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Topic: Defending Steve Brown..
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catmandoo
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posted 10-04-2010 01:49 PM
Hopefully we will come out with a sense of urgency and turn this thing around with a few timely stops..
At this point the chorus that seems to get louder every game is the Brooklyn Tabernacle-like force of the anti-Steve Brown camp. Sometimes forgetting the last three years (where Brown produced a pretty good UK defense), the fans are upset about how the team is playing this year and taking it out on the Coach at every opportunity. Some of the criticism are valid and at this point, there should really be at least some explanation for this teams (a) unbelievably poor tackling and (b) inability to cover any WR one on one. The Defensive front gets almost no penetration at any point, blitzing is virtually non-existent and a QB scramble is greeted with the same perplexed look Rick Pitino has when he sees his wife on their “once every three months” lunch dates. With the exception of Danny Trevathan, I have little confidence in any of the players individually, I often wonder if Dequin Evans is still on the team and I become more frustrated at our “six guys cant stop one RB from moving the pile” scenario every week. Bottom line is the defense needs to be better and quickly. If you cant get a stop on a running play on 3rd and 19 at the end of the game…well complaints become much more valid.
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boomdaddy
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posted 10-04-2010 02:52 PM
I think it is high time to open up jobs, not onlly on defense, but offense as well. If a players misses an assignment, put the next guy in. The two Ints in two games would warrant some bench time for the QB, imho. The D was lost in the middle on those dump passes. Somebody had to be lost. Those guys need to, at the very least, spliit time with other players, until the cream rises to the top.
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rlt4uk
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posted 10-06-2010 08:35 PM
I cringe at the thought of Cam Newton running wild through our defense. One thing that I've noticed is that we don't know how to tackle. We hit high, just hang on, and wait for the rest of the defense to help but instead of bringing the runner down we try to strip the ball and the ball carrier keeps moving his feet and gets five or six more yards. To me, that's coaching and I firmly believe that Steve Brown is not an asset to this team. Here's hoping we don't get embarrassed at home against Auburn.
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coolkat
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posted 10-09-2010 11:25 AM
We have not been tackling well for a while, something I would like to see is more blitzing and and a more aggressive defense, I really don't think it could hurt us a lot more to do that, we always line up in the same sets and seem to have the bend but don't break mindset.
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