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Many of these threads say Chan needs to turn over autonomy to his coordinators. Doesn't Tenuta already have that? His defense has gotten smoked early in 3 of the last 4 games on long drives. The BC game would have been very much like Clemson, if the D hadn't let them march 90+ yards early. 23 points against UVA and 26 against Maryland (no matter how they are scored) should be plenty for a defense (and DC) with the reputation of ours. Actually, those 23 and 26 are likely more (and we aren't playing from so far behind), if the D makes some early stands.

This isn't a defense of Chan, but I don't see the coordinator with the autonomy and better talent, producing any more than the one whose hands are supposedly tied.
 
Although I felt Chan blew it at the end of the game (TC didn't make his best run on the 2 pt conversion either), the whole game I felt that this loss would be on Tenuta.

We're playing a very weakened Maryland team with a rookie quarterback. The only thing that could beat us was the long pass (and poor tackling). Make the kid drive the team? No, Tenuta continues with high risk plays that just get us killed.

I enjoy the blitzing but this game, coming in, I felt we should play contain a little bit. Make the kid beat you first. Instead we let the long ball open and they murdered us.
 
First of all the loss isn't on either the O, D or STs, it's a team loss. The O didn't score enough, the D didn't hold them well enough and the STs didn't do anything special.

The other team makes plays sometimes. I agree that JT is too focused on his blitz first packages and leaves DBs on that island too often...that's what happened to a large degree early yesterday and MD players made plays. Some of the throws were absolutely great and some of the receivers made great plays to beat DBs. But when you leave them out there that will happen sometimes. To his credit he did adjust and the D did play better down the stretch.

The difference is that if our D doesn't play lights out every game we have no chance. The O finally came to life in the second half until we pulled back at the end, but that was the first time this season we saw what Bond is actually trying to do I think. Chan just won't let him do it often enough.
 
JT is playing the right scheme. When you have speed and tackle well ..it works. We don't have a dominating heavy DL to play in the box consistanly. Quickness is disrupting.
 
I agree that we have the speed...but IMO the whole team should be running more open field tackling drills. I even saw a certain "star" linebacker miss a couple that I think were doable.

It did seem to me that MD did their research and made the intelligent decision to pick on our secondary.
 
Tenuta's defense has saved Chan's butt in many games. The defense has won more games than Chan's offense has. Even in this game, it took the defense to make a play, a DEFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN, to get emotional momentum back on our side. As O'Leary used to say every coach's show: "College football is a game of momentum." What he means is that emotion plays a major part of the game, not just strategy. Tenuta's defense was not great this game, but I'm willing to give him a pass. The D tried to save the O... once again.
 
Bunger Henry said:
Tenuta's defense has saved Chan's butt in many games. The defense has won more games than Chan's offense has. Even in this game, it took the defense to make a play, a DEFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN, to get emotional momentum back on our side. As O'Leary used to say every coach's show: "College football is a game of momentum." What he means is that emotion plays a major part of the game, not just strategy. Tenuta's defense was not great this game, but I'm willing to give him a pass. The D tried to save the O... once again.
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The D tried to save the O? How? By giving up 21 points the first 20 minutes? As said earlier, this was a team loss. Neither the offense or defense woke up until the second half. This isn't the first time that's happened (BC, UVA). Tenuta has bailed us out in the past, but that was the past. I want to win now.
 
He bailed us out pretty good last week vs Clemson. You can't expect him to carry us every game.
 
TechinItEasy said:
He bailed us out pretty good last week vs Clemson. You can't expect him to carry us every game.
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That's one game out of four. That won't get it done. But it's still been way better than our offensive production.
 
I can't hang this one on Tenuta. I do find it extremely frustrating that we've given up 2 TDs in the 1st quarter 3 times so far, but this time it wasn't due to a Rock-Paper-Scissor deficit. We definitely didn't get schooled on scheme in the 1st quarter, it was dumb luck. (read: good plays by Maryland) First TD was just silliness, second long pass couldn't have possibly been defended better.
 
The secret is out that Tenuta is one dimensional and overrated. We give up WAY too many 3rd and longs. Our secondary is dreadful. I'm not sure how to fix it, but it needs fixing!!
 
You don't know how to fix it but you know the secondary is dreadful? How does that work? Do you know the coverages we were in? Do you know who missed their assignments? Was it the secondary or the LBs?

We had some problems yesterday with a great receiver, Heyward-Bey, a busted play by the entire defense, a breakdown in coverage/tackling on the 78 yarder. Yeah the secondary plays a part in that, but they aren't the only ones who had problems on those plays. Those 3 play accounted for about 150 of MDs total yardage. So yeah, we had some breakdowns, but overall it wasn't as bad as some seem to think.
 
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Bunger Henry said:
Tenuta's defense has saved Chan's butt in many games. The defense has won more games than Chan's offense has. Even in this game, it took the defense to make a play, a DEFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN, to get emotional momentum back on our side. As O'Leary used to say every coach's show: "College football is a game of momentum." What he means is that emotion plays a major part of the game, not just strategy. Tenuta's defense was not great this game, but I'm willing to give him a pass. The D tried to save the O... once again.
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You really are starting to show your knowlegde of the game. Keep living in the past and you will go far in life.
 
Interesting comment by the MD QB. On the long TD run/pass he wasn't throwing to the guy who caught the ball. The guy he was throwing for had one of our DBs draped all over him (D'Jay Jones I think), the the other guy stepped in front and took off. Not excusing allowing the score, but just shows how screwy the game can be sometimes.
 
ncjacket said:
You don't know how to fix it but you know the secondary is dreadful? How does that work?
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Well, this might be your first clue:

"COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- In his first career start, Chris Turner threw for 255 yards,"

Dreadful is too strong a word; but it is hard to think of our secondary as a strength of the defense. For a 'gritz blitz' defense to work well you need a couple of lock down corners who can play man-to-man with anyone. I don't think our DB's are as bad as some feel they are; but our scheme asks a lot out of them, perhaps too much out of the ones we presently have. Gritz Blitz is great, until you come up against a team that can exploit it.
 
aeromech said:
Well, this might be your first clue:

"COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- In his first career start, Chris Turner threw for 255 yards,"

Dreadful is too strong a word; but it is hard to think of our secondary as a strength of the defense. For a 'gritz blitz' defense to work well you need a couple of lock down corners who can play man-to-man with anyone. I don't think our DB's are as bad as some feel they are; but our scheme asks a lot out of them, perhaps too much out of the ones we presently have. Gritz Blitz is great, until you come up against a team that can exploit it.
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The secondary played much better against MD than it has all season. It gave up the big play a couple of times, yes, but you put in the same secondary from the BC game and Maryland blows this game wide open. Turner throws for 400 yards and becomes a God on campus.
 
ncjacket said:
Interesting comment by the MD QB. On the long TD run/pass he wasn't throwing to the guy who caught the ball. The guy he was throwing for had one of our DBs draped all over him (D'Jay Jones I think), the the other guy stepped in front and took off. Not excusing allowing the score, but just shows how screwy the game can be sometimes.
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The safety went for the intended reciever while the ball was in there air. That was why there was no safety there. I have no idea who was supposed to be covering the guy who actually caught the ball...
 
GTKyle, you keep throwing Tenuta up as as the next HC. Your Golden Boy is stepping on his dick...and there's a reason he hasn't had an HC offer before now. You might want to dig a little deeper.
 
clapper said:
GTKyle, you keep throwing Tenuta up as as the next HC. Your Golden Boy is stepping on his dick...and there's a reason he hasn't had an HC offer before now. You might want to dig a little deeper.
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I never said he should be the next HC... are you sure you don't have me confused with someone else?
 
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