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ristwasdown said:
Combo coverage. A bit of press. Laying off the delayed LB blitz. Drop depth.

With all that said, heatherman may not trust the LBs or feel good about certain parts of the D which is why he still wanted the CBs bailing and the LBs playing downhill.

There zero excuse for us getting beat on 5 yard routes while also letting a RB average 9+ a carry. I think the coaches have concerns at LB and CB to an extent and made the call to try and require them to beat us underneath consistently. They did it on some drives, not on others.

We also can't drop as many picks as we did. Would have made a difference. If you're going to sit back, you got to take advantage of when the other team makes mistakes.

We tightened up after the first two TD. Tackling improved. Forced a turnover. Laid off the blitz a bit, and when we did do it, got home. Played tighter coverage on the outside on in breaking routes and the safeties came down hard.
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Ryanmilli said:
Our LB play was really bad overall. Bissainthe and Toure were awful. Aguirre seemed pretty solid when he was in though.
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Also if you watched Coach Hayes good bad ugly film review....anytime Bell ran the shallow crossing route versus man coverage, he indicated that route is uncoverable....OJ should have recognized the WR with the shorter than usual line split and asked for help from the LB. Unfortunately Toure sucked so bad in this game even when he was in position to make the play on Bell crossing his face, he still could not make tthe tackle.

Also on the long runs by Brown our LB run fits were terrible. For whatever reason our LB go to the pile instead of scrapping off the DT to get into their assign gap....if they do that Brown doesn't have those long runs unless they just miss the tackle.

JUST A ALL ALONG BAD DAY BY OUR LB UNIT!!
 
QuattroCane said:
It's baffling. Who was our last really good linebacker, Perryman?
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The trio under Richt were quality LBs. Not elite but they did their job. Since then? It's been a liability. I don't get how in year 4 of Cristobal we still don't have an elite LB. Only thing I can chalk it up to is the NIL philosophy- they don't value the position as highly as other positions so not going to put money into recruiting elite LBs (or LB transfers).
 
Don’t think we truly pressed which is something we should be able to do to wide outs on the rest of the schedule. No Bell/Lacy combo the rest of the way I think
 
PBJFanatic said:
We are going to see that again and again and again. That is what broke us and what teams will use to break us. DLs play too many snaps. We are not trusting the backups. Our passing game is bunched and slow - due to the heavy emphasis on loading up the line of scrimmage all bunched up.

When things go south, instead of reflecting and quickly pivoting, Mario doubles down on his philosophy and need for a familiar structure. This is why his loses all look the same. This is his limit.
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I remember when "breaking us" meant 62 points to UNC, 58 to Clemson, 45 to MTSU and Duke.

If giving up 24 is broken sign me up.
 
Only thing I would have done differently is double Bell based on what he had already shown.

If we don’t have our heads in our asses for that fake FG that every idiot in the stadium could predict, I actually think this is an overall plus game for the defensive coordinator.

Of course, it’d be nice to make some tackles in the open field, but we did get caught with runs on tendencies (3rd and 10 and 2nd and 13) with our nascar package and a WR split flat footed LBs for a big chunk.

24 points with 4 TOs is actually positive work, IMO. Can a few things be better? That part is normal for any team of any caliber.

Complementary football means it’s fair to expect your offense to help out at least a little.
 
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We allowed 24 points. The issue was the offense.

Also though Our D line needs to be a lot better at batting down passes which it seems like we never do
 
P-Tizzle said:
They scored 24 points. That will be the lowest total of points they score in any game this year. Did the defense bend? Yes, but that's more to do with Brohm and his elite ability to manage an offense than with our defense. As other posters noted, after 14-0 lead, they scored ten points in the next 50 minutes of football. The main problem was the offense. Scoring 21 points in a college football game against a power 4 opponent will probably have you lose at least 4 out of 10 times. For instance, if we scored 21 points in every game this year, we would be 3-3 right now (losses to ND, FSU, and UL).
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Mario needs to keep the foot on the pedal for all 60 minutes, rather than go into a shell if he gets a lead and starts running his duo dive play which is 3 and out
against a 9 man front
 
cover 2 zone and press, cover 3 buzz, cover 2 man, and cover 3 cloud match is what I wouldve ran most of the time with occasional cover one man blitzing, bailing the naked side corner, cover 3 buzz and cover 2 look alike pre snap the difference instead of the safety playing the deep zone in cover 2 he'll shoot down and take away the short route, the corner will rotate over playing the deep safety spot, also cover 3 match looks like cover 1 pre snap, but both corners bail deep when the ball is snap, one the the safeties cover deep, and cover the curl and flats
 
Thoughtsoncanes said:
How should we have approached defensively to their quick passing game? I just feel like we are going to see that again. Press man was the only thing I could think of to maybe alter their routes early and give the dline a split second longer to get him but then you run the risk of them going over the top?
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For things like the Drag routes, you need great communication and for players to call it out “Drag”

This allows the back side of the play to keep their head on a swivel
 
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How about we just tackle. How many times did we hold the runner up pulling at the ball trying to create a turnover only to let them get another 10+ yards.
 
JZCane0825 said:
It doesn't matter. Despite spotting them 14 points, the defense played well enough to win the game.
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Yeah, defense got its act together, but the quick 14 points set the tone for the game. Gave huge confidence boost to Louisville & impacted our play calling.
 
P-Tizzle said:
They scored 24 points. That will be the lowest total of points they score in any game this year. Did the defense bend? Yes, but that's more to do with Brohm and his elite ability to manage an offense than with our defense. As other posters noted, after 14-0 lead, they scored ten points in the next 50 minutes of football. The main problem was the offense. Scoring 21 points in a college football game against a power 4 opponent will probably have you lose at least 4 out of 10 times. For instance, if we scored 21 points in every game this year, we would be 3-3 right now (losses to ND, FSU, and UL).
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Bingo. If I'd been told LV scores 24 before the game I happily take it.
 
bacane said:
Yeah, defense got its act together, but the quick 14 points set the tone for the game. Gave huge confidence boost to Louisville & impacted our play calling.
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While true, it still was 14-10 at half , and we get 2nd half KO. What do we do? Return the KO out of the end zone to the 20 with a block in the back and we start at the 10 yard line. Great momentum starter...
 
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