Cajuns WR Room

We can keep the receivers fresh by using them all. The decoys are important, they need to keep running their routes like they mean it and not pulling up when they know the play wasn't designed for them because often the last man in the rotation gets the ball thrown to him

Here are my takes on why I think this team will be better than the past two years.

1. More experienced talent. Two years ago, we lost 40+ players off a highly successful team. It is difficult to replace that, so a lot of talented players had to play before they were ready. They should now have the experience to add to the talent.

2. Our defense should be extremely fast, but more importantly disciplined and focused on stopping the run. What I enjoyed most about our run under Napier was how good of a tackling team we were.

3. The OL has more talent and depth than at any time under CMD. We will run the ball better, my main question mark is around pass blocking. Even under Napier, I never thought we were a great pass blocking team, LL did some amazing work back there to avoid quite a few sacks.

That's it, those three things, but those three things mean a lot when you look at how many one score games we won under Napier and conversely lost the last two seasons. Forget the opponents, tell me our record in one score games this season and I can tell you how good of a season we are going to have.

2022, 0-4 in one score games, go .500 and we are 8-5 losing 40+ players
2023, 2-5 in one score games, go .500 and we are 8-5.

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Originally Posted by Clutch0364

I think we are more likely to lose at Kennesaw than win the Tulane or Wake game. Tulane is better and has a better coaching staff and Wake’s coaching staff is great.

Also I don’t think our talent is nearly as good as most of y’all think it is. If they were, it would have come through more over the last 2 years.

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I agree. I think we are more of a .500 team and while I love the enthusiasm and excitement entering another football season by the fans, we always tend to overvalue and over assess our own players thinking we're more talented than what we are. I'm hopeful and I want us to have a great season but I'll defer to cynicism until this staff shows us they can get it done. And I don't see us beating either Tulane or Wake.

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Originally Posted by Clutch0364

Until they prove different 6-6 is this staffs ceiling.

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Definitely this staffs ceiling without a stud at QB.