This was a crucial 3rd and 10 in the 4th qtr. Our corners have been doing this all year and I would like to know why.
This is the defensive scheme. We saw it all last year and have seen it again this year. Goal is to not get beat deep while giving up the short pass for hopefully short gains. Bend but don’t break.
Problem is, our secondary, specifically our CBs are not good. They don’t tackle well, they don’t break on balls well, they don’t cover well. Therefore, we give up long gains and have at least one blown coverage TD per game. We haven’t recruited CB well since early in Levine’s tenure and that was 6-7 years ago now.
Probably best to just be over aggressive and go for broke. If nothing else, we’ll get the ball back in the offense’s hands faster and may get more turnovers. But, D’Onofrio won’t do it, against his nature. It’s time for a change to bring in somebody that will fit the system to the players.
I lost it on this play when I saw this. I knew they had been doing it all game, but was really hoping once, just once, we would be aggressive get up on the line of scrimmage, jam up their receivers, get a nice rush and force a long field goal. But nooooo. The kid who I coach in second grade can hit open receivers with that cushion.
That’s so depressing man
It is. I don’t blame D’Onofrio for the scheme, it can work with the right players. We just don’t have the right players and he won’t adjust.
Agree we were our best with the Gibbs system and number 8 linebacker attacking
You say you won’t blame D’Onofrio for the scheme. Fine, I can live with that. But in the next sentence you say he won’t adjust. We are crucifying Kendall Briles because he wouldn’t adjust last night.
You can’t have it both ways. If you don’t have the right players, you don’t have the right players. Then you have to adjust. If you won’t adjust, you have a problem.
The coverage is fine. It’s 3rd and 10, you back up short of the sticks and make the tackle. The WR catches the ball 5 yards short of the stick. The tackling has been bad all year and there were 3 plays on the last SMU drive where they had the runner short of the line to gain and he spun out of a tackle to get the first.
I do agree there needs to be a change on the defense this off season.
I said I don’t blame him for the scheme because it can work. It will not work here with the current players or in the near future. He needs to go.
You summed it up.
We play to our strength. Every good Team plays to their strength.
CMA hired D’Onofrio. He knows that D’onofrio plays and design plays with this intent.
Either CMA & D’Onofrio can’t judge their talent or they believe in Santa Claus.
We can go around & around but it comes back to this.
You put in a system to fit your players. You want to install a system but you have to recruit players to fit that system. Are we doing either?
Last year our offense & defense was under pressure. He fired the OC.
Coming into this season CMA knew ( I hope) what was & not working. What do we do on defense? The same exact same thing. When you fire your OC & then fire your DC (probably) that is on you. There are a ton of great Coaches out there. CMA has no excuses whatsoever.
The only thing I’ll say against all this is that at some point the season starts and you have to do it live with what you have, can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Problem is we didn’t even get to that level.
Playing 5 yards off the line of scrimmage on 3rd and 10 is not a problem. It’s what the defenders do after the snap is the problem. You are showing a play where players are in position to stop the conversion. Show some first downs that came from defenders back pedaling until the receiver gets a yard past the first down marker and gives the QB an easy target, then we will talk.
No one is talking about SMU’s first 3rd down conversion of the game. Because we blitzed and failed to get the QB. It wasn’t even a straight up blitz, the lineman stunted as well.
SMU had 19 third down attempts and converted 9 of them. So now, all one has to do is find 1 of those 9 to fit their story. I guarantee you of those 9 conversions, you won’t find 5 that were defended the exact same way. I also guarantee you that whichever conversion you choose to find flaws in, there will be examples of it working among the 10 failed conversions.
Coach No 'D at his finest
Our players are just as good as other teams in our league.
It is the COACHING…Period !!
Private ZERO is not cutting it.
I just saw this thread
1st off, im on the fire coach d train as much as all of you
but this particular play wasn’t on scheme…Watkins could have tackled him but missed the tackle badly. you seem sliding in your last pick…
that one was on play making not scheme, it should have been 4th and 5…that same play with a good tackle isnt a easy 1st down
Russo is going to have a field day Saturday against Donofrio defense.
We are poor tacklers in the secondary so this philosophy gets exposed game after game.
Totally get the frustration here. Our secondary is not overly fast or quick. So as with Tech we don’t want anything going over our head. So they gain ten yards a snap throwing under the cover. And UH gives up NINE - count them, NINE - TDs but at least none were “over our head”. So on one play SMU beats our pressure. Big deal. Hit him again. What the hell do you have to lose? Of course without Ed that is a challenge. I’m open to suggestions but playing soft to prevent the “big play”? How’s that working. As for missed tackles, playing way off a receiver then having to run with your hair on fire to catch him? Seems like that leads to missed tackles too. It’s a conundrum.
Why don’t we stay with the plan that puts them in 3rd and Long to begin with?
Stay with a winning plan, change a losing one…it’s as old as the hills.
If we are going to play uptempo on offense you need to attack on defense or they are going to be on the field a lot.
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