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Title: One play today indicates the level at which the defense is playing Post by: PirateVOL on October 05, 2014, 03:33:27 EDT They ran a double reverse against us (similar to the one we ran last week for good yards) and not one but two defenders stayed home and stuffed it for a loss.
Title: Re: One play today indicates the level at which the defense is playing Post by: Creek Walker on October 05, 2014, 03:40:43 EDT I absolutely love the continued development of this defense. Coming into this week, while I still thought 6-6 would be a really good finish, I was optimistic that the emergence of Worley and the complete turn-around of our D would keep us in every single game we play...which we obviously haven't been able to say in several years. After today, I'm not at all confident that our offense can score even a point against Ole Miss or Alabama, but this D will still give us chances if Worley can shake off today's game and return to the poise and composure he showed against Georgia and Utah State.
Title: Re: One play today indicates the level at which the defense is playing Post by: BanditVol on October 06, 2014, 06:35:54 EDT I absolutely love the continued development of this defense. Coming into this week, while I still thought 6-6 would be a really good finish, I was optimistic that the emergence of Worley and the complete turn-around of our D would keep us in every single game we play...which we obviously haven't been able to say in several years. After today, I'm not at all confident that our offense can score even a point against Ole Miss or Alabama, but this D will still give us chances if Worley can shake off today's game and return to the poise and composure he showed against Georgia and Utah State. I think our offense just had a really bad day. Per the KNS Sunday morning, Hurd was nicked up, which might explain why we didn't run more. I know they can do better, they showed that against uga. They just need to play like they did a week ago and not how they played yesterday. Title: Re: One play today indicates the level at which the defense is playing Post by: PirateVOL on October 07, 2014, 12:27:35 EDT I think our offense just had a really bad day. Per the KNS Sunday morning, Hurd was nicked up, which might explain why we didn't run more. A coupe of things. I know they can do better, they showed that against uga. They just need to play like they did a week ago and not how they played yesterday. Re: Hurd. We are woefully thin on offense, and having difficulty developing depth. RB is a case in point. We essentially have Hurd and Lane with a dash of Young. Scott hasn't seen the field on offense yet. QB, we are hurting. OL, ditto. WR we have some depth but arguably our two best receivers have been injured the last 2-3 games. On defense we seemed to have improved overall speed and talent and are developing depth (see TK Jr as but one example). We are thin on the line but I would argue that we have improved the level of play significantly. I'm sure you noticed we really stepped up our aggressiveness on defense Saturday and were really disguising our defense till the last possible second, really some late shifts, often to the point of attack. As an example, on one play we initially showed two deep, shifted to single and then right before the snap went to zero. We had our three corners on their receivers with no safety help over the top. I had my doubts about Jancek last year (see my comments after the Oregon game) but the defense is playing at a high level. We just need more DL (coming with this class) and more overall depth. |