Rye,
Special teams are manned by non depth chart players, except Hines returning kicks and punts. I don’t know Doeren’s philosophy but I’d bet it was play as many people as possible. (Keeps troops happy and could be a recruiting benefit.) So I don’t expect significant improvement in most special team play until the depth gets better.
We kicked off into the end zone except after the safety. Our place kicker was 3 for 3 on EPs and 2 for 2 on FGs. Hard to improve on that. True enough we had a punt blocked but that could be attributed to FSU and not poor punting, although I’m sure the punt unit will get special attention this week.
To you we were running the clock out trying to keep from losing. To me we were using our conditioning and overall line play to wear FSU down and score. The 75 yard drive to start the 4th quarter ended with a 14 yard shovel pass that was set up by earlier running the toss sweep. We didn’t just happen to score while we were running the clock out. While Drinkwitz may have been just been stalling, I assert he was doing his best to score against a very good FSU defense.
Rye, I can’t believe you are so willing to discredit our offense by suggesting we just happen to score while trying to run the clock out on a 75 yard drive. That just isn’t done against FSU defenses.
