1. A win is a win. UNC lost in a similar environment and looked terrible in the process. Take the good before processing the bad
2. I like CMF's energy and infectious personality. But I'll miss boring old Clark Lea's in game adjustments. I've posted it before (I think) but Louisville 2019 and UNC 2020 were two of the best coaching jobs I've ever seen in game.
3. BK was right to bring up Louisville 2019 in his presser last week. Similar environment and pitfalls. FSU may well end up being very good this year. We'll see.
4. Great to see Coan looking downfield and letting his players make a play. The Wilkins TD, Austin TD, and Lenzy incompletions were prime examples.
5. All the beat writers said the same thing - Coan will be fine in this offense but we'll really miss Ian Book at some point this season. Already missing his ability to escape on 3rd and 5 tonight.
6. Coan is humble and experienced but he'll need to work out the cobwebs a bit. He was shaky during stretches when he needed to be more consistent. He missed that easy Mayer throw on 3rd down in the flat to the right at the end of the 4th quarter.
7. Running game isn't going to be like last year. Need more TEs!!!! Lol. I'm kidding...I think?
8. Last year if we had that lead with 5 minutes to go and the ball on our own 25, we march 67 yards and kneel it out to end the game. We don't have that OL this year, that's for sure. Everyone will get pissed we didn't run the score back up and the message boards are full of vitriol about how CBK doesn't understand the importance of looking good on national TV and just winning isn't good enough.
9. Michael Mayer could be a stud. But for all the great he does he needs to hang onto the ball more on key situations (some were bad throws by Coan, not that one pass with 5 seconds left though). He didn't wear gloves in the first half but did in the second. Wear the gloves even though it's humid out there and the ball is slippery.
10. Gritty running all night by Kyren and Chris. Not having C'bo in the 3rd to provide a breather really hurt us tonight.
11. Welcome back Kevin Austin! Let's target him before the second quarter next week, shall we?
12. Good job by Wilkins and Lenzy (1st quarter) to make tough catches on not perfectly thrown balls.
13. Coach Tommy - how about some underneath drag routes and let our athletes run next week?
14. Coach Tommy - perfectly timed screen pass on 3rd down in the 3rd quarter against the all out blitz! Great play call.
15. John Doerer, amazing job tonight in the clutch after last year. Maybe odd years work better for you than the end of 2020 and the kickoff out of bounds infection of 2018.
16. Defense - I think I heard one of the beat his, either Mike Frank or Tim Prister say that this was the first year the NCAA limited tackling in August camp like the NFL has for a few years. I thought we would work on tackling dummies and O rings but it needs way, way more work.
17. Let's contain outside runs and not completely vacate the middle of the field next week on every play, ok?
18. Time to settle down, take the win, and learn for next week. Remember - we have a good coaching staff. They'll learn and adjust throughout the season. After all - we have what everyone wanted after October 2020- downfield passing threats!
1-0 is better than 0-1!
