So are you looking at the whole game? Or one 85 yard drive? This defense held the best offense in the league for 7 and goal plays to win the game when they were totally out of gas. This defense pretty much kept us alive in the wku game by themselves. This defense held asu to 168 total yards. My how soon some forget.
I'm glad that you are here to point out that the Cajun Defense played well against Western Kentucky and ASU.
That is the WHOLE reason that makes me question what has changed since then.
Better passing attacks.
I was thinking of Troy. ASU coach figured out that the Red Wolves needed to release the quarterback after he used him in a more traditional manner against us instead of the speed option they have been used to running with other coaches.
You need to pay attention to the GaSt qb, he is excellent on the run, not so much in the pocket which makes sense due to his size.
Pick 6's.bad snaps on punts, fumble on our side of the field, lack of rest, better passing teams, playing vanilla before you biggest game and in state rival. Hud's mentality is to keep everything in front of you. Qb throws, he catches you tackle him, make him do it again and again, don't give up the big play. You never know if you keep making them do that, they might make a mistake like fumble at 5 yard line? Or throw a pick 6 for 99 yards? Or a sack and fumble. If you get beat deep.it's TD, you never present the opportunity for any of those things to happen. Pretty much the only way GSU beats us, is if we give up the big play.
Goes back to old school. Charlie Mack used to talk about this all the time. Get a team to eleven plays and there will probably be a failure to score. In other words make them earn each yard, over and over. Penalties, fumbles, missed assignments will catch up most of the times.
Most games are not won, but lost. Hud does an amazing job of not losing games.
I understand that it comes down to what coaches know that isn't that obvious to me. I'm just baffled by it. I'm shocked that against SBC competition, our secondary is that incapable at this point. My bigger issue, besides the prevent, dropping way back off the line, is the lack of disguise at the snap. Most of the time now, we seem to accept our LBs and safties not showing any threat of a rush. To add to that, all of the 8 guys lost in space are not in deep threat coverage. but yet they can't cover the middle. and they are leaving some guys wide open. streaking for YACs. The simple description of the scheme is that we are trying to avoid the big play. I get that. But, you can create that coverage defense without what I've been watching. Many teams make an offense struggle, even when they drop back into zone coverage to prevent giving up the big play.
I'm happy that most of our opponents break down in the red zone. once we play press. And I'm happy we have a great scoring offense that includes gobbling up time of possession. I'm worried about ULM, USA and our bowl opponent. I don't think those programs will be as inept once you give them the free pass into the red zone. So, I'm concerned about our defense. You cannot easily switch into assignment football once you've allowed 8 guys to play sand lot zone football for 6 straight weeks.
Geaux Cajuns!!! We're 8-2 and 5-0 in the SBC!!! Let's go get that title!!! Let's go get that bowl ring!!!
We are 3rd in scoring defense and 4th in total defense. We also scored 48 on the sunbelt's "best" defense.
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