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What a 180 from the UF game. Interception, and almost had a second. Was also active in the backfield. After the UF game I came away thinking we found a gem at safety spot. What a difference since then.
 
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Jedi Master Cane said:
ZQ isn't going to be an instant savior.....but If we're going to line up a safety who's going to make mistakes anyways I'd rather the mistakes be teaching points for my highly touted and talented freshman that represents a potential spot of improvement via reps.

It's not just that Harris lacks physical traits....he has HORRIBLE instincts. That 30+ yard TD run in the first half was some of the worst display of safety play I've seen in all my years of football. He takes FOREVER to realize his initial step was at the wrong angle and by the time he attempts to compensate he doesn't have the foot speed to recover the angle.

Bring in the puppies and dumb down the defense. Fact of the matter is nobody is going to hold us under 30 points offensively so our defense just needs to not suck open a$$ and we'll be in the playoffs
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add on poor tackling, which we haven’t been able to solve for years.
 
Jedi, that the point! We don't need a savior back there we just need solid play, We know Z is going to have growing pains but that will resolve with experience. You can't preach a culture of accountability and continue to trot #7 out there. Make the switch put Z in contact with Ed Reed and lets roll with it
 
LuCane said:
I believe he runs a 10.9. What I can’t believe is whatever he reads on the field or processes in terms of angles. He often uses his speed to take himself out of plays. I don’t know what they’re seeing in practice, but I’d be shocked if this didn’t previously show up. So does that mean the other guys are…worse?
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Hard time believing Day & Patterson are worse. Small sample size though re: Day.
 
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Cylo said:
Oh we miss Kam and James Williams at the safeties. There's no denying this is a big drop off
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Its funny watching these posters refused to say that...because they wanted Kam gone and HATED James Williams.

James Williams is significantly better than whom we have out there right now.

Im almost concerned with what they even do in the portal this off szn because their evals there are hit n miss. (they have brought in dbs that have not even made it to the szn 2 years in a row)
 
gogeta4 said:
Its funny watching these posters refused to say that...because they wanted Kam gone and HATED James Williams.

James Williams is significantly better than whom we have out there right now.

Im almost concerned with what they even do in the portal this off szn because their evals there are hit n miss. (they have brought in dbs that have not even made it to the szn 2 years in a row)
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I certainly wanted Kam back. I didn't shed any tears when JW declared though, he's certainly better than we gave him credit for though.
 
LuCane said:
I’m referring to practice. Because something has to be used to evaluate our players and end up with the current order.
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I’ve said this quite a few times that are practices don’t expose all weaknesses until we see them in a game.

Mario should be running nothing but miss directions encounters and motion plays until they get sick in the face
 
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I think the staff might have looked at the VT game like a clunker, the defense getting over confident and not playing in the system.

After Cal, you have the whole 10:30 start out west, but realized a trend they wanted to use the bye week to fix up and have players play within the system they intended this season.

Now? Probably have to go with some legit personnel moves and try to really adjust some of the calls we're making.

I know everyones saying "simplify? but do we really need to be stunting on first down the way we've been fitting the run?
 
88 said:
I think the staff might have looked at the VT game like a clunker, the defense getting over confident and not playing in the system.

After Cal, you have the whole 10:30 start out west, but realized a trend they wanted to use the bye week to fix up and have players play within the system they intended this season.

Now? Probably have to go with some legit personnel moves and try to really adjust some of the calls we're making.

I know everyones saying "simplify? but do we really need to be stunting on first down the way we've been fitting the run?
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I hope that's not how they thought about it. After USF, if they didn't see us likely to struggle covering the slot and exchanging responsibilities in zone, they were watching some other team's film.
 
LuCane said:
Some of the worst Safety play I’ve seen in a really long time. That Safety duo when AJ Highsmith was around was at least sound in comparison. Safety is a feel and instincts position, and our guys are seemingly learning on the job. The stakes are too high. This was a player personnel error. Plain and simple.
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A billion percent. Did our coaches even watch Washington play Texas?
 
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LuCane said:
I hope that's not how they thought about it. After USF, if they didn't see us likely to struggle covering the slot and exchanging responsibilities in zone, they were watching some other team's film.
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I got nothing as to why "we're going to make some changes to the backend" just now.
 
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