not as weak as many think. As i said earlier, Knott Mayden, McDonald and Wright have all been in contention to fill some of the open slots in the secondary. Yeah, they are short on experience, but compared to the receivers they were against, for the most part they were more talented so it's not like the WRs were going to just get more space on talent alone. Take the pass that was overthrown to Marks; to almost any of our other receivers with a little height that would have been complete. Bigger picture though was that Mac was able to understand when WRs were breaking and going to be open and throw it there instead of waiting for a WR to be wide open before throwing...
I am not sure if you were in the stadium or not. I was. Mac was throwing to receivers running in open space. Jalen was throwing to receivers covered like a blanket. Huge difference in the secondaries. HUGE
I wasn't there, but I did see some of that on the broadcast, although I did see several times that receivers coming out of breaks were open and Jalen still wasn't throwing to where they were going to be. I also thought a lot of that was game planning. Any decent DC is going to play press coverage against us with Jalen to force him through multiple reads so that's what we dialed up against him. Game plan for Mac is going to be different knowing he's going to get through those progressions.
I imagine most of our second string will be made up of incoming freshmen who you did not see Saturday. They have some talent coming for sure.
Not game planning in the spring game. Everything was base that I saw. Just inexperience. They will be fine, but they are not there yet.
That is something that I had not considered. Who will be here for the summer/fall that is likely to see the field on defense?
Thanks - Surtain and Jobe are both difference makers in the secondary at a position of need. Totally forgot about them.
You're right about the OLBs. Forgot UA listed Anoma as an OLB in the announcement rather than DE where he was ranked by the services.
