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It's just odd because we had such great talent at DB for over a decade and now the cupboard is nearly bare.
 

Stink. Even Koi having a slight sophomore slump. Just goes missing too many games with no impact.
 

It’s a battle between the have’s and have not. The gophers are currently fighting a high priced team and bias officiating.
 
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IrishGoph55 said:
Stink. Even Koi having a slight sophomore slump. Just goes missing too many games with no impact.
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He’s had way more than a slight slump. The media and coaches that hyped him up so much this offseason are afraid to lob critique his way. He’s been below average this year. Hope he can regain his impact and trajectory.

Go Gophers!!
 






masswood said:
gophers need some better talent at cornerback!
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They need to get older, similar to the linebacker room after 2020, they need to find their Jack Gibbons to pair with Bryan. Nestor very streaky, Monroe, Gerald, Sidl, Parrish are consistently not healthy, Bolden was a bust in the portal. Were never going to consistently have the line play to get away with man to man, so we need guys who can grasp zone coverage.
 













Being able to bench press 20 lb more than the guy across the line from you or being able to run the 40 in .2 seconds faster are all good.

That said, it is the coaching staff that puts the players in the position to use their skill sets. We are being out coached right now. I don't think our safeties have gotten worse or that our defensive backs are terrible. When we play teams with better coaching staffs, we are getting destroyed because we are being outcoached. Scheme versus talent is real. Many times teams with similar but a little bit lower talent can win if the scheme is better. This is what we must be in order to be the next Indiana. Right now, we don't have it.

I would assign 25% of the blame to the players and 75% of the blame to the play calling. Both sides of the ball.
 
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I'm no great defensive mind, but defenses have to play as a unit more than an offense. Any part doesn't play to standard and the whole thing tends to fall apart. I think the CB play is so weak that it's affecting the safeties. You can't play "forward" when you are constantly covering up for other guys' mistakes. LBs haven't been good either. Only guys who have been playing well (and even there not consistently) are the DEs.
 

The defensive weaknesses are exacerbated by the offensive woes—too much time on the field—says Captain Obvious.
 

Texan Gopher said:
Being able to bench press 20 lb more than the guy across the line from you or being able to run the 40 in .2 seconds faster are all good.

That said, it is the coaching staff that puts the players in the position to use their skill sets. We are being out coached right now. I don't think our safeties have gotten worse or that our defensive backs are terrible. When we play teams with better coaching staffs, we are getting destroyed because we are being outcoached. Scheme versus talent is real. Many times teams with similar but a little bit lower talent can win if the scheme is better. This is what we must be in order to be the next Indiana. Right now, we don't have it.

I would assign 25% of the blame to the players and 75% of the blame to the play calling. Both sides of the ball.
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I agree 110%. Everyone keeps saying our CBs are bad, but I completely disagree. When you are running zone, which we did for most of this game, the corners are either responsible for the flats or the deep thirds. In this game we were clearly in Cover 2, which usually puts the corners in the flats while the safeties take the deep halves.

Why would we even think about running Cover 2 against a QB like Moore? It is an easy read with a lot of soft spots, especially inside. Those inside routes are primarily the responsibility of the linebackers, not the corners or safeties. Our linebackers do not get to their spots in zone coverage. You even had one of them trying to mirror the QB and following him around in zone, and they still could not get a hand on the ball. They are even worse in man.

Like Texan mentioned, most of the blame falls on the scheme and coaching. We have the same safeties from last year, so why do they look like they are regressing? It is not them, it is the scheme. The corners are young, but when you put them in man, they are in position to actually make plays. Outside of them being new, the only real difference between this year and last year is the play caller, not the position coaches.

The DC is just not ready in my opinion.
 


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