As any good football coach knows, players who think are slow no matter how fast they run. Players who react and go, play fast no matter how slow they run. This is our problem. We have athletes in the entire 2 deep, but they don't understand the entire playbook yet and haven't shown they can play assignment football yet as a whole.
This is where the coaching switch supposedly is being made.....
The coaches' new plans on defense are to simplify things so that the athletes can stop thinking so much and just go play. I, for one, love this idea because we're playing against FAU, who we can simply "out-athlete". This gives us a game for the young players to not have to worry so much about their assignments and really just go out there and play football. Now, this "simple" defense won't really work against the more intricate offenses we may face in Arkansas, UF, or even South Carolina at times. But against the teams like LSU, Bama, and UGA this may work and allow us to play fast again.
Gone are the days where we have to rely on defense to win games every week. Our offensive recruiting and offensive coordinator have taken care of that. We just need to hold teams to 27 or less points on a somewhat consistent basis. That's it. Something that I feel is absolutely possible, by the defenders knowing what they need to do, and doing it FAST.
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