Sure is nice when the QB can make the right read on an RPO ain't it?
They certainly will be, they lost Leary but gained Brennan Armstrong, who followed UVA's previous OC to Raleigh. So, veteran presence at QB, who is in his 6th year just like Hartman, though he does appear to have regressed the past couple of years.
They return 6 starters from a top 20 unit nationally last year
5-6 depending. With a second string littered with sophomores they're probably going to play a lot. Multiple things being true simultaneously.
Fair points, Jig.
Fuck it, I want quick drives and to pummel those assholes into the ground, no chewing clock with a low scoring game. We already gave them the win under BK in the storm, no charity here.
Someone better tell the greatest coach in the history of college football that Tommy Rees is worse than Parker lol
Yup. If the OC job was Euchre then Parker played his cards very well on Saturday, but Rees also dealt him a damn near perfect hand.
So we can't start the "Gerad Parker is a Gangsta!" thread yet?
I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like we're forgetting the 2020 and 2021 ND offenses here. Those were both top 15-20 units in CFB and neither had as good a qb as Hartman running the show. If Rees were still here I'm 100% confident our offense would cook under him too.
I get exactly what you're saying here, but this is a later problem for Luckylucci and everyone else.
Excellent point.
I’m not sounding any alarms for next season.
There are true tests on our schedule that will tell us what Parker is capable of doing with a solid hand. 11 regular season games left before he gets a final grade for the year but I don't think he could've done more on his first test. It was an A+
Seems more like BK called the shots on the recruitment, because once he was gone Rees landed Carr, Minchey, and Hartman. Pretty good trio in a matter of months. I would say he got quite a bit out of Book, Coan, Buchner, and Pyne given each of their limitations.
Ludwig or Klein could have been dealt the same hand and would have arrived with a lot more positive reaction from the fans. Ludwig especially. Parker was received as a lukewarm hire. At best. Considering the circumstances that led up to Saturday, I think he should be given a great deal of credit. That's about as clean of a performance as we've seen in a very long time. The cards were dealt and the guy in the seat at the table was The War Daddy.
The run game was much more north south, we ran slants and a couple screens. Hartman was under center quite a bit. Yes the line blocked well and was well coordinated, but overall the play development was much faster with the exception being the shots down the field that you would expect to develop slower. The PA game was set up much better, and ran a lot more crossers that were open but were not thrown to because other guys were open downfield. I believe it was maybe the first drive of the game on the deep out to Jayden Thomas, Tyree was also running wide open across the field underneath. It looked the same in the sense that it was more pro-style sets with TE's in the game, but it was hardly identical to Rees. I agree it is hard to make too much of it being navy, but I felt like there were very few if any plays where it was obvious from the moment they lined up that we either didnt have numbers or the play was going nowhere fast. We wasted 5-6 plays a game last year in that way.
