AC is back

wesleyd21 said:
Maybe our secondary didn’t need to gain ten pounds each? Although that hit Tariq put on FSU’s Star WR was a thing of beauty.
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This is the problem. DB's need to fast and quick. Strength is useless on pass coverage if you cannot stay with the receiver. The emphasis for DB's should be speed and agility.
We also need more speed at LB.
 
GoGATech said:
I think our DL is holding it's own all things considered. They were supposed to be one of the major weaknesses in the defense this year and I think they are actually playing pretty well. We have been decent defending on the inside runs except when there is a hole that a LB is supposed to be filling left wide open (that's what happened on the long Syracuse TD run Saturday). We have generated some pressure just with the front 4 and even playing a 3 man front against UCF we were getting held like crazy or we would've had more pressures/sacks. We definitely have not been pushed around like we have seen in the past on the DL.
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This is a good take, we've also been hurt.
All things considered, while ugly and not getting the wins, I see improvement. Besides winning, that is what I want to see.
 
GoGATech said:
FWIW, Tariq was injured and missed a good bit of summer/fall. I think this plays more of a role in his less than stellar performance so far. He also has seemed a little off since that big hit too. The rest don't seem to be playing at a bad weight. We just appear to be making bad reads and getting beat. One other thing I've noticed is that our CB's have been playing soft again. I thought we were going to play more press man/bump and run coverage and I thought we were looking better when we did that. For some reason we seem to have drifted from that and are again playing soft. Maybe that's a side effect of the bad safety help we've been getting over the top. IDK.
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The announcers made the comment quite a few times that the DB’s got caught peaking into the backfield before being beat deep. You can’t do that playing press coverage. Once they got beat, there was no catching up.
 
GoGATech said:
I think our DL is holding it's own all things considered. They were supposed to be one of the major weaknesses in the defense this year and I think they are actually playing pretty well. We have been decent defending on the inside runs except when there is a hole that a LB is supposed to be filling left wide open (that's what happened on the long Syracuse TD run Saturday). We have generated some pressure just with the front 4 and even playing a 3 man front against UCF we were getting held like crazy or we would've had more pressures/sacks. We definitely have not been pushed around like we have seen in the past on the DL.
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I'd like to see what happens when we get Ryans back and AC has a few games under his belt.

There's a chance the DL could actually be decent.
 
wesleyd21 said:
Maybe our secondary didn’t need to gain ten pounds each? Although that hit Tariq put on FSU’s Star WR was a thing of beauty.
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Good observation.Our DBs look like their feet are in mud sometimes .Our 220 and 240 lb safeties have not helped the CBs a bit that I could see.
 
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