Is it all Sirmon's fault that the defense has been mostly terrible this year

[Maroonthirteen]

I'm trying to figure it out. Our secondary minus Redmond was garbage for the past few years and we overhauled every coach there and we still stink.

Recent fan favorite Richie Brown who we all thought we have a huge year has been awful most of the year outside the A&M game. The move to the 3-4 has adversly affectd him more than anybody else. He just can't shed a block and it's gotten to the point it looks like he doesn't even try half the time.

So against the run you've got safeties that aren't hard hitters and take bad angles, a ILB that can't get off a block, mdiocre DE's against the run and a redshirt freshman LB who has also been up and down. At some point it doesn't matter who is the coach and i think it's why you see us recruiting a crapload of JUCO at DE, LB and Safety.

BUT the one thing that is very apparent when watching the game is we don't fly to the ball and our front 7 are not physical and attacking. Some of that has to fall on the coaches b/c i refuse to believe the majority of our defensive players hate contact.

I'm honestly at a loss because the first half of the year we looked to at least be decent on defense, especially against the run. Hoped the secondary would get better over time but tonight was just pitiful.

You nailed it.

When we play teams with big physical OLs, we get dominated along the DL and LB. We are just to small and slow on the front 7.

Our secondary is....a bunch of finesse players with average speed. To put it nicely. But we are still blowing coverages all over the field. We had 3 players in one spot on one of Arks TD passes.

It is a talent problem by and larger. However the 3-4 doesn't help either and players blowing assifn.

However I dont believe Vandy has any more defensive talent that us. We will see how we do next weekend. The defensive performance should be better. We will get some pressure on Patterson but we will have a hard time containing Patterson because we are so slow. He is smaller younger player. So maybe the secondary won't mind hitting him.

My .02