

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I hope we get to see him late next week.

Good- defense. It's amazing how good we are with no dropoff at LB, DE and CB.

Bad- offensive line needs to do better job of protecting Hurts. They didnt give him time to throw.

Ugly- Francois injury. Praying for him.

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The Good:Lots.-- Jalen made no turnovers. Not one. He's improved as a passer but needs a little more work. He'll be fine.
-- Calvin Ridley.
-- Damien Harris - didn't he also get a blocked punt?
-- Defense was GREAT! Not the same type of defense as last year but faster.
-- Jeremy Pruitt. Tightened the noose as the game wore on. Love that he's this aggressive.Refs reversed a late hit call. The reversal came after seeing the replay. The hit was super quick and DEVASTATING! So, I could kind of undertand missing that at first (though the ref was on the spot).SPECIAL TEAMS (not kickers) !!!Class. On both sides. Both coaches and sidelines. Both teams looked like how most NFL teams *should* look. Neither team acted like it was their first time in the arena. Both teams were fundamentally sound and making good open field tackles.
The Bad:Not being able to assert the run game when we need it. Haven't been able to do that like we should since DH was here. OL, tighten up!Refs made some bad calls. Could have called us for PI on the attempted TD pass but they would not have been in position to make that throw if not for a bad PI call against us earlier. Thankfully it evened out.
The Ugly:Our FG kicking game seems to have gone backwards believe it or not.Francois' injury. Good Lord, I hope he recovers quickly. Hate that he got hurt like that even though it was a legit hit.