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88.7% of passes completed, last in the nation by a wide margin. McGee re-shuffled the deck chairs on that side of the ship after last season. Might be approaching time to throw some over-board.

We need to start getting quarterbacks dirty.

I was skeptical of hiring a DC from the Arkansas staff to begin with, as their defense usually stinks. Guess we'll give Johnson another chance this year, and see if there is any improvement when it's all said and done.

We need to start scoring more points than the opposing team, whatever it takes.

(09-17-2013 08:19 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]We need to start getting quarterbacks dirty.

Amen! Auburn won in 2010 with their sub par defense, but they had an excellent pass rusher in Nick Fairley. Hopefully, we can develop some type of pass rush and soon.

How about UAB just playing some fundamentally sound football for a change.

(09-17-2013 09:28 AM)nicknitro19 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-17-2013 08:19 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]We need to start getting quarterbacks dirty.

Amen! Auburn won in 2010 with their sub par defense, but they had an excellent pass rusher in Nick Fairley. Hopefully, we can develop some type of pass rush and soon.

Nick Fairley was off the charts good/disruptive. On signing day 2012, McGee said Ejike would help our pass rush "immediately"......he looks to redshirt now. Getting Watkins back this year should help. He and Rabb are probably the 2 best pass rushers from the DL.

(09-17-2013 09:34 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]How about UAB just playing some fundamentally sound football for a change.

And what does that entail, exactly?

Jimmy Jean has an "issue."

You can play fundamentally sound football & still get lit up by the passing game.

Gotta be careful being overly aggressive against a passing team when you aren't used to it. Combine that with a young, inexperienced secondary, at least as far as the safeties might be concerned, and problems can arise...

(09-17-2013 11:38 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]Gotta be careful being overly aggressive against a passing team when you aren't used to it. Combine that with a young, inexperienced secondary, at least as far as the safeties might be concerned, and problems can arise...

I don't think we have anything to lose at this point.

(09-17-2013 11:38 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]Gotta be careful being overly aggressive against a passing team when you aren't used to it. Combine that with a young, inexperienced secondary, at least as far as the safeties might be concerned, and problems can arise...

I agree. There is something to be said for keeping the play in front of our guys. I understand it hasn't worked out well up to this point, but if we start getting burnt on long balls, we might get 80 dropped on us.

I'd rather give up passing yards because we suck on man to man coverage than give up yards by giving a 10 yard window for the receiver to catch the ball. All it takes is the defender to get juked out of his cleats or one good blocker to allow the ball carrier to make his way to the end zone.

I still contend a good QB will have no problem completing his passes when he has "all the time in the world" in the pocket. You must apply pressure on the QB.

If Arkansas State intercepted the Troy QB three times last Saturday, look no further than Arkansas State's defensive schemes.

(09-17-2013 12:48 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote: [ -> ]I'd rather give up passing yards because we suck on man to man coverage than give up yards by giving a 10 yard window for the receiver to catch the ball.

The difference is between a 10 yard gain and a 50 yard gain.

If you can't dust off the QB occasionally, you've got no business trying to crowd receivers. Damn, didn't we learn anything from the Callaway years?

Heck if we can't stop them at all, then try something different. Put 2 down linemen, with man to man or the receivers, and the rest are linebackers standing inside the box. Blitz everybody. Our opponents are completing 89% now, maybe it will go down if we blitz 8 or 9.

Let's start by rushing the 3 or 4 down linemen, which we haven't been doing. Look at their stance and first step. The schemes we've been using aren't about penetration or getting to the QB with the DL. They just aren't. I hope that's what McGee is saying will change.

I don't know enough football theory to argue schemes, but I do know that when the opposing QB has time to spare - to leisurely survey the field for an open receiver - he will eventually find one. There is no DB who can cover a good receiver for more than a few seconds. By that time, the QB must be running for his life or prone or the DB will be victimized. You don't have to be Alex G. Bell to pick up a phone and know it's dead. Some football reasoning is that simple.