{"id":423921,"date":"2026-09-02T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423921\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:32:09","slug":"tcu-should-use-bye-week-to-address-these-3-problem-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423921\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU should use bye week to address these 3 problem areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCU<\/a> has two weeks to regroup after a disappointing start to the season. The Horned Frogs fell 15-10 to North Carolina in Dublin, leaving the team with more questions than answers heading into the bye week. Here are three areas that need fixing:<\/p>\n

\u00a0With TCU losing by just five points, those mistakes proved even more costly. Dykes said the team needs to develop a more disciplined mindset moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to keep pushing and develop a physical mentality and discipline mentally. Those are things I think will carry this team,\u201d Dykes said.<\/p>\n

The offense line was inconsistent against\u00a0UNC in new offensive coordinator Gordon Sammis\u2019 debut with the Frogs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0TCU showed some positive signs up front, particularly in the running game. Sonny Dykes said he was pleased with the way the team ran the ball but emphasized that the Frogs need to be more consistent in doing so.<\/p>\n

Dykes also said the offensive line played physically at times and that he saw improvement in the group\u2019s mentality. Still,\u00a0TCU struggled to maintain that physicality throughout the game as the offense failed to score after its first two possessions.<\/p>\n

Dykes said there are no updates on wide receiver Jordan Dwyer\u2019s status, but he is considered questionable for\u00a0TCU\u2019s next game against Grambling State.<\/p>\n

Dykes said the Frogs practiced well leading up to the game but failed to play at the same level against\u00a0UNC.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe practiced really well and just didn’t play particularly well, and so we got to figure out why,\u201d Dykes said.<\/p>\n

One of the unexpected mistakes came on special teams when a botched snap resulted in a safety. Dykes said the mistake was something\u00a0TCU had not seen in practice.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe snap was something that came out of nowhere. We punt a lot and snap a lot and had never seen that before,\u201d Dykes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TCU now has a bye week to address those mistakes and close the gap between its preparation and performance before the team\u2019s home opener against Grambling State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU has two weeks to regroup after a disappointing start to the season. The Horned Frogs fell 15-10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,144221,99537,88145],"class_list":["post-423921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-college-football","tag-tp-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}