Quote Originally Posted by SallyStansbury View Post
naw man, you got me, I misread thinking 2014.

for the conspiracy theorists keeping score, '10 Diaz = 1st YR and '13 Collins' = 1st YR....maybe Mullen had not had time to break them down enough to inflict his defensive will on the coaching staff in the first year of said Defensive coaches tenure?

How do you explain us playing so completely passively on D vs bama and olemiss in 2014? Someone said Collins was busy playing video games in a prior thread, or I am assuming that was a video game as I had never heard of it. I guess it was a time sink of some sort that kept him from prepping a suitable defense? That is a peculiar excuse, but an explanation none the less? Maybe it was that?
I've thought the same thing at times, but I'm not running with any more conspiracy theories. I find it more likely that we built up a year worth of data for teams to review and formulate gameplans all offseason, and then the next year they knew how to attack us. Maybe our defensive coaches failed to adjust or self scout/add new wrinkles to overcome that. Especially easy when you don't mix coverages and blitzes any better than our last 2 DCs have. I thought we played good defense vs Bama this year sans the one drive at the end of the game. 335 total yards. Dak hurt us in that game. Ole Miss is a whole different accumulation of different conspiracy theories.