Which year was it when CPJ was here that the defense was so bad that we simplified it mid-season and we got much better?
I thought this was wry humor, but people took this literally. Johnson did this when Groh was DC and repeated it under Roof. The defense might have looked marginally better, but “much better” is a massive stretch, and it at best approached mediocre under Kelley.
Miles brooks, Tyson meiguez and khatavian franks all need quality playing time. Give them a shot over struggling old farts like curry
The DL is mostly underclassmen. Having some seniority helps their development. i.e. the other 9-10 guys on the defense will bear the brunt of that change. But the defense was awful yesterday and against Clemson.
Cuse...I'm not venting I just am concerned. This was not a rebuild. A rebuild was when O'Leary took over from Lewis. You coach to your personal. You need to win
If you asked another coach at another program, they’d call this a rebuild. Many of them did at the time. I’ll agree with you on the defense, though—I’d expect them to be better than last year, at least.
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I think PPA is broken a bit on 4th downs. I am fairly certain Graham got destroyed for his 4th and 13 play. While it wasn't a great play, I find it hard to really blame a kid on 4th and 13 and down a bunch, but it is what it is.
Positives
We did well when we got in scoring position.
Our OL did good job with rushing again (but we were not in a situation where we could establish the run sadly)
Our offensive success rate was actually pretty good
Nagatives
- You can find them yourself lol
I thought BC points per opportunity would be a lot worse. Havoc numbers were awful. We failed to get sacks and tackles for loss, and we should have. The numbers don’t tell the story on how bad a game this was defensively (to me, at least).
Even without the three turnovers, BC was getting points on almost every drive.
Look I ***** about Curry not being very good all the time too and I mentioned this in the chat today - as bad as Curry is, he's the only one around to even consistently miss a tackle.
So the other team is either choosing to block everyone else and leave Curry unblocked because they don't think he's very good and will miss the tackle or nobody else on our defense even knows how to get off a block and put themselves in a position to make a play. I have a hard time believing anyone is purposefully scheming their offense for scenario #1.
With a few exceptions, the tackling in the secondary was worse. Curry was second on the team in tackling. Quez Jackson was first, Carpenter and Thomas followed. Lockhart and Domineck led the DL in tackles, but they were way down the list. Tackles were heavy in the secondary.
In a defense where the linemen occupy the ol and the linebackers are supposed to make the tackles, that’s OK, but the amount of tackles coming from the front 4 is low—and when it comes from the front 6, it’s probably the linebacker making the tackle. Our defense isn’t one where the front 4 occupy the linemen in front of them (like a 3-4), so the low number of front 4 tackles isn’t good. I’ve been told you don’t want your safety as your leading tackler, and that’s what we had.
The DBs got screened and blocked effectively by BC, and sometimes by each other. On the BC scoring play where Curry was beaten to the edge, the WR had stoned the CB on that side, and the safeties weren’t able to make the play either. Curry and Domineck were the only two close enough to even miss a tackle, just like you said.
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Not the biggest KQ fan but dead on the nose here.
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Collins has a big job squaring away the defense before the next game and before the end of the season. It’s hit obvious territory
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