Ok Im searching for answers. Not sure I have them.
Being a DC in modern game aint easy.
Look at Saban last 5 years. He's now human even tho he still has 8 better athletes on D than anyone in Country.
I think Clem is right. Kids are confused or easily confused out there.
We go man and their O goes spread and SHadur gashes us up middle.
Great call. Do we telegraph our D alignment?
Would zone have saved us here?
Ive noticed our LB level often is only 1 or 2 guys in second level. We move the outside up to LOS. Once the O breaks through initial scrum there is alot of grass for the runner. Hard for a LBer to cover all that ground.
I think this is 3-4 base defense and so Lbers move up to LOS. But x's and o's look more like a 2-5 or 1-4. I Dont love the 2nd level being so low on bodies. Think that leads to the big runs.
Pressuring the QB when the O is running short and intermediate routes is not super productive. The QB gets the ball out so quick and its 1 On 1 in secondary so if a guy misses one tackle its off to the races. Could also Be a factor of playing man to man again.
I think Grinch needs to better in situational defense.
More zone vs man to man in right situations.
DBs still dont turn around to find the ball.
Burned us on Buffs last TD. If safety turns back he blocks that ball.
SC likes to use cover 2 a lot from what I saw yesterday and that can leave you vulnerable in the middle.
The corners become flat defenders which is a big difference from playing man or zone.
A good QB can attack it with a receiver down the middle or taking off with a lot of running room like Sanders did on his TD run.
It's a split field coverage that can sometimes put your 2 safeties in a bind.
Riley's presser spoke about letting the "QB get oustide the pocket" when we applied pressure and something like some of those went 30+.
Riley indicated they didn't play a good 3rd quarter in all 3 phases. He emphasized the differences form last years errors.
I have no idea what the Grinch is trying to do on defense.
All I know is it doesn't work.
It didn't work last year.
It didn't work in Oklahoma. It didn't work in Oklahoma when he had better players.
Grinch is supposed to be this great defensive mind, yet his defenses always suck, and it'a always the player's fault.
I think Grinch is a rah rah. sc
Blitzing, stunting, press man coverage is too complicated in college unless you have time to recruit high schoolers and teach the system for a few years to them. Grinch and 208 are too stubborn and young to adapt.