The push-offs are getting maddening. It's very frustrating to see a DB have good coverage and see the receiver clear out by a last second push - with no flag. If the rules are on the book, then they need to be enforced - on both sides...Very in depth article. My main concern is the one on one match ups we consistently get beat on.
At this point it surely can't just be bad luck this season. The word is they are not taught to look for the ball until they are 'In phase' with the WR or in other words step for step blanket coverage.
Yet to our DB's credit they have for the most part been in blanket coverage the last two months but still not locating the ball. Are our guys just not instinctive enough to do it?
I have noticed more WR offensive push offs going on and not getting called but the tight coverage passes getting through is becoming beyond frustrating.
If we we could clean that one area up and never attempt FG's the rest of the year I have no doubt we win #16.
That is complex , the fact that the defense rarely plays a pure zone, usually a combo coverage adds to offensive confusion. The success of the defense really is predicated on safeties. We have put a lot of safeties in the league the last 6 years. We have always had a great safety and a pretty good safety. Barron/Lester . Haha/ Vinny. This year IMO the safety play hasn't equalled years past. I know HAHA or Mark would of knocked down a lot the deep balls thrown the last 2 ball games. And as the only DBs facing the QB . They should get most of the picks.
I will say this defense is a little different than in years past. They have tried different things to combat Spread / HUNH offenses.
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I think AU's completions, even more than MU's, were the most frustrating. We had the receiver bookended between CJ and Landon. All three come up and their receiver comes down with the ball. That's not to say their receivers didn't have good position, especially with the last second push, it's just that past safeties would have knocked that ball down...That is complex , the fact that the defense rarely plays a pure zone, usually a combo coverage adds to offensive confusion. The success of the defense really is predicated on safeties. We have put a lot of safeties in the league the last 6 years. We have always had a great safety and a pretty good safety. Barron/Lester . Haha/ Vinny. This year IMO the safety play hasn't equalled years past. I know HAHA or Mark would of knocked down a lot the deep balls thrown the last 2 ball games. And as the only DBs facing the QB . They should get most of the picks.
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I understand that but it is happening to us at an alarmingly high rate. More than just the avg amount and more than just 'thems the breaks bad luck'.Everybody gets beat by one on ones against good receivers. every body. EVERY. BODY.
I vehemently disagree. if we were getting beaten vertically at "an alarmingly high rate" we would not be 2nd in TD's allowed in FBS.I understand that but it is happening to us at an alarmingly high rate. More than just the avg amount and more than just 'thems the breaks bad luck'.
It's getting to be part offensive pass interference not being called and part our guys not playing the ball while being 'in phase'.
I agree too in that the safeties don't seem to be helping out as much as past players either. Perry and Landon are letting stuff get through in assistance that past guys like Barron, HaHa, Sunseri, Lester, Woodall, and Rashad Johnson just wouldn't allow.
I agree with most of what you say but TD's allowed is not telling the whole story. A good amount of the times we are getting beat vertically don't always go the distance but still get the opponent into the Redzone.I vehemently disagree. if we were getting beaten vertically at "an alarmingly high rate" we would not be 2nd in TD's allowed in FBS.
The way we play requires guys to play bump and run vertically. it always has. We've always been susceptible to the deep ball if we give the opposing QB too much time or we lose contain. so was LSU when saban was there.
These are our scoring D numbers since 2007
2014- 4th
2013- 4th
2012- 1st
2011- 1st
2010- 5th
2009- 1st
2008- 6th
during this whole period we've always left guys in one on ones and we've gotten burned a few times. The difference between this year and other years is that our corners are excellent but not elite.we still have a top 10 secondary in college football. we just dont have an elite first round shut down guy like we're used to.
I agree with most of what you say but TD's allowed is not telling the whole story. A good amount of the times we are getting beat vertically don't always go the distance but still get the opponent into the Redzone.
We are playing extremely well with the shortened field but the vertical bombs are eating us up between the 20's and it is alarmingly high compared to past Defenses we've had.
I'm not trying to bash and I know there are many reasons it's happening. WR's are pushing off and getting away with it, EJ still isn't at full speed, Slyve was lost early in the season but the light bulb is on now, It took Cyrus a month to get settled, QB's are creating sandlot plays etc etc.
But still we are not playing deep passes well either because the CB's are not looking for the ball, or they do look and just miss batting the ball by an eyelash, or the safties are not arriving in time to assist or they do get there but also miss knocking the ball down.
We have the talent but we just can't seem to catch a break on these plays and the refs are not calling the push offs.
If we can just eliminate half of the errors we will be on the way to #16 but if we don't get better our luck might run out and the plays won't end with tackles at the 5-15 yrd line...they will be TD's.
Yeah. They let both the offensive and defensive players make lots of contact now. I'd like to see the ratio of offensive to defensive pass interference. I doubt its more than 1:10.The push-offs are getting maddening. It's very frustrating to see a DB have good coverage and see the receiver clear out by a last second push - with no flag. If the rules are on the book, then they need to be enforced - on both sides...
I understand that but it is happening to us at an alarmingly high rate. More than just the avg amount and more than just 'thems the breaks bad luck'.
It's getting to be part offensive pass interference not being called and part our guys not playing the ball while being 'in phase'.
I agree too in that the safeties don't seem to be helping out as much as past players either. Perry and Landon are letting stuff get through in assistance that past guys like Barron, HaHa, Sunseri, Lester, Woodall, and Rashad Johnson just wouldn't allow.
I had an easier time understanding an airport bond indenture the other day. Wow...