g8terh8ter_eric
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Some of the areas I see for improvement for the Marshall game are as follows.....
One....Offensive line
We didn't have any type of push off of the line at all during anytime of the game, especially on the run-blocking assignments. I will give Florida this though, they have a great front 4. That's still no reason for the O-Line not getting any push. It was horrible to watch the trenches and see our huge line get pushed around like some high-schoolers.
Two....Secondary
I told CBC before the year started that I was more worried about our secondary than anything else. I was worried less about the O-line until now. We had some OK plays in the game, but other than a couple of plays it was a blah night for our secondary. Too many blown coverages. We played alot of Cover-2 with not very well disquised blitzes. This made it imperative that the secondary played its assignments well, unfortunately we didn't and we got picked apart the second half on passes that our safeties cheated to the middle of the field and played 20 yards off of the line of scrimmage. For those that don't know what the means and haven't been watching UT Football very long, this defense is called Flex and its been killing us for a long-time now. It doesn't allow the safeties to get in position to make a play unless it is over 25 yards and that's where Florida lit us up underneath that coverage 15 yards down the field. Our secondary needs to be more intuitive and let their natural football instincts take over instead of being influenced by 4 receiver sets. From what I saw when Tennessee was defending the 4 receiver set they left the Strong-side of the field open because of blitzing on that side. We have to be disiplined and not over play those 3-4 receiver sets or Georgia will have a field-day with our secondary.
Three....Second-half with the lead Play Calling
I remember it just like it was 1995. We got the lead in the first half and then in the second half we went RUN, RUN, PASS. That was the play calling, and that's been the play calling since CPF has been there. I don't understand why though. In College Football it takes most High-Powered Teams no more than 2-3 minutes to score from the 20 yard line off of a Kickoff Touchback. So what the HECK are we doing running the clock down with a team like Florida that can score VERY quick. Maybe one of these days CPF will realize that running up the score is a good thing so people can't catch up, or maybe Ellen Degeneris will go straight before that happens.
These are the three areas that we need to work on the MOST before we play Marshall.
OH WAIT......I didn't say the Rushing Game!!!
We don't need to work on it that much at all.....don't bash me for saying that either. It was the push on the O-Line that lead to that debocle, not the RB's. When you get no push you get no yards. So the running game will be fine when the O-line gets the push it needs to get. Our O-line right now guys and gals are more focused on Pass protection than Run Blocking because Coach Cut brings a passing mentality to the offense instead of a run mentality, UNLESS we have the lead and Fulmer tells him to work on the clock.
One....Offensive line
We didn't have any type of push off of the line at all during anytime of the game, especially on the run-blocking assignments. I will give Florida this though, they have a great front 4. That's still no reason for the O-Line not getting any push. It was horrible to watch the trenches and see our huge line get pushed around like some high-schoolers.
Two....Secondary
I told CBC before the year started that I was more worried about our secondary than anything else. I was worried less about the O-line until now. We had some OK plays in the game, but other than a couple of plays it was a blah night for our secondary. Too many blown coverages. We played alot of Cover-2 with not very well disquised blitzes. This made it imperative that the secondary played its assignments well, unfortunately we didn't and we got picked apart the second half on passes that our safeties cheated to the middle of the field and played 20 yards off of the line of scrimmage. For those that don't know what the means and haven't been watching UT Football very long, this defense is called Flex and its been killing us for a long-time now. It doesn't allow the safeties to get in position to make a play unless it is over 25 yards and that's where Florida lit us up underneath that coverage 15 yards down the field. Our secondary needs to be more intuitive and let their natural football instincts take over instead of being influenced by 4 receiver sets. From what I saw when Tennessee was defending the 4 receiver set they left the Strong-side of the field open because of blitzing on that side. We have to be disiplined and not over play those 3-4 receiver sets or Georgia will have a field-day with our secondary.
Three....Second-half with the lead Play Calling
I remember it just like it was 1995. We got the lead in the first half and then in the second half we went RUN, RUN, PASS. That was the play calling, and that's been the play calling since CPF has been there. I don't understand why though. In College Football it takes most High-Powered Teams no more than 2-3 minutes to score from the 20 yard line off of a Kickoff Touchback. So what the HECK are we doing running the clock down with a team like Florida that can score VERY quick. Maybe one of these days CPF will realize that running up the score is a good thing so people can't catch up, or maybe Ellen Degeneris will go straight before that happens.
These are the three areas that we need to work on the MOST before we play Marshall.
OH WAIT......I didn't say the Rushing Game!!!
We don't need to work on it that much at all.....don't bash me for saying that either. It was the push on the O-Line that lead to that debocle, not the RB's. When you get no push you get no yards. So the running game will be fine when the O-line gets the push it needs to get. Our O-line right now guys and gals are more focused on Pass protection than Run Blocking because Coach Cut brings a passing mentality to the offense instead of a run mentality, UNLESS we have the lead and Fulmer tells him to work on the clock.
