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[QUOTE="timkay99, post: 5518565, member: 635"]
I don't think its a lack of hustle, I think it is bad angles.

Braheem Long had a rough game and took some bad angles and missed some tackles.  He had a great game against Clemson taking some good angles and making his tackles.

Duke essentially schemed away from Devin Grant to neutralize him and made the other safeties beat them.  And the safeties had a rough game tackling.

It seems the defense is trying to balance sound football older players (McDonald when healthy, Buxton, etc) who may have some athletic deficiencies with some younger, more athletic players who are more prone to blow assignments.

Reese has been a surprise, as I share AZ Orange's notice earlier with wondering what he is doing on any given play.  Hasn't played like a 25 year old to this point and makes the fall off from Diggs so much bigger, as it seemed we hoped he'd be our primary pass rusher.  Couple that with David O not progressing and there is a lot of potential playing time available for Wilson and Rodgers when they get on campus.

It is hard to tell where the gap fill errors on some of these runs are.  Haven't really seen a D give up long runs when a team is trying to run out the half before and we've done it at least 3 times.  Sure it is related to my prior paragraph.

And also share the sentiment that I have been surprised at how much Kerr has struggled as the nickel.
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