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Message: [QUOTE="Pyle, post: 1910379, member: 137"] Does anyone here think we are playing with IVY league guys? Yeah sure we have some talent deficiencies but I'm seeing alot of Grob style apologists around here. I know because I used to be one. This defense is crap. Don't have the talent to run it yet? Then don't. I get installing the offense now, it's a showcase for incoming recruits so even if it has some broken gears, enough of the machine is moving to impress. Defensively? Stop the enabling. Dino loses by alot of points when he loses and that's before he came here. Talent shows itself when the DB gets outran, outjumped, etc. What we have right now are parts of the field so wide freaking open that you can run a 3 run circus in all that real estate. That's a coaching problem. I like Dino very much, he has great personality and his offensive system is shown to work. I have serious reservations about our "He's wide open...again" defense. We don't have personnel to run a zone cover 2 then run a freaking man cover 2, figure it out. That's a coaches job. Does anyone remember how completely ineffective Grob's offenses were? Well some people realized pretty quick in year 1 of Gerg that he was in over his head. I'm worried that Dino has no idea how to contain the talent from an opposing P5 school. Just to be clear this isn't about this past Sat, I didn't see the game as I was at Vanderbilt stadium for my son's competition. I'm talking about the fact that some teams have us down 2-3 TDs in the first 5 freaking minutes of the game. Dino and Ward so far appear completely clueless how to stop the opposition. I hear people say well that's the defense we need to run our offense. Why? Why do we need a bend but don't break defense that allows other teams to wear us down, eat clock, and completely take over a game if our offense goes 3 and out more than twice? Why wouldn't a Shafer style defense that rattles teams not be better suited for the kind of shock and awe campaign that Dino wants to run? [/QUOTE]

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