Defensive Coaching Changes

Not way our defense gets UCF to third down...they will score quick so we may do OK with time of possession.

 

Our defense... It's on page 3.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/22

 

Worse than USF, damn!

 

One spot behind the team that has people believing in our Offense again. If you don't stand up, they can't knock you down.

 

We need a new starting safety badly, should just start a freshman, can’t be worse.

 

Yeah, I’d like to see Greg Smith. He had some snaps in the Samford game - makes sense getting time in a blow out- and he looked super fast to the ball. Small sample size and competition suspect. Maybe he will be ready for a bigger role after the bye week. Hard to imagine he’d be worse than some others.

Silk on stadium and gale had some sources raving about Smith being a true sideline to sideline deep safety back in fall camp. Hope that’s true.

 

Article by Nick Marcinko doesn't paint a pretty picture of the defense.

Tackling hasn’t improved in year three under Billy Napier | GatorCountry.com

 

Wait until we run our gauntlet of top 6 schools and this drops even more.

 

A drained Swamp? This game is sold out.

 

So he's telling us against MSST our defenders finally got close enough to a ball carrier to miss a tackle. Finally, improvement.

 

You may as well make suggestions on how we stop the coming of winter.

 

They should really dream bigger then.

 

Teams have been dancing on the corpse of Florida football for years now as if it was the same program it once was.

 

Good use of the word impute

 

I meant, the Swamp does not seem to hold much of an advantage when power 4 teams visit anymore.
I will never disparage our great Gator fan support. They have been magnificent under Napier and deserve better.

 

man we’ve been saying “play the young guys” a lot every season since Napier has been here and we’re playing them and here we are.

Played Castell and Thorton together at safety at times late last year and neither have taken a leap THIS year. Thorton moreso because of the seniors in front of him this year but Castell has fallen off a cliff.

 

Nothing takes a home crowd out like a defense that fails in 3rd down over and over again. It makes the crowd feel hopeless. I thought we were past that when Grantham moved on but the Utah game at home was really disappointing despite the win. It's only gotten worse since.

 

Impressive rushing stats but most of it is against a bunch of nobodys. Consider that scUM and TA&M are proving to be pretty solid teams. We got real problems but we may play UCF better than some here think

 

^This!