Sunday Morning QB- Just Cant Give Them The D Edition
1. What a lovely Fall day yesterday. Perfect temp for football and grilling. Have a Mississippi Rebel friend staying the weekend and treated her to some filet and lobster. She also got treated to a fun day of Bulldog football watching us get our 3rd win of the season to even our record at 3-3. Unfortunately, I had to watch Mississippi eek out a hard fought win with someone yelling at the TV constantly.
2. Offensively, we got about what was expected. 41 points which could have easily been more. Missed a FG, fumbled a KO return before half with great field position, and just ran the clock inside the 10 at the end of the game. The offense did its job even with people hurt or hurting. 440 yards for you yards loving Bulldogs out there. No sacks of our QB. We were down a RB and then Marks sat the 2nd half- yet still ran for 6 ypc in the game. Just a good offensive performance and this side of the ball continues to get better. Could have easily put up 50 yesterday. Reallyyyyyy enjoying this offense. Wish the QB play was a little better but recruiting is the only way to get better there.
3. QB play was solid. 3 TD's passes with no picks. We could have thrown for more but you could us working on some things offensively. Rogers threw a really good backshoulder early on but their DB made a good play on it to force us into a FG. Absolutely dumb bringing in Wright on 3rd and Goal in a long situation but this was a game to try things. Good to see Wright get some drives and work. That damn floating duck he threw across the field to start off had to be the ball slipping or something. Ended up 7/10 and a good outing. He put the ball in a tight window that should have been caught around the goalline by Tulu I think. Hopefully Rogers is not too bad off and its also a positive that its his other shoulder. Perfect time for an off week.
4. Defensively, we are running Arnett's defense. This is not Brock's. We arent doing anything defensively we havent done the last 3 seasons.
5. D-Line is not very good at staying healthy or getting pressure. They just cant. We simply lack talent there. They hold their own ok vs the run. They dont get manhandled or anything. However, you have got to have guys that can get to the QB and we dont have that. Injuries just making it worse. We have 2 weeks to figure something vs UPig.
6. LB's are the best part of our D but they are slow. Not bringing anything new to light here. It is what it is. having to blitz at least one of them every play hurts us in coverage. We are seeing that frequently. And sometimes they are just too slow to get there. Being smart veteran football players helps hide their lack of speed at times thank goodness.
7. Worse group of DB's I've seen in awhile. This group is awful. 4 is supposed to be our best CB and he couldnt start anywhere else in the SEC besidess Vandy maybe. We lack talent here. That's the bottom line. Not getting any pressure from the DL makes us unable to mask any deficiencies this group has.
8. Bottom line- the offense is playing some solid ball now and the D is what makes this team so bad. We are already 6 PPG worse than last year defensively and that number likely grows with the teams left on the schedule. Leach gets some blame for our lack of talent on D but the main culprit is Arnett and NIL. Really needed a Wheat type from the portal and didnt get that. We certainly have missed in recruiting and the portal in the Secondary.
9. UPig has lost 4 games in a row and play Bama next. Kentucky got exposed yesterday. Auburn was off but goes to Baton Rouge and then plays Mississippi before us. Really big 3 games coming up for us. Got to find a way to win a couple. Defense will be the key.
Hail State and GTHOM
