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BC we played perfecrtly and we dismantled South Florida from beginning to end... I keep going back to the ND game and wonder how our vaulted defense allowed 17 points in the 4th quarter. We dominated for 3 quarters but the most important quarter, the 4 finger quarter, the one where games are won or lost we gave up 17 points and ND actually had a shot at pulling it out after being dominated. Shades of recent teams that disappointed after terrific starts. This week I hope they erase my caution as to back or not back, dominate the gator and I relax.
 
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StoneWallLoungeCane said:
The defense isn’t all that. They don’t consistently get pressure.
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You and I see a different game my friend. I saw vs USF that our ends could manhandle their tackles and get pressure whenever they wanted, but didn't because they CONTAINED and guess what.... Brown couldnt run the ball. I was actually impressed that we didn't get greedy and pressure him when we could have. When its a clear passing down those boys get home.
 
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fraggle said:
...dominate the gator and I relax.
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LoyalCane24 said:
You and I see a different game my friend. I saw vs USF that our ends could manhandle their tackles and get pressure whenever they wanted, but didn't because they CONTAINED and guess what.... Brown couldnt run the ball. I was actually impressed that we didn't get greedy and pressure him when we could have. When its a clear passing down those boys get home.
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Lol yeah sure. Guess we intentionally didn’t get more than 2 sacks against bethune cookman too.
 
fraggle said:
BC we played perfecrtly and we dismantled South Florida from beginning to end... I keep going back to the ND game and wonder how our vaulted defense allowed 17 points in the 4th quarter. We dominated for 3 quarters but the most important quarter, the 4 finger quarter, the one where games are won or lost we gave up 17 points and ND actually had a shot at pulling it out after being dominated. Shades of recent teams that disappointed after terrific starts. This week I hope they erase my caution as to back or not back, dominate the gator and I relax.
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You can't have enough vaulters on your defense.
 
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fraggle said:
BC we played perfecrtly and we dismantled South Florida from beginning to end... I keep going back to the ND game and wonder how our vaulted defense allowed 17 points in the 4th quarter. We dominated for 3 quarters but the most important quarter, the 4 finger quarter, the one where games are won or lost we gave up 17 points and ND actually had a shot at pulling it out after being dominated. Shades of recent teams that disappointed after terrific starts. This week I hope they erase my caution as to back or not back, dominate the gator and I relax.
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Being over confident that you can impose your will on the A gap every play for over a quarter and it doesn't work, it gets you in that situation. What we did is rattle them enough that they changed a bunch of their defense to play A&M and that was a mistake.
 
I feel like the defense has improved tremendously. But there are still some moments where they lose focus. The same thing happened last year but this year they seem to regain focus and lock in when they need to. Hopefully we have a complete game and they don't give up a big one.
 
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