Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Every year we hear how vanilla we are and we're going to ramp it up against the SEC and then we see the same BS game plan every week. Fire the DC, rinse, lather, repeat.
I don't know where you are getting this from. Do you think we played poor defense the first 54 minutes against LSU last year, or against Arkansas, or against Bama with the exception of our safeties getting completely flat-out burnt, or Auburn, or Texas A&M? Our absolute shitty games were against mostly inferior opponents outside of Ole Miss and Georgia Tech but apparently our DC had his foot in Florida already. Every DC gameplans for each opponent or else we wouldn't need a scout team.

The difference in our safeties this year versus last is that I didn't see either one of them get beat on a streak up the sideline or a deep post. They got beat underneath in zones that were in front of them because that is the scheme we were playing against USM until they crossed over into our 40yd line or so. There wasn't a magical wall in our redzone, we just went to a less forgiving defensive scheme (that could have possibly put the safeties in those deep 1on1 matchups that gave up so many tds last year) to keep them from scoring.

You may turn out to be right and they get torched every game they play in but it is far too early to assume that from that one game last night. It is completely laughable though that 2 true freshman with 4 weeks of experience on the team wouldn't be completely lost schematically and only playing off instincts. I guess if that is the case we should throw out all stops to get all 4 stars and above this February and replace the entire starting lineup because they are "more talented".