And that included like 14 turnovers.
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I canât believe this is the most points weâve given up since a 2004 loss to OU. Of all the crappy sumlin defenses we had they never gave up 63 points? Amazing!
Even Skladany and Bryant couldnât match this. Kudos, Onfrio.
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Of course fans will say DâOnofrio is the problem. He may be, at least to some extent. I canât really say for sure. But I did see that we couldnât cover them, and the few times that we were fairly close, we either interfered with them, or they blew right past the defender. DâOnofrioâs not Buddy Ryan, but IMO the biggest problem is that weâre just not good in the secondary (and Garrett Davis was injured on one of the first plays), which is very frustrating because we have one of the better defensive lines in the country, solid linebackers, and should be playing good defense. We can still have a big season, but after watching Tech move up and down the field, you have to be concerned that about Memphis, especially playing them on the road.
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Sam, to Me the biggest problem is that we donât bring any pressure on defense. Weâll Rush foor and sometimes three but rarely more than four. You give the quarterback so much time to throw that eventually heâs going to find somebody that is open. I do agree that tackling and the coverage by the dbâs is a problem but I think anytime you give an opposing quarterback that much time to throw bad things are going to happen.
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DâOnofrio aint real good
That was not the same defense that played last week.
Dorito is a gift of love selected, wrapped, and delivered by Applewhite. Did anyone on this board really recognize his name before Applewhite brought him over?
Worst hire since Dickey.
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Gave up 72 to SMU in 2012. I believe thats our record worst
The evidence is in. DâOnofrio had an excuse last year with a very poor secondary talent wise. This year he had the opportunity to coach these guys up, and it hasnât happened.
Itâs deceiving because his defense is really good against run based teams. That makes you believe that the defense might actually turn a corner, but then we play a passing team. His defense against passing teams⊠absolute s*** show.
We will destroy Navy, Tulane, SMU, Temple and Tulsa. We will lose to Memphis. We will struggle with USF, but might pull it out because it is at home.
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All of those points werenât on the defense though.
Thereâs a reason why he was unemployed when we hired him, today we saw the reason
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I agree with a lot of what youâre saying. I think this defense is designed to really control running-based teams,especially teams that run out of an old school prostyle offense or an I formation. I think the worst possible matchup is a Texas tech type team that can accurately throw the football and throw it with a high volume of passes.
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Yeah⊠I am saying 10-2. Depends on if Memphis loses again to see if we make it to the Champ game. Just hope if that happens, Cincy beats UCF, then weâd have a shot at a championship.
Memphis doesnât have the tech offense or defense. Where we will be in trouble is if we have to play UCF at their place if we get to the championship game.
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Milton McKenzie would shred this secondary.
Well had Coogs won, you would have maybe start to hear the rumor mill goingâŠnot after an embarrassing loss to techâŠ