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imported_porkchop
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... but I have to say that I personally am happy with the way our kids played tonight on defense. Yeah we have issues like a suspect secondary (and that hurt us tonight) and a minimal pass rush, but the kids played pretty well overall I thought. Not that FSU is a great rushing team, but give the defense credit for really going in and shutting that down for much of the night.
You have to remember that one of the TD's was a bust by the secondary late when our DB couldn't tackle the receiver. Things like that are technique and correctable. The overall talent level isn't but the overall talent level kept us in the game. It was an individual play by a DB taking the wrong approach that really cost us in the end. Make no mistake though....he was there. He provided the coverage. He just couldn't make the tackle. I mean, that is not nearly as concerning to me as our secondary just letting receivers run wild. While we're suspect and have been beaten deep at times this year it's not because of a lack of effort. It's really not even because the opposing receivers are wide open much of the time. It's just a disparity in talent.
I can live with that. If our kids are going out and playing their hearts out and are just overmatched then so be it. Atleast they have an idea of where they need to be on given coverages and it's not like teams are putting up 40 points and 400 yards passing on us week in, week out.
I was pretty happy with the way we played, save some techniqual things that can be corrected. The defense didn't lose the game tonight.
FWIW, I picked the score to be around 27-17. FSU has enough raw talent to score some points so for us to give up 21 is not concerning to me at all. We've got to start playing some offense again though.
You have to remember that one of the TD's was a bust by the secondary late when our DB couldn't tackle the receiver. Things like that are technique and correctable. The overall talent level isn't but the overall talent level kept us in the game. It was an individual play by a DB taking the wrong approach that really cost us in the end. Make no mistake though....he was there. He provided the coverage. He just couldn't make the tackle. I mean, that is not nearly as concerning to me as our secondary just letting receivers run wild. While we're suspect and have been beaten deep at times this year it's not because of a lack of effort. It's really not even because the opposing receivers are wide open much of the time. It's just a disparity in talent.
I can live with that. If our kids are going out and playing their hearts out and are just overmatched then so be it. Atleast they have an idea of where they need to be on given coverages and it's not like teams are putting up 40 points and 400 yards passing on us week in, week out.
I was pretty happy with the way we played, save some techniqual things that can be corrected. The defense didn't lose the game tonight.
FWIW, I picked the score to be around 27-17. FSU has enough raw talent to score some points so for us to give up 21 is not concerning to me at all. We've got to start playing some offense again though.