Defense ineptitude

[curdog]

I’m not sure if this has been discussed already but I think the biggest indictment against JON is the 3 plays where the TE ran a go route and was wide open each time. Two plays resulted in a touchdown and the third would have but the receiver alligator armed it and dropped it.

it reminded me of the Purdue game where they ran the same play to their best receiver multiple times that resulted in touchdowns.

the guy is just bad, can’t ganeplan and can’t make adjustments. Very depressing.

 

[Rebel II]

I’m not sure if this has been discussed already but I think the biggest indictment against JON is the 3 plays where the TE ran a go route and was wide open each time. Two plays resulted in a touchdown and the third would have but the receiver alligator armed it and dropped it.

it reminded me of the Purdue game where they ran the same play to their best receiver multiple times that resulted in touchdowns.

the guy is just bad, can’t ganeplan and can’t make adjustments. Very depressing.

And he has the exact same assistants plus 1 that Hank had. I think they are competent.

 

[kaTNap]

And he has the exact same assistants plus 1 that Hank had. I think they are competent.

Yes. You can tell just from the dramatic falloff in almost every defensive stat that exactly coincides with JON taking over for Hank. Correlation is not causality, but correlation across all defensive stats sure looks like it.

Given Fitz's strange philosophy of football (offense has to be boring and predictable to be "complementary" to a great defense), this program is sunk until at least the defensive side of the ball is turned around. I thought we had really turned a corner in 2018 ... nope.

 

[Rebel II]

Yes. You can tell just from the dramatic falloff in almost every defensive stat that exactly coincides with JON taking over for Hank. Correlation is not causality, but correlation across all defensive stats sure looks like it.

Given Fitz's strange philosophy of football (offense has to be boring and predictable to be "complementary" to a great defense), this program is sunk until at least the defensive side of the ball is turned around. I thought we had really turned a corner in 2018 ... nope.

Could be right.

 

[curdog]

Yes. You can tell just from the dramatic falloff in almost every defensive stat that exactly coincides with JON taking over for Hank. Correlation is not causality, but correlation across all defensive stats sure looks like it.

Given Fitz's strange philosophy of football (offense has to be boring and predictable to be "complementary" to a great defense), this program is sunk until at least the defensive side of the ball is turned around. I thought we had really turned a corner in 2018 ... nope.

Agreed. Winning the division along with winning most of the bowls since 2012, the trajectory was clearly up. NU played pretty much everybody not named Ohio St competitively. Now, I think we will continue to get the doors blown off until there are coaching changes. This is definitely the low point of Fitz tenure.

 

[DaCat]

I’m not sure if this has been discussed already but I think the biggest indictment against JON is the 3 plays where the TE ran a go route and was wide open each time. Two plays resulted in a touchdown and the third would have but the receiver alligator armed it and dropped it.

it reminded me of the Purdue game where they ran the same play to their best receiver multiple times that resulted in touchdowns.

the guy is just bad, can’t ganeplan and can’t make adjustments. Very depressing.

Strangely Fitz didn't seem that pissed about it. He just shook his head in admiration at the opposing coach and said that was a good trick play that fooled us. WHAT??? He should be throwing chairs and reading JON the riot act.