Quote Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us View Post
What did you guys expect our D to look like? We knew our DT's couldn't hold their own. We've seen horrible tackling in every game. We've gotten zero pass rush in any game. Our DBs have blown coverages all year. Our safeties are slow. Our DBs have failed to beat blockers on the edge all year. We have no speed at LB.

In this game, we see runs working due to our bad DL play, deep passing work because of blown coverages, and anything outside work because of they win every 1 on 1 block and the S is never there.

Not sure what y'all though it would look like, and I'm not sure what you want Shoop to do. Jarian Jones and Emmerson are Fr so we can't blame Shoop for not having them up to par on assignments. Safeties simply have no athleticism, but they're usually doing what they should so you can't blame Shoop. DL is simply getting dominated so what, is that Shoops fault for allowing Deke Adams to be a bad DL coach? Really though, I'll die on this hill: Shoop is a good DC and our personnel issues mean there's very little he can do
Agree we are fielding c-USA talent at a bunch of spots. We simply did not recruit well on defense and it’s showing. I will say some of the blown coverages are on coaching but not many DC would probably be doing a ton better.