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The 3 man front needs to go period! This could have been another FSU game with this BS bend but don’t break inability to make in game adjustments. 15 receptions by their number one guy! F that. We were fortunate this wasn’t a lot closer. Freeman will be here a while because he is not HV material. Certainly not yet.
 
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Some of it I'll blame on scheme.
But I think the vast majority is we give up a huge amount of yards after initial contact.
Having trouble finding what the average is this year, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 5 or 6 yards against us.
That is the Joes not the Xs and Os.
 
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DomerInHappyValley said:
Some of it I'll blame on scheme.
But I think the vast majority is we give up a huge amount of yards after initial contact.
Having trouble finding what the average is this year, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 5 or 6 yards against us.
That is the Joes not the Xs and Os.
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Agreed. I’m imagining Freeman can and should DEFINITELY be making better adjustments but also don’t know if the scoreboard looks that different for most of these games. I was thinking of it this way, at times last year Lea would have been voluntarily playing old man Crawford over Griffith and Brown, brought in a transfer and a FR over Bracy, Kiser was a miracle COVID game story otherwise buried, Pryor buried and Bertrand was buried. That’s half your D tonight. Sure guys graduate and underclassmen need to be coached up to produce but guys are playing beyond meaningful/starter snaps that Lea didn’t want playing meaningful snaps LY.
 
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They are also playing due to a number of season ending injuries and I think I have come to the opinion that crippled old man crawford gave you more then Houston Griffith does
 
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USC also scored 29 points last time we played them. That performance was still seen as great job by Lea because they stifled Pittman who was talking all week. Lea was so good schematically that it was obvious to the trained or untrained eye week to week. But the Freeman backlash can be a bit much
 
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Crawford for his size was a good tackler. Three man rushes is Xs and Os and we have the Joes to play 4 D lineman two deep. I will take Clark Lea. We didn’t come close to an Int tonight with our so called aggressive guys flying all around defense.
 
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Crawford for his size was a good tackler. Three man rushes is Xs and Os and we have the Joes to play 4 D lineman two deep. I will take Clark Lea. We didn’t come close to an Int tonight with our so called aggressive guys flying all around defense.
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Bo Bauer isn’t gonna be happy you’re taking his INT off the board

Crawford also led the team in missed tackles LY
 
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BeatSC said:
Crawford for his size was a good tackler. Three man rushes is Xs and Os and we have the Joes to play 4 D lineman two deep. I will take Clark Lea. We didn’t come close to an Int tonight with our so called aggressive guys flying all around defense.
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We had a pick almost go for 6…. Also the play that was almost called for targeting was close to an INT too off the top of my head.
 
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We had a pick almost go for 6…. Also the play that was almost called for targeting was close to an INT too off the top of my head.
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That int was a lineman tipped jump ball so not due to good pass coverage. Felt more like a pop up fumble. Bo never should have let himself get tackled by a QB. Wasted a first and goal from the 4. TB needs to play QB inside the 10.
 
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USC also scored 29 points last time we played them. That performance was still seen as great job by Lea because they stifled Pittman who was talking all week. Lea was so good schematically that it was obvious to the trained or untrained eye week to week. But the Freeman backlash can be a bit much
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I would say the 2019 sc team was much better than this team.
 
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I have two issues with the D and I'm fairly certain they're both fixable:

1) Too much time not using 4 DL. Still struggling to figure out why Freeman is insistent on it sometimes. I think it's clear that schematically he prefers 3 over 4 DL, but if that's the personnel we have right now on the team then why not use it? It's clearly effective. STOP. LINING. FOSKEY. UP. AT. THE. 2ND. LEVEL.

2) Tackling. WTF?? I mean, it's BAD. SC didn't have many big plays other than London's 40y catch. I would venture to guess 1/2 the rest of their yardage was after the catch. All too often their RBs were hit behind the lone, but would then fall forward for 4, 5, 6 yards. Same with the receivers (oddly enough big bodies TEs seemed to go right down). Sure up the tackling and I think the optics become MUCH better.
 
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ND vs USC 2019
USC total yards- 426
USC passing- 255 yards total/ 7.1 yards a play
USC rushing- 171 yards total/4.9 yards a play
27 total points surrendered

ND vs USC 2021
USC total yards- 428
USC passing- 299 yards total/8.1 yards a play
USC rushing- 129 yards total/3.9 yards a play
16 total points surrendered

Very similar performances from the coordinators
 
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ThePiombino said:
I have two issues with the D and I'm fairly certain they're both fixable:

1) Too much time not using 4 DL. Still struggling to figure out why Freeman is insistent on it sometimes. I think it's clear that schematically he prefers 3 over 4 DL, but if that's the personnel we have right now on the team then why not use it? It's clearly effective. STOP. LINING. FOSKEY. UP. AT. THE. 2ND. LEVEL.

2) Tackling. WTF?? I mean, it's BAD. SC didn't have many big plays other than London's 40y catch. I would venture to guess 1/2 the rest of their yardage was after the catch. All too often their RBs were hit behind the lone, but would then fall forward for 4, 5, 6 yards. Same with the receivers (oddly enough big bodies TEs seemed to go right down). Sure up the tackling and I think the optics become MUCH better.
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Foskey has lined up not on the DL 18% of his snaps. Now some may say that’s 18% too much but it’s clearly not the preference. He still lines up on the DL the vast majority of the time
 
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USC had given up 7 sacks on the year prior to last night where we had 3.

People are looking for stuff to complain about. Specifically, I think some people have an issue with Freeman that for the life of me I cannot figure out.
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I think really there were only a couple of big plays by USC as well so it’s not like there were huge busts like at the beginning of the season.
 
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ThePiombino said:
I have two issues with the D and I'm fairly certain they're both fixable:

1) Too much time not using 4 DL. Still struggling to figure out why Freeman is insistent on it sometimes. I think it's clear that schematically he prefers 3 over 4 DL, but if that's the personnel we have right now on the team then why not use it? It's clearly effective. STOP. LINING. FOSKEY. UP. AT. THE. 2ND. LEVEL.

2) Tackling. WTF?? I mean, it's BAD. SC didn't have many big plays other than London's 40y catch. I would venture to guess 1/2 the rest of their yardage was after the catch. All too often their RBs were hit behind the lone, but would then fall forward for 4, 5, 6 yards. Same with the receivers (oddly enough big bodies TEs seemed to go right down). Sure up the tackling and I think the optics become MUCH better.
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The 3-2-6 scheme seems to becoming more popular against pass happy teams.
 
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BeauBenken said:
People are looking for stuff to complain about. Specifically, I think some people have an issue with Freeman that for the life of me I cannot figure out.
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I agree with you!

I guess if LSU calls him in the offseason...we should just let them have him!?!?

The D could use some TLC on their tackling and yes the scheme has changed from what Lea ran.

We are a 1 loss team and 7 games into his ND career; hard for me to complain about Freeman....
 
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