this has nothing to do with talent

[SantanaMoss6]

Hopefully when Alston (if) comes back we get better here as well. He plays with good discipline or at least what he showed early this year

I think Mesidor replacing Baron solves most of the issue IMO. Not to beat a dead horse but he just wasn't good out there. But getting Alston back will be huge so the line stays fresh and you can rotate Bain, Mesidor and Alston. Sprinkle in Baron in obvious passing situations.

On a general note - I think all year we're playing folks where they're not as comfortable (Porter, Mesidor, Powell at times) because we're scared of the alternative (Clark, Moten, Williams, Patterson etc.). But I rather keep my best players where they will play their best, and dip into your two deep where you had an injury. I think the defensive staff got way too cute with personnel.

 

[JD08]

 

[Coach Macho]

Didn't even read the whole thread. Saw one apologist and came to say this...

My 15-18 year olds can line-up to that formation right now.

Here's the exact same formation from this past Friday. (2nd clip)



No excuse for this to still be happening.

 

[edge]

They got us on that play. I believe Kiko is responsible for shifting them. It did not happen. But was this an outlier for how we lined up the rest of the game? Did we line up correctly 90% of the time or more? If so that is improvement.

 

[flips]

FWIW, the ANALytics thought it was the best game our D has played this year (WF while dog**** a better offense than Balls State)

 

[PennsylvaniaCane]

cmon now ... that's coaching and recognizing strong side ... this is the stuff that put guidry on the hot seat

I mentioned it a bunch of times on threads dealing with alignment and so forth. In the Louisville game they had a 3rd and 2 or 3. All of our DL were lined up outside of the tackles with only 2 LBs occupying both A and B gaps. Shockingly Chaney went for about 25 or so right up the middle. That’s scheme. It has to be, because if you’re the coach and you see that you call time out before the snap to get them lined up right.

 

[JHallCanes]

I think Mesidor replacing Baron solves most of the issue IMO. Not to beat a dead horse but he just wasn't good out there. But getting Alston back will be huge so the line stays fresh and you can rotate Bain, Mesidor and Alston. Sprinkle in Baron in obvious passing situations.

On a general note - I think all year we're playing folks where they're not as comfortable (Porter, Mesidor, Powell at times) because we're scared of the alternative (Clark, Moten, Williams, Patterson etc.). But I rather keep my best players where they will play their best, and dip into your two deep where you had an injury. I think the defensive staff got way too cute with personnel.

Mesidor and Alston to me were probably the two highest IQ guys in the front 7 so yeah I’m with you. But if a trickle down effect of our DT spots getting healthy and giving Barrow some help

As much as we kept talking about Porter playing out of position, Mesidor playing DT instead of DE was probably hurting us just as badly if not worse