He can damn sure cover a wide receiver and return a part though, damn, he was good. I hate that shit head.
There’s a lot of guys it seems that like the seven on seven type of football. The rest of the country has been soft quite a while and the sec has been the los league. Sometimes these kids forget the sec is still the los league. Kirby just said Kentucky is the toughest team he plays every year. He didn’t say the best, the ones that play physical. Recruiting guys that play that way is intentional and coaching players to play that way is necessary. That was the biggest difference in the game last week and it’s just a mentality really. Rams meet up until one gives up and we lost that battle right from the opening kick last week. 7vs7 wasn’t going to cut it last week.
He was so good in coverage that teams could afford to tackle with ten guys. His guy didn’t have to be tackled much, that’s for sure.
Getting manhandled out of gap and lbs filling gaps deep instead of plugging gaps at the line is what I think I’m looking at.
Seems like most of the kids we recruit are said to be “physical” on the high school level. Guess it doesn’t transfer. Although I do suspect there’s a coaching component.
Absolutely. Go back and watch the Tennessee game, there were multiple plays that we broke big because UT players were guilty of the same sorts of weak and ineffective "tackling" attempts.
Yep, on Trevor's long TD run it was either a TN safety or LB that basically shouldered him hoping he would fall down and by that time it was too late. He gone.
Players ‘saving’ themselves for the league? If I did that when I played, I’d literally never step foot on the field again.
I share those thoughts with you duggers but, I do think that “physicality” doesn’t always happen right away with players transitioning from High School to college. At least that’s what I’m hopeful of.
Exactly, poor technique, lack of desire to win the win the LOS individually and young LBs There was no smoke and mirrors to confuse us beyond not committing enough defenders to the box despite yuk being in a passing formation
We have Exhibit A right now working with the kids: Brandon Spikes. He grew into his role and became a beast as he got older. He's trying to shorten their learning curve but some things have to be learned the hard way, IMO.
Something sure has changed. Back before everyone had tape of every play from every angle the ONLY option was to bench somebody. Now they could make the entire team sit through a "lowlight" reel as part of weekly film study. Watching these sorts of things in slow motion, and repeated for emphasis. Peer pressure being one Hell of a motivator. And if that doesn't work at least it becomes common knowledge how you earned that space on the bench. But do they do that? Do they do anything? Edit: the one consideration I would add is that, for many of these players, they really were that much better in HS as compared to most of the other people on the field. So it is possible they developed bad habits, like weak-ass shoulder bumps instead of head's up wrapping up with force. But now is the time to unlearn that.
Our secondary is young and needs to add bulk and toughness. Remember how God awful Chauncy Gardner was his sophomore year. Guy was getting run over and missing tackles all year long. By the time he left here he was a tackling machine and look at him now. This is obviously still a rebuild with so many young players in the secondary, but it will pay off eventuallly.
No argument here, my initial response several posts back were to someone asking if we were tricked into playing bad gap responsibility by yuk after they ‘watched’ a youtube video I recognize the age and developmental level of our roster. Better times are ahead despite the wailings of some
Davis was bringing the pain, and nobody (especially our secondary) wanted any part of it. Watch the replay, and notice the first time Davis hit some head on and they seemed to maybe play a little differently after that.
Just want to make sure since the 2 defensive clips involved Kimber, my understanding is he is a redshirt junior, meaning he's had 4 years to continue to mature physically since his high school days?
