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Fire Diaz and revamp the coaching staff on the defensive side of the ball

FrancisSaywer said:
As bad as Diaz was Sunday night and as many issues as his defense seems to have, I will take the guy over Donofrio any day. Keep in mind that preferring him over No D isnt exactly a ringing endorsement.

The shame about Diaz and his defense is that the guy has the potential to be a fantastic coordinator but he refuses to tinker with or make any type of adjustment to it. You can see the potential but Diaz never seems to learn or grow as a coach. He has serious problems on 3rd down that are inexplicable to me. He refuses to apply any sort of gap integrity principle into his defense which for the life of me I can't understand and please spare me the whole live by the sword die by the sword crap. I just do not understand his philosophy on 3rd down particularly 3rd and long.
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LSU was 3 for 16 on 3rd downs so that wasn't the problem on Sunday. And their 4th down conversion was on Tito.
 
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boxtonenyc said:
If in year three your players take bad angles and miss assignments it means they arent being coached well, and or they dont belong here and the coaches failed to recruit properly.

Guys we went through this with Golden and Shannon before. When u get to year three the coach owns that team.
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Yes, and I think as the season progresses the freshman and sophomores are going to play a lot. Pretty obvious to me.
 
I like the concept of his defense (for Miami) but he's the worst play caller of all time. There is absolutely not method to his madness.

Reminds me of a guy playing Madden. F it. Let's bring the house. (3rd and 26).
 
Pentagon Cane said:
Of course Jackson should have slanted hard if that was the call. Somebody missed their assignment. How about DJax's late hit which in that situation was just ridiculous? The kid is a senior and should know better. How do you explain the first touchdown where the linebacker inexplicably vacated his responsibility and took himself out of the play? Diaz gets way too aggressive looking for turnovers. No problem criticizing that.
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That was Jennings, IIRC, but I don't put the blame on him. That play was a Diaz failure - he got outsmarted by a pedestrian QB. Diaz, with Jennings and Knowles in on that play (along with Smith) blitzes Jaquan from the left side, leaving Jennings/Knowles the responsibility of filling the other side. Bad move and the defense was exposed.
 
AUcane said:
That was Jennings, IIRC, but I don't put the blame on him. That play was a Diaz failure - he got outsmarted by a pedestrian QB. Diaz, with Jennings and Knowles in on that play (along with Smith) blitzes Jaquan from the left side, leaving Jennings/Knowles the responsibility of filling the other side. Bad move and the defense was exposed.
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Don't disagree with you in regards to personnel on the field. You cannot go with wholesale subbing with as many 2's on the field against a good team. Still Jennings took himself out of the play inexcusably. Knowles should only be on the field playing special teams.
 
Pentagon Cane said:
Don't disagree with you in regards to personnel on the field. You cannot go with wholesale subbing with as many 2's on the field against a good team. Still Jennings took himself out of the play inexcusably. Knowles should only be on the field playing special teams.
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I’d even say that there’s no reason knowles should be out there period, especially at the expense of super talented hitmen like Hall (I’m talking STs).

As for Jennings, yeah, took himself out but that’s a young kid who never plays finally getting his chance - I chalk it up to lack of preparedness and being excited to make an impact.
 
AUcane said:
I’d even say that there’s no reason knowles should be out there period, especially at the expense of super talented hitmen like Hall (I’m talking STs).

As for Jennings, yeah, took himself out but that’s a young kid who never plays finally getting his chance - I chalk it up to lack of preparedness and being excited to make an impact.
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I think moving forward you are going to see a lot more of the freshmen and sophomores. Jennings will be fine.
 
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Anyone blaming the defense for Sunday night is an idiot. LSU had the ball at their own 40 or better 6 times, plus a pick 6.

I do have an issue with playing veteran players that aren't as talented as the young guys (Knowles and Dean) and substituting the starters too much (our 2nd team D isn't good enough yet). Their first 2 touchdowns were scored on miscues by Knowles and Dean.
 
Pentagon Cane said:
I think moving forward you are going to see a lot more of the freshmen and sophomores. Jennings will be fine.
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I'm hoping so. Your STs crew (especially KOR coverage) should consist of guys like Carter, Smith, Hall, Jennings, Finley, Frierson, et al. Time to get the Knowles of the team off those teams and make room for the young guns.
 
All I needed to see was that first 3rd down conversion on Saturday when we rushed three and sent Pinckney and Quarterman well after Burrow was winding up to throw.
 
There are few fundamental problems with Manny's defensive philosophy:

1) The aggressive blitzing and DL approach are disconnected from the defensive back approach. He wants to have his cake and eat it too in that he wants to be super aggressive on the DL but not get burnt for the big play. The reality is that this leaves the flat uncovered and is a big reason why we can't get off the field on 3rd down.
2) Substitutions. I'm not sure what the theory is behind the constant subbing but just play the best guys. Every time Knowles is on the field something bad happens.
3) LB's are told to guess and freelance rather than maintain gap integrity. If they guess wrong, they give up a big run.

Defense isn't the biggest problem but it's a problem for certain. That was a bad LSU offense that had its way with our defense until Orgeron went into stall mode.
 
AUcane said:
That was Jennings, IIRC, but I don't put the blame on him. That play was a Diaz failure - he got outsmarted by a pedestrian QB. Diaz, with Jennings and Knowles in on that play (along with Smith) blitzes Jaquan from the left side, leaving Jennings/Knowles the responsibility of filling the other side. Bad move and the defense was exposed.
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Having our second stringers in that game in first quarter is inexcusable
 
Sometimes I wonder what some of you are watching.

Our LB's are Juniors and STILL take poor run fits.
Our CB's are STILL allowing WR's to beat them inside. ****, I saw one play where ALL THREE WR's beat us inside. LOL
We STILL run poorly designed (and poorly timed) blitzes that seldom get home.

I don't understand how anybody can defend the defensive staff at this point. You have no ground to stand on. It's not like Diaz has ever had a great defense. He's been mediocre (or bad) his whole career. How the **** does he deserve the benefit of the doubt?! LOL

I don't give a **** where LSU started with the football or how bad our offense was. That was never an excuse for previous DC's. When our defenses were good, we still shut people down even when our offense had a poor game. Our 2010 defense played beside a terrible offense and you MF's still never made excuses for Shannon (or whoever was really running our defense back then).

Great defenses step up to the plate.

I need these type of excuse makers at my disposal for Friday nights in the event that my unit takes a ****.
 
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Coach Macho said:
Sometimes I wonder what some of you are watching.

Our LB's are Juniors and STILL take poor run fits.
Our CB's are STILL allowing WR's to beat them inside. ****, I saw one play where ALL THREE WR's beat us inside. LOL
We STILL run poorly designed (and poorly timed) blitzes that seldom get home.

I don't understand how anybody can defend the defensive staff at this point. You have no ground to stand on. It's not like Diaz has ever had a great defense. He's been mediocre (or bad) his whole career. How the **** does he deserve the benefit of the doubt?! LOL

I don't give a **** where LSU started with the football or how bad our offense was. That was never an excuse for previous DC's. When our defenses were good, we still shut people down even when our offense had a poor game. Our 2010 defense played beside a terrible offense and you MF's still never made excuses for Shannon (or whoever was really running our defense back then).

Great defenses step up to the plate.

I need these type of excuse makers at my disposal for Friday nights in the event that my unit takes a ****.
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Preach!
 
Same **** different year. Richt tried the “savior” coordinator routine at UGA and it didn’t work.

We’ll see what happens the rest of the year, but this looks like the same defense without the pass rush.
 
One game and you want to fire the DC. Glad you're not a HC or AD, talk about reactionary.

NVA CANE said:
Diaz is a bad DC. Signs were there last year and he got exposed again by a garbage offense.

The guy is a massive liability
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