PurlJam
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I do think our coverage was a little better but I also know, just like the coaches that Rogers was no threat running the ball and they dont have a WR that's a deep threat...makes your coaching look a lot better when you dont have to worry about either of those.I do know there are different levels of competition in football and all sports. Miss State is not too far away from being a pretty good team. But
certainly not at the level of Tenn, Ga, US and some others in the SEC. They do not have the talent top to bottom. I was more thinking that our DB's were sticking closer to their man and playing the ball better and not playing the man and drawing PI call every other down. Their coverage looked cleaner. Though, there were 2 PI calls in the 4'th I believe. Also, I don't remember any off side calls 0n the DL or any face mask calls and no stupid Personal Fouls. I was talking Technique more than anything but also game planning against Miss State. IMHO, the defensive game plan for Tenn sucked and many of our defenders played with poor technique. It looked somewhat like our defense against Tenn, we were playing an almost scared, un - aggressive not to lose defense, instead of a get after them, with an aggressive as hell attitude. Tenn had our defense between a rock and a hard place all game long. Win or lose, hell or high water, you cannot play a passive defense against the better teams and your players better be using correct techniques in coverage and in your front 7.