Yes the kids just didn’t the make plays. They were a lot of them like you said. Yes they were coaching mistakes but the players have got to step up and make playes.That why I think the loss hurt so much because of mix opportunities. We win by 21 if they do. It was more of the players on this game than it was on the coaches
If you look all across the country, most teams rotate regularly on the d-line, less with linebackers and not nearly as much in the secondary because cohesion matters for that group. We are doing more or less what other programs do. They just don't have a buzzy term for it.
Yep, but we didn’t hit them. That’s the problem with passing unnecessarily…it’s much harder to get right - always has been. You need a good QB that will make a good throw. For whatever reading Saturday Jeff wasn’t a good QB. Not saying that he isn’t good in general, just wasn’t good Saturday. It’s the staff’s job to adjust when something like that happens. Perhaps they just didn’t get the opportunity to do so before he got hurt, but based on the blunders in the third and fourth quarter I’m not so sure they would have.
I’ve resigned to the belief that this just is not something we will ever do with Pateneude
I agree that coaching is a big part of the secondary, but I am surprised that our safeties still takes poor angles. Athletes should know how to take a proper angle for a tackle. It’s not just coaching that we struggle with in the secondary. Time to play some of the younger players.
I don't know about Juanyeh's angle on that play (maybe I'm thinking of another one), but it looked like he attacked the inside shoulder of the RB which let the RB get to the sideline. I've definitely never coached FB, so my opinion is probably not worth much, but I would rather have our Safeties and wide DBs get on the outside of the RB and at least force them back off the sideline.
Don’t get me wrong; this was a bad loss that should not have happened, but one thing that’s been grating on me is everyone describing that NIU team as a “winless MAC team”. And that was true last year, but this isn’t quite the same team, and the biggest difference is that they have Rocky Lombardi at QB. He’s no Heisman finalist by any means, but he’s a good QB with years of P5 experience and numerous starts, even being on a couple award watchlists. He made some damn good throws in the game, and even as badly as we played, I highly doubt NIU would have been able to move the ball remotely close to that level with the scrubs they normally would have had under center. Don’t get me wrong; we still should have been getting better pass rush and stuffing the run, and our offense should have bullied their defense, but let’s not exaggerate the loss and pretend we lost to a team that had absolutely nothing good about it.
Rotation is a good thing, but if you rotate too often you defeat your own purpose by winding your players from running on and off the field so much. Especially if the other team is hurrying up.
Great BUT-the only problem -it was NIU!!! not uva, Vt, or even doook
I agree. Probably at least 2 or 3 more turnovers.
Then explain why we are terrible at getting lined up before the snap. Heck, several times were were staring at the sideline as the ball was snapped.
He sure better see Sims hit those passes in practice, they were easy throws.