Defense

[anomander]

What an atrocious performance. I was hoping last week we saw improvements and knowing Steve was hurt the defense would really show up and pick up the offense in front of a sold out home crowd. Extremely disappointed that they had no answers. No hustle, terrible angles, no pass rush, and no answer for their running game, which wasn't their strong suit. Very lackluster performance. Did Grant play? I didn't notice him after a great performance vs Clemson. Samuels had a bad day. Kerr had a worse day. DL basically just takes up space. Bryant and Reese have been busts for the most part. Terrible effort knowing they were going to be needed. Talent needs to be significantly upgraded on that side of the ball, including the Robinson. Let him coach the DL and have him on the trail. Unfortunately, I don't know what he brings to the table? Defense has no identity.

 

[orange44]

What an atrocious performance. I was hoping last week we saw improvements and knowing Steve was hurt the defense would really show up and pick up the offense in front of a sold out home crowd. Extremely disappointed that they had no answers. No hustle, terrible angles, no pass rush, and no answer for their running game, which wasn't their strong suit. Very lackluster performance. Did Grant play? I didn't notice him after a great performance vs Clemson. Samuels had a bad day. Kerr had a worse day. DL basically just takes up space. Bryant and Reese have been busts for the most part. Terrible effort knowing they were going to be needed. Talent needs to be significantly upgraded on that side of the ball, including the Robinson. Let him coach the DL and have him on the trail. Unfortunately, I don't know what he brings to the table? Defense has no identity.

Extremely well said.

 

[phil77]

Defense has thrown up some stinkers under Fran but IMO this one hurts the most. They all looked like they have given up and with our backup QB this is the one time we needed our defense to step up for an entire game and it was just opposite a complete no show from anyone on that side of the ball.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Either Fran or someone else needs to start calling plays. Also we need a DL coach. No way we don’t have TFL by blind luck unless teaching them to not go upfield.

 

[Orangefan1]

The defense was not great but our offense was so much worse and Collins put our defense in terrible positions today

 

[Aqua2050]

Defense has been a liability for years.

 

[Franz69]

I don't feel like being mean today. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[tbonezone]

remember those old commercials where they would pick up a coffee cup with the damp paper towel ?
well we're gonna need new china.

 

[JKinUtah]

Was offensive

 

[Sammy407]

Any chance we could kidnap Tony White and bring him back as DC? When we ran the 3-3-5 our D was solid. I haven't seen this bad of defensive play calling since Matt Patricia was with the Eagles.

 

[tbonezone]

Any chance we could kidnap Tony White and bring him back as DC?

even if we somehow got to him there's no way we could wrap him up , bring him to the ground and ensnare him.

 

[Dcuse]

The defense was not great but our offense was so much worse and Collins put our defense in terrible positions today

We’re talking about the Syracuse- Duke game here. No idea what game you were watching.

 

[Newhouser]

We are a horrible tackling team. Deuce in open space is our tackling in a nutshell.