Lol @ being down on coach Kool when we lead the nation in TFL
Lol @ when you don't have a D-lineman with more than 4.5 sacks, yet think the D-line coach is doing an awesome job. The tackles for loss are a direct result of Diaz's scheme. The heavy amount of blitzing puts a bunch of guys in the backfield. They currently have 30 sacks total for the season, only 19 have come from D-linemen. Take away the FAMU and FAU games and the D-linemen only have 12.5 sacks. I love the improvement we've seen on defense but I'm not going to blindly praise a coach for his "awesome job" when his unit isn't playing up to potential. There's no reason they should have to blitz on obvious passing situations. They should be able to get pressure with the front four and use 7 men in coverage.
Oh so you know so little about football that you think the Dline is just responsible for sacks? Not the fact that our Dline has crushed running games that killed us in past years. Sacks are up, TFL's are up, and guys who were complete busts like Chad Thomas have had productive seasons. Not to mention we lost the guy who led for sacks a week before the season. Of course we don't have a guy with high solo sacks because we haven't had any guys staying healthy on the defensive end all season.
I know that unless they send extra guys on a blitz, they get little to no pass rush against any team with a pulse. Of course sacks and tackles for loss are up, they predicate the entire defense on getting into the backfield. Not to mention the previous defense was hot garbage. Unfortunately, they have to rely on the blitz too often to make all these extra tackles for loss. You do know that Corn Elder is tied for second on the team in sacks? Every DT on the roster has combined for 4.5 sacks this whole season. I'm not saying the defense is bad or that there hasn't been tons of improvement because there has. I'm just saying we got this coach who's built a reputation on turning far less talented D-linemen into pass rushing monsters and this season, I'm just not seeing it from any of our guys. When your twitter handle is "let's meet at the QB" you'd like to think you could coax more than 19 sacks out of your unit over the course of a season. Hopefully they'll be able to improve in that area because a good quarterback is going to hurt them if they have to keep blitzing as much as they do.