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Buffs Defense May Become The Unsung Hero

As if more confirmation was needed, in his interview today, Livingston was asked about halftime adjustments. Mathis, understandably, handled pass concept adjustments.

Run fits? You would think the linebacker coach probably. But it’s not Hart, it’s Helow who is bringing in the adjustments.

I recognize that adjustments can fall to someone that’s not the position coach but this along with video of him coaching up the linebackers and being mentioned by players makes it pretty obvious who the real LB coach is.
 
Corey Trevorson said:
Very very mediocre
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I'm in your head rent freeee. You should have found this evidence instead of that silly overall ratings fiasco.

Pretty shocking defensive placement on this graph but I guess this measure really likes a d that plays bend don't break well.
 
Bread said:
As if more confirmation was needed, in his interview today, Livingston was asked about halftime adjustments. Mathis, understandably, handled pass concept adjustments.

Run fits? You would think the linebacker coach probably. But it’s not Hart, it’s Helow who is bringing in the adjustments.

I recognize that adjustments can fall to someone that’s not the position coach but this along with video of him coaching up the linebackers and being mentioned by players makes it pretty obvious who the real LB coach is.
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You are probably right on Helow, or whoever the D guys in the box above are. I did not know if Hart is on the field or in the box. The Buffs have some good things going on both sides of the ball. IMO, from a coaching perspective, a big improvement over last year seems to be better coordination between the guys in the box and those on the field. Lewis and Kelly were both on the field, and neither seemed to play all the great in the sandbox with the other coaches.

For that fun graph, it still says Arizona is underrated on both sides of the ball, however UCLA looks right where they are, bad on both sides of the ball.
 
Darth Snow said:
Crazy how our offense is the bigger issue. They get that thing to stop sputtering and look the **** out. I look forward to shurmur and 2 going 4 wide and ignoring the TE the rest of the season
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The team that showed up in Orlando is the Big 12 Champ favorite. Whether or not they can consistently bring that level of play in all three phases remains to be seen. We've said this about at least one other game so far this season, but this is probably the biggest weekend of Prime's coaching career and the biggest inflection point in the recent memory for the program.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
The team that showed up in Orlando is the Big 12 Champ favorite. Whether or not they can consistently bring that level of play in all three phases remains to be seen. We've said this about at least one other game so far this season, but this is probably the biggest weekend of Prime's coaching career and the biggest inflection point in the recent memory for the program.
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Yep, so that's why we are gonna lay an egg.

Right? @Darth Snow
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
The team that showed up in Orlando is the Big 12 Champ favorite. Whether or not they can consistently bring that level of play in all three phases remains to be seen. We've said this about at least one other game so far this season, but this is probably the biggest weekend of Prime's coaching career and the biggest inflection point in the recent memory for the program.
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Well, since they've shown up and been consistent in 1 game out of 5 so far, I think we know that's not the team we will be most weeks. 1 week bad (we know against who, dammit), 2 weeks mediocre, 1 week good (against a turrible CSU team adn even then our offense was meh), 1 week great.

Agreed that this is a litmus test game.. When we lose, it will be time to start burying any of those foolish hopes y'all might have for b12 title contention. But a bowl game is still possible, even though all history tells us is that we will **** it up somehow.
 
Darth Snow said:
Well, since they've shown up and been consistent in 1 game out of 5 so far, I think we know that's not the team we will be most weeks. 1 week bad (we know against who, dammit), 2 weeks mediocre, 1 week good (against a turrible CSU team adn even then our offense was meh), 1 week great.

Agreed that this is a litmus test game.. When we lose, it will be time to start burying any of those foolish hopes y'all might have for b12 title contention. But a bowl game is still possible, even though all history tells us is that we will **** it up somehow.
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I see a CU team that is trending up ever since the Nubs.
That Baylor team is better than people think. They gave ISU everything they wanted. IMHO ISU is the best team in Conference. If we can be competitive with KSU, I think we are on track for a successful season.
 
Agent Dave Kujan said:
I see a CU team that is trending up ever since the Nubs.
That Baylor team is better than people think. They gave ISU everything they wanted. IMHO ISU is the best team in Conference. If we can be competitive with KSU, I think we are on track for a successful season.
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Trending up is just not accurate. We were a miracle away from losing to Bailer. That game was ugggggly and we were saved by fluke plays at the end of each half. We have had two dominant wins around that game though.
 
Darth Snow said:
Trending up is just not accurate. We were a miracle away from losing to Bailer. That game was ugggggly and we were saved by fluke plays at the end of each half. We have had two dominant wins around that game though.
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I give Bailer more credit than you, although i don’t think we played great. I think they were better than you think and made it hard for us. We might find out more about UCF in the coming weeks, but I am more optimistic about the buffs then I have been in a long time.

I think it will be more clear after KSU
 
Darth Snow said:
Trending up is just not accurate. We were a miracle away from losing to Bailer. That game was ugggggly and we were saved by fluke plays at the end of each half. We have had two dominant wins around that game though.
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I see a CU team being floated by facing terrible opponents with losing records. Our early season opponents and record are shades of Macintyre’s 5-7 campaigns

There will be a reckoning. Those who forget to harden their hearts will crash and feel it the worst
 
LesGrossman said:
I see a CU team being floated by facing terrible opponents with losing records. Our early season opponents and record are shades of Macintyre’s 5-7 campaigns

There will be a reckoning. Those who forget to harden their hearts will crash and feel it the worst
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CU's 5 opponents have a combined record of 17-11. Three opponents have winning records and CU is 2-1 against them. Two opponents have losing records and they are 2-0 against them.

At least get your doom facts straight
 
LesGrossman said:
I see a CU team being floated by facing terrible opponents with losing records. Our early season opponents and record are shades of Macintyre’s 5-7 campaigns

There will be a reckoning. Those who forget to harden their hearts will crash and feel it the worst
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Tom Cruise Dance GIF
 
It's OK to point out the defense isn't a juggernaut guys. The defense has been good at red zone defense, but it's also been mediocre or bad at other things.
 
Darth Snow said:
It's OK to point out the defense isn't a juggernaut guys. The defense has been good at red zone defense, but it's also been mediocre or bad at other things.
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If we could stop giving up massive gashers and control the QB run, it would be a really good defense.

I just feel like that's who we are at this point in the season.
 
Darth Snow said:
Five Games in:

Points per game: 23 - 65th. Slight improvement which is OK assuming UCF's offense isn't buoyed by playing dog **** defenses.


YPG: 88th - 379.6. Getting worse.
YPP: 5.5 - good for 89th. Getting worse. yup, analytics hate that.
(New) Defensive Team Passing Efficiency: 88th. yet another sign as to why we are hated by computers.

Sacks: 60th at 2 per game. What a jump. Thanks UCF.
Tackles for Loss: 17th, way better (12 tackles for loss in one game helps a bit!)

SP+: 77th - small gain, and our ST even got up to 114th!

Turnovers Gained: 16th (9) - We've had good fumble luck here (5, and the highest # recovered is 6), but we are still tied for 32d with 4 INTs, so it's not just luck.
Red Zone Defense: 5th (.619) - helped by a some fumbles, one of which wasn't even forced (thanks CSU), but hey, you don't get that high by luck alone.
3d Down Defense: 51st (.347) - This is a bit of a mirage though. We are giving up 71% of 4th downs, tied with bama for 114th in the country.

Getting to the point in the year where you are what the numbers say you are. Which is a mediocre defense that comes up with turnovers and red zone stops while also being a little lucky.
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Six games in:

PPG - found a site that just does offensive points per game: 21.4 - 43d.
Points per play: 47th - trending badly here though.
Points per drive: 54th

YPG: 94
YPP: 5.61 (not good, trending badly)

Efficiency stuff
Overall defense (FEI): 60 - (SP+) 70th
Team passing defensive efficiency: 94th (wowww)


Sacks: 36th - this continues to improve.
TFL: 18th (somehow only dropped one, wow) - tied with nebraska. Crazy how they've not looked like world beaters since they stopped playing our OL.

Turnovers Gained: 26th - a drop after the bye week was a near certainty, but still OK.
Red Zone D: 7th, but with the most red zone opportunities given up in the top 10 in this category. Big outlier there.
3d Down D: 45th (wow! did not feel like this one would improve)

Pretty meh defense that creates havoc. Continues to be the MO. Surprised we didn't get dinged worse for that pretty turrible performance against KSU where we broke a lot of tendencies in a bad way.
 
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