So, Elijah Robinson?

[Capt. Tuttle]

No real improvement on defense over the last regime. Soft tackling. Stupid penalties.
Appeared to be no discipline on the edges. They looked afraid to tackle the running back.
Gives HCFB lots to yell about.

 

[bigmike]

Wasn’t great, but first game. Let’s not overreact.

 

[dwilmont44]

Yikes

 

[Scotch]

No real improvement on defense over the last regime. Soft tackling. Stupid penalties.
Appeared to be no discipline on the edges. They looked afraid to tackle the running back.
Gives HCFB lots to yell about.

It was bad.

 

[CanadianSU]

fix the tackling. Not sure how much falls on him. Diggs still looks like he can bring it forcing a QB to step up, that’s where others have to eat.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Wasn’t great, but first game. Let’s not overreact.

Yup, lots of room to improve, no reason to believe it won't.

He'll figure stuff out.

 

[StLouisCuse]

There will be a whole lot of teaching points in the film room this week. We're going to find out quick what we have in this coaching staff by the response in next week's game.

 

[DoctorBombay]

Wasn’t great, but first game. Let’s not overreact.

That's adorable.

 

[Cuse House]

The defensive game plan was vanilla. Didn’t see blitzes. I think next week we will see a better performance.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

No real improvement on defense over the last regime. Soft tackling. Stupid penalties.
Appeared to be no discipline on the edges. They looked afraid to tackle the running back.
Gives HCFB lots to yell about.

I wouldn’t judge him through one game. The Ohio RB was a P4 back. But still lots of work to do.

 

[Irt4su]

Maybe some personnel changes too

 

[dwilmont44]

The defensive game plan was vanilla. Didn’t see blitzes. I think next week we will see a better performance.

Was not tackling part of the vanilla game plan?

 

[syrBossHogg]

Red zone defense was good, but lots of sloppy tackling and poor angles by defenders at times

 

[orangenauburn]

No real improvement on defense over the last regime. Soft tackling. Stupid penalties.
Appeared to be no discipline on the edges. They looked afraid to tackle the running back.
Gives HCFB lots to yell about.

Id say the first half the penalties were soft and Barron really was only guilty party

Fourth quarter they got out of hand

And Barron got worse. Just a bad game all around for him

MacDonald got abused in Q1

Duce struggled for a stretch

Diggs took a while to get going but did

 

[Cuse House]

Was not tackling part of the vanilla game plan?

Tackling was bad, but it’s week 1. A lot of favorites struggled. Let’s not jump off a bridge after 1 game.

 

[OttosDad]

I’m really trying to take a rational approach after just 1 game but man I saw a lot that I really didn’t like on defense. Couple that with losing Marlowe for an extended period and I really don’t think there’s much good to take away from the defense’s performance.

They better learn how to stop the run. Otherwise McCord is gonna be watching from the sideline a lot this year

 

[Entropic]

Was not tackling part of the vanilla game plan?

Don't want to show too much on film for GTech. Lure them in with a false sense of security and BAM we start tackling above the ankles.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I’m really trying to take a rational approach after just 1 game but man I saw a lot that I really didn’t like on defense. Couple that with losing Marlowe for an extended period and I really don’t think there’s much good to take away from the defense’s performance.

They better learn how to stop the run. Otherwise McCord is gonna be watching from the sideline a lot this year

Here are some positives:

Barnes and Watson look like they belong out there.

Barron played like a moron, he can only go up from here.

Lots of tackles for loss.

We did tighten things up in the red zone.

Diggs took himself out of a bunch of plays, but is a legitimate terror on the outside.

Perry made his presence felt.

Unlikely future opponents will be able to hold to the degree we saw today without drawing a single flag.

Offense wins in college football anyway, and McCord/Gadsden/Pena/Allen is a really difficult group to defend.

 

[Cusefan69]

By the way what was the sidelines report on Wax? Ankle?

 

[AAM62]

By the way what was the sidelines report on Wax? Ankle?

Apparently Fran said he will be out for a couple of weeks. Maybe high ankle sprain?

 

[Ringostar57]

Where those MAC refs? I guess ACC refs aren't the worst after all. Savion gets called for holding while the defender has his hands inside his face guard and plastering his face.

 

[wiseman3]

Did I see us play a 3-3-5 alot of the time? Seemed odd to continue that from the last staff

 

[IthacaBarrel]

No real improvement on defense over the last regime. Soft tackling. Stupid penalties.
Appeared to be no discipline on the edges. They looked afraid to tackle the running back.
Gives HCFB lots to yell about.

No real improvement? It was horrid. Rocky Long and Tony White were legit coordinators. Has to improve immensely to win 7 games

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

Don’t worry about today. Let’s see how we look vs a team we almost beat with no QB on the road and then the preseason last place team on National TV. Both at home.

I can credit Ohio with having some players and having a good game on offense. Was never close in the second half.

 

[MikeSU02]

I think the Wax injury will be an accelerant for reviewing the overall snaps our D guys gets and who may push to take out a current starter.

I don’t think Fran or ERob will have an issue with making sure guys that make plays, play. Guys that dude knucklehead stuff, don’t.

It’s one game tho, I got faith in ERob. We’ll get there.