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Since yesterday was a window into our possible team next year here are some thoughts.
1: It was a gutsy and commendable performance by Smothers yesterday, but he isn't gonna get us to where we want. In the end he was Luke 2.0 and it just isn't gonna work over the course of an entire season when you consider that our defense is gonna be less efficient. We need to hit the portal and soon....Unless......ughh....Adrian returns.
2: A positive for Frost is that we were in position to win without our starting QB, RB, DT, OLB. Add that 3 of them are literally our top 3 players on the team. Great job game planning in lieu of those absences. It shows that we could have life after these guys leave.
3: But once again we were stung by.......special teams. If we don't address special teams in the off season (for real this time because we were told all summer that they were working on ST to begin every practice...what bullshit) We lost 5 games this year because of special teams and won exactly zero games because of special teams. Better special teams this year and we are bowling, Frost is getting another extension and my therapist isn't having such a good Christmas.
4: Another hire IMO should be a sports psychologist. There is some sort of team wide mental block. Focus needs to be the name of the game the whole off-season. And not just for the players. The mental side of sports is huge and there is something totally broken within the program.
5: Frost needs to address his focus as well. How many times did the cameras show Frost jawing with the refs this year? He is obsessed with it. He spends a big chunk of game complaining. It takes away his attention and energy from you know.... coaching. And obviously the players see and hear it, so their focus is now on the refs too. It's a mistake and one that Frost makes every single game. His attention needs to be more attuned to the game and things that he can control and not whatever injustice he thinks happened that he can't change after the fact.
Extra bonus thought: Cut the hype videos. Cut the special uniforms. Cut the...ummmm haircuts. Cut the "Just run the damn ball" hats. Cut all nonsense that isn't working on getting better at football. Time and energy needs to be spent improving and not a photo shoot in a cave (yeah that happened), not mugging for the camera at every practice, not producing another "Patriotism" piece, no more Frost as the field general while the guys work out at the lake videos (that happened too), no more power point presentations about our new and super innovative NIL in house office that is just full of corporate jargon buzzwords.
Football. Just football.
Practice football, watch football, read books about football, jerk it to football porn.
1: It was a gutsy and commendable performance by Smothers yesterday, but he isn't gonna get us to where we want. In the end he was Luke 2.0 and it just isn't gonna work over the course of an entire season when you consider that our defense is gonna be less efficient. We need to hit the portal and soon....Unless......ughh....Adrian returns.
2: A positive for Frost is that we were in position to win without our starting QB, RB, DT, OLB. Add that 3 of them are literally our top 3 players on the team. Great job game planning in lieu of those absences. It shows that we could have life after these guys leave.
3: But once again we were stung by.......special teams. If we don't address special teams in the off season (for real this time because we were told all summer that they were working on ST to begin every practice...what bullshit) We lost 5 games this year because of special teams and won exactly zero games because of special teams. Better special teams this year and we are bowling, Frost is getting another extension and my therapist isn't having such a good Christmas.
4: Another hire IMO should be a sports psychologist. There is some sort of team wide mental block. Focus needs to be the name of the game the whole off-season. And not just for the players. The mental side of sports is huge and there is something totally broken within the program.
5: Frost needs to address his focus as well. How many times did the cameras show Frost jawing with the refs this year? He is obsessed with it. He spends a big chunk of game complaining. It takes away his attention and energy from you know.... coaching. And obviously the players see and hear it, so their focus is now on the refs too. It's a mistake and one that Frost makes every single game. His attention needs to be more attuned to the game and things that he can control and not whatever injustice he thinks happened that he can't change after the fact.
Extra bonus thought: Cut the hype videos. Cut the special uniforms. Cut the...ummmm haircuts. Cut the "Just run the damn ball" hats. Cut all nonsense that isn't working on getting better at football. Time and energy needs to be spent improving and not a photo shoot in a cave (yeah that happened), not mugging for the camera at every practice, not producing another "Patriotism" piece, no more Frost as the field general while the guys work out at the lake videos (that happened too), no more power point presentations about our new and super innovative NIL in house office that is just full of corporate jargon buzzwords.
Football. Just football.
Practice football, watch football, read books about football, jerk it to football porn.
