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[QUOTE="RedtheGOB, post: 5518499, member: 8907"]
Well said.

One thing that gives the Defense a mulligan (for this game only though) is that this was the first NFL level QB that we had played against in my opinion.  We showed up at Clemson and showed what the talent can do when they click, yet a week later we are still running a ton of youth and first year starters and it's still September.

Aguilar and Klubnick are not slouches but you can tell they aren't going to play Sundays in my opinion.

Mensah on the other played like a Sunday QB not because he killed it with his arm but because he saw the field, made perfect reads all day, called audibles that killed us and then managed the game with no mistakes.  He basically MCCORD'ed us.

In comparison Klubnick had no clue and at times seemed to play exactly into what our defense was doing.  We'd blitz and his reads were off and and timing/passes were even worse.  Seemed like he would try to elude the pressure instead of throwing to where the blitz came from.  Mensah crushed us with that.  Waited for the blitzer and then went right to a short easy pass for 10 yards.

Like you said we're clearly just too predictable on Defense and it's not the first time.

Offense I really believe will be even better next year.  Losing Nixon may hurt if he goes pro but if we're hitting the portal and working on staff upgrades the whole offseason better be spent on upgrading Defense.
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