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<blockquote data-quote="Foxyg" data-source="post: 383490" data-attributes="member: 1508"><p>In three games we lost this year we had a two possession lead in the second half. That shouldn't happen regardless of how our defense plays if our offense was up to snuff. With that said, for everyone saying that changing defensive coordinators is a fool's errand, my response is that if you see an area that needs improving, why would you not try to improve it? Our defense has been pretty crappy under Roof by any metric you want to use. Even in 2014, we relied mostly on a historic offense and turnovers in the second half of the year to get us to the promised land. Turnovers can't be planned and represent luck for the most part unless you're getting huge amounts of pressure on the quarterback (which we weren't). Further, given the past track record, are you really willing to bet that CPJ won't get the offense back on track? </p><p></p><p>To CPJ's credit, he knew the offense was going to take a step back this year given the change at center, quarterback and b-back, and said as much prior to the season. He had hoped that the defense would improve to the point that it would make up for the step back that the offense was obviously going to take. What I don't think he counted on was 1) how bad the offensive line would be (injuries and attrition played some part in that); and 2) how truly bad special teams would be. The defense improved marginally I guess, but I defy anyone to say that it was the strength of our team in any year that Roof's been the coach. The special teams deal is the most easily fixable issue we have. Fix that and you win the Tennessee game all by itself. Offensive line coaching and recruiting is a topic for it's own thread, but my money is that we'll be better on offense next year and probably won't lose so many games where we were up by two scores in the second half merely because the offense will be better able to sustain drives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Foxyg, post: 383490, member: 1508"] In three games we lost this year we had a two possession lead in the second half. That shouldn't happen regardless of how our defense plays if our offense was up to snuff. With that said, for everyone saying that changing defensive coordinators is a fool's errand, my response is that if you see an area that needs improving, why would you not try to improve it? Our defense has been pretty crappy under Roof by any metric you want to use. Even in 2014, we relied mostly on a historic offense and turnovers in the second half of the year to get us to the promised land. Turnovers can't be planned and represent luck for the most part unless you're getting huge amounts of pressure on the quarterback (which we weren't). Further, given the past track record, are you really willing to bet that CPJ won't get the offense back on track? To CPJ's credit, he knew the offense was going to take a step back this year given the change at center, quarterback and b-back, and said as much prior to the season. He had hoped that the defense would improve to the point that it would make up for the step back that the offense was obviously going to take. What I don't think he counted on was 1) how bad the offensive line would be (injuries and attrition played some part in that); and 2) how truly bad special teams would be. The defense improved marginally I guess, but I defy anyone to say that it was the strength of our team in any year that Roof's been the coach. The special teams deal is the most easily fixable issue we have. Fix that and you win the Tennessee game all by itself. Offensive line coaching and recruiting is a topic for it's own thread, but my money is that we'll be better on offense next year and probably won't lose so many games where we were up by two scores in the second half merely because the offense will be better able to sustain drives. [/QUOTE]
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