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joseermonfils said:
I know a good dline is very important but Guidry defense NEEDS good safety play..this was a pretty good Meesh game and the defense had a pretty good result..we need to recruit safety’s a lot better
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There were other factors as well. Tyler Baron got benched in the 2nd half(It's about time he was held accountable!). Mesidor moved back to DE, Porter moved back to CB and we played a 4-3 base as opposed to our usual 4-2-5. All that and this was Ahmad Moten's coming out party. He played excellent yesterday! CJ. Clark had his best game of the season by far and Simeon Barrow was his usual active disruptive self. Bain was very solid today and had a fantastic sack on 4th down where he just out physicaled 2 OL and went right through them. Meesh had one of his best games with one of the best Pick 6's you'll ever see and he could have had another one! Jaden Harris managed to stay away from the big mistake, Frederique was lockdown and Cam Pruitt was flying around. Alderman is ok but nothing special. It was his fault on the switch when OJ passed off Micah Mays. He failed to pick him up and let Mays just run past him and get wide open for a TD. There was another play that caught my eye(Not in a good way) where a Wake RB caught a short outlet pass around the LOS and took it outside and Alderman couldn't close the distance and dove at air as the RB got about 10 yards. Mario has to stop bringing in LBs who don't have the speed to go sideline to sideline! The bottom line however is that outside of the Deacs opening drive and the long drive they had into the second quarter that ended in Meesh's Pick 6, this defense literally allowed nothing else the rest of the game. They were excellent all day allowing only 193 yards of total offense, holding Wake to a measly 3.4 yards per play, 12 total 1st downs, 4-14 on 3rd down and had 5 sacks.
 
joseermonfils said:
I know a good dline is very important but Guidry defense NEEDS good safety play..this was a pretty good Meesh game and the defense had a pretty good result..we need to recruit safety’s a lot better
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Meesh played ALOT of nickle and his plays were from that spot (INT, sack, almost INT) he is a nickle forced to play safety because we didnt value position in portal even tho we lost both starter to nfl early. He dropped to nickle while Markeith came in for snaps
 
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Wake didnt motion much or do anything that GT did that exposed us running sweeps and to the boundary

They stuck to what they do.

Played to our strength. I’ll believe it’s fixed when I see someone do those same things to us again and we don’t have issues
 
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We got away from that terrible 4-2-5 scheme yesterday.
Kiko was not covering running backs on pass routes, he was doing what he does best which is playing the run and blitzing.
Crazy what can happen when you bring pressure.
Good to see 7 guys in the box again.

Bad things -
I know there are more but this team is soooo slow and continue to take bad angles.
Special teams are a joke.
 
Every LB we are recruiting can run sideline to sideline. Nix, Marcelin, Alford, and Wiley... Mario and D-Nic will get it fixed fast. Help is on the way.

I don’t know what adjustment they made but whatever it was..it worked because after the half that D looked alot different.
 
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hoops156 said:
we finally started to send pressure. it makes a diff. also thankfully they said no thank you to baron. next is to tell 1 on defense that
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They actually set him out a couple of drives and had Popo and Pruitt in together. After that when 1 came back in he stopped running into blocks and played more disciplined. To me that was biggger than baron
 
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canefan96 said:
Good things -
We got away from that terrible 4-2-5 scheme yesterday.
Kiko was not covering running backs on pass routes, he was doing what he does best which is playing the run and blitzing.
Crazy what can happen when you bring pressure.
Good to see 7 guys in the box again.

Bad things -
I know there are more but this team is soooo slow and continue to take bad angles.
Special teams are a joke.
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I don’t understand why they can’t just tell Borigallis to kick every kick off out of the end zone. If he doesn’t have the leg for it, bring in someone else for kick offs. That solves the special teams problem right then and there.
 
A couple of changes were made right before halftime.
The two ends (4 & 3) were spaced outside of their tackles.
And HARRIS (7) was benched and Williams (15) and Patterson (20) played more. Also, Pruitt (22) played a lot too
That change the game complete for the defense.
 
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Jassid82 said:
Every LB we are recruiting can run sideline to sideline. Nix, Marcelin, Alford, and Wiley... Mario and D-Nic will get it fixed fast. Help is on the way.

I don’t know what adjustment they made but whatever it was..it worked because after the half that D looked alot different.
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The biggest change they made was going to a 4-3 look in getting Pruitt on the field. His speed at linebacker is sideline to sideline and something our defense desperately needed. Also playing meesh at his natural nickel position, also helped a lot. Oh and benching Baron and playing Mesidor back at defensive end was big time too.
 
JayCane20 said:
Wake didnt motion much or do anything that GT did that exposed us running sweeps and to the boundary

They stuck to what they do.

Played to our strength. I’ll believe it’s fixed when I see someone do those same things to us again and we don’t have issues
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Came to say this as well. This was a perfect matchup for our defense. A team with limited talent who doesn’t run much disguise or attack the edges.

I actually like our matchup with Cuse too. They’re not physical, they’re mainly a drop back passing team with an immobile QB.

Not getting ahead of ourselves, but we’re going to have a lot of trouble with SMU, provided we get there. They excel at what we struggle with. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. For next week, I expect to be able to pressure McCord and force him into mistakes. They’ll have success because they’re a pretty good offense overall but it’s very one dimensional and they don’t do a ton to confuse a defense or go hyperspeed to the edges.
 
JayCane20 said:
Wake didnt motion much or do anything that GT did that exposed us running sweeps and to the boundary

They stuck to what they do.

Played to our strength. I’ll believe it’s fixed when I see someone do those same things to us again and we don’t have issues
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Not true. They ran many late motions to the edge just like all those other teams did. Difference was we handed it off instead of chasing it.
 
JayCane20 said:
Wake didnt motion much or do anything that GT did that exposed us running sweeps and to the boundary

They stuck to what they do.

Played to our strength. I’ll believe it’s fixed when I see someone do those same things to us again and we don’t have issues
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I noticed this as well with the lack of motion and shifting. They did do it at times, but nowhere near the number of times at GT and other teams did.

Also, when they did use motion, their motion man was half *** jogging and not running full sprint, where our defender covering him was not well out of position pre snap.

Now, although Wake made things a little easier for us we do have to give Guidry credit. He brought more guys to the LOS which made a big difference. He consistently brought more pressure. It appeared he finally had a good game plan. He wasn't afraid to bench Barron.

Tackling was much improved for the most part. D-line and linebackers tackled much better, allowing the secondary to not get exposed. When tackling was poor the first 1-2 drives, both Meesh and Harris looked awful coming up to tackle the runner. Meesh is pretty good in coverage and had a great game, but he's still awful in run support. Harris still looks like he's never played football before.

Kiko played much better after the first 1-2 drives. It was same old Kiko that first drive. Poor angles and missed tackles, which allowed huge plays for Wake. Not sure what happened after that, but he finally started making those simple tackles. Couple of them were shoe string tackles, but hey, he made the tackle and prevented Wakes player from exposing how bad #7 is at doing anything.
 
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