in our last game of last season we gave up 348 yards passing and 4 tds to a top 10 oklahoma team that won 11 games last season.I beginning to think folks just don't realize just how much offenses have changed even since 2009. The years of a defense avg. less than 10 pts. per game are over. While I admit there are certainly areas to improve if you can't see the areas where there was improvement.....well....nevermind.
Good --- Kicking
Bad --- Corner coverage
Ugly --- Sims -- 1 of 4 past 15 yds
we couldn't execute, we missed tackles, we were out of position in coverage and couldn't shed blocks...isn't that basically every faze of the defensive game?imho, its the execution. we had a lot of missed tackles and we were out of position on a lot of the coverage. also, we could not get off those screen blocks at all.
yes they were and I am sick of seeing everyone of the Sims haters show that stat.weren't two of those dropped passes?
sims played well.yes they were and I am sick of seeing everyone of the Sims haters show that stat.
No it wasn't. If the defense plays a little better and gets some 3 and outs or gives up one first down instead of chunks it gives Sims and and offense more possessions in better field position. This probably leads to more points.sims played well.
offense wasn't the problem yesterday.
Yea I can agree Christian missed two balls.yes they were and I am sick of seeing everyone of the Sims haters show that stat.
haters gonna hateyes they were and I am sick of seeing everyone of the Sims haters show that stat.
I'm no X's and O's guru, but the defense looks pretty much exactly the same versus a HUNH offense...confused and sluggish.The Good (Blake Sims section)- I'm giving a special section of the "good" to Sims in that I was so happy for him. His scrambling ability saved our butts a few times when we were backed up in our territory. Kudos to him for staying positive and being a leader the entire game. Time and time again the announcers alluded Sims on the sidelines after series (good or bad) keeping the team up and "in the game". For his first game he did pretty good. He didn't have a Kenny Hill debut but no one expected that. Sure, he made some mistakes (the Int and the few times you could tell he called the play wrong). But the kid kept plugging and playing and led us to a win. With his first game over I'm certain he'll be in the film room with the offensive staff correcting things. I fully expect him to get better with each game.
The Good- Kudos to our kicker and punter. WOW!!! LOL! If we don't have anything else we got us a kicker who can boot it from dang near midfield and a punter that can punt it out of the stadium. The offensive line got better as the game wore on. They'll need to continue to improve but I was pleased with what I saw. Amari Cooper, DeAndrew White, Yeldon and Henry are beasts. Plain and simple. If we can get some rhythm in our offense we are going to put up a lot of yardage and a lot of points.
The Bad-The defense. Plain and simple. It was the most disappointing aspect of the entire game for me. Even worse than the KO return for a touchdown. I'm sure I'll be accused of being "too harsh" and that's fine. But if it weren't for WVU dropping several balls on key down and distances this game could have turned a different way. To be honest our defense didn't really "stop" them all game. It was their lack of executing that stopped them for the most part. And the "But our guys drop some balls too" really doesn't fly because I just don't see how a breakdown on our offense all of sudden makes breakdowns on our defense "not that big of a deal". It's not a one cancels out the other. In my opinion it doesn't. We still can't get any pressure on the QB, we are still confused with the HUNH and are still letting guys run free down the seam and on the perimeters. I'm starting to begin to think the lack of penetration is more of a scheme thing than anything. But I'm not qualified enough to really be dogmatic about that. I also kept hearing the announcers saying one of our LB's was getting abused in the passing game. Ragland was it? Either way it doesn't look like our staff has made much progress in slowing down the HUNH. They ran a lot of what OU ran and it worked.
The Ugly- The KO return. This seems to becoming common theme in our openers. It should have never happened.
That's not a fair comparison. 2 different teams completely.in our last game of last season we gave up 348 yards passing and 4 tds to a top 10 oklahoma team that won 11 games last season.
in our opening game of this season we gave up 365 yards passing and 1 td to an unranked west virginia team that won 4 games last season.
if that's improvement, then we're in big trouble.