Just thinking SF, if we had two decent corners 5'10" or taller we would have won 2 or 3 more games. #1 and #3 are just huge Achilles heels for us and everyone knows it.
My goodness, how many missed tackles do we have from all areas of our defense. I have said it from the start, we do not wrap up the runner. We try to bump or knock him off his feet and most of the time he keeps going. Keel#4 jumped on back of running back and was carried 10 yards instead of tackling his legs. Defense overall did pretty good except for some dumb penalties that I actually questioned were we guilty of the infraction. Kyle did not make some adjustments in the passing game such as midrange or more dump offs. SB was throwing so many defenders into the long pass game that there had to be players open underneath. One point Bob Black even said Goodall was open in flat with absolutely nobody near him and a clear run to the endzone. Instead Kyle throws deep into triple coverage.
I don't believe in safe places when you are making $65,000 a year to play a game. Also, I am not the one pointing the fingers. The opposing offenses are pointing the fingers, again and again.
I think this is something everyone is forgetting. I could probably count on two hands the number of times #1 & #3 played press man coverage during their first 3-4 years under Rocco. Yes, they are corners, but playing a shell of cover 4 for 3-4 years and then suddenly playing more than 50% man is a huge change.
100% correct. Who doesn’t think we’ll be spreading the field more and seeing more QB runs with KJ behind center next year? Durden tempered his offense to take advantage of KL’s strengths this year. I don’t feel similar concessions to this years personnel were made in other areas on the field. Good coaches adapt their schemes to the personnel at hand, not the other way around. Not saying we don’t have good coaches, but their transition to Richmond and the CAA has been rocky at best. IMO it’s been rockier because of trying to fit existing personnel to their preferred schemes.
Or a 4-3 ? Easy to second guess 8 games in but can't stop the run more people in the box, right?
If you go 4-3, you trade a safety for a LB. I think its crazy to assume our problems are based on having 1 less 240 lb guy out there as opposed to a 190-200 lb guy. It would probably help tackling, but hard to believe that changes but so much.
We can debate what defense we should play there are pros and cons to any defense. But if you say 4-2 is better and we don't have the right players ok we can wait two to three years to fix it or we could have tried a 4-3 now. I think you coach to what you have on the field today not which system you prefer. Maybe Huesman did? Did he run a 2-4 at UTC?
