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Message: [QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 1507582, member: 2196"] -The play on offense is way to conservative at times and I completely agree with what some others have said in other posts. We must open the playbook up sooner. It hurts the freshman QB more that we do nothing and build our selves into a deficit and allowing him less time to make plays and not to mention but he has to make everything count from their on out!! Let the kid play free from the beginning. -The tackling on defense was pitiful. Multiple times their were 2-3 missed tackles in a given play. Heck their flee flicker should have never gotten off and it should have been a 10 yard loss if we wrap up. If you ask me their was 2 defining moments on the game deciding drive. This was the drive right after we closed the gap to 7 points. Their was a 3rd and 14, USF essentially gift wrapped us a bubble screen, can't remember the player but he played it great, but he FORGOT TO WRAP UP, USF bounces off the tackle attempt and gets 20 yards. Then another big 3rd and long and whitum gets that personal foul call. Some people disagreed with the call, but the player should have never been in that position to begin with. Don't even come close enough for the ref to make that call, the ball was not even close to being caught and then he runs right into their player after the play was clearly over, your always responsible for where your body is or who it runs into. He needs to be smarter then that, the USF player did flop but the damage was already done. -Lastly, that loss was on the the coaching staff. To come out like that after a bye was inexcusable, it throws everything away that was gained in the LSU game. The poor tackling, the poor defensive scheme. When will Bullough realize that spread teams will throw a bubble screen when you don't match up with them? We have been absolutely torched by this play over the years because we refuse to adjust. Its a huge step backwards in my opinion. Shafer will get the job done via recruiting, he will never get it done as a game-planner in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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