Pathetic Defense

[hoops156]

File this under “No ****, Sherlock!”

truly amazing that they went into the year knowing what they had on defense in terms of scheme and roster and said we good. blew our best realistic shot at a title since 03.

 

[FuriousStyles]

truly amazing that they went into the year knowing what they had on defense in terms of scheme and roster and said we good. blew our best realistic shot at a title since 03.

I don’t think it was so much what the scheme and roster wasn’t, it was the lack of the adjustments. It was clear that teams watched film from previous games and concluded on “this down and distance they like to do this…”. Or “here is where teams so far have been able to attack them and find success… so we’re going to do that.”

The expectation is that our defense would do the same “let’s see what teams have been doing to be successful against us and what are we going to do to counter what we FULLY EXPECT THEM TO TRY AND DO…?!” No… we took the let’s just keep doing what we do and hope for the best route.

I.e.: Walking Kiko out wide to cover a RB. After the first game they should’ve been able to deduce that wasn’t the position to put him and find a better way to defend that.

Or how about having OJ and DPJ “follow” the best receiver when he’s on their side… nope. We’d do fairly well covering guys lined up outside against us and would let teams continuously exploit our weakest person in coverage on their best receiver because that some how made sense to Guidry. And Mario was complicit because he let him do it.

 

[KANE]

truly amazing that they went into the year knowing what they had on defense in terms of scheme and roster and said we good. blew our best realistic shot at a title since 03.

Bruh!!!! I don't know If I will ever got over knowing how big the lost opportunity was. We pulled down our pants, took a giant **** in the middle of the bed, and then rolled around in it for 3 of the last 4 weeks!!! We had, STATISTICALLY speaking, the best QB and offense that we've ever had, and we fucced it up. We didn't even make the **** playoffs with the fuccin #1 overall NFL Draft pick under center. I'm gonna stop right here because I feel like breaking something.

 

[Angry Ibis]

Some of yall bored AF associating tweets with threads from last year.

Ohh our defense was bad?

Who knew.

Thanks Nick. We made no changes.

Speaking of changes. You left coaching quickly once NIL happened. Care to comment on the obvious?

Most of CIS -- when there was time to fix it last offseason...

Saban's take was fair.

 

[ICANEDOIT]

I don’t think it was so much what the scheme and roster wasn’t, it was the lack of the adjustments. It was clear that teams watched film from previous games and concluded on “this down and distance they like to do this…”. Or “here is where teams so far have been able to attack them and find success… so we’re going to do that.”

The expectation is that our defense would do the same “let’s see what teams have been doing to be successful against us and what are we going to do to counter what we FULLY EXPECT THEM TO TRY AND DO…?!” No… we took the let’s just keep doing what we do and hope for the best route.

I.e.: Walking Kiko out wide to cover a RB. After the first game they should’ve been able to deduce that wasn’t the position to put him and find a better way to defend that.

Or how about having OJ and DPJ “follow” the best receiver when he’s on their side… nope. We’d do fairly well covering guys lined up outside against us and would let teams continuously exploit our weakest person in coverage on their best receiver because that some how made sense to Guidry. And Mario was complicit because he let him do it.

I hate to tell you this, but we didn't have the ability to adjust. The defensive talent just wasn't there, IMHO. Putting Kiko out wide to cover a RB didn't work, but it was the best we had. Just my view.