It certainly is a bad defense against any team that can pass. Not to mention the bad use of the best d lineman in college making him stay in one place and not letting him roam like Orlando did.
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It helps when youāre able to rush the passer. Name a decent edge rusher since Bowser?
If you donāt have a Bowser, then you have to adjust the scheme to figure out different ways to get different types of pressure on the QB
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You have to pressure passing teams. While our secondary may not be the most talented ( actually there is no way of knowing with this coaching approach), you give any QB with an arm 10 seconds to find a receiver, he will.
The DC clearly doesnāt understand todayās passing game and the defense needed to stop it.
Weāll see if he can change, but I am not optimistic.
And, yes, he is wasting EOās last year.
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Coach Orlando already gave up more points on USCās first drive then Stanford did all game long against USC. Best defensive coach ever! haha
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So, you are a Denofrio (so) fan !
Iām not sure we really have good pass rushers. Chambers is as a DL. Anenih may be at OLB. But weāre nothing like we were when we had Bowser, Taylor, etc.
Iām not an apologist for DāOnofrio. Iād have no problem bringing in a successful defensive coordinator from maybe a C-USA or Sun Belt school if we look up at the end of the season, and weāre giving up lots of yards and points to AAC opponents. I thought we may have turned a bit of a corner against Arizona. Wrong. Of course, there are a lot of teams Tech would blitz at home when they get on a roll but still . . . From what I can gather DāOnofrio is a pretty good recruiter for a coordinator, and while I get that weād like to see more blitzing (successful blitzing anyway), he just comes off to me more as a ābend-donāt-breakā guy. That is a tough philosophy against Tech, which can take 7 yards most any time they want and then often turn that into 27 yards. Anyway, no one is getting fired three games into the season. Letās hope opinions have changed by seasonās end.
There is no reason to fire him now. CMD will be needed against Navy,Tulane, and some of these other run based defenses. At this point, it would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Good Coaches adjust and throw different schemes. Dāonofrio clearly has not done either. I canāt base his recruiting on anything so far. We had scheduled to play against t-tech a few years back. This was no mystery on how DāOnofrio had to prepare his defense against their offense. He had a year to prepare. The basic result is that I do not see any improvement from our last āscrimmageā against t-tech. Bad Coaches are stubborn. Stubborn Coaches are often unemployed. I sure hope that I am 100% wrong and that he will get some answers from the billionth questions that are in his mind right now.
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No EE, not sure if you follow the plot but every game Diehard has his obligatory āwe would have a great defense if Orlando was our head coach.ā
Update USC 2 TDs first quarter in three drives.
Updateā¦ hasnāt scored since
He was pass rushing 3 guys and Ed was triple all the time.
Smu had 72 points and 350 total offense lol
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Look on bright side. We didnāt give up as many points as Lamer. Giving up 600 yards to a freshman backup QB reeks of incompetence
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Lamar is going to finish in the top 8 in their conference. Tamp it down, cowboy!
Applewhite isnāt calling the plays. Briles is. We had 6 handoffs to RBs in the first half. Thatās not a run-first philosophy. He did better the second half running, but the defense just got gassed, I think, and couldnāt get off the field, again.
Updateā¦ didnāt score the rest of the game
If Iām Major Applewhite, unless I see some major improvement over the next 9 games, Iām looking for a new DC next year. That is, of course, Applewhite is still around.
He will get drafted if Trump reinstates it
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