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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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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.
 
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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We'll miss you.
 
QuattroCane said:
L'ville hadn't run that offense all year. O-lineman cutting and quick throws. Did they throw a ball more than 10 yards all night?
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Every preview expected brohm to get rid of ball quickly and for us to press man to counteract.. I would have pressed man and made sure everyone was on alert where bell was at all times.. would have multiple brackets and traps for him and make sure he was never the one to beat us.. pull it out at certain times.. once I saw single coverage wasn't working.. breaking glass and xing him out immediately.. we had two weeks, wouldn't be hard install..
 
Tackling when we are in position to get the guy on the ground would have helped a lot. We gave up chunks most of the time due to poor tackling.

Like Others have said, not give so much cushion all the time and showing it early pre snap, and lineman getting hands up in passing lanes.

UL still executed at a high rate, so hats off to them.
 
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skyman said:
Every preview expected brohm to get rid of ball quickly and for us to press man to counteract.. I would have pressed man and made sure everyone was on alert where bell was at all times.. would have multiple brackets and traps for him and make sure he was never the one to beat us.. pull it out at certain times.. once I saw single coverage wasn't working.. breaking glass and xing him out immediately.. we had two weeks, wouldn't be hard install..
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Agreed.
 
QuattroCane said:
L'ville hadn't run that offense all year. O-lineman cutting and quick throws. Did they throw a ball more than 10 yards all night?
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Nope. Besides Bell, they didn't have a single receiver catch a pass for longer than 14 yards. And Bell's were all YAC. Moss threw it 37 times and I don't remember a single pass that had a 10+ air yards other than an out they ran to Bell at about 13 yards, I think.

He completed 62% of his throws, which is below average, and had 6.7 yards per attempt, which is bottom of the barrel in the country for a full season.

He didn't throw a pick, and only took 1 sack. They really weren't great on offense, but they had a good plan, and it was 14-0 before we woke up.

But they had the 2 first quarter TD drives, one of which was only 46 yards, but whatever, those count and they deserved them. We never recovered from it.

But after those two drives, here is what they did over the entire 2nd and 3rd quarters:

Punt
Punt
Punt
Punt
Field Goal
Punt

Yeah, you shouldn't beat a good team on the road doing that for a literal half of a game. But, we forgot how to score points and not turn the ball over, so we lost.

As far as the question, I thought we did a decent job adjusting. Moss was 6/7 on the first 2 drives of the game, he was 17/30 the rest of the night, for 169 yards. But to slow that down, the only way is to get in receivers faces, make them fight to get off the line and get your hands up in passing lanes, really. If they're going to throw every ball in under 2.5 seconds, you can't allow free releases, and you have to tackle because every ball is going to be short.
 
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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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.
 
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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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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