So away from the freakouts and onto X's and O's... how do we beat Arky's gameplan?

[Goldendawg]

Watching 3 yard passes is going to be boring as hell. When you have to use 15+ play drives, you're going to screw up eventually. That's part of defensive football fact.

What? Do you not remember how exciting Croom's WCO was with no YAC by our RB's after a 2 to 3 yard pattern?**

[maroonmania]

No one is saying it wasn't working, as we were moving the ball down the field with it, the problem was the horrible turnovers and then not taking the points when they were available in FGs. 4 turnovers plus going for it twice on 4th down getting no points is what killed them last night. We got a turnover in their territory and came back with nothing to show for it....

Now that I fully agree with. The mistakes and ineffectiveness in the red zone were killers. But that is different than saying our QB didn't have the patience or willingness to take the underneath stuff.

[BB30]

Well, I mean, he did adjust a bit for the zone. We ran the ball more and would have probably run it a little bit more than we did had Hill not gotten hurt on the first drive.

Obviously losing Hill was huge and has been stated ad nauseum on here but it really was. He is the difference in winning that game despite turning the ball over 4 times. The plays were there. I think we will know everything we need to about this team after the KY game. Let's see how we adjust after seeing those coverages for the first time live.

I am sure our O has seen those zones this year in practice and also saw it during prep for Arky but it is hard to imitate game speed during practice. Our guys have plenty of film to look over. I expect both our WRs and QB to be much more crisp this weekend.

[hp22]

They made it an 8 on 6 football game. And our 6th guy was the quarterback. So they had 8 to defend 5. They took our offensive line out of the game. All our runs were inside. When we did run, they tackled well. Run at left and right tackle. That's where the space is.

They took the battle at the line of scrimmage out of the game and I thought we did a poor job of taking it back.