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What the **** Was Al Blades Doing Here?

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Hurracanes said:
You must be Don Bailey jr. Good, god.
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After Virginia's touchdown these are their possessions. You tell me what you would call this defensive performance in the second half:

1st half

Punt
Punt
Punt
Half

2nd half

Punt (3 and out)
Punt (3 and out)
Punt (4 and out)
Downs (8 plays 21 yards)
TD (Broken play TD I mentioned by Blades)
Fumble (3 plays)



P.S. Fvck off you idiotic mope.
 
Baba Yaga said:
We played that entire drive as if the game was over. Five minutes to go, down by two scores, VA should just lay down for us and let the clock run out, as if we were entitled to the win. Completely uninspired and lazy.
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We got that 12 point lead and coach baker lost his got damyum mind and basically his defensive play-call/ strategy was as if each play was that last play qb heave/hail Mary a.k.a. prevent defense. All people need to know about is when d-co's run to much zone, it causes our secondary's to lose focus and not play with full responsibility. Calling zone for the type players we have and mindset we come from is just as worst as the penn disgrace morons asking d-linemen down here to be 2 gap defenders, that just not what we primarily do. The biggest problem we got with coach baker is that he's running a defensive scheme basically inherited by his predecessor in manny, who ran a fundamentally flawed defense, but difference is, coach diaz was better at running his flawed defensive scheme than coach baker is at running basically the same scheme. We are not a zone-blitzing City/State!
 
Baba Yaga said:
Ivey has his guy covered. Theres literally nobody else in a white uniform within a school bus of him. But he pulls up around the 7 and lets the wideout find the hole in the soft *** zone for a TD on 3rd and goal from the 21. Thank God UVA's TE is a moron.

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Just like i said int he game thread...

Ivey was looking at the qb scramble and knew he was the only one on that side...and was ready to come up in run support. The main issue should ALSO be is why is our DE allowing qb to get the outside THAT easy...and why dow e continue to run a 3 man DL front if we are still going to be weak as **** on the back end?.
 
5 years into the system and dudes still don’t know what to do. It should be instinctual at this point. happens multiple times a game every game. these D coaches are so bad it’s beyond belief, honestly rumph is the new swasey. garbage *** coach with no resume or experience just keeping his job year after year.
 
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fedupcane said:
5 years into the system and dudes still don’t know what to do. It should be instinctual at this point. happens multiple times a game every game. these D coaches are so bad it’s beyond belief, honestly rumph is the new swasey. garbage *** coach with no resume or experience just keeping his job year after year.
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8 straight drives resulting in punts or turnover on downs.

You reek of troll doofus.
 
Baba Yaga said:
Ivey has his guy covered. Theres literally nobody else in a white uniform within a school bus of him. But he pulls up around the 7 and lets the wideout find the hole in the soft *** zone for a TD on 3rd and goal from the 21. Thank God UVA's TE is a moron.

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I mean everyone else is playing 2-man, and Ivey is playing zone. and Guess what, that’s exactly what happened on the Blades play! five years in a system and our players can’t decipher the most basic call you can make! and both times it was the CB who effed up. But yea let’s keep rumph and his worst of all time recruiting!
 
fedupcane said:
5 years into the system and dudes still don’t know what to do. It should be instinctual at this point. happens multiple times a game every game. these D coaches are so bad it’s beyond belief, honestly rumph is the new swasey. garbage *** coach with no resume or experience just keeping his job year after year.
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It's not the 5th year in this system for most of the starters and our best players at every position have left early before even getting two full years starting besides LB and we are two years removed from those guys. We haven't been passing the torch. Since Shaq and Jaquan left being the leader on defense is like a hot potato. No one wants to do it or is even capable of it. The guys leading this defense should be Amari and Zach and half the time neither of those noodle heads know what the **** they are supposed to do, no less what everyone else should be doing.

We are lacking tenured leaders in the second and third levels. Guys like that are absolute necessities for a defense to be dominant. I don't think we have one true student of the game type player on defense right now. Those type of players are the ones that prevent coverage busts and poor alignments.

I won the starting job at WLB on Miami Palmetto JV at 5'5'' 125 lbs, simply because the mental drop off to our much faster, 5'10'' 170 lb back up was too great. Buddy never knew where to line up and was always making the wrong read so no matter how overmatched I was in some scenarios I was at least in the right spot. More importantly, I was able to command the defense and prevent poor alignments. If you have a guy like that who is able to do a serviceable job with his own assignments while also making sure his teammates aren't doing something idiotic it is huge.

I may be wrong but I feel like our defense was far less inconsistent when we had both Jaquan and Shaq leading the defense. Amari and Zach haven't proven to be the most football smart players. Bolden I think is more instinctive than anything and may not be a true film study nut. As it stands we just flat out lack a guy who can lead the defense with his mind and help to prevent **** ups like these.

The coaches can't do it all. It takes a couple students of the game on the field to keep the uber talented athletes that are a little slow on the uptake from getting all confused and ******* **** up.

I'm not giving Baker a pass as a coach he needs to understand the limitations of his players and have a plan to help them. I don't know how much of that can really be done during the week, these are more gameday decisions while the bullets are firing. Whether it is simplifying the calls or calling a TO he ultimately carries the blame when they ***** it up so it is his job to get it right somehow.
 
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gogeta4 said:
Just like i said int he game thread...

Ivey was looking at the qb scramble and knew he was the only one on that side...and was ready to come up in run support. The main issue should ALSO be is why is our DE allowing qb to get the outside THAT easy...and why dow e continue to run a 3 man DL front if we are still going to be weak as **** on the back end?.
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We haven’t set the edge very often this year.
 
Blades has looked real soft in his tackling lately.... Was it 2 weeks ago he got dragged 5 yards for a first down?

Definitely not a thumper.
 
Better question is why is Keontra down in the box instead of lining up over the slot with Hall 10 yards deeper considering it was a two score lead at this point in the game.
 
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I know this for a d-back. If you don't know the defense or what you are supposed to do on a play, cover the man right in front of you. That has to always be the fall back for anyone who has played the position beyond Pop Warner. In basketball we tell kids, if you don't know who to guard, guard the open player closest to the basket. There are always basic fall backs in every sport. There is also a basic amount of IQ that every person must have to be successful in anything in life.
Ivey last year and this year, and Blades this year really make me question the level of basic, functioning IQ.
 
Canemang said:
Unreal
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Reposting again for another founding member of the crying mope squad::

After Virginia's touchdown these are their possessions. You tell me what you would call this defensive performance in the second half:

1st half

Punt
Punt
Punt
Half

2nd half

Punt (3 and out)
Punt (3 and out)
Punt (4 and out)
Downs (8 plays 21 yards)
TD (Broken play TD I mentioned by Blades)
Fumble (3 plays)
 
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