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OL and DL, especially pass rush DE

This has to be one of the worst defensive performances in our history. 

Terrible angles, atrocious tackling. This looks pathetic. 

You always have to take it one game at a time but we only have 1 team, on our remaining schedule, that currently has a winning record.  With continued improvement, we have a chance to be very successful this year. 

Yeah I wonder if Brown has an ankle injury or something. Has hasn’t run on any QB runs and when he drops back, he goes into statue mode instead of having active feet. 

Way too many mistakes/turnovers in first half. But very excited that we are winning despite those mistakes. Last few years we would be down 35-0 with those mistakes. 

Proud to see the fight in this team especially the offense. Hopefully the lightbulb went off for the offense and this was a precursor of things to come. 

Desperately need a sack

Our pass rush isn’t as good as last week. If that QB has time, he is going to chew us up. 

Overall proud of the performance

Defense played an unbelievable game and hats off to all of the defensive players and coaches. 
 

offense was pretty terrible all around. Now a lot of that is because it was Alabama. Offensive line wasn’t great but probably did better than I expected. BB was very inaccurate and made many bad decisions. RB did pretty good. WR may now be the worst group on the team. They can’t catch or get open. Play calling I felt was too vanilla. 

Major accolades to D coordinator on this performance. 

Very proud of our defensive performance. 
 

I knew offense would struggle against Alabama but this performance is tough to watch. 

Angle Punt or pooch punt and try to get then around 10yd line. Running a play on 4th and 16 had a near 0% chance of success. 

1 and 3 step drops. Rollout passes with more than 1 WR option. RB and WR screens. If you get run game going then you might open up some play action passes. 

QB is holding the ball too long. Needs to learn to throw it away. He’s not going to out run or juke Alabama. 

Would have rather had Eric Wolford or Greg Frey back for another go around but they are both probably out of our price range. 

Love this hire. Coach Patrick is a fantastic coach, recruiter and motivator. 

6 minutes ago, BullyPulpit said:

Let me ask you this, who should we have gotten at DC? It isn't like Orlando went out and put out trash defenses. He was good enough for Herman to keep around for 5 years and produced some solid defenses. Consistently top-50 in scoring defense. With the offense we will be running and the teams that we will be running it against, if he can replicate those performances, that will be enough to win us the conference most years. Tennessee had the 45th scoring defense in the nation and that was good enough to go 10-2 in the SEC and beat Bama. If we can get anywhere near that in the new-look AAC we will be doing just fine. 

My thought was more along the lines of a defensive assistant that has been in the Saban/Kirby Smart lineage. My concern with Orlando is more from the standpoint that most of his defenses have been 50-75 ranked kind of defenses and that is with programs more talented than us and with more resources/recruiting edge than us. So knowing how bad our defense is is what makes me apprehensive about Orlando. As weak of an argument as it may sound. 

Underwhelmed by HC hire but hopeful. The DC hire felt rushed and again was underwhelming. I try to remind myself that we had essentially the worst defense in college football so even an underwhelming DC is probably an improvement. As long as he can get the defense playing with an aggressive attitude, I’ll be pleased. 

Todd Orlando it is. 

Coach Patrick is one of the more intense coaches around. He would be awesome as a D line coach. Haven’t followed him recently to know how he would be as a DC. 

I just hope he is visibly passionate and emotional. Our program has lacked that for a long time and it starts with the HC. 

Just be prepared that Spring ball and preseason scrimmages will essentially be a no win situation. If the offense looks lights out then everyone will be complaining about how our defense is still terrible. If defense improves and offense doesn’t do as well, then everyone will be upset that hiring the offensive guru failed. 
I will withhold judgement until September. 

Wouldn’t mind spending some money on someone like Randy Shannon to be DC and Assistant Head Coach.