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(11-14-2023 04:00 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(11-14-2023 03:58 PM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  Mortenson is on broyles award list for being a 1st half coach.

Seems Bryant Vincent has disguised himself as Mortenson.

What would our record be if we ended games at halftime? We'd have at least one more win and one tie with Memphis, right? And against memphis we left a minimum of 6-9 points on the field.

Well he must be doing something as mush as I see people posting about stats after each loss and both Zeno and Brown breaking records and getting attention after games. I give Mortenson a pass for this year.

While I’m not happy with our lack of second half adjustments, the offense has been pretty good this year. I hate that the one game it feels the defense clicked we goose egg at Navy. Defense has seen a constant uptick IMO but the offense in the second half has put them in very tough situations. Navy was on the offense, you can’t do nothing and have your defense out there against a deflating Navy offense. Bad field position and turnovers

We’re averaging 28 points a game on offense(63rd in country), only 21 points per game on offense in our 7 losses. As somebody that criticized Vincent for not being able to consistently get above 23-28 points a game, won’t give Mort a pass either. You can’t beat decent football teams with that output. Your defense sees too many possessions in the modern game. Yardage don’t mean a damn thing in the end.

19th in first downs. 69th in 3rd down conversion at 39%, 125th in redzone offense. As bad as we are defensively, defense could be half as bad and its possible we’d have just as many losses

Jesus wept. T-128 in scoring defense, 37 points per game. Only North Texas is worse. Temple is 121st

That is not entirely a talent issue. That is a coaching staff in way over their heads. Bill took over worse talent in 2014.

(11-15-2023 10:30 AM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  We’re averaging 28 points a game on offense(63rd in country), only 21 points per game on offense in our 7 losses. As somebody that criticized Vincent for not being able to consistently get above 23-28 points a game, won’t give Mort a pass either. You can’t beat decent football teams with that output. Your defense sees too many possessions in the modern game. Yardage don’t mean a damn thing in the end.

19th in first downs. 69th in 3rd down conversion at 39%, 125th in redzone offense. As bad as we are defensively, defense could be half as bad and its possible we’d have just as many losses

Unfortunately I've noticed that too - high yardage, but low scoring output. Not dissimilar to last year's team, but swap the pass and rush yards. The main difference is defense kept us in the games last year (against worse competition).

Now if we could play a full game and not sputter in the second half we could probably do 21 points first half ~21 points second half.

(11-15-2023 10:52 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  

(11-15-2023 10:30 AM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  We’re averaging 28 points a game on offense(63rd in country), only 21 points per game on offense in our 7 losses. As somebody that criticized Vincent for not being able to consistently get above 23-28 points a game, won’t give Mort a pass either. You can’t beat decent football teams with that output. Your defense sees too many possessions in the modern game. Yardage don’t mean a damn thing in the end.

19th in first downs. 69th in 3rd down conversion at 39%, 125th in redzone offense. As bad as we are defensively, defense could be half as bad and its possible we’d have just as many losses

Unfortunately I've noticed that too - high yardage, but low scoring output. Not dissimilar to last year's team, but swap the pass and rush yards. The main difference is defense kept us in the games last year (against worse competition).

Now if we could play a full game and not sputter in the second half we could probably do 21 points first half ~21 points second half.

We constantly stall out in the red zone - due to some combination of changing up play calling suddenly mid-drive to something that has been working to running it up the gut 2-3 times with skull, or running a screen/pitch play behind the line that gets blown up; missing field goals; throwing picks; going for it on fourth downs when we should've kicked field goals; etc.

I agree - you can't give this staff a pass for the offense. They aren't putting up enough points. I don't care if we have 600 yards of offense if we only score 24 points. That's not going to cut it.

(11-15-2023 10:00 AM)Golden-Ticket Wrote:  While I’m not happy with our lack of second half adjustments, the offense has been pretty good this year. I hate that the one game it feels the defense clicked we goose egg at Navy. Defense has seen a constant uptick IMO but the offense in the second half has put them in very tough situations. Navy was on the offense, you can’t do nothing and have your defense out there against a deflating Navy offense. Bad field position and turnovers

Next game the defense will give up 50+ to Temple.

There is no consistency, growth, or rhyme or reason with this coaching staff and this team apparently. I don't think we are appreciably better than we were after the NCAT game.

We decided to play bully ball, 1985 football last week, but next week we will be in a 63-56, fast-paced, high scoring affair.

It seems to be a throw it at the wall and see what sticks type of approach.

Far too many times this year, we got inside the ten by throwing the ball and decided we’d run it up the middle twice on first and second down. With Dilfer talking so much about how they continue the short passes run plays, I cannot for the life of me understand why this is. What we decided to do.

Not an apologist but seeing how hard Dilfer works and that he does have a goal in mind for this team, I think the coaching staff will have a good offseason. Only question is Sione and I'm not sure you make that change after year 1. Other people have said it, but all you have to do is watch the Navy game to see how overmatched some of our players are either in age or they are "the best we got right now"

We’ve got to be the youngest team in the FBS, 40+ freshman. Next season will be a big tell about this staff. If we aren’t in a bowl next season we need to raise the alarms

(11-15-2023 05:34 PM)blazr Wrote:  Not an apologist but seeing how hard Dilfer works and that he does have a goal in mind for this team, I think the coaching staff will have a good offseason. Only question is Sione and I'm not sure you make that change after year 1. Other people have said it, but all you have to do is watch the Navy game to see how overmatched some of our players are either in age or they are "the best we got right now"

Agreed. There is a big overall picture we need to look at and not just say this won't work immediately. The staff has made a lot of mistakes, which should be expected when this was the route we went with the hire. We just need to give it time.

One other thing to note so far this year: There are 6 other teams with a conference record of 2-4 or worse(Rice, Charlotte, UNT, Tulsa, ECU, Temple), and we have played none of them up to this point. It's not excusing everything that has gone on, but we have played teams 1,3,4,5,6, and 7 in the conference up to this point.

(11-15-2023 05:36 PM)Golden-Ticket Wrote:  We’ve got to be the youngest team in the FBS, 40+ freshman. Next season will be a big tell about this staff. If we aren’t in a bowl next season we need to raise the alarms

Half of the 40 are WOs. We didn't bring in 40 scholarship freshmen. We have alot of rising seniors.

Some talking team morale, heck half of the team is Dilfer guys already.

I don't want to puncture anybody's fantasies, but this team has quietly shown signs of improvement on defense over the last couple of games. We'll see if the trend holds against North Texas.

We don’t win yesterday if we don’t shove as many freshmen on the field defensively as we could.