Highlander27
Well-Known Member
Not that they played much better in the 2nd.
We were out-played, out-classed, and out-schemed. Still not down on the coaches. I felt like we had opportunities to make a bunch of plays on defense and continuously fail to do so. That's on the players. Unless you can get off the field on 3rd down, you are going to suck. This unit has found ways time after time to give up 1st downs and more on that particular down.
I thought going into the game that our front seven would determine how this game would go, especially the LB's. Hate to say it but we failed miserably there. We sucked in zone coverage, bit on fakes, missed tackles, failed to close on opportunities and generally didn't play very physical which is why UW pounded the crap out of us. Our tackling is horrendous.
How do we fix this? We probably don't this year. I think we will have a chance to play with teams who don't have scrambling QB's. I think if the QB can run, we're in trouble.
We should start the youth movement. Hell, I'll take my chances with young guys making mistakes who will eventually learn from them vs. the letterman who allow the same thing to happen time after time.
Fundamentally we need to go back to square one on defense. We don't have much depth and it shouldn't matter. This team needs more padded practices, hitting, and just generally getting tougher. We look weak minded.
Whole different ball game on offense. I think the dramatic impact a consistent QB will have on this team will be amazing once Connor Wood is taking snaps vs. Hansen. Not saying he will single handedly solve all issues but he just needs to be better on those 5-10 plays that Hansen messes up each game. Hopefully he can read a defense too.
ANyways, the season is painful, I think we had a few bright spots today but really this roster needs to be turned over with better recruiting and more attrition on the current roster.
We were out-played, out-classed, and out-schemed. Still not down on the coaches. I felt like we had opportunities to make a bunch of plays on defense and continuously fail to do so. That's on the players. Unless you can get off the field on 3rd down, you are going to suck. This unit has found ways time after time to give up 1st downs and more on that particular down.
I thought going into the game that our front seven would determine how this game would go, especially the LB's. Hate to say it but we failed miserably there. We sucked in zone coverage, bit on fakes, missed tackles, failed to close on opportunities and generally didn't play very physical which is why UW pounded the crap out of us. Our tackling is horrendous.
How do we fix this? We probably don't this year. I think we will have a chance to play with teams who don't have scrambling QB's. I think if the QB can run, we're in trouble.
We should start the youth movement. Hell, I'll take my chances with young guys making mistakes who will eventually learn from them vs. the letterman who allow the same thing to happen time after time.
Fundamentally we need to go back to square one on defense. We don't have much depth and it shouldn't matter. This team needs more padded practices, hitting, and just generally getting tougher. We look weak minded.
Whole different ball game on offense. I think the dramatic impact a consistent QB will have on this team will be amazing once Connor Wood is taking snaps vs. Hansen. Not saying he will single handedly solve all issues but he just needs to be better on those 5-10 plays that Hansen messes up each game. Hopefully he can read a defense too.
ANyways, the season is painful, I think we had a few bright spots today but really this roster needs to be turned over with better recruiting and more attrition on the current roster.
