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I think this defense forces them outside to be picked up by the safety. But it isn’t working. I agree that very often we see the OLB get trapped by the OT/TE and then there is no one else to make the tackle or it’s one on one with a blown tackle or bad angle. Eleven games in and we see the same mistakes.

We gave up more points in year two of PB’s defense. The first year was around 5 points better. Not sure where this false narrative started…🤦🏻‍♂️

I didn’t get a chance to see your post but I would like to clarify that I wasn’t really trying to make fun of Morris, but was genuinely perplexed what was going on with his neck. I probably didn’t word it very elegantly, as I had come home after an all day wine festival so my filter wasn’t fully functioning. I guess the mods were not too happy with it since it looks like it is also deleted. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is a fair argument. I don’t see that it was “destined” to be worse. It wasn’t so great last year so it would have been reasonable to assume that the new staff could have hurdled a low bar like improving from a bottom 20 defense. Instead it is dead ass last in the country. If we expect a bottom 20 defense to be worse, then to me that means we are questioning the quality of the hire of the defensive coaching staff. I was definitely questioning bringing in someone at that salary with zero coordinating experience above D3, but still didn’t expect a last place defense. (UAB is equally terrible so hopefully our offense hangs 50 on them and they take the last place slot from us.) Many people have pointed to the players we lost but every team loses players, even late like we did with Nixon, who was the biggest loss for us, as his results at Auburn prove. The coaches didn’t ensure that they had the personnel to run the defense they wanted to install. That’s a massive fail and Morris has all but confirmed they messed up in that area.

Was last year’s offense elite? Because the stats/results are basically the same.

Why was it destined to struggle? Please use facts to support thesis.

In the time it took me to write that post, Tulsa drove the field and now we have given up 28. That was a 99 yard drive for those not paying attention. #fireCraponi

I mean on one hand it is very impressive to only give up 21 to a 3-7 team with a freshman walk-on making his first start. On the other hand, it isn’t at all impressive.

Never been a DC above D3, iirc. Why not a good FCS coordinator?

That play, yes. In general he can hold onto the ball a second or two too long.

Excellent coverage

If Rogers has a major flaw it is not getting rid of the ball and a tendency to fumble.

Craponi’s high salary was so unnecessary. Easily could have gotten an experienced coordinator for the same or likely less. This is completely on Morris.

108 in APR. Not happening. On the plus side, our retention and graduation rate is better than our defense.

Every time we go empty backfield…

Or playing Rausaw or someone else of similar size in Mazin’s spot. We seem to have lost all the former inside guys we had so I think it’s just Brown and Moore who are solid enough to play the nose tackle spot. LeBlanc, TaShon, and Enoch all gone.

Interesting prospect. Looks like he played as a running QB. Looks to have good size and speed. Was a Rice commit but decommitted in August. Looking at his Twitter feed, perhaps didn’t play the full season because of hamstring problems or some other injuries?

I would say a big difference is the number of big DTs you need with only three down lineman. You still need some size at DE (as we can see having a 240lb DE in this system doesn’t work at all) but you don’t need six DTs around 300 to have sufficient depth like in a four-man front. We should, however, have guys over 260 playing DE, imo. Mazin should be at OLB, as that would allow him to be a pass rusher and it would also be a more appropriate size LB to support this system. Our LB size might be as big of a shortcoming as our DE size. Maybe more? The truth is that we probably had enough DL depth to run a hybrid system with more four DL but I think they made a conscious choice to reduce DL depth in favor of DB depth. Then when the three man front wasn’t working, we didn’t have enough depth with size to run four consistently.

FIFY

We lost to FIU and Navy and squeaked by LaTech early on. Why exactly do you think we would have magically been better against these teams?