The quest to play better never ends.
With each win, UL quarterback Ben Wooldridge says the team has a higher ceiling to reach. As of late, dropped passes and penalties have been issues for the Ragin' Cajuns.
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The quest to play better never ends.
With each win, UL quarterback Ben Wooldridge says the team has a higher ceiling to reach. As of late, dropped passes and penalties have been issues for the Ragin' Cajuns.
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In the last three years Louisiana has only won one other game scoring as few as 23 points.
We are a poor tackling team but we don’t turn the ball over on offense and don’t give up big plays. Leads to a pretty decent defense. Like said earlier, if we start tackling better we could be dominate
I just don't get the not wrapping up open arm/sometimes one arm tackle attempts. Surely our new DC is at least trying to teach them better. It is crazy how many missed tackles this defense has in key situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob81
What really baffles me is that by college, I am ASSUMING that some of these players did not get/weren’t taught how to tackle properly in pop warner and then HS ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by UL_Cajuns
Regarding some of these players tackling skills I have seen on D back in the day would have resulted in LOTS of post practice misery for those not tackling properly -to the point that if we didn’t know how, we would have learnt it quickly to end those post practice
Wind sprints etc
Unfortunately the fundamentals aren’t taught at the younger ages like they need to be. You see the poor tackling at all levels because the highlight reel hit has become more important than putting the guy on the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdncz
I think part of the problem is that the defense as a whole is slow. They are having to sprint full speed to get to the edges and are having a hard time breaking down make the tackle.
lack of speed could be a reason (as opposed to not knowing how to tackle) why one can only get one hand or arm on the offensive player as opposed to being in a position to completely wrap up . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
Breaking down?? They still do that in football?? Haha. I haven’t seen a LB shuffle his feet in awhile they turn and run like CB’s. That why they overrun plays and gaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
Sometimes I see bad angles, but most of the time I see slow players that cannot get in position to met the player head on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob81
I think the WR drops and the OL false start penalties can be cleaned up, but I think the poor tacking is here to stay and will have to be addressed in recruiting.
Damn. So we’re slow and undersized on defense. Salgado must be a magician.
Quick minds make up for slow speed.
Coaching
I agree. He has done a phenomenal job. I was at the game and saw how hard the coaches were pushing the DL to play harder. The players are definitely listening to the coaches and the guys on the back end are playing lights out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob81
Yea, I'm not seeing that at all. This defense is built on speed and many times our LBs get there and simply are out of control missing tackles. Our ends are light in the butt and can be pushed on stretch runs. This defense is built for speed but is not fundamentally sound in tackling and holding the edges up front.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
I agree, we don’t look slow at all. We don’t have a dominant DL and we don’t tackle well.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
There is no one watching film of the UL defense and thinking we are slow. In fact, they always talk about our athleticism. Most defenses in the SBC are quick up front because it is very hard to recruit quality interior DL at our level. Our last three opponents, S.Miss, Coastal and Texas St. Constantly used stunts upfront against our OL because we are big, but not quick. And all three gave us problems running the ball until the 4th quarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by CharlieK
Our D is giving up 22.1 pts a game
19.5 pts a game in conf. Those are historical numbers around here.
We definitely are tough in the red zone. I think the hardest part perception wise is the tackling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob81