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You wanna see a defense get fatigued? We should run up tempo every single play. Jayden is built for that. He will never get fatigued. Fast and skinny. Dude can run all day long. When the defense is tired, it’s over. Like in second quarter. Don’t know why no one else sees this?

I think a lot of people saw this actually. Our first good drive was the first scoring drive when we ran tempo at the end of the 1st half, and everyone I watched the game with wanted to see more of it.

McElroy and Tess spoke a lot during the broadcast about us needing to snap the ball before the play clock hit 15 seconds, and just letting Daniels make plays; less "paralysis by analysis" as McElroy put it. The cameras even caught BK motioning to line up quick and snap it.

I agree with your overall point though. I think running tempo from the jump will get our offense into an early rhythm and put instant pressure on defenses, hopefully avoiding more slow, ugly starts.

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Posted by Tigerpride18

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Posted on 9/19/22 at 4:54 am to Ponchy Tiger

I thought we were the least I’ve ever seen us fatigued in a game like that in a long time

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Posted by Penrod

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Posted on 9/19/22 at 5:39 am to nvasil1

It’s a new roster with a new coaching staff and college rules limiting the amount of practice. Running up-tempo requires a well honed offense, including the communications. It’s possible we don’t run up-tempo much because we can’t, or we can only run a handful of plays out of up-tempo. As the season wears on you might see it more as our capabilities increase. Similarly, I think our special teams problems are a function of a lack of practice time spent on them as we worked on our offense and defense with our precious practice time.

Next season they will enter spring practice with a solid foundation in all three phases. We should see a much more finely tuned team take the field for the 2023 opener.

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Posted by Kiawah Tiger

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Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:10 am to Bayou

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Penalties and dropped passes hurt them

What do you think are the consequences of fatigue? Lack of focus leading to, say, penalties and dropped passes?

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Posted by Chipeace

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Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:30 am to Bayou

Both teams dropped passes and/or had poorly thrown passes

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Posted by tigers1956

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Posted on 9/19/22 at 6:49 am to Chipeace

After a summer of rain….a 5 o’clock was a hot and very humid game…by the start of the third quarter it wasn’t as bad….but states defense looked fatigued as the fourth quarter started…..

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