Coaching:

-First of all, I’ll go ahead and clear this up. If you’re one of the people whose already saying Brian kelly is a bad hire, you’re an idiot. First year for coaches anywhere in the country is always the toughest year. You must get a whole new staff, create new relationships in recruiting, implement your style, change the culture. All of this takes time…. It’s called a process… Let’s be honest if our team was sooooo great we wouldn’t be looking for a coach in the first place. Whether its life or football, change doesn’t happen over night, it comes with time. It’s not like he took over the 87 Chicago bears roster. Orgeron left this program a complete mess with plenty of holes to fill. However, I have plenty of trust in Kelly and I think he’s gonna do just fine. Come back to me on this one after he finishes a whole season

-Obviously offensive line was pretty poor to say the least. But I was extremely upset with the passing concepts and scheme denbrock was running. Seemed archaic, lots of long developing routes. Not much of the rpo concepts. You would think with how bad the right side of the line and our entire oline was, we would’ve at least tried to do some quick 2 step drops, slant routes, pick patterns. Just get the ball out quick to our nfl WRs. Literally the strength of our offense/ team. Just don’t understand it, to mask a bad offensive line you get the ball out quick to ur playmakers. We were not creative at all at doing that. Denbrock needs to be more creative in getting the ball in our playmakers hands… period

*side note
- Saban lost to Louisiana Monroe his first year at bama

Defense

- 3rd down, 3rd down, 3rd down.. we couldn’t get off the field. Florida state did a great job of getting in 3rd and short situations where the playcall wasn’t predictable. Jordan Travis had me completely fooled, kid is a helluva player. Defensive line looked to be overhyped once smith left the field, didn’t look bad but not elite. Too many missed assignments on the edge that allowed Travis to get first downs. Linebacker looked subpar, lots of missed assignments in gaps. Greg penn looked to be extremely fast, however needs to be more physical. Harold Perkins is a freak of nature and needs to play more. Also Baskerville needs to start seeing the field more. Not much to say on the secondary since FSU necessarily didn’t have to beat us in the passing game to win, we will learn more about them as the season goes I feel.

Offense:

-Well as I mentioned above, I was disappointed in our creativity in the passing game. Also highly disappointed in our inability to get the running backs involved. I learned that it’s a big drop off after John Emery as of now. Otherwise, the coaches would’ve gave Cain/Goodwin more carries.

-Jayden Daniels- kids an extremely gifted athlete, didn’t have a great first start also didn’t have a bad first start. Considering it’s his first game with a Brand new team, offense, coaches. He did enough to win the game and showed some flashes. Offensive line did not help him to say the least. The one thing that disappointed me with Daniels was the way he went through his progressions. It’s almost as if the first option wasn’t open he was immediately tucking and running. Kid needs to keeps his eyes down the field more and go through his reads. He has too good of receiver at his disposal. As I mentioned above tho, I was not ecstatic with the passing concepts denbrock was using.

-offensive line is still veryyy bad, especially at tackle. Will Campbell had a bad first half but handled his own in the second. Not bad for a true freshman LT in his first start. The inside was OK. But all in all, this group has a long ways to go. Maybe slide tremond shorts at right guard and put Bradford back at RT because Cam wire just doesn’t have it. The kid was getting bullied on literally every play and was a huge part in our struggles. I wish him nothing but the best but football just isn’t his future

Special teams: nothing to be said but they were HORRIBLE and the reason we lost. Nabers shouldn’t be returning punts anymore ( bet he didn’t drop one punt in fall camp) sometimes that’s just how evaluation goes. Big Difference in practice and in actual game. Blocking on field goals was also horrendous and needs to be fixed ASAP.

Gimmie y’all’s thoughts

This post was edited on 9/6/22 at 4:15 pm